Jo Have a look at this short piece on my Help Page, and use the link from there to the National Archives feature. http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks3.html#Apprentices My impression is that the legal requirement for formal trade apprenticeships had largely gone by c1814. I guess you're wondering if you have the same man with these occupational differences ! Gareth Admin for the Rootsweb DYFED, CGN & PEM lists Genuki Wales http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/ Lookup Exchange http://home.clara.net/tirbach/lookup.html Help Page http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html Cwmgors/Waun http://www.tytwp.plus.com/Waun/Waun.html . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joanne Thomas" <journeymouse@yahoo.co.uk> To: <WLS-PEMBROKESHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 8:28 PM Subject: [WLS-PEM] Searching for apprenticeship records [crossposting] > Hi all, > > Hope you've had a good Christmas and are recovering from the > seasonal/New Year's excesses! > > I'd like to know if there's anywhere to look up apprenticeships. And > specifically, here's my trouble-some ancestor: > > In the 1850 Hunts Directory, William THOMAS is listed as a teacher > (under schools) in Pembroke [directories can be found at > http://www.historicaldirectories.org/]. The family later moved to > Nantgarw in Glamorgan and he taught at the National School there. > Unfortunately the Chursh of England holds no records for that school, > but he was listed in the 1865 Websters and the 1866 Harrods as the > teacher there. He also gave his occupation in the 1861 and 1871 > censuses and in the parish registers. However, on the birth > certificate of his eldest son (George Samuel) and on the 1841 census he > gave his occupation as 'Joiner'. In the 1851 census and for the > wedding of his son Edward in 1870, he's a carpenter. I have the idea > that to work as/claim to be either a carpenter or a joiner, William > would had to have done an apprenticeship. Is there anyway of checking > this out? > > Ta, > Jo > > ===== > Joanne Thomas > journeymouse@yahoo.co.uk > http://www.geocities.com/journeymouse/ > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! > http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > > > ==== WLS-PEMBROKESHIRE Mailing List ==== > Pembrokeshire Archives > email claire.orr@pembrokeshire.gov.uk > > > >

--- Gareth <tirbach@clara.co.uk> wrote: > My impression is that the legal requirement for formal trade > apprenticeships > had largely gone by c1814. > I guess you're wondering if you have the same man with these > occupational > differences ! Nah! That's easy! No one else could be sadistic enough to name their eldest son George Samuel ;) Effective way of keeping both grandfathers happy, though. Jo ===== Joanne Thomas journeymouse@yahoo.co.uk http://www.geocities.com/journeymouse/ ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com