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Case 9315

12. Certified Industrial School Order of Detention for M. 10 December 1902

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In the County of Nottingham Petty Sessional Division of Worksop Before the Court of Summary Jurisdiction sitting at Worksop aforesaid the 10th day of December 1902. Whereas an Attendance Order under the 11th section of the Elementary Education Act, 1876, was made against the child M, of Worksop aforesaid (born, so far as has been ascertained, on the 18th day of April 1889), and who is under the said Act prohibited from being taken into full-time employment, on the ground that his parent habitually and without reasonable excuse neglected to provide efficient elementary education for her, and the said Attendance Order has not been compiled with, without any reasonable excuse within the meaning of the said Act: and whereas she said non compliance was not the first non compliance with she said order. An whereas the religious persuasion of the said Child appears to the Court to be that of Protestant. At is hereby Ordered that the said Child shall be sent to the Certified Industrial School at St. [?] Home Shipton under Wynchwood [?] to be there detained until the child attains the age of sixteen years.
(Signed) H.V. Machum
John Thornton
Justice of the peace for the aforesaid.

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