Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Author’s Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and symbols used in transcription
- Introduction
- Selected Documents
- Bedfordshire Clock and Watchmakers
- Appendix 1 List of Bedfordshire Clock & Watchmakers By Place of Work
- Appendix 2 Clock & Watchmakers in Towns and Villages Adjacent to the County
- Appendix 3 Bedfordshire Clock and Watchmaking Apprentices
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Appendix 3 - Bedfordshire Clock and Watchmaking Apprentices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Author’s Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and symbols used in transcription
- Introduction
- Selected Documents
- Bedfordshire Clock and Watchmakers
- Appendix 1 List of Bedfordshire Clock & Watchmakers By Place of Work
- Appendix 2 Clock & Watchmakers in Towns and Villages Adjacent to the County
- Appendix 3 Bedfordshire Clock and Watchmaking Apprentices
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This list is based on a variety of sources, but aims to show in a consistent format the main details of each known apprenticeship. The following details may be included: Name of apprentice, his parentage or origins, his home town or village, his age or date of birth, his parent's trade, the name of the master to whom he was bound, the man's occupation, the term, the premium paid, the date of apprenticeship or registration, and the source.
The following source codes are used:
1. Original indentures (Repository and reference number also stated)
2. Inland Revenue apprenticeship records:
(a) Checked at source (Public Record Office)
(b) From Mrs. Hilary Jenkinson (ed) “A list of Bedfordshire apprentices: 1711-1720” in BHRS Vol.IX (1925) pp.147-176
(c) From A. E. Bartlett (ed) “Bedfordshire Masters and their Apprentices 1763-1774” (Ms. index at BRO, based on Society of Genealogists’ index)
(d) From index at Society of Genealogists
(e) Provided by Alan Treherne (based on Society of Genealogists’ index)
(f) From V & N Uffindell “Cambridgeshire Apprentices 1763-1811” (Typescript at Cambridgeshire R.O. - 1988)
3. Atkins, C. E. (ed.) Register of Apprentices of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers 1631-1931 (1931)
4. Bedford Borough apprenticeship registers 1615-1843 (Typescript calendar at BRO)
5. Harpur Trust (Bedford Charity) apprenticeship registers 1761-1814 and 1840-1841 (BRO refs: X 109/1, X 171/62, and HT 8)
6. Settlement examinations (references stated)
7. Nineteenth century census returns 1841-1881 (date stated)
8. Other (Full reference stated)
Note: Out-county apprentices and masters marked with an asterisk (*) had
a real or suspected connection with Bedfordshire.
ANDREWS, W. H.*, to George Buckmaster of Royston, Herts., clockmaker, for 7 years from 24 June 1793. Premium £30. Indentures 4 Oct. 1793. Registered 8 Nov. 1793. [2f]
ARESUM, Forty*, s. of Thomas Aresum of Southwark, to John French, Citizen and barber-surgeon of London, 1736. £4. [2d - IR 1/14 p.198]
BARFOOT, Thomas, of Hockliffe, to John Adams of Chaigrave, blacksmith, 7 years from 25 March 1712. £4. [2b - IR 1/42 p.65]
BATEMAN, John, to William Beaumont* of St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch, watchmaker, 1756. £10. [2d - IR 1/20 p.213]
BATES, Benjamin, to Thomas Sharp of Leighton Buzzard, clockmaker, 1761. £20. [2e - IR 1/22 p.203]
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- Bedfordshire Clock and Watchmakers 1352-1880A Biographical Dictionary with Selected Documents, pp. 229 - 234Publisher: Boydell & BrewerFirst published in: 2023