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Old 12-02-19, 08:24
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My 2g aunt was sent from India to London for schooling in 1890, specifically Hanover Street School in Islington.
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The record gives a home address of 13 Colebrook Terrace. I guess this could be an address in India but I doubt it. Can anyone find out who lived there or tell me how? I tried the electoral rolls but without a name I can't get an answer and the surname (Bridges) didn't work. My 2g aunt is Louisa Bridges.
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I found something saying that Colebrook Terrace is now called Duncan Terrace. So looking at a modern A-Z, it is parallel to Colebrook Row.
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The 1891 census street index on TNA says that Colebrook Terrace was already part of Duncan Terrace then:
https://webarchive.nationalarchives....reet_Index_C-F

This is the start of Duncan Terrace on the 1891 census but I don't know which number would correspond to 13 Colebrook Terrace:
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive...2_166_169-0333
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Did you ever read A Little Princess, Toni?
Guess it's not a book you'd have about the house these days, but it describes the sort of school your aunt would have lived in.
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The link in post #1 says her previous school was Warrender Park in Edinburgh. She was only at Hanover Street School from 2 Jun 1890 to 18 Oct 1890. It doesn't look as though it was a boarding school, and it wasn't a private school either, so not much like in A Little Princess. Here is a picture of it:
https://www.lookandlearn.com/history...l-in-Islington
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1885 London directory:
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive...561_0561-00125

Colebrooke terrace, Islington (N) opposite 31 Colebrooke Row
11 Thompson Misses
12 Rowe Bernard Meredith, surgeon
13 Gurney Henry

1890 London directory:
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive...500_2500-00132
10 Scott John, tooth brush maker
12 Rowe Bernard Meredith, surgeon

Then in the 1895 directory, Miss Thompson is at 48 Duncan Terrace and John Scott, tooth brush maker, is at 49 Duncan Terrace:
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive...499_1515-00176

So 13 Colebrook Terrace was probably renumbered as 46 Duncan Terrace.
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A lot of people living at 46 Duncan Terrace on the 1891 census but none called Bridges:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interacti...2_166_169-0344

But I guess they had moved in Oct 1890 and that's why Louisa left the school then.
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Thank you so much for working this out.

Sadly I could not work out who Louisa may have been living with. I was hoping it was some family that I could identify but I did not recognise any of the names.

Phoenix I'm not familiar with the story A Little Princess. The whole family seem to have received an education. I have a photo of my great grandma in graduation clothing. I have it in my head she went to university but I could be wrong.
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A lot of people living at 46 Duncan Terrace on the 1891 census but none called Bridges:
I don't think Louisa was with her immediate family, I was hoping for a relative I know to be related to the Bridges family.

I wonder why she moved schools? Islington isn't far from where her father grew up but there is no Edinburgh connection that I know of.
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Are you sure the Louisa at Hanover Street School is yours, Toni?
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