Children"not in School" on the 1881 .....

Post by **joette** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:03 pm

Having tracked down my GGGGreat-Uncle Greer to Cramond via Paisley
& discovered him living with wife,adopted son Frederick G Greer & Father/Mother-in-law & Sister-in-law& her three children(I think they were visiting from England.)All the school age children are noted as "not in school"
Anybody know what this means?Are they "on holiday" "working"??
My sister suggests educated at home but surely that would be the same as in scholar?
Slightly off topic trying to find parentage of Frederick.He is age six with birthplace of Edinburgh,Edinburgh-any idea of District or is this a way of blocking the finding of his birth or were such things not thought of then?
Wish it would let you search under christian name only & the age & district.
I guess it' s off to check the 1891!

Post by **Liz Turner** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:01 pm

Did you get anywhere with this one Joette?

Liz

Russell · Post by **Russell** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:19 pm

Hi Joette

Having been doing a bit of digging for info on machine/power loom weaving in Paisley I wonder if they were working in the mills ? You didn't give dates but a GGG relative puts it somewhere in the early 1800's.
Children of 7or 8 would be employed as lint gatherers or drawboys then even before the power looms came into general use. there were weaving sheds in the more industrial centres.
Home hand loom weaving in the villages was probably a cleaner, and safer environment.

The few pennies a child could bring in might make a difference to the income of a household.

It's the only explanation I can think of.

Russell

Post by **joette** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 7:55 am

Thanks for that & no I have been unable to find a satisfactory explanation.
They were actually living in Cramond & he was a Stonemason like all the Greer men.
They turn up in the 1891 Census still living with the in-laws in Cramond but then like his brother Gilbert they disappear off the face of the earth-Gilbert plus wife Annie Adams & daughter Mary disappear after the 1871 Census-no Death,no marriages that I can find.
I did find a possible Frederick living in Partick in the 1901which is not too far from Old Kilpatrick where his Greer Uncles were living but it was a different surname(which I thought might have been his original name) but again disappeared with no marriage or Death recorded under either surname.