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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Mercantile clerk
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:38:28 +0100
In-Reply-To: <001a01c57661$466ad940$d648d9cb@mayhew>

In message <001a01c57661$466ad940$>, Peter Mayhew
<> writes
>Hi all
>
>Have been off tonight looking at IGI film.
>My gr gr grandfather's occupation is stated in baptism records
>as Mercantile Clerk.
>
>This is in London in the early 1840's.
>
>I'm wondering if a Mercantile Clerk was associated with a specific
He was clerk to a merchant, of any kind. Only lareger businesses were
likely to employ them, of course, but the type of trade could have been
in any commodity or a mixed range of commodities.
Every letter out would have to be recopied by hand (no carbons, no
typewriters) also every account, bill of lading, list, scedule, so in a
big firm, there would be several busy boys, or busy men.

--
Eve McLaughlin

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

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