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Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 8 531 Send Message	Sandra B	Report	23 Mar 2006 10:03
	I shouldn't be let loose on the Norfolk archives, my brain is numb with Jearys..What are Cordswainer and coltbreakers please.
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 8 531 Send Message	Sandra B	Report	23 Mar 2006 10:09
	Thank you,,,
Member Since: September 2005 Posts: 2 518 Send Message	Janet in Yorkshire	Report	23 Mar 2006 10:46
	Sandra, Cordwainers made shoes. Coltbreakers trained/schooled young horses. One of my rellies was a Norfolk horsebreaker, who then travelled up the old drovers roads, taking horses to horsefairs all over the country. He eventually settled in Yorkshire. jay
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 8 531 Send Message	Sandra B	Report	23 Mar 2006 10:56
	Thank you Janet, that us lot..........shoemakers,amazing how many generations are in it........
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 20 615 Send Message	Heather	Report	23 Mar 2006 11:04
	Norwich and Northampton used to be THE shoe making centres of the country.
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 8 531 Send Message	Sandra B	Report	23 Mar 2006 11:12
	Thanks, sorry Heather ,you must be fed up of this Jeary family.........Looked up my Samuel Jeary and found my name as a criminal in America.............I get about......No stone unturned.....Will get on Ancestry........