Full name: Sarah Anne Wheeler.
Date of birth: Monday, 5th May, 1834.
Birthplace: Dover, Kent, England.
Date of death: Monday, 17th August, 1863 (aged 29 years).
Place of death: Islington, London, England.
Cause of death: Phthisis (pulmonary tuberculosis), Haemophthisis (coughing up blood), Apthea.
(1808-1884)
1835-1842 - 3, Kings Street, Dover, Kent, England.
1861 - 11, William Street, Islington, London, England.
1844-1849 - Friends' School, Park Lane, Croydon, Surrey, England [demolished in the 1880s].
Scholars studied during the day, and undertook some manual work out-of-hours.
The curriculum between 1844-1849 consisted of:
"For the girls, especially, school life was a very domestic affair. Since many were intended to be servants, or the useful wives of working men, their work took the form of a rigorous training. With six girls kneeling on the floor, each with a separate bucket, a mistress drilled them in the art of scrubbing. For a community which lived together all the year round, clothes repairs for everybody were carried out by the girls. When repair was no longer possible, the girls would make a new article: a new smock-apron for a boy, or a dress for themselves, to say nothing of the undergarments. It was not until 1860, that the Committee asked parents to supply their children with outer-clothes; even then the underwear remained the task of the girls. A few of the elder girls assisted " 1 day in the week, in washing and getting up the small linen under the direction of the laundry maid or mantua maker."" - Unbroken Community: The Story of the Friends' School, Saffron Walden 1702-1952 by David W. Bolam
"The girls had a more difficult life than the boys. Much more housework was asked of them-even to darning the boys' socks." - Unbroken Community: The Story of the Friends' School, Saffron Walden 1702-1952 by David W. Bolam
1861 - Proprietor of Houses
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