Daily AncestorFalconer
A falconer bred, trained and flew falcons or hawks to hunt game.
Falconry is hunting wild animals with a trained bird of prey. Strictly, a falconer flies a falcon, while an austringer keeps goshawks and similar hawks. The sport was also called hawking.
Because hawker came to mean a traveling street seller, the words falconer and falconry now cover most hunting with trained birds of prey. In an old record a hawker is far more likely to be a peddler than a falconer.
As seen in a recordEnglish household accounts and parish registers of the 1500s and 1600s
Ric. Gosselin, falconer to the Earl
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