oldenburg-l - Nachricht 2006-10 00018

[Christopher Grote <cgrote(a)rush.edu>]

What were Progymasia?

Incidentally, my grandparents were born about 1900 into families who owned
small farms near Osnabruck or Visbek.  Each had about a 6th or 8th grade
education I was told.  Grandma was raised to be a cook and a maid; Grandpa
apparently became a wagon wheel maker and one of his wagons is still in the
barn there in Erlte.  I'm guessing these were traditional school/career
outcomes for that time.

CG

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[mailto:oldenburg-l-bounces(a)genealogy.net] On Behalf Of Margot King
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:14 AM
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Subject: [OL] Primary/Secondary Schools in Damme?

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 
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