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Monday, November 28, 2011

My Father was a Cook


This comes from the "Freedom of the City Admission Papers" for London, England, 1681-1925 on Ancestry.com. What is the name of the person being apprenticed and his father. It is in the index in an interesting way. 


8 comments:

  1. Francis Clark, son of ffrancis Clark Cittizen a Cook of London.....

    I have an Irish ancestor who spelled his name "ffennell" MacCarthy so that odd "ff" isn't new to me.

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  2. I believe that the double ff is called a "skeletal capital" and is simply an alternative way of writing a capital F. So both father and son would be Francis Clark.

    One of my ancestors was also in the Worshipful Company of Cooks. His son was apprenticed to a Vintner.

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  3. I agree with Judy M. and Iain M. above

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  4. Ian is correct about the double ff.
    Incidentally, the entry also shows that Francis the father was "dec'd" ie deceased.
    So much information in one small sentence.

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  5. I also agree: Francis Clark son of ffrancis Clark

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  6. Francis Clark son of ffrancis [indicating Francis] Clark

    is it.

    Ancestry.com has it indexed as Francis Tark.

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  7. I think Ancestry.com indexers try to do too much at a time. I've been transcribing from the 1910 Wabash County census on their site. Some of there mistakes seem so off what I see, that I believe they work until it all runs together. Stmrln for Strickler (for example) — of course Strickler is my maiden name, so maybe that doesn't count. But La Layette is on the same page, where I believe most people would see LaFayette.

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