Confusing apprenticeship in 1752 (Ancestry)

[Rachel]

Could someone have a look at this and tell me what John Looker is apprenticed as

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=1851&iid=GB1337-07701&fn=Wm&ln=Martin&st=d&ssrc=&pid=441358


It's in the second batch
No 3 ... Masters name Wm Martin of Farrington, Berks

[scuda]

Presumbably a plumber (I like the spelling "plummer") as that's the master's occupation. It doesn't give any info about John Looker's parents, though.

scuda

[Sue from Southend]

It looks like Plummer (plumber) to me. Someone who works with lead


http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dav4is/Sources/Occ.P.htm#TOP

[Rachel]

Thank you both
It does look like Plummer but then ? another squiggle

I do like the spelling ~ Fryday :)

I'm hoping it's Gt Faringdon, Berks because I have this apprentice in 1748 ~ John Bance

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=1851&iid=GB1337-07395&fn=Will&ln=Martin&st=d&ssrc=&pid=435534

apprenticed to a Will Martin of Gt Faringdon


I have 3X gt grandparents Isaac Looker (Wilts) and Jane Bance (Berks) a little later and a Gt grandparent from Gt Faringdon who married a Looker in the 1880s

[kiterunner]

It's Plummer &c which means etc.

[scuda]

The squiggle might be for "etc", which would probably make him a plumber and glazier, which seems to have been the usual combination.

scuda

[Rachel]

Oh great
Then that's going to be the same Mr Martin


Now all I need to do is find something more substantial to link them all together !