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Some Special Interests => Occupation Interests => Topic started by: jay jay on Monday 08 February 16 10:48 GMT (UK)

Title: Hatting in the 1800s
Post by: jay jay on Monday 08 February 16 10:48 GMT (UK)
Dose anyone know whether a hatter would have been apprenticed to his father please?
Title: Re: Hatting in the 1800s
Post by: Drosybont on Monday 08 February 16 13:06 GMT (UK)
In the 1830s in Cardiff my great grandfather was apprenticed to his father who was a hatter. 

Drosybont
Title: Re: Hatting in the 1800s
Post by: 3sillydogs on Monday 08 February 16 13:09 GMT (UK)


I think a lot of male children were apprenticed to thier fathers to learn their trade, I have a line of housepainters/decorators depending on which census you look at ;D