Appointment Records
Appointment records of W Lum, 1793
Finding number: POST 58/2
These appointment records are both for W Lum, a Foreign-Letter Carrier. They are early examples of appointment records.
The first is an index of appointments and the second an employment record entry.
They show that Lum was appointed by the Post Office on 4 March 1793 and that he was pensioned by the Post Office on 5 July 1814.
The appointment record shows 'Names, Professions & Places of the Abode of Sureities'. Sureities were people who acted as references to confirm the good character of the Letter Carrier.
We can see that for W Lum, William Haines, Tallow Chandler of Commerical Road and J Davies of N6 Greenfield St., Whitechapell, acted as his sureities.
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Appointment index entry for W Lum (288.8 KB)
Appointment entry for W Lum (683.4 KB)
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