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Rural addresses are often problematic when it comes to tracing previous occupants.

Can we help at all? What have you found so far?

Thanks for the offer but this request doesn't relate to my family history, it's for an archaeology project I'm involved in and the location has to be confidential at present. Sounds more interesting than it is!

Is there some way get to the description of each enumerator's walk for an area without having to trawl through every census page to get to it? I'm using Find My Past at present.

I'm looking for the occupants of a particular house in a rural location which seems to get lumped in with different places in the parish on each census. I don't know the names of the occupants and 'address search' doesn't work (often nothing more than the area is given, not even a road name)  but I could probably work out who lived there given the walk.

Nope, a silver watch and two loaves of bread!

It is not uncommon for the apprentice's father to be deceased when he begins the apprenticeship.
Among my own ancestors, there are at least four young teenagers/boys who began their apprenticeship after the death of their father.  In one case the mother was the sponsor.

Since there would potentially be a freedom of the city available to Benjamin if he completed the full term, it might be worth looking at the Freedom of the City Admission Papers London (which can be accessed on Ancestry perhaps at your local library) to see if Benjamin is listed.  I was led there by a random entry in a county database and I found two indentures which were helpful in explaining where these country boys had ended up!

Nell

Good idea, many thanks.