Manchester School Registers 1870-1916
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About Manchester School Registers
These registers cover the period 1870-1916. The school admission registers usually give:
- Entry number
- Date of admission
- Name of child
- Date of birth
- Name of parents or guardians
- Address
- Name of previous school (if applicable)
- Date of withdrawal
- Name of school sent to following withdrawal (if applicable)
Please note that, for reasons of data protection and personal privacy, we have redacted (removed from online publication) all images of pages of school admission registers on which one or more pupils were born in or after 1912. In practice, this means that school registers publication end-date for the collection as a whole is circa 1916.
The following school admission registers are included. Please note that where the end-date given for a particular school department is more recent than the cut-off date for online publication, this means that the original school registers survive and are held by Manchester City Council's Libraries, Information and Archives – they are not available online.
Albert Memorial School
Armitage Street Board School
Ashton under Lyne Holy Trinity School
Birley Street School
Brookdale Park School
Bury St. John School
Chapman Street School
Cheetwood Junior and Infant School
Chester Street Board School
Christ Church School
Ducie Technical High School Boys Department
Gaythorn County Primary
German Street Sunday School
Grosvenor Street Wesleyan School
Hague Street Primary School
Heath Street School
Heaton Norris Christ Church School
Holland Street Schools
Holy Trinity School
Manchester Jews School
Nelson Street School
Oldham St. Mary School
Openshaw Technical High School
Princess Road School
Ross Place School
Southall Street School, Strangeways
South Hulme Secondary Modern School
St. Alban's Roman Catholic Secondary School
St. James Church of England School
St. Michael's Roman Catholic School
St. Oswald's Church of England Primary School
St. Paul's School
St. Philip Free National School
St. Thomas' School
Wenlock Primary School
Find out more about these schools here
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The name of the person you are searching for may not be recorded in the way you expect. Henry John Davies, for example, may have been recorded as Henry Davies, Henry J Davies, H Davies, or even H J Davies. We suggest that you initially search using the person’s last name only. If you receive too many results, you can then add a first name to narrow them down.
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