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"Traveller"
« on: Tuesday 01 March 05 16:07 GMT (UK) »
According to my grandfathers birth certificate his father's occupation was a "Traveller" - what exactly would a traveller do?

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Re: "Traveller"
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 01 March 05 16:37 GMT (UK) »
Hi Elaine

There were two really quite different travellers:

a) A commercial traveller much like we would recognise a sales rep today

b) Traveller as in Gypsy/itinerant worker leading a nomadic lifestyle with no usual fixed abode

Perhaps you have further clues or some idea of which would be more fitting for your ancestor

Best wishes

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Re: "Traveller"
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 02 March 05 10:30 GMT (UK) »
Thank you again for your invaluable assistance.  I think the first traveller description seems to fit better with the other information I have on him.

Many thanks

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