Pupil database
Introduction
This database is drawn from several sources, each containing its own selection of data. Thomas Cox’s book1, the Admission cards and the Education Board registers were transcribed by Rose Taylor, Andrew Kafel and Vernon Brearley. The remaining data, culled from class lists and more informal data collected primarily by O.R.A. Byrde and W.R. Swale, was transcribed by John Hudson with the assistance of Marie-Rose Fielding at Crossley Heath School.
The sources
- Thomas Cox's history of the school (Cox) mentions many former pupils of the school but not normally with significant details about them.
- The Class lists from 1887 to 1906 [L] provide the names of the masters and of the pupils in each class along with the academic successes of former pupils.
- The Education Board registers from 1901 to 1925 [R] give full details of each pupil’s attendance, former and later education, parent or guardian and source of funding — but do not contain all the pupils mentioned in the Class lists for 1901–1906; perhaps private pupils were not registered?
- The Roll of Honour (WWI) and War Memorial (WWII) [M] give basic details of those who fell in each of the World Wars.
- The Class lists from 1924 to 1939 [L] are incomplete, as were those from from 1947 to 1984 to a lesser extend, but list much the same information as the earlier Class lists along with details of pupils’ performance in individual subjects.
- The Admission cards from the 1930s onwards [C] provide basic but, in some cases, incomplete information on most pupils who attended in the last half century of the school’s existence.
- The Address books created by O.R.A. Byrde [A] give the registration number, initial, parent’s initial and address of every boy in the register from 1902 to 1935.
- The Forces and war graves records [F] give information about both those who served and those who fell in each of the World Wars.
- The Index of leavers 1937-1984 [I] has been useful in filling in the leaving dates of pupils.
- The Registers from 1945 and from 1973 [R] have not been transcribed but used to check and fill out data missing from the Admission cards.
- The Book of academic attainments and destinations [D] kept by W.R. Swale has provided useful information.
- The Charity Boards and Scholarship Boards [B] have been used to fill out some information not available in the Class lists or Admission cards.
- Bulletins or Newsletters [N] have provided further information about pupils’ progress through the school and thereafter.
- The Heathen [H], Obituaries [O] and entries on the Website/Wikipedia [W] have been used to fill out information not available in the other sources.
Information requests
Members of HOBA may request the basic information contained in the database from the Webmaster; more detailed information, where available, can also be provided as time is available to officers to consult the original sources.
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1 Thomas Cox A popular history of the Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth, at Heath, near Halifax Halifax: F King 1879
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