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A Cordainer?
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Jayne | Report | 8 May 2006 12:45 |
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Hope someone can help. I have a marriage off familyhistoryonline website where the man's status is cordainer, anyone got any ideas what this means. His wife was listed as a minor. the marriage was in 1767. Any clues or advise? Jayne |
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Zoe | Report | 8 May 2006 12:46 |
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I'd guess it's probably Cordwainer - which is a nother name for a boot and shoe maker |
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Dawnieher3headaches | Report | 8 May 2006 12:46 |
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Cordwainer is a shoemaker think it comes from spanish for leather or something. We have them in family as well. |
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Rachel | Report | 8 May 2006 12:47 |
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Do you mean a cordwainer? This is a shoemaker/bootmaker. |
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The Ego | Report | 8 May 2006 12:49 |
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my great great grandfather started off as a cordwainer even though his father was termed a shoemaker,and he later ended up running a drapery business,some had cordwainer apprenticeships and are listed as such. |
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Jayne | Report | 8 May 2006 12:52 |
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I wondered if it meant cordwainer, probably just a transcription error, but as it was under 'status' I wondered if it was something new I'd never come across before. Thanks for all your help Jayne |
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East Point | Report | 8 May 2006 12:59 |
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A lot of my ancestors were Cordwainers (shoemakers). Stella |
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Jennifer | Report | 8 May 2006 13:47 |
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Probably the person who wrote it did not kmow the difference between the spelling and pronunciation, it is spelt cordwainer but pronounced cordiner. Like so many of our words, spelt with letters that are not pronounced. Jennifer |
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Christine in Herts | Report | 8 May 2006 14:18 |
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I have read that the word is an English corruption of Cordovan... Leather from Cordoba was (and probably is) regarded as very fine; so a cordwainer was an upmarket shoe-maker, working in high quality leather. Christine |
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Lynn | Report | 8 May 2006 14:27 |
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I discovered an ancestor on the 1841, who was listed as a cordwainer. On the 1851, he was a shoemaker, so this has confirmed my idea thatt they were the same thing. Thanks! Lynn:) |
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