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Young Gentleman's Catholic Boarding School, Lytham.


James Baron (1816-82) opened a small school in Beach Street, Lytham in 1849.

People at James Baron's School on the night of the 1851 Census (31 March) and their ages: 

James Baron 34 (general teacher)
Peter Laverty 37 (general teacher)
Sarah Sharp 53 (housekeeper)
Dorothy Bickerstaffe 18 (housemaid)



James married about 1851 and his wife Frances helped run the school - between giving birth to seven children - Mary Louise (b.1853), Mary Frances (b.1854), Mary L? (b.1855),   James Aloysius (b.1858),  Mary Charlotte (b.1859), Mary Gertrude (b.1861), Agnes (b.1864) & Monica (b.1866).

In the 1850s he converted a building on Clifton Street, near Station Road, into "The Young Gentleman's Catholic Boarding School ".

Young Gentleman's Catholic Boarding School, Lytham.

The school closed after James Baron died in 1882 and it was later converted into shops.

 

People at James Baron's School on the night of the 1861 Census (7th April) and their ages: 

James Baron 45 (headmaster)
Frances Baron 39 (wife)
James Aloysius Baron 3 (son) 
Mary Charlotte Baron 2  (daughter)
Mary Frances Baron 7  (daughter)
Mary Gertrude Baron 3 Months  old (daughter)
Mary L Baron 8  (daughter)
Mary L Baron 6  (daughter)

Henry Walker 20 (assistant teacher)


John Carr 14  (boarder/scholar)
Peter Casey 13  (boarder/scholar)
Alfred Cox 11  (boarder/scholar)
Charles Cox 12 (boarder/scholar)
John Craven 9  (boarder/scholar)
William Furnel 12  (boarder/scholar)
Thomas Hamer 8  (boarder/scholar)
Alfred Hines 13  (boarder/scholar)
Charles Leeming 13 (boarder/scholar)
Bernard Moore 11 (boarder/scholar)
Samuel Moore 9 
(boarder/scholar)  
Feliciano Morace 18 
(boarder/scholar)b.Portugal
Charles Northgraves 11 (boarder/scholar)
Roger Taylor 12 
(boarder/scholar)
John Unsworth 13 
(boarder/scholar)  
Thomas Whitgredon 11 
(boarder/scholar)
Robert Wolseley 10
(boarder/scholar)

Alice Dunford 23  (housemaid)
Esther Malone 44  (cook)
Maria Crowther 26 (nurse)
Ann Connell 23 (servant/matron)
Elizabeth Connell 19 (kitchen maid)
Thomas Clarke 15 (servant boy)

 



People at James Baron's School on the night of the 1881 Census (3rd April) and their ages: 

James Baron 64 (scholastic professor)
Frances Baron 60  (wife/professor)
Gertrude Baron 19 (daughter/professor)
Louisa Baron 25 (daughter/professor)

 

Mary Murray 19 (domestic servant) 

Alfonso Baster 16 (boarder/student) b.Spain
Frank Beirne 12  (boarder/student)
Fred Beirne 13  (boarder/student)
William Beirne 14  (boarder/student)
Fernando Guerra 19  (boarder/student) b. Cuba
Claudio Leanda 19  (boarder/student) b.Spain
Alfred Romaguera 20  (boarder/student)
Henry Romaguera 18 (boarder/student)