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Chris Scott
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Chris
Post Number: 2011
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 9:12 am: | 
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Rose Mylett's son.
The profile on Casebook includes this passage:
"Born in 1862, Rose Mylett was (according to her mother) once married to an upholsteror who went by the name of Davis, but for some reason unknown they had split up by 1888. She had one son by him, born around 1881, who was attending school in Sutton at the time of his mother's death."
In 1891 there was a boy named Ernest Davis who is listed as attending the District SMD School for Boys and Girls, Brighton Road, Sutton, Surrey. At the time of the census he was 10 years old - born in 1881 - and his place of birth is given as Bow, London.
I have tried to find out what SMD stands for in this context. Its modern meaning, apparently, is a School of Medicine and Dentistry but I cannot see how this would apply to an institution for children.
Does anyone know what an SMD school was in Victorian times?
(Message edited by Chris on May 11, 2005) |
Jennifer D. Pegg
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Jdpegg
Post Number: 2374
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 11, 2005 - 10:42 am: |
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Hi Chris,
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/Travellers/place_page.jsp?p_id=1042
I think it might be the schools district? South Metropolitian District Schools.
See link.
Jenni |
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