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Kibble Farm School
The Kibble Institute or Farm School in Paisley, near Glasgow, Scotland, supplied approximately 10% of the boys who participated in the farm apprenticeship scheme.
It is still in operation today but is now known as the Kibble Education and Care Centre. 2009 marked the 150th anniversary of the admission of Kibble's first pupil.
Old farming equipment at
the entrance to Kibble today
(courtesy The Scottish Farmer, 2009)
Kibble values its long history of working with youth at risk and has launched an excellent website that includes a section on child migration:
Please contact Elaine Harris for more information. See also this article from the Scottish Farmer magazine.
The 17 farm apprentices (see below) who attended Kibble featured as case studies in my thesis. The boys emigrated to South Australia at the end of their sentence, aged 18-19. Fortunately most of the records relating to their admission and discharge still exist in Kibble's archives, giving us an insight into these apprentices' backgrounds.
It is understood that Kibble initially became aware of the South Australian scheme because there was a boy scout troop based at the school. At the time the school was already assisting its pupils to emigrate to farms in other Australian states and Canada.
Kibble's South Australian Farm Apprentices:
- William ARTHUR
- George BICKERSTAFF
- Archibald Menzies CAMERON
- John FORREST
- John GLEN
- Lewis GRANT
- William HAMILTON
- Hugh LAWSON
- John McCULLOCH
- George McPHAIL (school captain)
- Joseph McQUEEN
- James PETTIGREW (school captain)
- John SCOTT
- Alexander Galbraith SIMPSON (school secretary)
- Laurence SEMPLE
- Robert TAYLOR
- Archibald WILSON