Somerset Standard: Friday 2nd November 1928

Some 18th Century Frome Apprentices: Is there a Pack Saddle maker in all England today? On March 23rd, 1711, Samuel son of John Little, late of Froomsellwood, Packsaddle Maker, deceased, was apprenticed to John Lacey, junior, of the Parish of Froomsellwood, Blacksmith … continues … In the year 1797 Samuel Bowden of “Fromesellwood,” Attorney, took John Powell as his apprentice, and John Sellars, Broadweaver, Samuel Barnes, Thomas Taylor, carpenter, Henry King; Thomas Adams, blacksmith, Walter Long, George Ward, tiler took Benjamin Pincent, Roger Thomas plumber, Wm. Davis; Henry Hinton, tinplate worker, (continues) …


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