Daily Ancestorpellio
Pellio is Latin for a furrier, a man who made and sold furs; pellionis means of the furrier.
Pellio comes from pellis, skin or hide, and Lewis and Short defines it as a furrier. Roman authors such as Plautus already used it.
Do not confuse it with pellis, the hide itself. The genitive pellionis appears when the father's trade follows his name in a baptism entry, and other records in the local language will give the same trade.
As seen in a recordLatin baptism register, Bohemia, 1790s
Maria, filia Jacobi Ruzicka, pellionis, et Annae
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