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From: Steve Bickerton <>
Subject: Re: yeoman
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 21:44:31 GMT


>
> back in England in the sixteen hundreds, just what did the term"yeoman"
> mean.....I understand it was sometimes given to third or fourth sons of
> a lord or Knight. How was he less...and how was he more than the run of
> the mill. And, is he entitled to use the ESQ after his name?
>
> Thanks RWB

I may be a bit off line here but in my researches "yeoman" appears to be the
title given to *he* who farms someone else's land under a lease, as the
farmer rather than labourer. Might be called a Tenant Farmer today.

It may have originated further back than the 1690's when this situation
applies in my family to be applied to a son of a lord or Knight, but I've
yet to come across it. It may give me a lead though in linking my own line
of Cheshire Bickerton's back to the C14 Sir Hugh de Bickerton.

Steve Bickerton
LIVERPOOL UK

Researching BICKERTON worldwide.
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