Posts Tagged ‘Somerset Record Office’

I have finally managed to find some time to transcribe some of the documents I photographed on my recent visit to the Somerset Record Office in Taunton. The first is a report into the conduct of my 4 × great grandfather Joseph Coles as an apprentice to the tinsmith George Adcock. The report was provided to the Committee of the Somersetshire Society in London by John Moore—a copy of which was written into the minutes of the committee meeting held at Albion House on Monday, 15 March 1819 (Somersetshire Society, 1819, March 15).
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EXETER — All in all, a very satisfying day today. I drove to Taunton to visit the Somerset Record Office. I managed to get myself both on and off the M5 between Exeter and Taunton, and find the record office without getting lost. I also had quite a bit of success in searching the minute books of the Somerset Society in London.
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