Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    PUBZ3/5/125
  • Title
    Folio.226-230 John Coles residing in St Paul, Bedford, carpenter.
  • Date free text
    14 Jan 1822
  • Production date
    From: 1822 To: 1822
  • Scope and Content
    About 47 years of age.Born at Bletsoe where his father John Coles then lived and belonged and continues to live. When he was about 16 he was placed apprentice by his father to John Cherry of Wellingborough, County of Northampton, carpenter, for 5 years by Indenture. He thinks his father paid £20 apprentice fee. He served about two and a half years with Mr Cherry then quitted his service without his consent and went to London and there worked as a journeyman carpenter with Mr Morgan in Golden Square near Oxford Road by the week at 18s a week. There being a hot press at that time in London Mr Morgan wrote to his father at Bletsoe asking for his Indenture to save him from the press, he believes his father procured it by giving mr Cherry a sum of money and sent it to Mr Morgan, Continued to work as a journeyman for about a twelvemonth when Mr Morgan went to Wales and he has never heard of him since. Nor has he ever since heard from Mr Cherry. He then worked as a journeyman with Mr Sabine near Spitalfields Church for about a year during which time he married at a church near Long Acre to Elizabeth by whom he has six children two of which are still living Thomas aged 22 and Elizabeth aged 14 now living as a servant with her aunt Mrs Stonebanks at Sharnbrook. Since his marriage to Elizabeth he hasa lived with Godfrey Thornton of Moggerhanger for five years, with Sir Gregory Osborn Page Turner, baronet at Battlesden for two years, with John Macnamara near Brecknock for three years and with Lord Lismore in Ireland for about six months.
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