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From: "George Spooner" <>
Subject: Re: TRADE DIRECTORIES & other questions
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 18:12:20 +0800
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He's Back, he's BACK!
Welcome home Pubby.
Geo.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Hunter" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 5:09 PM
Subject: RE: TRADE DIRECTORIES & other questions


> Hi Rosemary,
>
> Hope this isn't tantamount to fraternising with the enemy with the Ashes
> coming up, but I've had a look at the 1845 Post Office Directory for the
> Home Counties and can't see Tom, but there is a "Mrs. Hannah Palmer,
> baker, Moulsham" under Chelmsford.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ian Pubby Hunter
>
> Essex Pubs at: http://www.essexpubs.co.uk
>
> Essex Directories at:
> http://www.madasafish.com/~essexpubs/Directories/Index.htm
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rosemary Martin [mailto:]
> > Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 4:44 AM
> > To:
> > Subject: TRADE DIRECTORIES & other questions
> >
> > Hi Listers
> >
> > I am not making any progress with my PALMER family from Chelmsford &
> > wonder if there are any later trade directories than Pigot & Co's
> Royal
> > National & Commercial Directory Sept 1839? My Thomas PALMER was listed
> > in it as Baker & Flour Dealer at Moulsham. I know he was dead by 1857.
> > He isn't in the 1851 Census - unless he changed his occupation & wife.
> > There is a Thomas PALMER of the right vintage (aged 58) in the 1851
> > Census but he is listed as a Journeyman Tailor. Is it likely that a
> > Baker & Confectioner would change his career in mid-life? There is a
> > William PALMER aged 40, Baker, in Ingatestone but he was a bit old to
> be
> >
> > Thomas' son. It seems odd for a 58 year old to be a Journeyman. How
> long
> >
> > was the Journeyman stage in Tailoring?
> >
> > TIA
> > Rosemary
> > in Western Australia
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