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[[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Wales]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] Occupations | [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Wales]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] Occupations | ||
Knowing an ancestor’s occupation can help you distinguish him from other individuals with the same name. The records associated with your ancestor’s occupation could provide information about his life and family. | Knowing an ancestor’s occupation can help you distinguish him from other individuals with the same name. The records associated with your ancestor’s occupation could provide information about his life and family. | ||
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To learn a trade, an individual had to be apprenticed. Depending on a person’s social standing, he could be apprenticed by his parents or by a parish or charity. When a person was apprenticed, a record called an indenture was usually created. It was a legal agreement that bound the apprentice to serve a number of years, usually seven. Indentures usually contain the names of the apprentice and the master who would teach him, the master’s trade and residence, the terms of apprenticeship, and sometimes the name, occupation, and residence of the apprentice’s father. Indentures are the only surviving records for some occupations, like carpentry, stone masonry, and weaving. | To learn a trade, an individual had to be apprenticed. Depending on a person’s social standing, he could be apprenticed by his parents or by a parish or charity. When a person was apprenticed, a record called an indenture was usually created. It was a legal agreement that bound the apprentice to serve a number of years, usually seven. Indentures usually contain the names of the apprentice and the master who would teach him, the master’s trade and residence, the terms of apprenticeship, and sometimes the name, occupation, and residence of the apprentice’s father. Indentures are the only surviving records for some occupations, like carpentry, stone masonry, and weaving. | ||
Starting in 1710, a tax was levied on apprenticeship indentures, except those of poor children. For more information on the apprenticeship tax, see | Starting in 1710, a tax was levied on apprenticeship indentures, except those of poor children. For more information on the apprenticeship tax, see [[Wales Taxation]]. | ||
Parishes and certain charities indentured poor children as apprentices. These records may survive in parish records. For more information on the apprenticeship indentures for poor children in parish records, see | Parishes and certain charities indentured poor children as apprentices. These records may survive in parish records. For more information on the apprenticeship indentures for poor children in parish records, see [[Wales Church Records]]. | ||
After learning the trade, the apprentice became a journeyman. A journeyman was an employee who received wages and continued to refine his skills. | After learning the trade, the apprentice became a journeyman. A journeyman was an employee who received wages and continued to refine his skills. | ||
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*Raymond, Stuart A. 2nd ed.''Occupational Sources for Genealogists''. Birmingham, England: Federation of Family History Societies (Publications) Ltd., 1996. (Family History Library book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlehitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&callno=942+U23rs+ 942 U23rs] 1996.) | *Raymond, Stuart A. 2nd ed.''Occupational Sources for Genealogists''. Birmingham, England: Federation of Family History Societies (Publications) Ltd., 1996. (Family History Library book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlehitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&callno=942+U23rs+ 942 U23rs] 1996.) | ||
Occupational histories, records, and related items can be found in county record offices and at the National Library of Wales.<ref>The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ''Research Outline: Wales'' (Salt Lake City: Corporation of the President, 2000), 55-56.</ref> Those found at the Family History Library are listed in the Place Search of the Family History Library Catalog under: | Occupational histories, records, and related items can be found in county record offices and at the National Library of Wales.<ref>The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ''Research Outline: [[Wales]]'' (Salt Lake City: Corporation of the President, 2000), 55-56. NOTE: All of the information from the original research outline has been imported into the FamilySearch Wiki and is both enhanced and updated by the genealogical community.</ref> Those found at the Family History Library are listed in the Place Search of the Family History Library Catalog under: | ||
;WALES - OCCUPATIONS | ;WALES - OCCUPATIONS | ||
;WALES, [COUNTY] - OCCUPATIONS | ;WALES, [COUNTY] - OCCUPATIONS | ||
;WALES, [COUNTY], [PARISH] - OCCUPATIONS | ;WALES, [COUNTY], [PARISH] - OCCUPATIONS | ||
== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
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{{Place|Wales}} | {{Place|Wales}} | ||
[[Category:Wales|Occupations]] | [[Category:Wales|Occupations]] | ||