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My father had all his teeth removed when he was seventeen years old in 1927.  He never spoke about it to his children and we were never learned the reason; his mother gave me the basic information. My father was the oldest child in the family and some of his siblings certainly had false teeth when I knew them as my uncles and aunts.

Alex Edge

In the song "Sally in our Alley", the original version written in 1721, the apprentice states that: " ..and when my seven years are done they I'll marry Sally". From observations in my family most apprenticeships seem to have begun around thirteen years of age, which would make most apprentices about twenty years of age when free to marry.  I think it very unlikely that apprentices married because they would not be financially capable of supporting marriage.  In an instance I have,  an apprentice butcher married his master's daughter, with the master's financial support, but the couple were both in their mid-twenties before they became able to contemplate marriage.

Max, thank you very much for your comprehensive response.  You have no doubt hit the nail squarely on the head, when I searched N.C.L.C. a cornucopia of responses pour out.  I’ve now also bought the book "No Labour, No Battle" to improve my understanding of the organisation of the Labour Corp.

Many thanks for your assistance - Alex Edge

Thank you to everyone for their responses.  My F.M.P. program can't find the family in the U.K. 1911 census but a colleague could find it on her Ancestry program, hence Peterskeeby.  I think it now pretty well certain that we have a misreading and it should be Peter Street, Bethnal Green, Middlesex.

Again many thanks for your assistance.

Alex Edge