Books & Transcriptions

Bessants of Gordano               out of print                          £7
Clapton in Gordano School Log 1883-1895                       £8-50
Portishead Parish Magazines 1873,74,76 & 78                  £8
Walton School Log Book 1877-1895                                 £10
Weston in Gordano School Admissions List 1864-1900    £3
Weston in Gordano School Log Book                                £8

Blakes of Weston-super-Mare & Gordano for family only.

Bishop family of Worle & surrounding area.

Includes U K Postage. Add £3 for overseas.

The Bessants of Gordano includes information on the early families from Parish Chest information, Church Wardens Accounts, Portbury Hundred Court records & Wills

The Transcriptions of the School Log Books can be found at Weston-super-Mare Library in the Family History Section.
Original records and the Transcriptions at the Somerset Record Office.

H M Inspector's Reports on the Portishead C E Schools, inspected May 1st & 8th 1874.

National School. The School has increased in numbers, is under good influence, and making on the whole satisfactory progress. Military drill has been introduced.

St Barnabus School. This School is orderly, and carefully taught.

Infants School. This School is orderly, well taught, and making satisfactory progress.

National School, Portishead.
The Education Department having allowed and encouraged managers of schools to set apart one hour per week for instruction in drill, the services of Sergeant Parkin have been secured for that purpose, who attends and drills the elder boys of the school in the playground, from 11 to 12 on Monday mornings.

Clapton in Gordano
1888 Jan 23rd
Edwin Hardwick returned after an absence of six weeks through having had a bad foot. Sent Leonard Derrick back for his School Fees.

The booklet the Portishead Magazines, 1873,1874,1876 &1878 includes the four years church records of births marriages and burials.

Portishead Parish Magazines Oct 1874
Diocese School Examination

Our own National School being thus eleventh in the diocese, it may be interesting to many to know the names of the first ten.

1. Burrington. 139 marks.
2. Bath Union, 130.
3. Bath Blue School, Girls. 125.
4. Bath Octagon. 114.
5. Wrington Girls. 112.
6. Wrington Boys. 111.
7. Bath Blue School, Boys. 110.
8. Whatley. 107.

9. Long Sutton. 103.

10. Aller. 100.

Vicars of Walton in Gordano

1660 Thomas Foot
1673 Robert Paul
1718 John Brice
1728 John Shire
1773 Thomas Allen
1810 Drax Durbin
1824 James Vaughan
1851 Henry J. Lloyd
1852 John C. M. Aynsley
1855 Henry Tudway
1866 Rawdon W. Hauntenville
1880 Chas. A. Fowler
1889 Edward F. A. Hexts

Portishead.

 

The Examination of the members of the Art Night Class took place in the National Schoolroom on the evenings of Thursday & Friday, the 30th of April & the 1st of May 1874, and was very successful.

There were but nine members of the class who presented themselves for examination.

Walton in Gordano.

1877 Weekending Jan 12th.

School commenced on Tuesday January 9th  (Prevented from being opened on Monday, by the schoolroom not being dry from previous painting) after the Christmas Vacations of a fortnights, with nineteen Scholars.

Mary Mason.B.A.