Hi JJ I suspect you slipped up here when you repeat his name, after also known as? Phil Phil Warn Chairman Bromley Observer Group (B O G) BOG was set up by Phil Warn to replace the sadly demised Bromley LINk as Local Health Watch seems to be toothless! -----Original Message----- From: "Josephine Jeremiah" <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> Sent: ‎07/‎02/‎2014 17:22 To: "bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com" <bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com> Subject: [B&S] Thomas JENKINS, apprenticed to Michael BESHER (sic), Bristol,1750 Hi Listers, Earlier this week I was contacted, off list, by someone looking at the family of Thomas JENKINS, a tobacco pipe maker. I have now found a little further information about this family, which may be of use to others researching this name and occupation. The son of pipe maker, Thomas JENKINS of Bristol, who was also called Thomas JENKINS, was apprenticed to tinplate worker, William COMBES, on 27th. October 1746. The apprenticeship was turned over and Thomas JENKINS was then apprenticed, on 10th. October 1750, to Michael BESHER, Esquire, to be educated as a mariner for the remainder of the term. The source of this information the Bristol Apprenticeship Books Volumes 1 (o) to 1 (z) Index & Transcripts 1724-2009 produced by Bristol & Avon Family History Society. www.bafhs.org.uk I think that Michael BESHER could have been Michael BECHER a member of the BECHER family whom B & S list member, Jenny Stiles, is researching. Josephine ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message