Hi Brian Thanks for the effort you made looking for those apprenticeships for me. Much appreciated, those type of records are less visible to us in Aus, although the LDS have done some filming in the Notts RO. regards Hilary Thomas From: Brian Binns [mailto:bnbinns@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 29 January 2014 2:43 AM To: NOTTSGEN-L@rootsweb.com Cc: Lisa Lukich; Hilary Thomas Subject: Apprenticeships I said I would look at the apprenticeship cards at Notts Archives for Lisa, a poster to this forum from Australia. I then got an email directly for a similar enquiry. But I thought that I would post the results of both on the forum too. Lisa asked about William CORTHORN, who was a Tailor in Nottingham in the early 1800s, but there isn't an apprenticeship record for him. I also checked the Burgess records and couldn't find his name there either. For those that don't know, Burgesses were, at one time, the only people allowed to vote and comprised those who were appointed (gentry, clergy etc), those who were sons of Burgesses, and those who qualified by virtue of being a time-served tradesman. I did find others named CORTHEN, CAWTHORNE, and CORTHORN, including a few Williams, but these were earlier and were FWKs and sinkermakers. I was also asked by Hilary to look for John, Joseph and Jeremiah HOLLAND, possibly stonemasons, all from the first half of the 19th century but again could not find anyone of that name. ironically I found a lot of apprentice Tailors with the surname HOLLAND! Glad to help, but sadly no results. Brian BInns