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Title: Help with an Apprenticeship Indenture
Post by: transparu on Sunday 09 February 25 07:25 GMT (UK)

Thanks to Staffordshire people, I was delighted to find the Apprenticeship Indenture for someone I believe is my 4th great grandmother. There are some bits of it I am having trouble to decipher. If anyone can help with this I'd be very grateful!
Thanks in advance folks,

David
 

Title: Re: Help with an Apprenticeship Indenture
Post by: Kay99 on Sunday 09 February 25 07:42 GMT (UK)

Poss - Town aged thirteen on the first day of Friday last ------- Tamworth? aforesaid watch and clockmaker ?? 

Title: Re: Help with an Apprenticeship Indenture
Post by: transparu on Sunday 09 February 25 08:26 GMT (UK)

Thanks so much Kay99.  That DOES look pretty good and actually suggests a birth date now too.
Thanks again.

Title: Re: Help with an Apprenticeship Indenture
Post by: horselydown86 on Sunday 09 February 25 10:28 GMT (UK)

I've extended Kay99's reading a little and tried to put it into sequence with the printed form.

To go further, should you wish it, we would need a bigger presentation from the original.


...Names are hereunto subscribed, have put and placed, and by these P(resents)...

...........a poor Child of the said Parish ^Town aged thirteen the first Day of May last^, Appre(ntice)...

...Tamworth aforesaid Watch and Clock Maker w...

Title: Re: Help with an Apprenticeship Indenture
Post by: transparu on Monday 10 February 25 03:01 GMT (UK)

Thanks, that is helpful. I greatly appreciate expertise and experience of others that I do not have!

I could put the whole document up though its size would make it unreadable to all, I think.

Thanks again, from down under.

David