| Description | 1. Apprenticeship indenture to Charles Talbot, citizen and stationer of London, 1855.
2. Apprenticeship indenture to John Pillow of Horseley Down, Surrey, waterman and lighterman of the River Thames, 1857.
3. Waterman's licence, 1864.
4. Waterman's licence, 1865.
5. Notice that George William Talbot intends to retire from the firm of Richard Talbot & Sons of Reading, timber merchants, barge builders and contractors, 1870.
[It is not quite clear if all these documents relate to the same person. 1 and 2 are both sons of a Richard, but he is of Caversham in 1855 and St Mary Rotherhithe, Surrey, in 1857, while the term of 1 had not yet expired by the date of 2. A George William Talbot was born in the Rotherhithe district in 1841; he or another man of the same name married in Reading in 1865.] |