One of the more interesting books that Willow Bend Books has reprinted this
past year was one entitled, Register of the Merchant Taylors' School,
1562-1699 by the Rev. Charles J. Robinson. The Merchant Taylors' Company, I
assume was an English Guild, but probably not. Given the entries it looks
like it just draws its scholars from the Guilds. Future emails I am sure
will determine the correctness or lack of correctness of my assumption. <G>

What I found interesting were entries such as:

Thomas Fairfax, son of Thomas, weaver, born in par. of St. Edmund the King,
22 Mar. 1653, and previously educated in Dugard's Private School.

Samuel Abell, third son of Edward, goldsmith, b. in St. Peter's, Cornhill.
[List of 1661]

I descend from Quaker tailors from London who left kids behind and there is
an entry for a Benjamin Scott in the correct timeframe (1696), but there is
just the name on the list. Figures. <G>

C.

Craig R. Scott, CGRS

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Janet Hunter" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 11:26 PM
Subject: Re: English Guilds in the 17th Century


> In a message dated 1/21/02 10:34:55 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
> > 5.  Are there any records which give names of members
> >     of the guilds going back to the 17th century?
> >
>
> Netti,
>
> This is the only part of your query I can followup on and my only answer
is
> that Yes, there are records for some of the guilds and in particular for
the
> "worshipful company of drapers", though I'm not exactly sure if that is a
> guild or merchant association.
>
> In following up with a contact in the UK on my Faulkner/Filmer connection
> speculation, I have received a number of research hints.  Since I am
probably
> dealing with London records, it would take me about ten years to go
through
> all the possibilities I'm told are out there -- Freemen records, guild
> records and parish records.  Many of which are in abundance, with the
> exception of the period of the Civil War/Cromwell, when apparently little
> attention was paid to recordkeeping, particularly to parish records.
>
> About a year ago I did a google search for something like "guild England
17th
> century records" and came up with quite a bit.
>
> I know this doesn't really answer your overall question, about which I do
> have a general comment in that your comment that first son inherits the
> family estate, second goes to university and third in the military, might
> also read first son inherits the family estate, second goes to university
OR
> the military.  I think it depended upon relative ages of sons, and also
what
> was going on in the world that made the military attractive.  I'd imagine
the
> during the peninsula wars/Waterloo etcl in the first part of the 1800s
then
> colonial expansion in the 1800s, the military might have seemed more
> attractive to second sons than the university.  Second sons who it might
be
> thought were unsuited for university or needed "shaping up" might have
been
> encouraged to join the military.
>
> Janet
>
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