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One thing about having a trade in those days was that the parents/guardians paid for a seven year apprenticeship.

In that time-frame, parents still used a naming pattern for their children .    If one boys name doesn't "fit in" it could be that it was to reflect the name of the man who gave him an apprenticeship.

In the early days a manufacturing factory with furnaces was usually situated near a coal mine. Quite often other metal ores would also be found near the coal mines.   I also used to work in the engineering trade and know that steel castings took six weeks  from start of pouring into its mould to finish when cold  and iron castings took three weeks from start to finish.

You might be lucky and find that your "Howard2 could lead you to a "gateway" ancestor, taking you back to Tudor times.   Have a look  at this GENUKI page:-

https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Sheffield/SheffieldHistory

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A hawker or pedlar required a licence.

You beat me to it.  A hawker had to (and still has to) pay for a licence from the local authority tp sell wares or a service (such as a knife sharpener) in the streets.   I was surprised recently to see how much a modern hawker was fined in Singapore for selling hot chestnuts (yum yum) without a licence.

Quote from: louisa maud on Thursday 18 April 24 17:19 BST (UK)

Brings back childhood memories, my mum gave me blackcurrant ...

LM

The humble Blackcurrant is rich in polyphenols, mainly anthocyanins.

Mark

My maternal grandfather had a few blackcurrant bushes which provided my grandmother with enough fruit to make absolutely the best jam/preserve.  My parents garden had raspberry canes which didn't seem to fruit, except for one year when it produced one berry., which I sampled and from then on raspberries have been my favourite fresh fruit.

We have to remember that not many children attended school or only attended school until the age of eleven and even before hat age they would be out in the fields helping with the harvest of, etc.

Another thing to remember is that church vicars, padres, preachers, etc., moved away from the birth places to give guidance in other parishes and did not know the then very strong local dialects.  When I was younger, when Television reception had not reached every place in Britain,  I went to a village only two miles from the place I lived in and couldn't understand a word they were saying !!!!

Additionally when I was growing up practically every word, given name and surname,  was given the local colloquial "ee" on the end doggie, Charles/Charlie,  surname Cram = Crammie., etc.  The younger generation might have been fed up of having to correct other people's pronunciation of their surname that they agreed to change it to accommodate the locals.

The origin (below) states it could have been a Norman word and the Normans were French - many French verbs and other names end in the sound "ee" , e.g. "ez", "et"

It will be interesting to see what other chatters think.


SURNAME:  Brockett
English (of Norman origin): from Middle English bro(c)ket, a term denoting a stag in its second year with its first horns (diminutive of Old French brock), probably applied as a nickname.