Daily Ancestortonsor
Tonsor is Latin for a barber, a man who cut hair and shaved; tonsoris means of the barber.
Tonsor means barber, from tondeo, to clip or trim. Wiktionary also gives a second sense, a gardener who prunes plants. The feminine is tonstrix.
Barbers also did surgery and bloodletting, so look under both tonsor and chirurgus when you follow one man through the records.
As seen in a recordLatin baptism register, Bavaria, 1790s
Paulus, filius Antonii Tamberl, tonsoris
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