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Country code

Repository code

234

Organisation

NAS

Repository

National Records of Scotland

Reference

CH2/1139

Title

Records of Edinburgh, Ministers' Daughters' College

Dates

1866-1924

Access status

Open

Description

The states of affairs record not only amounts of school fees collected but also usually give lists of pupils with their father's names and designations including which parish they were minister of.

Level

Fonds

Admin history

Edinburgh Ministers' Daughters' College was an institution situated on Kilgraston Road in the Grange district of Edinburgh which dealt with the education of daughters of Ministers of the Church of Scotland and also daughters of Professors in the Scottish Universities. The course of Education taught included a range of academic subjects including history, geography, English grammar, French and German alongside other skills such as dressmaking, music, drawing and elocution. The school was later commonly known as Esdaile; it closed in 1967.

Related material

For related documents see GD1/1437 in the National Records of Scotland.

National Records of Scotland, H.M. General Register House, 2 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3YY; email: [email protected]