Occupation: Husbandman, Yoeman England 1500's

Jakitson

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Feb 27, 1998, 3:00:00 AM2/27/98

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Looking for the description for the occupations of Husbandman and Yoeman in
England in the 1500's.
Joyce Kitson
Knapp, Kitson, Stalker, Becker, Kula, Kline, Dill, Schley, Blaisdell, Bushnell,
Marvin/Mervyn, many more

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Feb 27, 1998, 3:00:00 AM2/27/98

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* In a message originally to All, Jakitson said:
> Looking for the description for the occupations of Husbandman and
> Yoeman in England in the 1500's. Joyce Kitson Knapp, Kitson, Stalker,

A husbandman was a farmworker whose job was to tend animals.
A Yeoman was not an occupation, basically a Yeoman was someone who lived in
the country and was not of the nobility. A Yeoman was also a free man and
not a serf.

Hope this is helpful.

Alcuin Edwards

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Kristen M Schoonover

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Feb 28, 1998, 3:00:00 AM2/28/98

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Husbandman usually ment a farmer. Yoeman is some what more obscure... it
was thought that a yeoman was also a farmer but more specifically one who
owned 60 to 100 acres of land which they cultivated themselves and they
might have even had a couple of servants to help farm the land. From my
reading of the middle ages and high ages.. yoeman was above a husbandman
but I may be recollecting incrrectly. Incedently the course of the yoeman
definition is from The People of England by Maurice Ashley. It is a
boring book but full of great definitions of class and such. All and all
a good reference.

In article <19980227031...@ladder02.news.aol.com>,
jaki...@aol.com (Jakitson) wrote:

> Looking for the description for the occupations of Husbandman and Yoeman in
> England in the 1500's.
> Joyce Kitson

Richard Chadburn

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Mar 1, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/1/98

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On 27 Feb 1998 03:13:42 GMT, jaki...@aol.com (Jakitson) wrote:

>Looking for the description for the occupations of Husbandman and Yoeman in
>England in the 1500's.
>Joyce Kitson
>Knapp, Kitson, Stalker, Becker, Kula, Kline, Dill, Schley, Blaisdell, Bushnell,
>Marvin/Mervyn, many more

Hi, I think a husbandman was a herder, (sheep herder etc..) and I
know a Yoeman was a farmer.

VivyanE

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Mar 2, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/2/98

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>On 27 Feb 1998 03:13:42 GMT, jaki...@aol.com (Jakitson) wrote:
>
>>Looking for the description for the occupations of Husbandman and Yoeman in
>>England in the 1500's.

These were legal terms, and meant as follows:
Yeoman - a man who cultivated his own land
Husbandman - a man who cultivated land that he rented.

There was also a:
Journeyman - a man who hired out his services by the day

These description will almost certainly apply to the 1500s, though a few
centuries later the definitions sometimes got a bit blurred.

Sean Brady

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Mar 3, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/3/98

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I'm not an expert but in reading various books to gain knowledge have just
come across:-

Dr W.G. Hoskins, Essays in Leicestershire History, 1950, pp. 150-151 where
he states that the terms 'yoeman' and 'husbandman' had no precise definition
even in the sixteenth century, for often the same man was indifferently
called both in the records. The terms had little or nothing to do with the
tenure of land, for a yoeman, like a husbandman, need own no land of his
own.

I also understand that 'husbandman' is a corruption of 'husbond' which
originally signified a cultivator (bond) who had a house (hus). The term
"bond" became confused by the influence of its etymologically distant
homonym "bond" derived from the verb to bind.

Perhaps someone could provide an authority on this topic which does seem to
have a range of opinions.

Regards

Sean