| ID | 786 |
|---|---|
| Collection | Leinster Quarterly Meetings |
| Reference | QMI/H1 |
| Description | Schools and Education: Box file containing material related to Mountmellick School. Include: A schedule of nineteenth century ledgers, scholars' listing, accounts, books and papers received from the school Rules for Mountmellick Provincial School, 1784. Rules for the regulation and well-ordering of Leinster Provincial School for Dublin. These include general rules, (23); rules for local committee, (10); rules to be observed for the head of the house, (14); advises to scholars, (c12) Lists of Men and Women Friends from Dublin, Moate, Mountmellick, Wicklow, Wexford, Carlow and Edenderry appointed to the School Committees Mountmellick School Sub-Committee Minutes, 1835-1840. Committee minutes, appointment of staff to school, brief accounts, etc., not very comprehensive minutes and little evidence of involvement of women friends Proceedings of Dublin Schools Committee, 1815-1822. Single volume in bad condition, of minutes which provides names of women friends on committee; appointment of staff, male and female; male and female visiting committees sent to the school; names of children seeking admission to the school Education Fund Committee of Leinster Quarterly Meeting, Minutes 1941-1944. Single volume detailing the activities of the committee the aim of which is concerned with 'any funds that may be available to be placed under the control of the Leinster Quarterly Meeting Education Fund Committee. Minutes list committee members, male and female; accounts of the Fund; amounts paid by parents of children; variety of references to female scholars Apprenticing Fund of the Quarterly Meeting of Leinster, 1743-1913. One small volume which appears to be the Minutes of the Apprenticing Fund founded by Edward Cooper, deceased, who bequeathed œ50 'for the use of setting out poor honest friends children apprentices to trade'. Minutes include the accounts of the organisation, donations to the fund, etc. Accounts, 1829 to 1835 (Mountmellick Provincial School), loose pages contains expenses of the school. Journal, 1855. Accounts of Mountmellick Provincial School for March-July 1855. Details on amounts disbursed on servants' wages, repairs, furniture, stationary, clothing, farm and gardening, house expenses, etc. Sundry Papers, 19th century[?], containing contracts, letters accounts, etc., connected with 'Endowed Schools' in Leinster and Munster. Includes details regarding members of committees. |
| Access | Contact Repository. |
| Date | 1743-1944 |
| Century | 18th, 20th |
| Keywords | |
| Repository Name | Religious Society of Friends in Ireland Historical Library |
| Address | Quaker House Dublin Stocking Lane Rathfarnham Dublin 16 |
| Eircode | D16 V3F8 |
| Telephone | (01) 499-8003 |
| Email Address | library@quakers.ie |
| Repository Web Address | https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/historical-library/ |
| latitude | 53.27277 |
| longitude | -6.30608 |