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celia
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Hello mumsie
Everyone who wants to go into a trade has to serve time so to speak before they are fully trained for the job as they do now.Depending on the trade some apprenticeships took years some months.In your ancestors case he would most probably would have worked in a tailors when young to learn the trade.As far as know he would have been given a piece of paper/certificate to say he was a qualified tailor.If they did give them in those days 
Celia
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Raphael
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Hello mumsie Everyone who wants to go into a trade has to serve time so to speak before they are fully trained for the job as they do now.Depending on the trade some apprenticeships took years some months.In your ancestors case he would most probably would have worked in a tailors when young to learn the trade.As far as know he would have been given a piece of paper/certificate to say he was a qualified tailor.If they did give them in those days Celia
I was an indentured apprentice at the age of 14, and my my father signed papers that he would see I carried out my training to the full.
The apprenticeship was for 7 YEARS
In those days it was neccessary to go to Night School, and as I was being trained as a Textile apprenticed Loom Overlooker the course I was on was compatable with general engineering workshop practice, which involved Maths, Trigonometry lograthyms, Algebra. Technical Drawing to draughting standards, and the use of lathe.
The aim was to get through the Night School Courses to eventually gain the Higher National Certificate at the age of 21 when you were then considered a MANThe rest of the training was in the workshop and in the Weaving sheds and of course it was essential to know all about Weaving, and I was taught by highly skilled women weavers at first until, I was able to weave on my own.
The Foreman Overlooker was my tutor, and gave me tasks on maintaining & repairing looms and in some cases MAKING parts not readily available due to WW2..
As WW2" was well under way, I would soon be conscripted into the Forces I volunteered at 17½, but under the law, my apprenticehip was protected and would continue after serving, and fortunately for me I had 12 weeks rehabilatation course at Göttingen Unv' Germany in their massive Engineering Workshop, whilst with the Occupation Forces, with dozens of other apprentice tradesmen.
Its a long story, but suffice to say, the training in those days was very precise, and today when I talk to the youngsters they often ask, Oh where did you learn that??
..........and I answer A levels O levels.....what are they I ask ??
Kind regards
Raphael
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Delaunay, Hackney,McIntosh, Culloden, Manchester -Lancashire, Salford, Blackley, Crumpsall, Cheetham Hill M/cr. Grappenhall-Warrington. Düsseldorf & Derendorf , NRWF Germany.
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rolnora
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My gt gt grandfather was a tailor in Compstall would he have served an apprenticeship ? Are there any records of apprenticeships ? If so where might I find them ?
Hi Mumsie,
I found the identure/apprentice records for my ancestors in the archives at my local heritage library.
Cheers,
Pat.
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Carson, Stockport, Clowes/Clews, Stockport Mollard, Wilmslow, Handforth, Darlington, Cheadle, Cheshire Shanley, Cheshire and Ireland Quinn, Ireland, Stoke on Trent and Stockport Bowden, Stockport, Rooking, Addingham, Yorkshire Flannigan/ Flannagan, Macclesfield and Stockport Census information is Crown Copyright from, www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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behindthefrogs
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Did or does Compstall have a Guildhall? If it does start there. Otherwise the local reference library should know of any local source. Any records may have been deposited in the county record office.
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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