From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On Sat, 24 Oct 2020 at 12:43:35, Ian Goddard    
   wrote:   
   >On 23/10/2020 12:03, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:   
   >> Johannes filius Johannis Mason Alieni <>____________________________3º.   
   >   
   >I wonder if "mason" is to be taken literally.  Masons could be   
   >peripatetic.  In leter times one can find the mason's family at one   
   >address and, after some searching, the mason himself lodged some   
   >distance away, presumably where there was a construction project.   
   >   
   >One possibility, then, is that here was a mason travelling with his   
   >family and, in absence of having taken note of his surname, given his   
   >occupation as the surname.   
   >   
   >Ian   
      
   Thanks. It's possible that he actually was a mason and thus peripatetic   
   as you describe back in 16xx, but I don't think so: certainly for all   
   his descendants, it was just a surname, not their profession. Most if   
   not all of the other baptisms on the page give what are clearly just the   
   father's surname, not profession. (I can't remember when surnames came   
   in as the norm, but I think well before this.)   
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