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UK Apprentice Books now on Ancestry

Ancestry has recently released a new collection of records - UK Apprentice Books 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:

• Sum received
• Name of master
• Address of master
• Trade
• Name of apprentice
• Date of articles of apprenticeship

Above text was taken directly from the Ancestry Library Edition website.

Free access to Ancestry's Library Edition is available in the reading rooms of the State Library of Queensland. Access is also available at most public libraries and family/local history societies.

UK railway employment records on Ancestry

Did your UK ancestors work on the railway?

Ancestry recently launched their newest set of records "UK Railway Employment Records, 1833-1963".

The database includes records from 

• Great Central Railway Company, 
• London and North Eastern Railway Company
• London and North Western Railway Company
• London and South Western Railway Company
• London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
• London, Chatham and Dover Railway Company (formerly the East Kent Railway)
• London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company
• Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company
• Midland Railway Company
• Retired Railway Officers' Society

Free access to Ancestry is available at the State Library of Queensland and at most local libraries and family history societies.