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| CATHARINE PETTITT, WINGHAM NATIONAL SCHOOL, 1849. |
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We have a tendency to think of populations of 18th and 19th century rural England, as having been somewhat stable with little population movement. Catharine Pettitt was born in Wingham near Canterbury in about 1838 the daughter of Margaret & Thomas a master carpenter, although in the 1871 census at the age of 80 he gives his occupation as a gardener.
Catherine was still living at home aged 20, by 1861 she had moved to Canterbury as a nursemaid. By 1871 she was working as a parlor maid at Chesterfield House Henbury nr. Bristol. the other side of the country,
Her sampler worked in coloured silks with the alphabet in both upper and lower letters numbers 1to 10 with a number of spot motifs follows a regular style of school work taught under the guidance of the Church of England "National Schools".
The National School in Wingham was opened in 1820 for girls and later for boys. The building continued as a school into the 1960s. It was later extended and converted into Oakfield House Retirement Home |
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