Master Baker's - Records / Directories

[Mr. MIGKY]

Migky

I think we can all call ourselves Master Genealogists  
Lizzie

Not sure about been a Master Genealogists with my memory it is more like Sum-timezs Genealogists, it is a little like alzheimer's but i only get it sometimes

Migky 

[behindthefrogs]

I have two families in my wife's line who were either butchers or bakers from 1800 to 1910.  As far as I can see every one of about twenty men involved went through the three phases of apprentice, journeyman and master.  In most cases they served their apprenticeship outside the family and in the case of the bakers returned to run part of the family business with bakeries in central London out through west Middlesex to Buckinghamshire.

Looking through the City Livery Companies many of them have apprentice bindings way into the 20th century and some of them as late as the 1940s.  The point at which many of them ceased seems to be just before the first world war.

David

[47813]

Hi,

Thankyou for the information.
I'm I right in thinking a Fruiterer is someone selling Fruit? 

Jonathan

[behindthefrogs]

You are correct a fruiterer was a man who sold or dealt in fruit while a woman was sometimes called a fruitestere.

David