Dear all,
I've been through the catalogues. Both Woodhorn and TWAS each hold some records of The Skinners and Glovers Company.
What appear to be the most likely prospects at TWAS are:
1) Ref. No.: GU.SK/1/1
Title: Item Including some lists of members, 1437 - 1783
Date: 1437 - 1958
2) Ref. No.: GU.SK/5/1-
Title: Series Apprenticeship Bonds
Date: 1624 - 1760
3) Ref. No.: GU.SK/6/1 and GU.SK/6/2
Title: Membership lists including quarterly fees paid
Dates: 1741 and 1742
I have no idea how large these files are so I do not know if this is an onerous request. If it is, I will withdraw it. (I do wish that archives would include more information about physical size, number of pages etc. in their catalogues for the benefit of distance researchers as I am far away in central Canada. I tried clicking on the "Thumbnail" button to no avail.)
I now have two 18thC names of interest:
1) William Bittleson/Biddleson/Baddleson, and other variants, skinner, though at the moment I cannot find that piece of paper to give a date window (been hoarding that one for years) but he will be 1740's or later (I have found only one mention of him being a skinner).
[EDIT: So contemporary with #2 below.]
2) George Grimshaw, skinner
- baptized 18 July, 1823, St. Andrew's, Newcastle
- married 6 October, 1748, St. Nicholas, Newcastle
- died 26 January, 1789, buried All Saints, Newcastle
so the window for him to be a member of that company would be approx. 1744 - 1789.
[EDIT: And the window for his apprenticeship would be approx. 1735 - 1748.]
I would like to know if either of those names appear in these sources, and on what page(s). If there is a reference number pencilled onto the corner of that page, I would like that/those too to facilitate ordering copies from the archives. I'm not averse to paying for my copies because I do want these archives to have the income to digitize more and more of their records, but I cannot afford to pay their research time fees.
Tonight I made a similar lookup request for Woodhorn in the Northumberland forum. Here is the link:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=768881.new#newBut very N.B. please:
This is a narrowly-focussed request. I do not want anyone to waste their time re-inventing the wheel for me looking up BMD's, BT's, newspaper mentions etc.
With thanks in anticipation,
Westoe
