Miss Grove has taken the house lately occupied by Major Bayers in Albermarle Street and has removed her school there. Miss Grove intends to take a limited number of boarders whose moral and intellectual improvement will form the objects of her constant care. Their health will be attended to and they will be required to take constant and regular exercise.
Terms
- When the pupil is provided with her own bedding and towels and spoons 35.
- When these are not provided 40.
It is possible that this was the opening of her first school, but the wording 'has removed her school there' implies the school existed prior to that date.
Later in 1845, Anne Grove purchased a building at 97 Hollis Street in Halifax, and moved the school there. All four sisters were working at this school in the late 1860's. I don't have the full source for the following information at the moment, but it is likely related to the partial deed transcript below:
In January 1981, Robert Harvey wrote in the Journal of Education Vol 7, Number 1:
Anne Grove bought a three-storey, brick building at the corner of Hollis and Salter Streets, in Halifax from the Honourable Henry Hezekiah Cogswell, prominent Lawyer, Politician, and Banker. The selling price for the building was 1,850 pounds and Anne mortgaged all but 100 pounds with the vendor. At this location the Misses (sic) Grove settled in to create"an exclusive finish school for girls of country districts". Charles Rufus Fairbank sold the double property to Cogswell in 1837. Their house as recorded by Dr. T.B. Atkins was built as an one half of a double house around 1820 by the Fairbank's family. The house was on the corner of the main Fairbank Estate which faced the harbour. The Grove school was two doors south of the Halifax Hotel when it was opened.
Mortgage
Anne Grove Hon. Henry
H. Cogswell Magd: 3 Oclock
P.M. 22nd July 1845 - oath of
J.J. Shannon
This Indenture made the twelfth
day of July in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred & forty five
Between Anne Grove of Halifax in the
Province of Nova Scotia Spinster of the
one part - and the Honorable Henry
H. Cogswell of the same place Lawyer
of the other part. witnesseth that for &
in Consideration of the sum of one
thousand seven hundred & fifty
pounds of lawful money of Nova
Scotia to the said Anne Grove in
hand well & truly paid by the said
Henry H. Cogswell at or before the
sealing & delivery of these presents
the receipt whereof is hereby acknow-
ledged, She the said Anne Grove hath granted, bargained
sold, aliened, enfoeffed, released & confirmed by these present
doth grant bargain, sell, alieane, enfeoff, lease & confirm
unto the said Henry H Cogswell his heirs, assigns, forever
all that piece, parcel, and lot of land messuage & tenament
situate lying & being in the City of Halifax at the corner
formed by Hollis & Salter Streets, described as follows that is to say
beginning at the said corner & running from thence hath
on the east side of Hollis Street, twenty nine feet five inches thence
easterly according to the partition line dividing the brick
building ninety feet thence southerly continue parallel with
Hollis Street twenty nine feet five inches more or less to Salter Street
thence westerly on the north side of Salter Street ninety feet to the
place of beginning with the right to him the said Henry
H. Cogswell his executors, administrators & assigns to have hold
uphold, occupy, possess & enjoy the North wall of the brick
building now standing in the rear of the house, which
wall encroaches a few inches over the north side of the lot
hereby conveyed, up to its present north boundary for such
& so long a time as the said wall shall remain standing
thereon & no longer and also all houses, outhouses,
buildings, trees, waters, water courses, easements, profits,
commodities, hereditaments & appurtenances whatsoever
to the said lot piece or parcel of land & premises belonging
or in any wise appertaining or to or with the same usually
occupied or enjoyed or accepted, reputed, taken, or known as
part parcel or member thereof - and the reversion & reversions
remainder & remainders, yearly and other rents, issues & profits
thereof & of every part thereof - and also, all the estate, right, title
interest, use, trust, inheritance, property claim & demand
whatsoever both at law & in equity of him (sic) the said Anne Grove
of in to & out of the said lot, piece or parcel of land & premises
hereby granted or mentioned or intended so to be or any of them or
any part parcel or member thereof with them & every of their appur-
tenances - to have and to hold the said lot, piece or parcel
of land & all & singular other the appurtances hereby .ranted
or mentioned or intended so to be,& every part & parcel thereof
with the appurtenances unto the said Henry H. Cogswell
his heirs & assigns to the only proper & absolute use and
behoof of the said Henry H. Cogswell & his heirs & assigns
forever provided nevertheless that if the said Ann Grove
her heirs, executors or administrators do & shall well and
truly pay or cause to be paid to the said Henry H. Cogswell
his heirs, executors adminstrators or assigns the full
& just sum of one thousand seven hundred and
fifty pounds & interest upon the (1wd) at six per cent, per
(annum), (1wd) the year from the date here of / all (prov
isions) for insurance against damage or loss by fire
to the amount of fifteen hundred pounds upon the bui-
lding standing upon the said premises in manner and
form as the same is secured to be paid by a certain
bond or obligation under the hands and seals of the said
Anne Grove & William Grove ...ving (3wds) with these
presents, then the foregoing indenture to be void, other
else & remain in full force & virtue, & the said Ann
Grove doth for herself her heirs, executors and
administrators by these presents grant, covenant, & agree to
with the said Henry H. Cogswell his piers, executors, admi
nistrators & assigns in manner & form following, that is to
say, that whenever any default shall happen to be made
by the said Anne Grove her heirs, executors or administrators
in the payment of the principal or interest monies aforesaid
performing the said conditions of the said obligations then and
from thenceforth & as often as such default shall accept
said lot or parcel of land, dwelling house & premises
hereinbefore described & conveyed or intended so to be and
every part & parcel thereof, shall & lawfully may from time
to time & at all times thereafter remain, continue & be to and
for the use of the said Henry H. Cogswell & his heirs and
assigns & he by him & them & every of them peaceably and
quietly held used occupied enjoyed without any
lawful let suit, trouble, molestation & interruption
whatsoever from or by any person or persons whomsoever
lawfully or equitiably claiming the same or any parcel thereof
or any state therein, and that She the said Anne Grove
her heirs, executors or administrators shall & forthwith there
after release, convey & confirm unto the said Henry H.
Cogswell his heirs, executors administrators & assigns all
claim, rights & interest in the equity of redemption in to or
of the said premises & every part thereof. In witness
whereof the parties to these presents have hereunto their
hands & seals subscribed & set the day & year here before
written.
Signed Sealed & delivered in presence
of J.J. Shannon - James Grove } Anne Grove
Anne is the prime suspect as author of"Little Grace, or Scenes in Nova Scotia", which was published in 1846. The book was designed as a"history"aid, and was probably used as required reading at the school.
Directories for Halifax from 1864-1880 at national archives website makes various references to the Grove School in these later years:
Groves Miss
Groves Miss Elizabeth
Groves Misses
Grove Miss Elizabeth
Groves Miss E
Grove Misses
And describes the entries as:
Teacher
Ladies’ seminary
Boarding school
Boarding-house
School teacher
(no job title)
The address changed in the directories from 97 Hollis in 1864-72
to 91 Hollis for 1873-80.
Penelope is listed in the 1864/65 directory.
James & William are listed at 33 South Park in 1866/67
William is listed as a bookkeeper a full year after he died in Sep 1870 and is
therefore found in the 1871/72 listing.
Like all her sisters, Anne did not marry.
