Reformatory School for Girls, Exeter
Reformatory School for Girls, Exeter. Later the Girls Training School, Exeter
Situated firstly in Union Road, Exeter and later in Polsloe Road, Exeter was an institution for the industrial training of juvenile offenders (girls up to the age of 16 years) who had been convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment.
See also Devon and Exeter Female Home and Penitentiary for older female offenders
1836 The Devon and Exeter Refuge announced.[1]
1856 William Harris is Master of the Devon and Exeter Reformatory School. (This is the farm school for boys at Brampford Speke).[2]
1858 Discussion of a new building. The Devon and Exeter Refuge for Discharged prisoners now amalgamated with the Reformatory Institution for juvenile females. New building on Blackboy Road.[3]
1861 Union Road: Jane Hackett is Matron with her daughter. One servant and four officers. 72 female inmates most aged between 11-17.[4]
1868 Devon and Exeter Reformatory Farm School (for Boys) at Bramford Speke, in the County of Devon; and the Devon and Exeter Reformatory School (for Girls), situate in the Black Boy Road.[5]
1871 Eliza Prosser is Matron. Four staff. 52 female students aged 12-20.[6]
1881 Devon and Exeter Girl's Reformatory. Mary Ann Simpson is Schoolmistress and Sarah Ellen Gee is matron with sixty-three inmates.[7]
1891 Girl's Reformatory. Eliza Grindon is Matron and Supervisor. Mary Ann Simpson is Schoolmistress and three others. Forty-six inmates.[8]
1901 Reformatory for Girls: Eliza Grindon is Matron and Supervisor. Four resident staff. 39 female inmates.[9]
1923 Devon and Exeter Girls Reformatory School. Herbert T. Dupree, medical officer; Percy Melhuish, secretary; Miss E. Castle, superintendent; Miss Halestrapp, headmistress.[10]
1927 Became the Girls Training School
1935 Devon and Exeter Girls Training School. Percy Melhuish, Secretary; Miss E. Castle, Head Mistress.[11]
1939 Bertha Hinde, medical officer; Percy Melhuish, Secretary; Miss M. C. V. Collins, head mistress.[12]
1960 Re-located and named the Faringdon School, Exeter
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Western Times - Saturday 17 April 1858
- ↑ Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Saturday 29 March 1856
- ↑ Western Times - Saturday 17 April 1858
- ↑ 1861 Census
- ↑ Western Times - Tuesday 14 January 1868
- ↑ 1871 Census
- ↑ 1881 Census
- ↑ 1891 Census
- ↑ 1901 census
- ↑ 1923 Exeter Directory
- ↑ 1935 Exeter Directory
- ↑ 1939 Exeter Directory