A farmer or landholder of independent status, generally above a husbandman.
A yeoman was a person of relatively independent social and economic status, often a farmer who held land and managed their own agricultural affairs.
The term generally describes someone above the level of a labourer or husbandman, although the exact meaning varied over time and between regions.
Yeomen frequently appear in historical records as tenants, jurors and community members involved in local administration.
See also:
Husbandman
Tenant
Freehold
Customary Tenant
