We are delighted to announce the Portsmouth, NH: School Records, 1846-1958 database is finally complete! This update adds 464,230 names and 377,055 records to this database for a total of 1,124,243 names and 1,142,558 records (please note: these are attendance lists, so many names do repeat, often with spelling variations).
This database is full of interesting surprises that can help paint a picture about the students’ lives from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In addition to birth dates, parents, and residences, you can also find nicknames, deaths, doodles, course plans and books, notes about major events, staff, children running away, the weather, pranks, and punishments. The schools represent different neighborhoods throughout Portsmouth, but many students transferred to new, larger schools in the late 19th and early 20th century. In 1890 the students from Bartlett, Cabot Street, Jones, Peabody, and Walker all transferred to the Whipple on State Street and Farragut on High Street.
This database is the result of a partnership between the Portsmouth Athenaeum and American Ancestors. The Portsmouth Athenaeum maintains a library of over 40,000 volumes and has held the city’s historic school records since 1991. The records included in this database are now housed in the collections of Portsmouth Public Library.
This database is available to Individual-level and above American Ancestors members only. Consider membership.