Jan. 19, 1854 Fanny Martin, 8, Birmingham.
Feb. 9. 1854,
Jan. 11, 1855,

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Sarah Wright, 8, Cole Orton, Leicestershire.
Edwin Jones, 9 Bourton, near Much Wenlock.
Cornelius Rose, 9, Birmingham.

Thomas Orford, 9, Oldswinford.

James Fletcher, 8, Chillington, near Brewood.

Annette Hendly, 8, Bidford, near Alcester.

Fanny Watson, 11, King's Newenham, Warwickshire.

Apl. 30, 1855, Mary Ann Piercy, 9, Handsworth.

July 19, 1855, John Edward Cole, 9, Hanbury, near Droitwich.
Oct. 4, 1855, Julia Keene, 9, Birmingham.

...

Jan. 10, 1856,

Feb. 5, 1856,

Dinah Pardoe, 10, Stratford-on-Avon.
Isaiah Pearson, 9, Dudley.

Sarah Ann Garland, 10, Dudley.

Mary Elizabeth Knott, 9, Bromsgrove.

July 24, 1856, Richard Geeson, 10, Grantham, Lincolnshire.
Fanny Oakden, 11, Longford, Derbyshire.
Mh. 30, 1857, Thomas Cutler, 10, Birmingham.

Jan. 15, 1857,

Mh. 28, 1857,

Jan. 15, 1857,

Edward Ferrer, 9, Birmingham.
Thomas Walter Smith, 8, Cheltenham.
Susan Rowe, 12, Wolverhampton.
Mary Ann Palmer, 10, Stourbridge.
Mary Jane Howell, 9, Birmingham.
Leah Hendly, 8, Bidford, near Alcester.

Jan. 14, 1858, Jane Elizabeth Harman, 9, Worcester.

Lucy Oakden, 10, Longford, Derbyshire.

Harriet Hannah Ormerod, 10, Stone, Staffordshire.
Maria Rowley, 9, Finedon, Northamptonshire.
Mary Elizabeth Wagstaff, 9, Droitwich.

George Richards, 9, Wolverhampton.

John George Tailby, 9, Kettering, Northamptonshire.

Jan. 10, 1859, Louisa Jane Ball, 9, Coventry.

Fanny Bishton, 9, Cannock.

Peter Bradbury, 13, Bakewell.

Frederick Henry Davis, 10, Worcester.

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Jan. 10, 1859, Thomas Smith, 9, Smethwick.

Jan. 17. 1859,

Feb. 17, 1859,

Jan. 12, 1860,

...

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Mary Ann Tailby, 9, Kettering, Northamptonshire.
Thomas Smith, 13, Birmingham.

Mary Ann Saunders, 11, Cannock.

Harriet Euphemia Mills, 11, Birmingham.
Emma Elizabeth Clive, 11, Birmingham.

Sarah Middleton, 9, Coventry.

Mercy Mary Flowers, 9, Crick, Northamptonshire.
George Collins, 8, Erdington.

Edward Jones, 12, Bourton, near Much Wenlock.

Thomas Thompson, 12, Hartbourn, Durham.
Frederick Powell, 9, Walsall.

William Davis, 9, Rugeley, Staffordshire.

Joseph Hirons, 7, Birmingham.

Mh. 25, 1860, Josiah John Hands, 11, Birmingham.

CHILDREN FROM THE NORTHAMPTON BRANCH.
PRESIDENTS-The Duke of Grafton; the Earl Spencer.
SECRETARY-The Rev. D. Morton.

Jan. 15, 1855, John Bonham, 9, Northampton.

Jan. 15, 1857, George Leach Cave, 8, Northampton.

Jan. 18, 1858, Caroline Hornsey, 9, Northampton.

Jan. 12, 1860, Martha Elizabeth Craddock, Northampton.

Jan. 15, 1855, Thomas Titterton, 8, Birmingham.

Oct. 4, 1855, Cornelius Thomas Doyle, 10, Birmingham.
George Johnson Page, 10, Coventry.

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Emma Williams, 10, Wolverhampton.

Jan. 10, 1856, Elizabeth Hartley, 10, Tipton.

Jan. 15, 1857, Anthony Hines, 11, Coventry.

Sept. 5, 1857, John Evans, 9, Long Bennington, Lincolnshire.

Sept. 7, 1857, Thomas Henry Cox, 10, Birmingham.

Jan. 14, 1858, Simeon Taylor, 9, Tipton.

May 4, 1858, Matthew Chapman, 10, Birmingham.

Jan. 10, 1859, Thomas Rooney, 13, Bilston.

Joseph Lemuel Green, 13, Tipton.

Jan. 12, 1860, Thomas Kite, 11, Netherton, near Dudley.

Charles Sparrow, 10, Coventry.

FRONT ELEVATION

OF THE PROTESTANT DISSENTING CHARITY SCHOOL,
IN GRAHAM STREET, NEW HALL HILL.

BIRMINGHAM,

ERECTED MDCCCXXXIX.

PROTESTANT DISSENTING CHARITY SCHOOL.

HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE INSTITUTION.

THIS valuable Institution has just celebrated its First Centenary. It was established in the year 1760, and has been carried on, and is still supported, almost entirely by voluntary contributions. Its benevolent founders proposed to themselves to establish a "Working School for Poor Children," where as many poor children, from any locality and of any religious denomination, as its funds could provide for, should be boarded clothed, and educated. At first, both boys and girls were admitted: but in 1813 it was confined to girls, of whom the number has, for many years past, been about 35. The establishment is under the management of a matron who superintends the conduct of the "large family," and a governess whose time is occupied in school duties. Sewing and knitting are taken in to be done by the girls, who make all their own clothes, and perform the whole of the household work; no servant is kept, an assistant washerwoman being the only help that is ever employed; so that these "poor girls," beside being well instructed in school, are taught, as far as is possible in such an institution, the duties of domestic servants.

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