Help Finding a London Freedom of City Admission Paper

[Laverdiere]

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

[Bookbox]

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.

[Laverdiere]

Thank you! I'll try that.

[confused73]

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.