Apprentice Records - ancestry

[kiterunner]

Another database indexed by the World Archives Project volunteers, though this one was only partially done by WAP and finished off by someone else. Anyway, the index should be free to search for everyone.

England, Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures, 1710-1811

Despite the name, it does include some not from England.

I'm very much hoping to find one or two of my elusive ancestors in there. Off to look now...

[BlueSavannah]

Hope you managed to find your elusive ancestors Kite, my William Jones sadly wasnt on them

[kiterunner]

No luck with my elusive ancestors so far.

[Rachel]

Goodness ~ mild success
There's one of mine in 1795 but how annoying that it doesn't give any clue to the names of his parents

[kiterunner]

It's only the very early ones that give father's (or mother's) name.

[Phoenix]

I take it they have copied from the Society of Genealogists? Or have they gone back to the original records from TNA?

The SoG had some interesting errors, but I seem to remember some of those were actually present in the originals, particularly when it came to unfamiliar place names.

[WendyPusey]

Success!!! Just found Nathaniel Pusey of Amersham, my OH's 6X Great Grandfather and it gives his father's name!!!!

Another generation back!

[Rachel]

Originally Posted by WendyPusey

Success!!! Just found Nathaniel Pusey of Amersham, my OH's 6X Great Grandfather and it gives his father's name!!!!

Another generation back!

Oooooooo *stamps foot and turns green with envy*

fantastic news

[Sue from Southend]

Originally Posted by Phoenix

I take it they have copied from the Society of Genealogists? Or have they gone back to the original records from TNA?

The SoG had some interesting errors, but I seem to remember some of those were actually present in the originals, particularly when it came to unfamiliar place names.

They were retranscribed by World Archive Project volunteers. I did a few..... hopefully not those with errors!!

[kiterunner]

Originally Posted by Phoenix

I take it they have copied from the Society of Genealogists? Or have they gone back to the original records from TNA?

The SoG had some interesting errors, but I seem to remember some of those were actually present in the originals, particularly when it came to unfamiliar place names.

It's been indexed from the original records, Phoenix. Board of Stamps: Apprenticeship Books, Series IR 1; The National Archives of the UK (TNA). And there are a lot of strange spellings of place names in there, I know, because I did some of the indexing (snap, Sue!).

I thought the Society of Genealogists database was from the Livery Companies of London? Or have they got another apprenticeship database as well as that one?