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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => London and Middlesex => Topic started by: Laverdiere on Sunday 02 February 14 16:02 GMT (UK)
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Apparently, according to his two son's admission papers in the London Freedom of City Admission papers collection on Ancestry, my grandfather George Cremer was made a freeman on 15 Dec 1779 (in book L). He belonged to the company of Fishmongers.
However when I did a search for George I found nothing. I tried to look manually--lots of the transcriptions aren't transcribed very well and the papers themselves are out of order. So no luck yet.
I was wondering if any of you could help me find the record? I'd like to know for sure who George's father is and his occupation.
I did find a record on British Origins London Apprenticeship abstracts that has a George Creamer apprenticing to James Cripps of the Fishmongers on 27 Nov 1772 which I guess would make sense if he was admitted 7 years later.
Thanks for your help! Laverdiere
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It looks like some of the Freedom records for 1779 may not survive.
The records digitised on Ancestry are held at London Metropolitan Archives. The LMA catalogue jumps from COL/CHD/FR/02/1068 (for September 1778) to COL/CHD/FR/02/1069 (for October 1784), implying a gap of 6 years.
You could drop LMA an email to check, as this sort of query is generally answered free of charge.
ask.lma@cityoflondon.gov.uk
ADDED - Ancestry does claim to have 620 records for Freedom Admissions in 1779, and a random check shows that some are from that year, but many are wrongly dated. Probably best to ask LMA for advice.
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Thank you! I'll try that.
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I tried to find out about my Gt grandfathers Freedom of the City Admission and was told a lot of the information had been destroyed, I think during the last war.