On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 23:47:18 +0100, Amanda Kerby <[email protected]> wrote: > This one has thrown me Josephine. > I did have this ref but didn’t know quite what to make of it because a) > I don’t have a baptism for a George born to Thomas KIFT, and b) the > other children I have baptisms for Thomas Kift and Phoebe’s were between > 1790 – 1802. So for him to apprentice his son George in 1788 he would > have been a new born baby! Unless his son George was by an earlier > marriage? Hi Amanda, I thought that the apprentice, George KIFT, was a kinsman of his master as his father was recorded as Thomas KIFT, merchant, whose abode was Cork, IRL. > I wonder if you would mind checking on the non-conformist registers for > baptism to see if there are other children such as George bapt to Thomas > and Phoebe KIFT. I've had a look in the CD of The Nonconformist Baptismal Registers in Bristol Record Office 1754 to 1837, produced by Bristol & Avon Family History Society, but there are no baptisms there for KIFT. Josephine