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Journey has the same French root, but it was originally a day's travel. Similarly a journal was originally a daily log or diary - still is come to that.

Hi all

thanks for your replies, thought he was a traveller for one minute, lol

just need to find his second marriage now as family told me last week that he remarried after his first wife died and that the second wife was a horrible woman but nobody remembers her name

stephanie

Hi Stephanie

It means he would travel from job to job, wherever he was required

CR

A man who served his apprenticeship in a trade and worked as a fully qualified employee. The term originated in the regulations of the medieval trade guilds; it derives from the French journée (‘a day’) because journeymen were paid daily.
Each guild normally recognized three grades of worker – apprentices, journeymen, and masters. As a qualified tradesman, a journeyman might have become a master with his own business but most remained employees.

Joiner - carpenter - journeyman - qualified tradesman

Hi all, today received my great grandmother's death certificate from 1938 and her husband's occupation was listed as Joiner (Journeyman)

anyone know what the journeyman bit is all about

stephanie