Travellers in the parish registers

[Lesley Robertson]

"Traveller" can also mean "travelling salesman" - what I'd now call a sales rep.

[Peter Goodey]

I would go further and say that an occupation of traveller always means Commercial Traveller or Travelling Salesman.

A lifestyle of traveller is a different matter

[veejay34]

Sales rep pre 1825 ?

[Peter Goodey]

That's right.

[Wilkes_ml]

Back again with another one at St. Andrew, Earles Colne, Essex 7th June 1725

John & Edward sons of a vagrant who said she was a widow .....underneath was written the name Susan THOMPSON which I assume is the womans name.

[Wilkes_ml]

at St. Andrew, Earles Colne, Essex 18th April 1726

Francis son of Francis & Margaret MAC CALLA a traveller

[Wilkes_ml]

p.s. one above was a baptism!



also at St. Andrew, Earls Colne, Essex 3rd May 1729

Edward BANISTER a traveller was buried

[Wilkes_ml]

Long time since I've added to this thread!

Burial at St. Mary the Virgin, Wingham, Kent 23rd October 1841

William BAKER aged 10 months was buried. The son of a travelling chain mender alias Gypsy

[Wilkes_ml]

Burial at St. James, Staple, Kent 27th December 1696

Thomas WAKEFIELD the son of a wayfaring woman

[Wilkes_ml]

Buried at St. Mary, Tetbury, Gloucestershire 1st October 1793

Charlotte daughter of John WEAVOUZ, a traveller

{WEAVOUS? name seems to come up in Suffolk when searching "Family Search" and Ancestry}