Could an opifex be a tailor

[g eli]

I have a George Norman an opifex being the guarantor of a wedding licence. I also have the burial of a George Norman a tailor.
Is it possible that they are the same person, In the licence the groom was described as a tonsor, later he was described as a barber.

[CaroleW]

Have you tried Googling it?

[osprey]

What's the date of the licence? Is it possible that part of it is in Latin? Tonsor is barber, and opifex is a craftsman.

[RJ_Paton]

Opifex is a Latin word meaning artisan or manufacturer and referring to a worker who created something. The word is derived from the Latin words opus ("work" or "thing") and facio ("to make");

according to wikipedia

[manukarik]

Is there anything before opifex which might narrow down the type of worker or craftsman that might strengthen the link to tailor?

[g eli]

Thank you everyone for your replies. I had googled the word opifex but it seemed to me to be too wide a description, that is opifex is a craftsman of some sort, I thought a tailor would have not have been so loosely described, which was the reason for my question.
It just read Geo Norman opifex

[GR2]

Opifex can be used to mean a surgeon. That would tie in with him being described as a tonsor (barber) - a barber-surgeon who let blood and drew teeth as well as cutting hair and shaving beards.

[mazi]

To my mind, as the guarantor of payment of the bond it is his status in society rather than his occupation that is needed.

Like getting your passport photo certified, by a magistrate, law enforcement officer, minister in holy orders, etc.

Mike

[Rena]

I have plenty of old genealogy documents, but none are written in Latin. 

The only church that I've been in that uses the old Latin language is the Roman Catholic church.

To have a trade means that a father paid for a master tailor to accept his son as an apprentice.  Tailors apprentices are known to have started at a very young age.   Only rich people could afford to be measured for clothes.

If you didn't have land or a well paid trade you were poor and the poor wore handed down clothes