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Hello all
I was just wondering if anybody can give me some advice on how my ancestor John Peter Pruden born 1778 who appears to have been born into a fairly lowly family in Edmonton Middlesex would have secured an apprenticeship at the age of 12 with the Hudson Bay Company and then shipped off to Canada?
The only thing that my relatives in Canada can think of is that perhaps the Governor of HBC at the time Sir James Winter Lake 3rd baronet who resided in Edmonton all of his life may have noticed JPP due to his schooling or through the church and took him on. JPP is the only lad from Edmonton to have been taken on.
Danny
I was just wondering if anybody can give me some advice on how my ancestor John Peter Pruden born 1778 who appears to have been born into a fairly lowly family in Edmonton Middlesex would have secured an apprenticeship at the age of 12 with the Hudson Bay Company and then shipped off to Canada?
The only thing that my relatives in Canada can think of is that perhaps the Governor of HBC at the time Sir James Winter Lake 3rd baronet who resided in Edmonton all of his life may have noticed JPP due to his schooling or through the church and took him on. JPP is the only lad from Edmonton to have been taken on.
Danny
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