Bristol Apprenticeship Books Volumes 1a to 1n, 1532-1724

Divided into the following bookmarked indexes:
Apprentice Name, Father’s Name, Father’s Trade, Father’s Abode, Master’s Name, Master’s Trade bookmarked indexes plus a full a transcription of each volume.

Details of the individual volumes is shown below:

The Apprentice Books of Bristol are very strongly linked with the Burgess Books of Bristol. It was only the Burgesses, in other words the Freemen of the City, who were entitled, moreover, obliged to take on Apprentices. Furthermore, serving an apprenticeship to a freeman was one of the ways in which an individual could in turn become a Freeman.