Kirklees Apprenticeship Topic List

The following source list was originally available only on paper in one of the West Yorkshire Archive Service offices. It may have been compiled many years ago and could be out of date. It was designed to act as a signpost to records of interest on a particular historical subject, but may relate only to one West Yorkshire district, or be an incomplete list of sources available.

Apprenticeship indentures (30 documents) 1665-1930 relating to Almondbury, Austonley, Clayton West, Crosland, Dalton, Dewsbury, Halifax, Hepworth, Holme, Honley, Huddersfield, Kirkburton, Kirkheaton, Lockwood, Longwood, Northowram, Outlane, Paddock, Rastrick, Sowerby Bridge, Whitley, Wooldale, other parts of Yorkshire and Tamworth KC314/1/1-30

Apprenticeship indentures from Clayton West, Deighton, Thornhill and Thurstonland (4 documents) 1801-1824 KC340

Batley township, apprenticeship indentures (72 documents) 1780-1825 including one for Gomersal township KC72/17

Clayton West township, apprenticeship papers 1701-1818 KC3ll/5/l

Cleckheaton, apprenticeship indentures (3 documents) 1850-1887 DD/ZC/37-39

Dewsbury Township, apprentices register 1737-1838 KC1042/5/1

Honley township, apprenticeship indentures 1830-1835; list of poor children to be put out as apprentices (in the poorhouse register for 1766-1767); constable's summons re apprenticeship 1832 CP/HO/OP/21, 26, 67-70; CP/HO/C/6

Hopton and Huddersfield, apprenticeship indenture 1780 DD/Z/M

Huddersfield township, register of poor children bound apprentices 1798-1844 KC311/18/7

South Crosland township, overseers' accounts including memoranda and lists of poor children put out as apprentices 1724-1766, 1790-1803 CP/SC/1-3

Thurstonland township, apprenticeship indentures 1709-1843, including health certificates and enquiries into propriety of binding (c.150 documents); registers of poor children bound as apprentices 1803-1843 (2 vols); arrest warrants re apprenticeship 18th-19th cent; militia list 1796 includes list of apprentices aged 18 and over KC271/44-51, 53-54

Letter re apprenticeship of George Halstead in Manchester 1815 KC312/8/3

Gomersal, apprenticeship indentures relating to the Taylor family 1630-1674 KC52/4, 14, 19

Gomersal, apprenticeship indenture of William Sigston to John Charlesworth, clockmaker 1734 KC52, Sigston box, bundle 3

South Crosland township, account of people having apprentices and those without, late l8 cent WBM/12

William Hirst junior, apprenticeship indenture to William Hirst the elder, butcher, Thornhill 1752 KC181/2

Anne Hill, apprenticeship indenture to Thomas Beaumont 1666 WBH/37

Mary Iredale of Lindley and Benjamin Dyson of Longwood, apprenticeship indentures to Thomas Thornhill 1812 DD/T/F/9

William Wormall, Rastrick, apprenticeship indenture to James Wormall, dyer, Warley 1738 DD/T/LP/6

Letter re apprenticeship indenture of John Haigh 1846 DD/T/LP/28

Batley, apprenticeship indentures (3 documents) 1837-1885 KC82/9

Pontefract township officers on behalf of Richard Stringer, apprenticeship indenture to George Vant, linen draper, Pontefract 1833 KC181/8

John Hirst, Meltham, apprenticeship indenture to Richard Crosland, clothier, Stubbin in Austonley 1684 (photocopy) KX202/72

Dewsbury township, register of apprentices 1737-1837 (microfilm) KX310

Ann Firth, Honley, apprenticeship indenture to Charles Firth, blacksmith, Honley 1820 KC620

Frank Ives, apprenticeship indenture to David Brown, pattern maker, Chapel Street, Huddersfield 1896 (photocopy) KX342

Red House Museum collection, includes apprenticeship indentures 1814-1868 KC681

Charlesworth family, Slaithwaite, records 20 cent, including file of notes re foundlings apprenticed at Marsden KC470

Beaumont of Whitley estate records, register of apprentices in Kirkheaton, Lepton, Mirfield and South Crosland 1860-1881; bundle of apprenticeship indentures re Beaumont's Charity (57 documents) 1860-1881 WBChar/4-5

Thornhill township, apprenticeship indentures 1729-1844 (microfilm) KX314

Thornhill township, apprenticeship indentures 1684, 1729-1844 KC1044/6/1

Medley family, Hightown, Liversedge, apprenticeship indentures 1791-1835 KC883