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From: "Dorothy Moritz" <>
Subject: Re: RENNIE apprenticeship and Robert Gordon's College
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 00:54:45 -0400


Gavin, I'm sorry - my computer hiccuped and sent out only part of my
message, so I'll start again.
First of all, thank you for the corrected information about Gordon's.
What little I had came from a former student there who now lives in
southeast Asia and very kindly responded to my request on the old Genealogy
bulletin board. My info from my family was that GGF was at Gordon's
Hospital! in the 1840s, before coming to the US. In the US at least, a
hospital is an institution for surgery, serious illness, childbirth, etc.
I had never heard the term used for a school. When I found him in the 1841
Census with a bunch of other students and some staff and families it started
to make more sense. But I still don't really know that much about the
place, just that he was there and I found him! So thanks for the additional
info. We all need you and the others like you on these lists to keep us
straight about the "facts" we share.
Regards, and keep on sharing with us.
Dot in FL, USA
Pleased to be a Donor to RootsWeb
My hobby is Genealogy and I raise dustbunnies as pets.




----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: RENNIE apprenticeship and Robert Gordon's College


> As a mere Grammarian (ie former pupil of Aberdeen Grammar School) am I
> allowed to point out an inaccuracy in Dorothy's reply?
>
> The former Gordon's Hospital (founded in the 18th century) is now Robert
> Gordon's College, a school for boys (and, for some years past, girls) up
> to the age of 18.
>
> On an adjacent site is part of the Campus of The Robert Gordon
> University, which has been a university for less than ten years. Prior
> to that, it was the Robert Gordon Institute of Technology. I'm a little
> hazy as to the details of its history, but I believe that it grew
> principally out of a late 19th Century Mechanics' Institute. It did at
> some point benefit by the same foundation which had created the school,
> but the two, despite being close neighbours, and sharing a name, are now
> organisationally quite separate.
>
> Quite irrelevant to the present question, but I can't resist pointing
> out that my old school, Aberdeen Grammar, is sometimes claimed to be
> over 700 years old, while the University of Aberdeen, which I attended
> longer ago than I care to remember, was quite definitely founded in
> 1495.
>
> Gavin Bell
>
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