Help required from local historians of Glandore
I am trying to establish the name of a ladies boarding school at Glandore or towards Skibbereen that closed c1847.
Known facts: Mrs. Elizabeth Rees, widow, closed her boarding school Overn Lodge near Downend, Gloucestershire Jun 1845, and left for Glandore, near Skibbereen. She was accompanied by her sister Jemima Pocock; however, the school in Ireland failed by 1847.
It is possible that another of their sisters, namely Mrs. Mary Rees, widow, may have been in a financial position to establish the school first, and as early as 1841/2. Her whereabouts are unknown between Census time 1841 to 1850. In 1851, Mary had moved to Beaumont Village, Jersey and had both an Irish servant and Irish born gardener living at her home.
All three ladies were daughters of George Pocock, school master of Prospect Place Academy, in St. Michael's Hill, Bristol.
Keith
