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Jürgen Bünger
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Christopher Grote
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2006/10/10 02:39:21
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Margot King
Re: [OL] Primary/Secondary Schools in Damme?

[OL] Primary/Secondary Schools in Damme?

Date: 2006/10/10 18:14:02
From: Margot King <margot.king(a)ca.inter.net>

I'm back again with what probably is another simple-minded question but the list members have been so generous with their answers to my other questions that I'm hoping that perhaps someone can help me out.

What kind of education would the children of the Heuerleute in Oldenburg have had in the middle of the nineteenth century? My great great grandfather (Johann Heinrich Bergmann) was a tenant farmer in Damme but only a few years after the family's arrival in the U.S. in 1870, he was on the school board in Stearns County MN and his daughter, my great grandmother Berardina, was the first teacher in one of the small district schools there. She must have had some kind of schooling but would it have been enough for her to teach? I know that there were Progymasia all over Germany at the time but am not sure how the Heuerleute would have fit into this scheme or indeed whether she would have attended such a school.

I'd be most grateful for any help in this area and/or suggestions for further reading.

Margot King