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Hi have just found out that my grandfather was a resident at the above named school which was an approved school around 1903-1905. I was wondering if anyone can find out anymore information as every where I try is charging and I'm skint thank you in anticipation

Lin

when you say more information - what info are you looking for?


Eastmoor Approved School


First opened in 1857 as the Leeds Reformatory School for boys, the School was funded by the Leeds Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders, who deliberately chose the location as it was far enough away from the temptations of the city. By 1858, the school housed 50 boys, which had grown to 150 by 1887. The south-east wing and Headmaster’s house were added in 1860, when the attic floor of the initial building was converted to dormitories. The workshops of the north-east wing, built by the boys in 1859, were rebuilt in 1881 after a fire, and a separate chapel to the south was added in 1882, designed to function also as a lecture room and subsequently as a gym, however there was no priest and the chapel was never consecrated. Surrounding land within the grounds was cultivated for crops and garden produce. The swimming pool beyond the north-west wing was added in 1887 and roofed in 1896. A boiler room between the north-west wing and the pool was inserted in 1899 to heat the pool, which was used by community groups as well as inmates.

The land was bought by Leeds City Council for £3,500 in 1875, having been leased to the Society by the (unknown) owner previously. The buildings continued in use as an approved school named Eastmoor School from 1933 and then a community home when it was taken over by Leeds City Council on 1st April 1973. It was then known as Eastmoor Community Home with Education. A number of separate houses were constructed around the core site from the 1950s onwards, but there has been little change to the 19th Century buildings externally. In 1993, a secure unit for young offenders was built on part of the site, formerly open land, also owned by Leeds City Council. It has been unused since 2004 although has been marketed for housing development.

Apparently the records are on Ancestry in their West Yorkshire Criminal Collection.

If you care to give a name then I am sure someone will take a look for you.

Chris

photographs of some of the boys on this site

Leeds East Moor Reformatory for Boys, Adel, near Leeds ...


www.childrenshomes.org.uk/LeedsEastMoor

Leeds East Moor Reformatory for ... the site became the East Moor Approved School for ... Leeds LS27 7JQ. Holdings for "Leeds East Moor Community Home School":

Leeds East Moor Community Home School, records | The ...


discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/6318c390-9a88-4f1e-b...

Title: Leeds East Moor Community Home School, records Reference: LC/SS (ACC 3464) Description:

East Moor Secure Children’s Home
East Moor Lane
Adel
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS16 8EB

Tel: 0113 2610031
Fax: 0113 2672218
Referrals: 0113 2610031

His name was Ebenezer Edward Cracknell or Edward Ebenezer

Thank you

Same man, but different aspect of his life

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/military_chat/thread/1355949
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/military_chat/thread/1355914
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/genealogy_chat/thread/889900 (ancient)

He was born c1890

Admitted to the school on 2 Feb 1905 convicted of breaking open showcases and stealing contents - convicted for 4 years 6 mtghs. Associated with bad companions

DOB 24 Sept 1890 also gives physical characteristics. home circumstances not favourable for a good upbringing

he had attended St Peters Council School, could read and write and was intelligent and was employed by M Brown of Goodman Street Hunslet

mother Rose Crackenell (father James dead) also on the roll employed as a charwoman of poor character living at 23 Cancel Street Pottery Fields Leeds 2 small children at home

brother Samuel inmate of Shadwell Ind school

in 1911 he was at Devon And Exeter Reformatory School For Boys, Whipton, Heavitree, Nr Exeter employed as a Gymnastic & Manual Instructor

Thank you so much. We knew about the Exeter bit as that is he worked when my mother was born in the thirties it's interesting to work how he became an instructor at a similar institution to what he was an inmate in. Now comes the big question to I tell my very frail mum who is in her eighties this.

Perhaps you could be a bit economical with the truth.

Reading what was on the school roll, it sounded like they thought he was basically an intelligent lad who had been led astray by the people he associated with and a poor home life with mother struggling to bring up children on her own. Perhaps the school trained him as an instructor to give him some structure in his life.

She might be more open minded than you expect.

When we told a relative (older than your mum) that her parents married 5 months before her birth, at first she went red. Then it dawned on her why she was never shown their wedding photos and why she and her now husband were so heavily chaperoned!

West Yorkshire, England, Reformatory School Records, 1856-1914

Name: Ebenezer Cracknell
Gender: Male
Event Date: 19 Dec 1908
Residence: Leeds, England
Record Type: Discharge
Volume Date Range: 1904 - 1913
Reference Number: LC/SS1/9/4
Register Numbers: 8
Institution: East Moor Community Home School

from image:-

Character and Circumstances for Three Years after Discharge

Left to take up position as Manual and Drill Instructor at the Boys' Reformatory, Whipton, Exeter

Still at Exeter Jan 1919

these are records for his brother Samuel, one of which gives the name of his father

West Yorkshire, England, Reformatory School Records, 1856-1914

Name: Samuel Cracknell
Gender: Male
Age: 8
Birth Date: 20 Dec 1893
Event Date: 23 Apr 1902
Residence: Leeds, England
Father: James Cracknell
Mother: Rose Cracknell
Record Type: Commitment
Volume Date Range: 1897 - 1905
Reference Number: LC/SS2/1/5
Register Numbers: 1650-2045
Institution: Shadwell Childrens Centre

from image:-

Legitimate
Religion:- Wesleyan
Parent or Parents:- James and Rose Cracknell
Occupation:- Street Acrobat
Residence:- 9 Stainburn Street, York St, Leeds (note added:- nr Rothwell Union)

Offence:- Begging
Convicted:- Leeds Apr 23 1902

Sentence:- Until 16 years of age

Notes:-
Beyond home control. Aug 28/01 --- committed to Edgar St but will persist in begging as soon as school is over

Conduct during Detention
Oct 18 '09 to Mr Passavant, Parkin Farm, Methley
Feb 23 '10 Left position
Dec 31 '10 Last heard of at Gloucester 4 months ago
Nov 15 '11 Believed to have returned to Leeds, reported to have been in the Tumbler Colliery district

May 1 '12 Enlisting
Sept 1912 No. 13153 3 Battalion B Company Worcestershire Regiment Lucknow Barks Tidworth
26/11/12 Satisfactory

baptism of Samuel ............ couldn't find Ebenezer Edward

West Yorkshire, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1910

Name: Samuel Cracknell
Birth Date: 21 Dec 1893
Parish: Leeds, St Peter
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Baptism Date: 28 Jan 1894
Father: James Cracknell
Mother: Rose Cracknell


from image:-

Address:- Stainburn Street
Father occupation:- Acrobat


These look like other children of James and Rose ...........

Name: Andrew Cracknell
Birth Date: 23 Aug 1892
Parish: Leeds, St Peter
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Baptism Date: 18 Sep 1892
Father: James Cracknell
Mother: Rose Cracknell

Address:- Stainburn Street
Father occupation:- Acrobat

died June quarter 1893, registered Leeds


Name: James William Cracknell
Birth Date: 6 Feb 1896
Parish: Leeds, St Peter
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Baptism Date: 26 Feb 1896
Father: James Cracknell
Mother: Rose Cracknell

Address:- Stainburn Street
Father occupation:- Acrobat


Name: John Edward Cracknell
Birth Date: 14 Feb 1898
Parish: Leeds, St Peter
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Baptism Date: 9 Mar 1898
Father: James Cracknell
Mother: Rose Cracknell

Address:- Stainburn Street
Father occupation:- Labourer

1901 Census

Name: James Cracknell
Age: 46
Estimated birth year: abt 1855
Relation to Head: Head
Gender: Male
Spouse: Rose Cracknell
Birth Place: Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Civil Parish: Leeds
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Ecclesiastical parish: Leeds St Peter
Town: Leeds
County/Island: Yorkshire
Country: England

Registration district: Leeds
Sub-registration district: North Leeds
ED, institution, or vessel: 16

Piece: 4222
Folio: 8
Page Number: 7
Household schedule number: 45

James Cracknell 46 Acrobat on Stage (on own account)
Rose Cracknell 37 b.ca 1864, Wakefield, Yorkshire
Louisa Cracknell 16
Ebenezar Cracknell 11
Samuel Cracknell 7
Francis Cracknell 7 <<<<<<<<<< this Francis has been crossed out on the image
James Cracknell 5
Francis Cracknell 1

Address:- 9 Stainburn Street



sad ..................

1911 Census

Name: Rose Cracknell
Age in 1911: 48
Estimated birth year: abt 1863
Relation to Head: Inmate
Gender: Female
Birth Place: Wakefield, Yorkshire, England
Civil Parish: Nottingham
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County/Island: Nottinghamshire
Country: England
Marital Status: Widowed
Occupation: Housekeeper
Registration district: Nottingham
Registration District Number: 430
Sub-registration district: Bulwell
ED, institution, or vessel: 39-42
Piece: 20672

Rose is an Inmate at the Basford Union Workhouse and Infirmary, Highbury Road, Nottingham

hmmmmmmm

according to the 1891 Census Ebenezer was born in

1891 Census

Name: James Cracknell
Age: 34
Estimated birth year: abt 1857
Relation: Lodger
Gender: Male
Where born: Birmingham, Warwickshire, England
Civil Parish: Bishop Auckland
Ecclesiastical parish: Auckland St Andrews
Town: Bishop Auckland
County/Island: Durham
Country: England

Registration district: Auckland
ED, institution, or vessel: 4

Piece: 4067
Folio: 82
Page Number: 26

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James Cracknell 34 Acrobat
Rose Cracknell 27 n.ca 1864, Wakefield, Yorkshire
Louisa Cracknell 5 b.ca 1886, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
Ebenezer Cracknell 4/12 b.ca 1891, Sunderland, Durham
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Address:- 8 Clayton Street, Licensed Lodging House

It was either a VERY big house, or people shared beds and rooms :-)

This looks as though it is James' death registration


Deaths Sep 1902 (>99%)
Cracknell James 42 Leeds 9b 238

I can't find a marriage for James Cracknell and Rose, but I did find this marriage for their daughter Louisa

West Yorkshire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935

Name: Louisa Kaufman Cracknell
Birth Year: abt 1885
Age: 21
Marriage or Bann Date: 27 Oct 1906
Parish: Hunslet, St Mary the Virgin, Yorkshire, England
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Spouse: Domonic Mazza
Father: James Cracknell <<<<<<<<<< Acrobat
Spouse Father: Rocco Mazza


I wonder if the "Kaufman" has any significance