Hello Dave, 1/ a palefrenier is a groom, a guy who works with horses, who takes care of them 2/ back to "inspecteur de la publicite des chemins" (with a "s" at the end of "chemin" since "des" is a plural), since we are in 1865 (as you mention it) or before, that guy might be some kind of civil servant in a local administrative area. Since "publicite" is also "the state of what belongs to a public community, of what is of a common use", here "publicite des chemins" would mean that the "chemins" , the ways, the roads of a village are "publics", are belonging to all the inhabitants of a village. Then the "inspecteur" would be the guy who checks that nobody has taken such a road for his own use and that all "chemins publics" remain "publics" indeed... Not sure ! Jean-Paul Marchal <jemarchal@wanadoo.fr> -----Message d'origine----- De : alsace-lorraine-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:alsace-lorraine-bounces@rootsweb.com]De la part de Dave Francis Envoye : mercredi 17 decembre 2008 17:25 A : alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com Objet : [A-L] Another French Occupation Does anyone know what a palfrenier is? My dictionary defines it as a groom, but in this death record I'm looking at, it's used as a profession. I've looked on-line and it appears to has something to do with horses. Thanks in advance. -- Dave Francis, CNJ Santa Cruz, California -- Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALSACE-LORRAINE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Jean-Paul, Thanks. I'm leaning toward a street inspector or maybe a foreman. There are several men in the town employed as road menders, and I guess it's possible that he's the foreman. Dave Jean-Paul Marchal wrote: Hello Dave, 1/ a palefrenier is a groom, a guy who works with horses, who takes care of them 2/ back to "inspecteur de la publicite des chemins" (with a "s" at the end of "chemin" since "des" is a plural), since we are in 1865 (as you mention it) or before, that guy might be some kind of civil servant in a local administrative area. Since "publicite" is also "the state of what belongs to a public community, of what is of a common use", here "publicite des chemins" would mean that the "chemins" , the ways, the roads of a village are "publics", are belonging to all the inhabitants of a village. Then the "inspecteur" would be the guy who checks that nobody has taken such a road for his own use and that all "chemins publics" remain "publics" indeed... Not sure ! Jean-Paul Marchal [1]<jemarchal@wanadoo.fr> -----Message d'origine----- De : [2]alsace-lorraine-bounces@rootsweb.com [[3]mailto:alsace-lorraine-bounces@rootsweb.com]De la part de Dave Francis Envoye : mercredi 17 decembre 2008 17:25 A : [4]alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com Objet : [A-L] Another French Occupation Does anyone know what a palfrenier is? My dictionary defines it as a groom, but in this death record I'm looking at, it's used as a profession. I've looked on-line and it appears to has something to do with horses. Thanks in advance. -- Dave Francis, CNJ Santa Cruz, California -- Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: [5]http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [6]ALSACE-LORRAINE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Dave Francis, CNJ Santa Cruz, California References 1. mailto:jemarchal@wanadoo.fr 2. mailto:alsace-lorraine-bounces@rootsweb.com 3. mailto:alsace-lorraine-bounces@rootsweb.com 4. mailto:alsace-lorraine@rootsweb.com 5. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm 6. mailto:ALSACE-LORRAINE-request@rootsweb.com