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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Apprenticeship records
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 17:32:20 +0100
In-Reply-To: <B619A0DE-C35A-11DA-8143-000A959877A2@btinternet.com>


In message <>, Gen
Mail <> writes
>
>On Monday, Apr 3, 2006, at 12:56 Europe/London, Eve McLaughlin wrote:
>
>> In message <000701c656c5$7986c7e0$>, Linda Fiorentino
>> <> writes
>>> Hi to all
>>>
>>> Would SKS please be able to tell me how I would go about finding
>>> apprenticeship records for my missing Thomas?
>>
>> With great difficulty. Apprenticeship records were taxed to 1811
>> (records to 1808) but after that, apart fgrom the high flyers whose
>> apprenticeship bindings are recorded by the London livery companies,
>
>My spouse's very non high-flying great grandfather was apprenticed in
>the Shipwrights Company in August 1844 and became Free on 29 April 1852
That was a very good trade, definitely high flying and not to be
scorned.
Shipwrights insisted on properly training and proper paperwork after
many of the trades had given up. And, to an extent, it was a closely
guarded craft, tending to be hereditary in certain families. If his
father wasn't in the craft, then it is worth investigating if his
mother's kin were.
>
>Another seemingly run-of the-mill apprentice was James Burford, the
>son of a Labourer in Kingsland Road, who was apprenticed to George
>McKewan, Citizen and Spectaclemaker on 23 April 1841

That's great - it sounds as if he must have had a patron, or shown a lot
of natural talent, since premiums for an apprenticeship of that skill
were quite high.


--
Eve McLaughlin

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

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