1841, William Topping

[suttontrust]

I've found William Topping on the 1841 census, aged 16-20, in Holborn.  It's page 21, HO107, 670/14.  He's in an institution headed by the Bast family.  Can someone please tell me what the institution is?

[avm228]

Not an institution - it’s a normal household census summary page. 

William Best (rather than Bast) is a tailor, and William Topping, 16, is an apprentice tailor, so the former was probably the boss of the latter.

There’s no reason to think age 16 means 16-20; 16 isn’t a rounded number, and neither are the others on the page.

[suttontrust]

Thanks, I realise the inaccuracy of the age - he was actually 21.  FS seems to have got a bad transcription on this one.