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


This collection contains registers of the money received for the payment on taxes for an apprentice’s indenture between 1710-1811. The registers kept track of the money paid by masters of a trade to have an apprentice. The dates in the records are for when the tax was paid and may be some years after the apprenticeship, not when it started or finished. Until 1752, the apprentice’s parents’ names were included, but afterward are rare. The records include:

The masters did not have to pay stamp duty on the apprentices that were assigned by the common or public charge of any township or parish. This means a lot of apprentices won’t be included in these records. Local or charity records are the best place to find records of these types of apprenticeships.

1737 20th Oct. Edward, son of Peter Gaubert of St. Ann's, Westminster, was apprenticed to Isaac Philippon of St. Martins in the Fields, master, watchmaker, for a consideration of £ 12. Normally apprentices signed their indentures when aged 14 yrs then served their apprenticeship for 7yrs until they were 21 yrs old. Edward is Isaac's only recorded apprentice. The indenture is at Kew under ref 15/122. Philippon is listed in 1735 in Baillie's Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World. He is recorded in the Nov 30th 1749 Westminster poll as being of Porter Street, St Annes, Westminster.


Edward Apprentice

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Freedom of the City Admission Papers, 1681-1925

Name:

Edward Fradgley Gaubert

Birth Date:

20 Nov 1836

Birth Place:

St Mary Islington Annetts Crescent

Admission Date: 5 Dec 1835

Father's name

Edward Gaubert



1835 Dec. 1st. - Freedom of Edward Gaubert, son of Edward Gaubert  
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Freedom of the City Admission Papers, 1681-1925

Name:

Edward Gaubert

Admission Date:

4 Nov 1828

Master's Name:

Edward Gaubert

Father's Name:

Edward Gaubert





1869 July 8th Edward Fradgley Gaubert, son of Edward Gaubert
1828 Nov 4th. Edward Gaubert, son of Edward Gaubert of Serls Place, Lincolns Inn, goldsmith, as apprentice to his father, citizen and haberdasher of London,
   
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Freedom of the City Admission Papers, 1681-1925

Name:

George Frederick Gaubert

Admission Date:

23 May 1826






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Freedom of the City Admission Papers, 1681-1925

Name:

John George Bertram

Residence County:

Middlesex

Admission Date:

3 Jun 1801

Master's Name:

Stephen Gaubert

Father's Name:

Charles Fugartner Bertram






1826 Oct 25th Special Court held, humble request of George Frederick Gaubert to be admitted to the freedom of the city of London
1801 June 3rd - John George Bertram, son of Charles Augustus Bertram of the parish of St James, Westminster, wine merchant, as apprentice to Stephen Gaubert of the parish of St. Ann, Soho, goldsmith
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Freedom of the City Admission Papers, 1681-1925

Master's Name:

Stepn Gaubert

Apprentice Name:

George Bertram

Residence Location:

London

Payment Date:

1 Jul 1806



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Freedom of the City Admission Papers, 1681-1925

Master's Name:

Stepn Gaubert

Apprentice Name:

George Bertram

Residence Location:

London

Payment Date:

8 Apr 1808



1806 Tuesday 1st July, Stephen Gaubert, citizen and goldsmith of London, as master, paying tax for his apprentice John George Bertram
1808 April 8th., Stephen Gaubert, citizen and goldsmith of London paying tax for his apprentice John George Bertram


from http://www.925-1000.com
(online encyclopedia of silver marks, hallmarks and maker's marks)

GAUBERT, Stephen (London Goldsmiths 1697-1837: Their Marks & Lives by Arthur Grimwade p.378) by MCB » Thu Nov 08, 2012 6:22 am Goldworkers List (Section VII).

He was christened in 1769 at St Dunstan in the West, the son of Peter and Anne. His brother was Edward Gaubert (Grimwade p.359). He was apprenticed to his father in 1783 and free in 1796. His father was in the Goldsmiths Company and a jeweller at George Court, Doctors Commons. He had married Mary Colley at St Anne, Soho in 1795. Their son William Peter was christened at that church in 1796. He appears in the London Poll Book of 1796 as a goldsmith entitled to vote by reason of property at 4 Litchfield Street, Soho, paid for Land Tax redemption in 1798 and was assessed to Land Tax there until 1806 then on property in Gerrard Street, Soho in 1807.

John George, son of Charles Bertram, a wine merchant, was indentured as his apprentice in 1801. His son Stephen, a child late of Litchfield Street, was buried at St Anne’s in 1804.

As an aside to this biography, of the 135 burials recorded in the St Anne’s parish in July-September 1804, 85 were of children, a disturbing statistic.

From 1811 his son William Peter and John James Edington (Grimwade p.365, 372) were his apprentices at Litchfield Street. His wife Mary’s burial record at St Anne’s in 1828 showed Litchfield Street as her last address. He was assessed to Land Tax on property in Brewer Street from 1812 to 1829. Three of his children, John born 1797, Ann born 1799 and Richard born 1801 were all belatedly christened at St Anne’s in 1821.

He entered a mark at Goldsmiths Hall in 1831 as a gold worker from 8 Carlisle Street, Soho and notified a change of address to 51 Berwick Street, Oxford Street in 1833, the only year he was assessed to Land Tax on the property. No further Land Tax was charged on Stephen and no further information has been traced for him. He either retired or died. Son William Peter appears in the Brewer Street records from 1835-36. He died in 1838.

Son John was listed as a working jeweller at 51 Brewer Street in 1839 and was assessed to Land Tax there from 1835 until he died in 1842. Mrs Gaubert or Gaubert & Co were assessed there from 1843 until at least 1851 at which point the website records end. Son Richard, recorded as a jeweller, was in the St James workhouse in 1841. The Will for Stephen Gaubert , working jeweller late of St James, Westminster, was proved for probate on the 1st September 1834 (National Archives reference PROB 11/1836/107)

   
William Maas
Richard Apprentice
1881 1st. Jan - indenture of William Maas, my maternal great-grandfather, of 198, Columbia Road, Hackney as apprentice to Edward Henry Wells, of 18, Sherbourne Lane, City, Bookbinder
1818 July 1st. - Richard Gaubert, son of Stephen Gaubert, of Brewer Street, Golden Square, Westminster, goldsmith, as apprentice to his said father
   
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Stephen Apprentice
1811 March - John James Edington, as apprentice, to Stephen Gaubert of Litchfield Street, Soho, goldsmith and jeweller
1809 Aug 2nd. Joseph Draper, son of Robert Draper of Gun Street, Bishopsgate, as apprentice to Stephen Gaubert, of Gerard Street, Soho, goldsmith and jeweller,
   
William Peter Apprentice


Freedom of the City Admission Papers, 1681-1925

Name:

William Peter Gaubert

Admission Date:

19 Mar 1811

Father's Name:

Stephen Gaubert



William Peter Portrait

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1811 March 19th. - William Peter Gaubert, son of Stephen Gaubert of Litchfield Street, Soho, goldsmith and jeweller, as apprentice to his said father who is a citizen and goldsmith of London
 
   
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Freedom of the City Admission Papers, 1681-1925

Name:

Stephen Gaubert

Birth Date:

4 Aug 1833

Birth Place:

Brewer Street St James Westminster

Admission Date:

1 Jul 1818

Father's Name:

William Peter Gaubert



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Name:

Stephen Gaubert

Admission Date:

5 Mar 1783

Master's Name:

John Jefferson

Father's Name:

Peter Gaubert

1811 Jan 5th. born at Brewer Street, St James, Westminster, Stephen Gaubert, son of William Peter Gaubert, citizen and goldsmith of London, request for admission to the freedom of the city.
1783 March 5th. - Stephen Gaubert, son of Peter Gaubert of George Court (Doctors Common), London, jeweller, apprentice to John Jefferson of John's Court, Fleet Street, London, jeweller, citizen and goldsmith of London
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Kent's London Directory of 1823 - list of merchants and traders (entry for W & J Gaubert, jewellers, of 18 Brewer Street, Golden Square)
 
Court Day 3rd April 1827 cont'd.

Thomas Nicholls son of Thomas Nicholls of Dove Court, Leather Lane, printer Bound to Edward Gaubert of No. 6, Serles Place, Lincolns Inn, Goldsmith. exd. 10th Jan. 1832 Turned over by consent to John Tollet of No. 13, Bartletts Passage, Fetter Lane, Goldsmith, Citizen & Glover.
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