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Z.oe
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Clapham Grammar School , John Tester
« on: Thursday 11 June 09 12:43 UTC (UK) »
Hello all,

I have an elusive GGGG-Grandfather, John Tester, whom family lore states taught at Clapham Grammar School sometime before 1869. Can anyone point me to an archive which might contain a list of staff at the school? We believe John was born about 1800, so I think the window we're looking at is 1820-1869. In case it helps, John's wife was a Martha Robinson.

Many thanks in anticipation,
Zoe
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Re: Clapham Grammar School , John Tester
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 11 June 09 14:54 UTC (UK) »
is the family lore backup up /denied  by census?
Is he resident at the school at any time?
Are his kids born in/around clapham?

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Re: Clapham Grammar School , John Tester
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 11 June 09 18:59 UTC (UK) »
Hi Pauline, and fellow listers

I cannot find him on any census - but then the story is that he also taught in Germany which if true might account for (some of) his absence in UK censuses - all of this is based on the text of an advertisement (I do not have the original) which said the following:

15 Sept 1869
Northgate Street, Leicester.  Day and Evening schools.
Mr. J. Tester (late Classical and Mathematical Master, and Chemical Lecturer at the University of Bonn on the Rhine, and formerly one of the Assistant Masters at Clapham Grammar School, London) will open a select Day School for Boys, and an Evening School for Young People and Adults of both sexes, on the following terms:

Day School Pupils from 8-10 yrs:         4d per week
Day School Pupils from 10-14 yrs:      6d per week
A Plain English Education
For Classics, Mathematics, French or German   1s per week

Evening Pupils (males)            1s per week   to be paid in advance
Evening Pupils (female)            6d per week   to be paid in advance

I also know that he married his wife Martha Robinson 30 March 1818 Netherseal, Leicester. I am confident of 1 child, Anna, born in Essex in 1826, and there may have been 3 other daughters, Susan, Emma and Elizabeth, but I haven't been able to find any evidence of them.

A John Tester was granted a passport in 1858, but I don't know if this is "my" John Tester.

I wondered if the records of Clapham Grammar School had been deposited in an archive somewhere and searching them might be a way to confirm the story and throw up some new leads to finding out more about John.

Zoe
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Re: Clapham Grammar School , John Tester
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 24 June 09 10:11 UTC (UK) »
Hi Zoe

Welcome to Rootschat.

The trees I can see online for Anna Tester 1825-1878 born Leicestershire died Northamptonshire married to Alexander Wilson give her father as John Tester (teacher) born 21st January 1800 Eaton Ford Huntingdonshire with his father as Jonathan. Not sure how any of that is actually proved though.
A Jonathan Tester was buried in Leicester aged 73 in 1848.

A Martha Tester does die in Leicester in 1868

Deaths Jun 1868 
Tester  Martha  70  Leicester  7a 114

1861 census RG9 2292 folio 98
Leicester Union workhouse
Martha Tester 65 Widow Inmate Weaver of Hose Radford Nottinghamshire


Are you sure the J Tester in the advertisement is actually a John Tester. You would expect a man with those qualifications to have a degree from Oxford or Cambridge or something similar, which would have required a family of wealth that could afford lengthy private education for him. Anna who married Alexander Wilson was a housemaid on the 1851 census. Alexander on the 1861 census was a railway labourer and a carpenter journeyman on the 1871 census. The two families would have been of a very different social class.


Regards

Valda
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