Marriage St Neots Registration 1850

[louisa maud]

Thank you Margaret for helping me out whilst my PC is away, using my husbands laptop now, don't like it, windows 10, my PC windows 7, so I am hoping to manage this for the time being

I am going to collate all the recent info and see where I go form there

JohnP thank you for your info  which I am going to plod through later

You might understand I am not good at changes, have also got to completely change my family tree I have  had for 20 or so years as it won't be compatible with windows 10,  or so I am advised, I will have to see

Huge thank you for your patience

Louisa Maud

[magslote]

Morning, so pleased you are up and running with your P.C, let me
know, so I can check any info you require, reguarding your F.H.R.Margaret.

[louisa maud]

Thank you Margaret
I am not getting on well with Windows 10,  no contact list so I will have to transfer everything across when my PC returns and re-log onto everything regarding family tree stuff that I stayed logged into all the time
After such a lovely bright sunny day yesterday albeit cold it is a really lousy miserable day, so I might just stay in and give myself a few Windows 10 lessons
I might try today to ring Cambridge to find out the admissions registers for Joseph 

Huge thank you Margaret

Louisa Maud

[magslote]

Good luck.x

[louisa maud]

I have sent 2 emails hoping to get replies re Blue Coat Hospital records

Louisa Maud

[johnP-bedford]

Hoping that one of those emails was to Bedfordshire Archives Service, if so I'd be interested to know if they responded and if they hold any records for the Bedford Harpur Charity Hospital School.

Looking at old newspapers online at FindMyPast/BNA- Northampton Mercury, Bedfordshire Mercury, 1830s & 1840s, there are reports of 'Vacancy at the Hospital' & it seem the boys/girls are nominated & elected by the Charity in order to attend the school. Some of the names on the 1841 census of Blue Coats Hospital appear in these reports but I've not yet found one for Joseph Dawson.       

[louisa maud]

I have PM'd you the replies I have received, with no luck at all, so I am a bit stuck and will just have to go with the info I have from 1841

Many thanks for coming back to me

regards

Louisa Maud

[johnP-bedford]

Over the past few weeks I've been trawling through newspaper reports featuring the meetings of The Bedford Harpur Charity for the children living in the Bluecoat Hospital on 1841 census. While I've found nothing for your Joseph Dawson being admitted into the Hospital there are a couple of snippets about him leaving the place.
As per Hertford Mercury & Bedford Reformer June 1843. Apprentices. That Joseph DAWSON be allowed to leave the Hospital & go one month on liking to Charles Bond of Northampton, plumber & glazier.
As per Hertford Mercury & Bedford Reformer July 1843. Apprentices. Ordered, that the following persons be bound apprentice, viz:- Joseph DAWSON to Charles Bond, Northampton, plumber.

He was still there in April 1846 as per Northampton Mercury ; County sessions. Charlotte Bond, wife of plumber & glazier in Abington Street said.....:   Joseph Dawson, apprentice to Mr Bond, corroborated his mistress's story.

In those day apprenticeships last 7 years & he started age 14 in 1843 so he was a freeman in 1850, although his master Charles Bond died April 1848. When he married Elizabeth BULL in 1850, his occupation was painter. On 1851 census he was a painter, & on 1861 census he was a plumber.

Regards John
 

[louisa maud]

Oh John
What a find, many many thanks, interesting reading

Could give you a huge HUG !!!

Louisa Maud