1744 On "Thursday Augt. 30th" Master "Thos Clarke of Rumford in Essex Collermaker" registered his apprentice "John Son of Thos. Meakins of Horn Church." [1]
[1] UK, Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures, 1710-1811, Board of Stamps: Apprenticeship Books, Series IR 1, The National Archives of the UK, [AncestryImage].