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  • Thumbnail for Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1802
    distant parishes to employ, house and feed their apprentices. In 1800 there were 20,000 apprentices working in cotton mills. The apprentices were vulnerable...
    31 KB (4,200 words) - 09:05, 27 June 2024
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    Apprenticeship (redirect from Apprentices)
    Most apprentices were males, but female apprentices were found in crafts such as seamstress, tailor, cordwainer, baker and stationer. Apprentices usually...
    42 KB (4,705 words) - 15:43, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Parish Apprentices Act 1842
    The Parish Apprentices Act 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. 4) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, which received royal assent on 23 March 1842 and was...
    2 KB (133 words) - 16:57, 1 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Mellor Mill
    that apprentices coming out of time remained in Oldknow's service. Robert Blincoe confirmed that Oldknow was a humane employer and his apprentices were...
    13 KB (1,611 words) - 20:51, 11 March 2024
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    was sometimes viewed as a form of transportation. While getting parish apprentices from Clerkenwell, Samuel Oldknow's agent reported how some parents...
    62 KB (8,274 words) - 08:15, 5 June 2024
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     121. Honeyman, Katrina (2007). Child Workers in England, 1780-1820: Parish Apprentices and the Making of the Early Industrial Labour Force. Ashgate Publishing...
    152 KB (16,917 words) - 08:47, 25 July 2024
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    Pauperism (redirect from Pauper apprentice)
    "pauper" disappeared. Pauper apprentices in England and Wales were the children of paupers who were bound out by the local parish overseers and churchwardens...
    4 KB (429 words) - 21:35, 31 March 2024
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    the commentators of the day, and the testimony of Robert Blincoe, a parish apprentice who had been indentured to work at the mill. It was set up in 1782...
    7 KB (703 words) - 15:21, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mines and Collieries Act 1842
    underground. No child under 10 years old was to be employed underground. Parish apprentices between the ages of 10 and 18 could continue to work in the mines...
    7 KB (540 words) - 04:24, 22 June 2024
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    by Thomas Butterworth Bayley, to abandon the practice of binding parish apprentices to any mill not adhering to these conditions. The report also prompted...
    104 KB (10,599 words) - 06:51, 13 July 2024
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    village is in the civil parish of Pentewan Valley and the ecclesiastical parish of St Austell. It was named after the London Apprentice Inn, which formerly...
    4 KB (360 words) - 07:11, 22 August 2022
  • 80 seven-year-old children the St. Pancras workhouse indentured as parish apprentices. They traveled there in wagons for five days. Under the terms of their...
    6 KB (803 words) - 15:03, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1792
    (Repeals) Act 2008) Parish Apprentices Act 1792 32 Geo. 3. c. 57 11 June 1792 An Act for the further Regulation of Parish Apprentices. Information in Nature...
    94 KB (592 words) - 09:30, 6 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cotton Mills and Factories Act 1819
    The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1802 had been introduced by Sir Robert Peel to improve conditions for apprentices working in cotton mills. Peel...
    17 KB (2,261 words) - 01:13, 21 September 2023
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    living next to the factory. The cotton mill was partly staffed by "parish apprentices", a system with similarities to indentured servitude. It dated back...
    21 KB (2,552 words) - 15:43, 5 August 2024
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    Protestant Purchasers. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871) Parish Apprentices Act 1778 18 Geo. 3. c. 47 15 May 1778 An Act to amend such Part of...
    87 KB (584 words) - 14:49, 11 July 2024
  • only to apprentices. Religious teaching and suitable sleeping accommodation and clothing were provided for in the act, also as regards apprentices. Lime-washing...
    74 KB (11,506 words) - 13:31, 18 July 2024
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    2)) Parish Apprentices Act 1842 (repealed) 5 & 6 Vict. c. 7 23 March 1842 An Act to explain the Acts for the better Regulation of certain Apprentices. (Repealed...
    97 KB (714 words) - 17:30, 8 August 2024
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    (Repeals) Act 1973) Parish Apprentices Act 1816 56 Geo. 3. c. 139 2 July 1816 An act to regulate the binding of Parish Apprentices. Sikes' Hydrometer Act...
    82 KB (698 words) - 14:40, 28 July 2024
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    1811   Parish Apprentices Act 1811 51 Geo. 3. c. 80 15 June 1811 An Act to render valid certain Indentures for the binding of Parish Apprentices. Fees...
    67 KB (619 words) - 17:41, 8 August 2024
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