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You have been busy David thank you. William Sergeant who produced the flicker chair photos, was good enough to introduce me to a Stamford antique dealer and I managed to buy an original Amos Windsor chair which now has pride of place in my cottage, I'm now on the look out for another (if I can afford it!)
 

Thanks to all who have taken the time to post interesting suggestions. Amos/Armes, needs more research? Edward Amos is listed as a freeman of Grantham  who helped elect MP Simon York in 1797; also listed is John Amos the chair maker (my direct line ancestor). I have to date been unable to find any record of John Amos' birth in Lincolnshire (b.abt 1764 d.1842). Perhaps Edward is a brother, aged 66 when he died in 1834 and parents are recorded as Armes not Amos? the search continues
Maggie B

Thanks for your continuing interest Wilser. I obtained a copy of the 1794 marriage bond and although it's interesting, it doesn't show John Amos' place of birth or the name of his father;  he is described as "a wheelwright of Little Gonerby Grantham". I agree with you that the old apprenticeship records might provide additional information, does anyone have ideas about accessing records for Derbyshire, Lincolnshire or possibly Nottinghamshire?
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Maggie B

My great grand father Thomas henry Dawkin(s) first appears in official records on the 1881 census aged 15, living with the Joseph Beck family in Sutton on Forest, he is an apprentice tailor. His birthplace is shown as Keighley in the West Riding, but his birth is not registered there. He gives the same birthplace on all future census forms and when he marries Betty Webster in Sutton on Forest in 1887, he shows his father as Thomas Henry Dawkin dec'd; I have been unable to find any trace of records of his father. The 1871 census shows that Joseph Beck had a different apprentice and so I assume, my great grandfather moved in with the Beck family sometime between 1871 and 1881. Does anyone have any ideas about how Thomas Dawkin might have ended up in an apprenticeship in Sutton, it's about 40 miles from Keighley? I am trying to follow up any leads which might help identify his family history prior to 1881.
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Thanks for your interest Guy
Maggie B