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Offline jay jay

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Hatting in the 1800s
« on: Monday 08 February 16 10:48 GMT (UK) »
Dose anyone know whether a hatter would have been apprenticed to his father please?
Freeman - Leeds
Swindells - Disley, Cheshire
Davis - Mickleton, Gloucestershire
Henry Freeman - Crawley (1791)
James Leigh - Staffs
Simmons - Staffs/Warwicks
Dickinson - Yorkshire

Offline Drosybont

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Re: Hatting in the 1800s
« Reply #1 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. 

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Hotham, Guilliatt, Brown, Winter, Buck, Webster, Mortimore
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Mid C19 Cardiff and Haverfordwest, the Marychurch family.

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Re: Hatting in the 1800s
« Reply #2 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
Paylet, Pallatt, Morris (Russia, UK) Burke, Hillery, Page, Rumsey, Stevens, Tyne/Thynne(UK)  Landman, van Rooyen, Tyne, Stevens, Rumsey, Visagie, Nell (South Africa)