Daily Ancestortextor
Textor is Latin for a weaver, a man who wove cloth on a loom; textoris after a name means of the weaver.
Textor means weaver, a man who wove cloth on a loom. The feminine form, textrix, names a woman weaver.
The genitive textoris marks a father's trade in a baptism entry. If a family appears as weavers for several generations, the trade itself can help you link fathers and sons in a parish full of similar names.
As seen in a recordLatin baptism register, Silesia, 1760s
Georgius, filius Jacobi Schmid, textoris, et Barbarae conjugum
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