In a message dated 23/06/2004 18:35:11 GMT Daylight Time, pfallonc@btinternet.com writes: > An extension to Ian's freemasons question. I have a number of > Dumfrieshire relatives who are masons, listed as journeymen and > "master" masons. My question is kind of out of ignorance. But would > mid-victorian masons be freemasons like being in a union? So would I > expect to find them in freemason archives? A rambling ill-thought out > question I know :-( > No a mason is a worker with stone. A freemason would not put that as an occupation in the census. Freemasonery was a secret society. Irene