| Description | The minutes contain many details of boys admitted to, and discharged from, the School (usually giving their name, age, street of residence and sometimes names of parents). Between 42 and 60 boys attended the school at any one time during the period. The entry for 6 Dec 1807 records that the schoolmaster, Mr Kelly, had "2 girls at the school, which appears to be highly improper; he is therefore ordered for the future not to admit any girls to the schol, and to discharge those he now has, immediately". The copy appears to be incomplete as the final page (no. 133) end in mid-sentence.
It is thought that the original minutes have not survived having been destroyed by enemy action in World War II (see 'The Story of Catholic Wapping' by Vincent Worley). |
| CustodialHistory | The volume was deposited on indefinite loan by the Catholic Record Society in 1965. It was transferred from the Local History Library [L. 2583] and accessioned as archive material in 1988. |