traveller as occupation

[donut]

Have just started investigating my family tree and have found the occupation of Traveler as fathers occupation on a marriage certificate. - Marriage dated 1907.  Was Traveler then  the same as today ie - Travelling Salesman.
The man concerned does not appear on any of the Census for 1891 or 1901 and his wife is listed as Living off own means.  Would that signify that her husband had left her or that she was divorced?.  Is there any way to find Travelers in the Census.   Advice welcomed 

[Hackstaple]

You are right to post this on this special board. It is my impression that the occupation term at that time was Commercial Traveller. A Traveller however might mean a Romany. That may account for the man missing censuses. It is unlikely the wife was Divorced as that was a very expensive procedure before 1939. Simple desertion was the common way of dealing with marital problems.
Travellers are not shown as a searchable category except in the 1881 census but you have here his child being married in 1907, perhaps age 21 and so born in 1886 or so. It may be possible to look on that census for your man. 

[behindthefrogs]

Even a Commercial Traveller was likely to be away from home on census night.  You are likely to find him staying in a small hotel or Inn somewhere.

A traveller as defined on this site should have been enumerated somewhere in the census but as today they were much more difficult to find and to obtain details from.

David