North Devon Record Office: Scrap book of apprenticeship indentures and bastardy orders

Inscription

The collection of Documents, Deeds, Accounts etc: contained in this Book were taken from a chest in the Vestry of Tawstock Church in 1926 where they had lain hidden for a number of years and had suffered much from damp and depradations of mice.

Only a few of the most interesting and antique are included, as several Books of this size would be required to mount them all and also a very great many of them would be duplicate.

Those that are not shewn in this Book have been carefully sorted and replaced in the Vestry for safe keeping.

The work of collecting, sorting, drying, cleaning and in the preparation of this book was undertaken during the years 1926 to 1930 by CASTELL WREY July 1930

Samuell Braune apprenticed to William Horwood 1671

Mathew Jenkins apprenticed to George Norman 1674

Philip Cutland apprenticed to Richard Hooper 1710

Abraham Luxton apprenticed to John Conibeare 1711

John Robins apprenticed to Lewis Comens to learn the trade of a tailor 1717

John Hancock apprenticed to Robert Somer 1730

Hugh Harvey apprenticed to George Britton 1730

John Ward, son of Thomas, apprenticed to Phillipa Wakeham of Barnstaple, widow 1732

Edward Cutland, son of Edward [cooper], apprentices himself to Jonathan Tibbs 1745

Richard Shaddick apprenticed to Rebecca Saunders 1757

John Bear, son of John [husbandman], apprentices homself to John Clark, cordwinder 1774

Phillapy Halls apprenticed to John Lovering, mariner 1742

William Branscombe apprenticed to John Rowe, yeoman 1747

James Harvey apprenticed to Mary Somers, widow, for Taddiport estate 1766

Francis Cutland apprenticed to William Marker, yeoman 1757

Order to bind Richard Pugsley, age 9, to Berry Avery, yeoman for Heckadon estate 1818

John Somerwill bound to Edward Tucker, wheelwright, of Chulmleigh 1817

John Gratton apprenticed to Abraham Isaac for Ruge estate 1841

Bastardy Bonds

Susannah Hancock, mother - William Vicary, putative father 1792

Mary Copp, mother - Nicholas Glass, putative father 1829