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- The older sister May married Arthur Gordon and had two girls Sonia died as a child and Bunty travelled to America with her mother to live.
I believe both are dead now but have little details apart from May ran a guest house but where and for how long I dont know.
Image 1BirthCerts>Hornibrook downloaded but not assigned a Source No. (B1896HornibrookMarySCFull.pdf)
1901 Census of Ireland - 31 Mar 1901
11 Old Chapel Lane, Cork City Ireland.
Edward Hornibrook, Head, Church of Ireland, Read, Age 38, Coal Merchant, Married, Born City Cork.
Julia Hornibrook, Wife, Church of Ireland, Read, Age 25, Scholar, Married, Born Liverpool.
Marey Hornibrook, Daughter, Church of Ireland, Cannot Read, Age 4, Scholar, Single, Born City Cork.
1911 Census of Ireland
Buckingham House, Boarding School, 1 White Street, Cork City, Co Cork, Ireland
May Hornibrook, Church of Ireland, Read & Write, Age 15, Female, Pupil, Single, born Cork City.
Bella Hornibrook, Church of Ireland, Read & Write, Age 10, Female, Pupil, Single, born Cork City.
Madge Hornibrook, Church of Ireland, Read & Write, Age 8, Female, Pupil, Single, born Cork City,
The foregoing Return consisting of one sheet relating to the Masters, Teachers and Students or Pupils in this Institution is correct, according to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Signature of Head of Institution Richd Boyle
Date 14 April 1911
Buckingham House Free School, South Terrace
Patron, the Lord Bishop; Hon Secs and Treasurers
Rev Canons McNamara, Balineer and Miss Whately,
Rochelle, Blackrock Rd; Superintendent John P Egan.
This Institution is supported entirely by voluntary
contributions. It exists for the support and education
of destitute Protestant children who are ineligible for
the Government Certified Schools under the Act.
Origins and Development of Buckingham House Free School
Hello Matt,
Just to let you know that I got to the Boole this morning and read through the Theses on the Cork Ragged School, an extremely interesting piece of work and great credit to the author. She has written about how the school in Cork and indeed in the country itself came about in 1847 right up to 1916 when the school moved from Buckingham house to a building on Sawmill Street.
As a young girl herself the author first came into contact with the school by way of two sisters aged 12 and 14 who while living in the school went to work with her family, one as a cook and the other as a nursemaid, I am not sure of the date but I would guess at about the 50s, the authors family are the Musgraves the food distributors, the girls stayed working and eventually living in with the family for about eight years, one went on to be a nurse and the other emigrated to the US where she married, both girls are still in contact with the Musgrave family and the author.
The ragged schools were founded from the Sunday school principle; there were three at first in Cork City, Peacock Lane, Tuckey Street and Cove Street. From their founding in 1847 they were open to the poor and destitute children from all religions. However when the Cove Street Ragged school closed in 1855, new premises were needed and Buckingham House was leased by the committee, the building itself was built for the Morrison Family in 1774 and was named Morrison House.
In 1872 changes in the Poor law were made and the three schools were amalgamated and Buckingham House changed from all religions to just Church Of Ireland children. In later years the children were vetted before coming into the school and in many cases contact was maintained with the parents or guardian of the children. In many cases it appears that children were put forward for a place by a family member and a case had to be made on the grounds of need ie a parent or both parents dying or a single parent not being able to look after the children at home, the parent or guardian would then pay a small donation if they could to the school.
So from what I can tell when the changes were made the school became more selective of who they gave a place to and there was always a waiting list for a place, they were still from poor or troubled homes but not totally destitute, this would fit in with what we know about Edward from the census.
At first when reading through the work it looked as if the children were well looked after, and this through me a bit as you had told me the girls had a terrible time there. But from around 1906 all this apparently began to change. The Boyle Couple who were employed as caretakers and minders to the children in 1895 began to let things slide and where they had been a caring couple in the early years with everything above board for the committee, from around 1906 things began going wrong. Complaints were made in relation to bedding and the quality of the food over the following years culminating in a complaint around 1913 that showed many of the girls had been beaten on the head and face by Mrs Boyle and that Mr Boyle was keeping the children from school, all the children were thought in outside schools. Both Mr and Mrs Boyle were forced to resign in 1913 and they both died the following year.
The school survived in Buckingham House on White Street until 1916 when it began to fall into disrepair, it closed that year and moved to a Building known as The Cork Refuge Laundry on Sawmill Street, but it maintained the name Buckingham House free School, as it did when it moved to Sundays Well some years later, not sure when this was or where but I will check it out.
From what I have read, the children who were in the school from 1900 on, were educated and looked after through the school, they were educated for the most part in local schools and were then given jobs in local business many became apprentices, and then went back to live in the school until they were able to fend for themselves, this would explain the older young adults still in the school in the census. The children who were associated with the school from those years on were well thought of by the large families and the businesses people in the City as being well brought up and nearly all were successful at the time they moved on from the school.
Sean Healy,
Cork City,
17 Feb 2012
main source of the information as "The origins and development of Buckingham House Free School : (late Cork Industrial Ragged School) 1847-1916 / Avril Mary McKechnie"
England GRO Marriage Index
Q 31 Dec 1920, Mary Hornbrook, Chorlton, Lancashire, Vol - 8c, Page - 1875,
Q 31 Dec 1920, Samuel A Howse, Chorlton, Lancashire, Vol - 8c, Page - 1875, [2, 3, 4]
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