My thanks are extended to David Hallam who confirmed my suspicion that OUT OF PLACE means unemployed. An 25 year-old ancestor of mine worked for brother-in-law’s shoe-making business in 1841 and was recorded as a journeyman shoe-maker in that year. by 1851 his sister took over as the owner of the business in 1851 after her husband had died and my ancestor was then employed as a “Shop Man”. I understand that a journeyman was someone who had completed an apprenticeship but did not own his own business. What is a Shop Man - is that the next step up the ladder? Did he act as a foreman? Martyn Queensland, Australia