Herbert/Williams Family Tree - Ancestors of Carol Herbert

Herbert Family Tree

Occupations

Cordwainer - shoe maker.
Husband(s)man - tenant farmer, usually of livestock.
Maltster - treated barley with malt in his malthouse. The finished product was then used to brew beer.
Yeoman - class in English society. The term has always been ill-defined, but generally it means a freeholder of a lower status than gentleman who cultivates his own land. With the breakdown of medieval systems of tenure the numbers of this class increased and formed the basis for a rural middle class.