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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Builders circa 1897
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:59:04 +0000
In-Reply-To: <F47xGK8LRub4A5oP1VZ00012710@hotmail.com>

In message <>, june harvey
<> writes
>
>Hi All:
>
>Please may I have your advice -
>
>My ggrandfather, Henry James Haydon, is down as a Builder on his son's
>marriage certificate. Would a builder have to be registered, or belong to a
>union or whatever?
No such thing - a 'builder' was only a man with, usually, one of the
skills, like carpentering or bricklaying, who got a bit of cash together
to buy a bit of ground on the edges of london and put up houses; or a
similar man who set up his own firm and did repairs etc. He wopuld
probably have served and apprenticeship, but this would be private
paperwork only. If he has a firm, he will be in trade directories.
Remember that he could be an employed brickie or carpenter or painter
just upgraded by his daughter.

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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