[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Schattschneider

Günther Böhm GHBoehm at ish.de
Thu Jun 1 15:49:18 PDT 2006


Robert Norenberg schrieb:

>Would anyone know if there is a Polish equivalent for
>the name Schattschneider(Schachtschneider)? I am
>looking through some church records(Jezow) and this
>name should be here but isn't. I almost missed the
>name Hartwig as it is written as Twardowski so it's
>possible I'm missing Schattschneider as well because
>of a name change.
>

Hello Robert,
a Schachtschneider was a manufacturer of wooden shovels, bushels, 
moulds, baking troughs etc.
trough = koryto,
bushel = korzec,
mould = niecka,
shovel = lopata.

Guenther




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