What is a Traveller in a census from the 1820's

[stanmapstone]

What country is this? Not sure if UK census in 1820s listed occupations.

This guide gives details of census listings created for the four English censuses of 1801, 1811, 1821 and 1831. For these censuses there are, generally speaking, three types of records to be found in archives. The first are complete listings, which contain individual‐level (and often nominal) information about all the residents of a parish or township at the relevant census date; the second are ‘household’ listings which contain information about each household within the parish. These often have nominal information about the head of the household, but this is not always the case; and third, copies of tabulations which were sent to the census office in London, and are essentially only the ‘statistical’ information which relates to that particular parish for that census.


From "Census schedules and listings, 1801—1831: an introduction and guide" ISBN 1‐904059‐27‐9

[Redroger]

My granfathers' oldest brother was described as a higher in the 1871 census at Alford Lincs. Further research showed the term to mean travelling ploughman for hire in this context.
There is strong DNA evidence that he may have scattered his seed on the land too.

[nanny jan]

As the OP has not returned to this topic;  has anyone identified which census the query referred to and where it can be found?

[Redroger]

My granfathers' oldest brother was described as a higher in the 1871 census at Alford Lincs. Further research showed the term to mean travelling ploughman for hire in this context.
There is strong DNA evidence that he may have scattered his seed on the land too.

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Noticed a major error the description should read HIGGLER apologies

[stanmapstone]

There is a lengthy discussion about the meaning of Higgler after this post http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=262438.msg1479479#msg1479479

Stan

[stanmapstone]

See Higgler, under Higgle, in "The English dialect dictionary, being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years;"
https://archive.org/details/englishdialectdi03wrig/page/156/mode/2up

Stan