Hi Eve Thanks for taking the trouble to provide those inputs, it was good of you. Unfortuately I am still in the positon of not knowing with any certainty what can and cannot be inferred by information provided in the records extracted and published as a the list of "Admission To Freedom of Apprentices" held at the Oxford Studies Centre. I can't remember when or who carried out the work, or for that matter the document reference. As you are probably aware they take the form of - Individual-Qualification-Sponsors Name-Sponsors Trade- Date. I am more and more convinced that in the case of a grant of freedom based on inheritance that you cannot assume the son follows his fathers trade. I have in my Oxford Gadney collection of records at least 2 individuals, one in the mid 18th c and one toward the end of the 19th c where the Appenticeship Binding and Freedom to Trade records strongly suggest that they were carrying out a trade different to that of their father when he sponsored them. Unfortunately, as you say the practice died out at the turn of the 19thy/20th c a definitive answer may not be forthcoming but I live in hope. I agree with you, the resources available at the Ox. Studes Centre are superb, clearly a lot of people have put in a great deal of time and effort over the years to make them available. Regards Ray G

Please may I join this interesting correspondence. Is there a record of apprentices at the Oxford Studies Centre ? My relation GEORGE WING b Stone Bkm 1828 was apprenticed approximately 1843 to a Bootmaker in the Oxford area. He married in June 1848 so he must by then have finished his term. I have reason to believe that his apprentaship was sponsored by the "DIANA MASTERS BEQUEST " for poor boys chosen by the Rector of HOLTON OX a village in which he lived Mike Wing 2386. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raymond Gadney" <rgadney@btinternet.com> To: <eve@varneys.org.uk>; <oxfordshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 6:11 PM Subject: Re: [OXF] Trade freedom > Hi Eve > > Thanks for taking the trouble to provide those inputs, it was good of you. > Unfortuately I am still in the positon of not knowing with any certainty > what can and cannot be inferred by information provided in the records > extracted and published as a the list of "Admission To Freedom of > Apprentices" held at the Oxford Studies Centre. I can't remember when or > who > carried out the work, or for that matter the document reference. As you > are > probably aware they take the form of - Individual-Qualification-Sponsors > Name-Sponsors Trade- Date. > > I am more and more convinced that in the case of a grant of freedom based > on inheritance that you cannot assume the son follows his fathers trade. > I > have in my Oxford Gadney collection of records at least 2 individuals, one > in the mid 18th c and one toward the end of the 19th c where the > Appenticeship Binding and Freedom to Trade records strongly suggest that > they were carrying out a trade different to that of their father when he > sponsored them. > > Unfortunately, as you say the practice died out at the turn of the > 19thy/20th c a definitive answer may not be forthcoming but I live in > hope. > > I agree with you, the resources available at the Ox. Studes Centre are > superb, clearly a lot of people have put in a great deal of time and > effort > over the years to make them available. > > Regards > Ray G > > _____________________________________________ > > Oxfordshire Surname Interest list - www.oxsil.org.uk Have you entered your > names of interest? > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >