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Church/Chapel Summary replied on: 3/20/2005 8:09:06 AM Re Jenkellock's post of 12/12/04. The sister's she refers to were actually Lydia and Sarah Agnes ROSCOE, not Rosere. The Roscoe's were a well-established family in Heanor. Thomas Seddon Roscoe ran the town's post office (explaining Sarah's job) which was situated on Derby Road, at the junction with Mount Street. (All starting to fit!) He was also the first headmaster of the National School on Loscoe Road, which opened in 1848. (How he managed to do this, I'm not sure.) As early as 1835, T.S.Roscoe ran a boarding school on West Hill (Derby Road). Lydia was the first headmistress of the National School (nothing like keeping it in the family!), while M.A. Roscoe was the Headmistress of the infants. There is reference to Lydia later running a boarding school, and this census return obviously dates from that same period. I don't know if there is any connection with the chapel on Mount Street. The Roscoe's name doesn't appear to feature after the 1860's in the Heanor area. (Unless you know otherwise!)

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