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Leighton Buzzard Union Apprentice Indentures

The former Workhouse in June 2008
The former workhouse in June 2008

Bedfordshire & Luton Archives & Records Service has the indenture papers for the following children from the workhouse apprenticed by the Union:

  • PULBV34/1: Levi Pratt of Ivinghoe [Buckinghamshire]; 15; to Richard Price of Ivinghoe, tailor: 1852;
  • PULBV34/2: Daniel White of Edlesborough; 14; to Francis Croon Kirby of Edlesborough, shoe manufacturer: 1856;
  • PULBV34/3: Thomas Tompkins of Leighton Buzzard; 12; to George Lewis of Northampton, shoe manufacturer: 1856;
  • PULBV34/4: Samuel Brandom of Edlesborough; 12; to Nathaniel Smith of Luton, boot and shoemaker: 1859;
  • PULBV34/5: George Newberry of Leighton Buzzard; 14; to William Grantham of Leighton Buzzard, shoemaker: 1864;
  • PULBV34/6: John Corner of Heath and Reach; 14; to Edward James Ashley of Luton, upholsterer and cabinet maker: 1864;
  • PULBV34/7: Henry Guess; 14; to Edmund Powell of Northampton, shoe manufacturer: 1865;
  • PULBV34/8: William White; 14; to Samuel Cooch of Northampton, shoe manufacturer: 1865;
  • PULBV34/9: Thomas Lee of Ivinghoe; 14; to William Tilt of Northampton, shoe manufacturer: 1865;
  • PULBV34/10: Charles King of Eaton Bray; 13; to Alfred Clarke of Northampton, shoe manufacturer: 1868;
  • PULBV34/11: David Bodsford of Edlesborough; 12; to William Tookey of Northampton, bootmaker: 1868;
  • PULBV34/12: Frederick Heckford of Leighton Buzzard; 13; to William Mead of Luton, pawnbroker: 1868;
  • PULBV34/13: John Hales of Ivinghoe; 14; to William Tilt of Northampton, shoe manufacturer: 1871;
  • PULBV34/14: Alfred Smith of Leighton Buzzard; 15; to James Meager of Leighton Buzzard, wheelwright: 1871;
  • PULBV34/15: Frederick Barron Green of Wing [Buckinghamshire]; 12; to William Tookey of Northampton, boot and shoe maker: 1871;
  • PULBV34/16: Joseph Hales of Ivinghoe; 12; to Warden Rixon of Northampton, boot and shoe manufacturer: 1872;
  • PULBV34/17: Frederick Summerfield of Leighton Buzzard; 14; to Frederick Hawthorn of Northampton, boot and shoe manufacturer: 1872;
  • PULBV34/18: William Humbles of Leighton Buzzard; 16; to Alfred Baldwin of Bletchley [Buckinghamshire]: 1875;
  • PULBV34/19: Arthur Higgs of Stanbridge; 14; to Charles Crossman of Dunstable, tailor: 1876;
  • PULBV34/21: Arthur George Pickard Chamberlain of Linslade; 14; to James Clark of Bedford, plumber, painter and glazier: 1882;
  • PULBV34/22: Samuel Faunch of Leighton Buzzard; 14; to Ansell Thomas Godfrey of Luton, wood turner: 1883;
  • PULBV34/23: Henry Leach of Leighton Buzzard; 14; to James Tunn of Irthlingborough [Northamptonshire], boot maker: 1885;
  • PULBV34/24: William Bates of Leighton Buzzard; 15; to David Flowers of Northampton, bootmaker: 1885;
  • PULBV34/25: William Reeve of Linslade; 14; to Edward Gleed of Little Houghton [Northamptonshire], bootmaker: 1885;
  • PULBV34/26: Charles Faunch of Leighton Buzzard; 14; to William Francis Bird of Irthlingborough, bootmaker: 1885;
  • PULBV34/27: Henry Bates of Leighton Buzzard; 14; to Thomas Keller of Irthlingborough, bootmaker: 1885;
  • PULBV34/28: Charles Chamberlain of Linslade; 14; to William Spencer of Rushden [Northamptonshire], plumber and painter: 1885;
  • PULBV34/29: George Elkerton of Leighton Buzzard; 13; to John Letts of Irchester, boot manufacturer: 1886;
  • PULBV34/30: Alfred Harrison of Eaton Bray; 13; to Jacob Stringer of Rushden, bootmaker: 1887;
  • PULBV34/31: James Adams of Leighton Buzzard; 16; to Richard Gilbert of Rushden, bootmaker: 1887;
  • PULBV34/32: Frederick Reeve of Linslade; 14; to John Ablett of Irthlingborough, shoe finisher and bootmaker: 1888;
  • PULBV34/33: James Faunch of Leighton Buzzard; 13; to William Francis Bird of Irthlingborough, tailor: 1888;
  • PULBV34/34: Moses Saunders of Ivinghoe; 13; to Henry Smith Chambers of Irthlingborough, boot finisher: 1888;
  • PULBV34/35: Thomas Bates of Leighton Buzzard; 14; to Thomas Keller of Irthlingborough, laster: 1888;
  • PULBV34/36: William Horn of Eaton Bray; 14; to William Shrives of Irthlingborough, shoe finisher: 1888;
  • PULBV34/37: Frederick reeve of Leighton Buzzard; 15; to George Meadows of Rushden, shoe rivetter: 1889;
  • PULBV34/38: Frederick Horn of Eaton Bray; 14; to William Thomas of Northampton, bootmaker: 1890;
  • PULBV34/39: John Stanbridge of Leighton Buzzard; 14; to William Spencer of Rushden, plumber and glazier: 1890;
  • PULBV34/40: Albert Dyer of Eaton Bray; 13; to William Francis Bird of Irthlingborough, tailor: 1891;
  • PULBV34/41: William Adams of Leighton Buzzard; 12; to Richard Gilbert of Rushden, boot and shoemaker: 1892;
  • PULBV34/42: David Cooper of Heath and Reach; 14; to Thomas Allen Keech of Irthlingborough, boot and shoemaker: 1895;
  • PULBV34/43: Robert Davis of Heath and Reach; 14; to William Francis Bird of Irthlingborough, tailor and outfitter: 1896;
  • PULBV34/44: Philip Davis of Heath and Reach; 13; to Arthur Streeton of Irthlingborough, bootmaker: 1900.