Would a Carman have to be registered?

[Wendus]

An ancestor who lived at the same address in Camberwell, S London, for at least 20 years (1881-1901), is described as a Carman for City Corporation. The City Corporation would obviously have been London.

I was wondering whether he would have had to serve an apprenticeship, or at least be registered in some way. If so, could anyone point me in the right direction to start looking?

Many thanks.

[v.wells]

http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/p/p0647900.html to look up old occupations.

1 of my relatives was a carman and he started with horse driven wagons/buses and then train cars. A carman involved several things, it could be janitorial, ticket collecting, to driving buses in the industrial age, to even repairing them. I doubt there was apprenticeships except for train engineers. Some served an indenture to a livery where they started off as groom, hostler and then driver once they could purchase an animal. There is a thread on livery here. Try that and it may help explain more.

Vanessa

[AnnB]

There was another recent thread on the forum about the same subject http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22551&highlight=carman

Best wishes
Ann