My mother had a shop in Rawmarsh, and she used to call the wholesale salesmen who used to call in the shop on a monthly basis "Travellers". I appreciate though that this was a century later. Hilary ----- Original Message ---- From: WILLIAM HORNE <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, 26 January, 2008 10:04:56 PM Subject: [SHEFF] Occupations. I recently sent for a marriage certificate and the fathers occupation was Traveller. What would a Traveller have done in the 1840's? Barbara Horne. Reseaching, Biggin, Bright, Heaton, Miles, Oxley, Potts, all in Sheffield. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail - a smarter inbox http://uk.mail.yahoo.com