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Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 85 Send Message	Margaret	Report	28 Oct 2007 16:05
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 85 Send Message	Can anybody help me by reading occupation for JOSEPH SCOTT 1791 born Lancashire living in Salford/ Middleton in the 1841 census with wife Mary?
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 23,482 Send Message	MargaretM	Report	28 Oct 2007 16:28
	I agree, yeoman. No question marks.
	Researching: Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)
Member Since: November 2003 Posts: 28,261 Send Message	KathleenBell	Report	28 Oct 2007 16:32
	Yeoman :- [1] A freehold farmer, the next class down from gentry. [2] An assistant to an official. [3] A ships officer in charge of stores. Kath. x
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 20,615 Send Message	Heather	Report	28 Oct 2007 16:49
	Yeoman were available to form a militia group too - so this man very likely has more records about and check for a will too.
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 35 Send Message	Victoria	Report	28 Oct 2007 17:10
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 35 Send Message	Says he is a Yeoman, living at Rochdale Road, Middleton from 1841 census with The Geneology site