Thank you Ruth. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Acorn Cottage Sent: Tuesday, 19 June 2012 1:11 AM To: 'David Gobbitt'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [SFK-UK] Clergy, Gentry and Yeomanry Yeomanry need not refer to part-time militia. It could refer to Yeomen - i.e. farmers. I suspect his inclusion was probably under the general heading of "Gentry" if he held a post of some importance, as appears likely from the advertisement. Ruth in Hampshire > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Gobbitt > Sent: 18 June 2012 15:44 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [SFK-UK] Clergy, Gentry and Yeomanry > > advertisement in the 14 Dec. 1839 > edition of the Ipswich Journal. A steam engine from a River Orwell > dredging barge was to be sold by auction on the Ballast Wharf in > Ipswich, by direction of the Committee of Management of the Ipswich > Wet Dock. Prospective viewers were invited to apply to engineer James > FRISTON at the Ballast Quay. > > He was clearly not a retired gentleman at that time, and I don't > suppose he was a clergyman either. If he farmed a little land as a > sideline, that was apparently not in Albion Street and certainly not > his main occupation in 1841, so I suspect his inclusion under "Clergy, > Gentry and Yeomanry" in > 1839 was the result of erroneous or lazy classification. > > Incidentally, some members of the Yeomanry forces in the early 20th > century, if not before, were never yeomen in the traditional sense. > I've yet to spy a tinker in their ranks, but I have seen a tailor and > a watchmaker. While the army would always welcome suitable volunteers > who could shoot straight on horseback, a shortage of recruits in the > years after the Boer Wars obliged the Suffolk Yeomanry to accept > increasing numbers of men who didn't bring their own horses to the > annual training camps but had to hire them or borrow them from > relatives. > > David ------------------------------- 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 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2180 / Virus Database: 2433/5076 - Release Date: 06/17/12