Daily AncestorPargeter
A pargeter was a plasterer, especially one who covered house walls with decorative or waterproof plaster called pargeting.
Wiktionary defines a pargeter simply as a plasterer. Pargeting is decorative or waterproof plaster on outside walls, especially between the timbers of half-timbered houses, often pressed into raised patterns while still wet.
The word comes from Middle English parget, probably from Old French. The term is particularly associated with the English counties of Suffolk and Essex; in neighboring Norfolk the same work is called pinking.
As seen in a recordEnglish parish registers and probate records of the 1500s to 1700s
Thos. Ruddock, pargeter, of Saffron Walden
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