I thought one son went to the church--perhaps third son.  Isn't that
correct?  Mary Miller

Janet Hunter wrote:
>
> In a message dated 1/21/02 10:34:55 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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>
> > 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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