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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
ST CATHERINE'S SESSIONAL SCHOOL St. Cuthbert's Sessional School
St. Cuthbert's Sessional School
Sessional School
Inserted on front of Building
William Wason, Teacher
P. O. [Post Office] Directory
[Situation] At the SE [South East] corner of Newington Burying Ground.
Applies to a School house on the South side of DalKeith road opposite the junction of Old Gibbet Toll and Gibbet Loan. It is endowed from the St. Cuthberts Court of Session There is an average attendance of 55 males and 59 Females who are taught the ordinary branches of an English education The master is Mr. William Wason
NEWINGTON INFANT SCHOOL Newington Infant School
Newington Infant School
on front of Building
William Wason Teacher
[Situation] Adjoing St. Cuthberts Sessional School.
A small apartment adjoining the St. Cuthberts Sessional School used as a schoolhouse for the instruction of children under seven years of age It is endowed from the St. Cuthberts Court of Session here also the girls of the St. Cuthberts Sessional School are taught Sewing for two hours each day the daily average attendance of infants is 25. The Teacher is a Miss McGregor

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Parish of St. Cuthberts

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This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 44
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056

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