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This section is an attempt to explain terms used in the web site. |
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| A Taillandier | Craftsman who makes any kind of tools for the carpenters, the cartwrights, ploughmen like forgery, axes, knocked, bill hooks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A Cartwright | That which makes carriages, carts, trains of car and particularly of the wheels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Charron | Translated means Cartwright
A “ charron ” is a cartwright, a wheelwright and as such he is a workman, a craftsman building wagons, carts and wheels. A cartwright constructs and repairs all sorts of heavy and light vehicles, light carts, trucks, tip-carts, wagons, carts, wheelbarrows, to name a few. He works both with metal and wood. He forges the axles, the springs and the brakes. He builds flat beds and installs the side panels, then mounts the vehicle on wheels he himself has built. It is more than likely that a very distant ancestor who may have been a charron (cartwright) adopted as his family name that of his trade, around the XIth or XIIth century when family names came of age in France. |
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| LaFerrière | Translated means Iron Forger | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| How to
figure a birth date
Remember the number 8870. This is not an error, it is the number to remember when you want to find the birth date of someone when you only have the date of death and age. Suppose the person died May 6, 1889, at the age of 71 years, 7 months, 9 days.
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