Completing an apprenticeship

morgano · Post by **morgano** » Thu May 21, 2009 2:30 am

Hello.
Was there a typical age at which an apprenticeship was deemed completed, in the early nineteenth century, please (or, for that matter, an age at which an apprentice would be taken on)?
Regards,

Morgano

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Fri May 22, 2009 7:30 am

Hello Morgano,

This page may be worth a look.
http://www.howto.co.uk/learning/local-h ... e_records/

This 1843 report into the employment of children in Great Britain is probably worth downloading. There’s a section – Apprenticeship in Trades and Manufactures – on page 26. The report covers many trades and all parts of the U.K. and is probably the best info to be found about practices of the time.
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=YQ4 ... AJ&pg=PA26

Hope that helps,
Alan

Post by **joette** » Fri May 22, 2009 1:40 pm

In the 1851 Census my GGreat-Grandfather Robert Greer is in Rhu with his brothers they are all apprentice stone-masons to their Father Gilbert Greer.
If memory serves me right he was 12 or 13.His elder brothers went up in tiers of two years.The eldest is 16 0r 17 & I think he was still an apprentice.

All the brothers bar one were stone-masons.Gilbert sen Father was a Farmer.

morgano · Post by **morgano** » Mon May 25, 2009 1:46 am

Currie & joette,

Many thanks, indeed, for the information. That is very helpful.
Regards,

Morgano