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My great grandmother is Ellen Laura Rudd (born 1867 in Diss).  She was 13 at the time of the 1881 census but I can't find any records for her, her parents or her siblings.  Other census records suggest they stayed around the same area.

Father is Henry (1845); mother is Mary Ann (1844); siblings are Henry H (1869), Augustus F (1871), Florence (1874), Frank (1880), Bertie (1882), Maud (1883) and Albert Victor (1888).

Her father was a tailor.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

community.lincolnshire.gov.uk lists Bardney professions.  It includes a brickmaker called Edward Brown in 1680.  Perhaps it was a trade from his side of the family and death or illness of the main practitioner brought him into it.

I thought it looked like a small concern.  I don't really have enough history knowledge to know if it was common to send your 16 year old daughter to a small boarding school at that time.  There are a lot of farmers, butchers and bakers in the line.  Her father was a brickmaker.  Not the types of occupations I'd associated with private education.

Was it common for a 16 year old from this sort of background to still be in education?  (I've not traced her grandparents yet so perhaps the previous generation was more affluent.)

Thanks

My great, great, grandmother was here when she was 16 in 1871.  It was a girls' boarding school.  There were 11 pupils, 1 domestic, 1 assistant teacher and 1 schoolmistress on the night of the census.

(I've not been able to trace her parents after the 1861 census.)

Does anyone know anything about this school?  Does it seem likely she would have been sent here if her parents had died?  Her father was a brickmaker.  She was their youngest child.

Thanks