Genealogy Chat

just a quickie before going to work- how are you doing with Paviours, i was wondering if you are doing the same branch as me , happy hunting. liz

I expect Dr Tadlow was rather fat: "When Tadlow walks the streets, the paviours cry, `God bless you, Sir!' and lay their rammers by." Abel Evans, Epigram: On Dr Tadlow

thanks to you all

Carol I think pavoir might be a miswriting/reading of : Paver / Paviour Lays paving stones etc. (in use today) also called a Flagger A Street Paviour laid paving stones, flagstones, bricks, etc. in a bed of mortar, cement or sand, for the pavement or sidewalk. A Wood Paviour laid wood blocks to form the road surface in the same way as for setts or cobbles. A Sett Paviour laid stone "setts" or "cobbles" for a road surface. A Tar Paviour spread tar and stone chippings for the road surface. Info from www*.rmhh*.co*.uk/occup/ nell PS just googled and there is another website www*.websters-online-dictionary*.org/definition/english/PA/PAVING+BRICK.html which states pavoir is used in French and Dutch to mean paver.

Hi Carol, Do you mean PAVIOUR?? I understand its something to do with the laying of pavements or at least thats what i was told. I also have PAVIOURS in my family tree and also on the census for 1881. Liz

Carol, Are you sure it doesn't say Paviour PAVER / PAVIOUR - laid paving stones Found this extract on a reply to a genealogy query on lancsgen "and thanks to Eric and Dy for their information that a Pavior or Paviour was someone who laid pavers, and that pavoirs are paving bricks or slabs." Emma x

Does anyone know what a Pavoir is or does, one of my rellies is one on 1881 census.