Saturday, August 27, 2011

Thomas Lankshear as an apprentice

1763 Thos Lankshear was indentured as an apprentice to Absalom MONK of Burford Oxfordshire which is about 8 miles from Thomas's birth place of Clanfield

from UK, Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures, 1710-1811

The same year as Absolom took on Rich Cooper

This could be Absalom

ABSALOM MONK  Marriage  ANN ARKELL           13 JAN 1757       Burford, Oxford, England

also
Title     Absalom Monk, Burford - re bill for coachmaker's work, 1764. Date     1768 Description     15 Oct. 1768
Level     Item Held At     Gloucestershire Archives

Also he is recorded in 1772 as a CHIEF LORDS AND TENANTS OF THE MANOR AND TOWN OF BURFORD
and also perhaps his brother James in 1776   
Read the ebook The Burford records, a study in minor town government by R. H. (Richard Henry) Gretton

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