by usignuolo » Mon Oct 31, 2011 4:55 pm
After reaching an apparent dead end, the trail warmed up again and it turned out that many of my ancestors were from Pocklington in Yorkshire. This has been relatively easy to trace because so many of the East Riding archives of local probate and legal transactions are on line. Anyway my ancestors were local tradesmen and craftsmen, butchers, glaziers and tallow chandlers. However in lots of the records they are also described as yeomen. I thought a yeoman was a farmer, can he also be a tradesman?