Apprenticeships

It is recorded that miners in the Philadelphia area took several poor children from Sunderland to serve an apprenticeship (mainly a pit lad )these are as follows: -

21^st June 1817 - George Wilson aged 12 years a poor child from Sunderland will be apprenticed to John Mitford a pitman of Philadelphia until 18 years old

14^th May 1817  - John Tindell aged 12 years or thereabouts a poor child of Sunderland apprenticed to Joseph Pearson a pitman of Philadelphia until 19 years old

21^st June 1817 – George Armstrong aged 11 years a poor child of Sunderland apprenticed to William Noble a pitman of Philadelphia until 18 years old.

       Many of these children would have come from the workhouse.

I have also a list of mason apprentices. For May 1861 for Newbottle collieries

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