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Journeyman Baker
« on: Wednesday 28 January 09 10:22 GMT (UK) »
Hi All, Can anyone explain what a Journeyman Baker was around 1860. Someone selling bread on foot? Cheers :)
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Re: Journeyman Baker
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 28 January 09 10:29 GMT (UK) »
Hi Jeanee

If you go to this site
http://rmhh.co.uk/index.html

and go to  occuaptions and terms, there is a drop down menu, then to index of old occupations, click on the I-K section and scroll down to J its says what a journeyman was

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Re: Journeyman Baker
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 28 January 09 10:43 GMT (UK) »
Being a Journeyman had nothing to do with travelling!

In addition to the link Ricky has given, you will also find some useful information in the Rootschat Lexicon http://www.rootschat.com/links/05ed/

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Re: Journeyman Baker
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 29 January 09 13:34 GMT (UK) »
My thanks to you both :)
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Re: Journeyman Baker
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 30 November 10 11:45 GMT (UK) »
I also have a Baker journeyman in my family tree around the same time, and wondered if anyone knows how long a bakers apprenticeship was, and therfore how long they'd have to train before they could call themselves a journeyman.

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Re: Journeyman Baker
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 30 November 10 12:00 GMT (UK) »
An apprenticeship was traditionally seven years.  Having qualified some of them never progressed beyond being a journeyman.

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Re: Journeyman Baker
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 30 November 10 12:11 GMT (UK) »
That's interesting as my ancestor was only 19/20 when their wife listed this as their profession, and only nine months earlier had been working as an agricultural labourer. They were living in the workhouse until they were at least 14 so this just can't be correct.

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Re: Journeyman Baker
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 09 August 12 20:23 BST (UK) »
I have three baker journeyman in my family: son, father, and grandfather.

All in Liverpool (Kirkpatricks)
Kendrick, Holt, Healey, Allbutt, Turner, Barlow, Stephenson, Kirkpatrick, Owen, Lees, Dickinson, Haines, Thompson, Wharton, Benson or Bengtsson, Noyes, Pryce, Basnett, Grace, Ambrose, Berry, Lees, Caley, Rogers, Munslaw, Rammeli, Webster, Preston, Simpson, Gill, Fielding, Hayde, Dorman