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Originally Posted by ElizabethHerts
Charles Lamb was obviously apprenticed as a gunsmith. He married Sarah Chambers in 1816 at Halesowen, Worcestershire, but she was from Birmingham.
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Yesterday I saw another thread (an old one) regarding the parentage of Sarah Chambers and the question of whether her bap was 1795 or 1796, one set of parents being Jos and Ann and the other Jos and Marg.
This is a bit tenuous, but I did notice there's an apprenticeship recorded for a Joseph Chambers in Birmingham dated 25 Nov 1786. His master was John Dawkes, gunsmith.
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...f9c&pId=701976
Having looked at the baptisms for the families of the two Joseph Chambers couples, the first child bap for Jos and Ann seems to be Sarah, in Feb 1796. The first for Jos and Marg seems to be John, in Aug 1790.
Joseph and Ann married in April 1795, both signing:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...2c&pId=3415135
Joseph and Marg married June 1790, both making their mark.
So, isn't it more likely your Joseph is the one who married Ann? Presumably he finished his apprenticeship which was probably seven years, before marrying. If either he didn't finish it (unlikely) or it was of shorter duration, he would have been quite young in 1790 assuming he was around 14 in 1786. Also I would imagine learning to be a gunsmith would mean you might be more likely to have learned to sign your name by the time you were married.