Opinions Sought Please ~ Ladies Group

[avm228]

Gwladys Marshall was born 7 April 1886 and became a teacher.

[Treetotal]

Gwladys Marshall was born 7 April 1886 and became a teacher.

WoW!!!...That was quick. Wonderful research  ...that is brilliant, thanks so much!!

Carol

[avm228]

Beatrice Marshall married Albert Daniel Rowberry, Dec qtr 1920 Hereford, and died 6 July 1964.

[Treetotal]

Beatrice Marshall married Albert Daniel Rowberry, Dec qtr 1920 Hereford, and died 6 July 1964.

I guess that Eliza must have also been known as Lilie!
You are so good at this, thanks so much 

Carol

[avm228]

The Marshall girls were daughters of Joseph Booth Marshall (a schoolmaster) and Emily.

The Marshalls' address in 1901 was "The Schools", Fownhope, so perhaps there was a boys' and a girls' school - the latter appearing in the photograph?

If Gwladys and Beatrice were daughters of a staff member/proprietor that may explain why they had access in the 1930s to old photographs of the school.

[Ruskie]

Excellent work avm! 

So might this group be graduates rather than teachers at one school. (surely too many to all be teaching at the same school).

It would be interesting to work out what the institution was to see if the building still exists today.

I thought in that era there were "pupil teachers" who learned 'on the job' in the classroom, rather than attending a specific teacher training college. (or was it a combination of both?)

[JenB]

As an alternative might they have attended Hereford College of Education, founded in 1902, an all female teacher training college for most of its existence?

[avm228]

I was thinking they were (mostly) pupils rather than teachers - the teachers being the ones in the academic gowns.

In other words the secondary-age young ladies of Fownhope c1900 - including somewhere in there Eliza, Gwladys and Beatrice ("can you see us?" as the postcard says).

[Ruskie]

I was thinking they were (mostly) pupils rather than teachers - the teachers being the ones in the academic gowns.

In other words the secondary-age young ladies of Fownhope c1900 - including somewhere in there Eliza, Gwladys and Beatrice ("can you see us?" as the postcard says).

I think you are right avm.