HN4/1/77/3

Salford Charity Indenture of Apprenticeship. George Tansley apprenticed to George Millard of Brighton, County of Sussex, carpenter and joiner. Term 6 years.

1 November 1833 – 17 June 1836

From: 1833 To: 1836

This Indenture witnesseth that George Tansley (son of Joseph Tansley of Salford in the County of Bedford, labourer) a poor child born and having a settlement in the parish of Salford aforesaid by and with consent of his said father and also of the Reverend Edward Orlebar Smith, Vicar of the Parish of Salford aforesaid, James Morris, Churchwarden and Jonathan Robinson and Henry Sturges, Overseers of the poor of the said parish (testified by them severally being party to and sealing and delivering these presents) doth put himself apprentice to George Millard of Brighton in the County of Sussex, carpenter and joiner to learn his art and calling and with him after the manner of an Apprentice to serve from the date hereof unto the full end and term of Six Years from thence next ensuing and fully to be complete and ended or until he the said Apprentice shall attain the Age of Twenty One Years during which said term the said apprentice his said Master faithfully shall serve in all lawful businesses according to his power skill and ability and honestly orderly and obediently in all things demean and behave himself towards his said Master and all his during the said term. And the said George Millard in consideration of the Sum of Twenty Two Pounds of lawful money of Great Britain to him in hand paid by the said Vicar Churchwarden and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of Salford in manner following (that is to say) the sum of Eleven Pounds being one moiety thereof on or before the execution of these presents and the Sum of Eleven Pounds being the other moiety thereof on the Twenty First day of October which will be in the Year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and Thirty Six the receipt of which said first mentioned moiety is hereby acknowledged (which said sum of Twenty Two Pounds is part and parcel of certain Charity Monies charged on lands in the Parish of Brightwell by the will of [blank] and payable to the Vicar, Churchwardens and Overseers of the Parish of Salford aforesaid for the binding out of poor children born in the Parish of Salford apprentices) the said George Millard his said apprentice in the art or calling of a carpenter & joiner which he useth by the best means that he can shall and will teachand instruct or cause to be taught and instructed finding unto the said Apprentice good and sufficient meat, drink clothing, lodging, washing and all other necessaries. And for the true performance of all the Covenants and Agreements aforesaid the said George Tansley and also the said Joseph Tansley and George Millard bindeth himself unto the other by these presents. In Witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals the First Day of November in the Year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Thirty Three. Signed: George Tansley; Joseph Tansley; Edward Orlebar Smith; James Morris; Jonathan Robinson; Henry Sturges; George Millard; William Harland Clerk to John Green of Woburn. Two receipts attached signed by George Millard for Eleven Pounds 1st November 1833 and 17 June 1836 Paper annotated in pencil ‘Horsham Gaol’.

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Millard, George,
Morris, James,
Robinson, Jonathan,
Smith, Edward Orlebar,
Sturges, Henry,
Tansley, George,
Tansley, Joseph

SALFORD, Brighton, Horsham, Brightwell, apprenticeship, parochial charities, lawyer, clerk, churchwardens, Overseers, magistrate, labourer, carpenter, joiner, imprisonment, wages/conditions, employment