CORDWAINER occupation

[William C Cotgreave]

can anyone tell me what it is??
thanks bill

[Walter Crowe]

ancient name for shoemaker
cheers WRC

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[Bob Bilotta]

A cordwainer was a boot or shoe maker
a worker of cordovan leather

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[Matt Parker]

I believe a Cordwainer was a person who makes barrels...

m_parker

[Hugh Prescott]

At 06:16 PM 2/12/97 -0500, you wrote:
>I believe a Cordwainer was a person who makes barrels...
>
> m_parker
>

Sorry, thats a cooper

Cordwainers make cords, ropes etc.

Hugh

[MARIANA B RUGGLES]

Cordwainer....a worker in cordovan leather
Source
"The American College Dictionary" 1970
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[Gordon Fisher]

Or, later on, a shoemaker. See, for example, the Compact Oxford Dictionary,
New Edition, 1991. Webster's Ninth New Collefiate Dictionary,
Merriam-Webster, 1991, has: "cordwainer ... 1. *archaic*: a worker in
cordovan leather 2.: SHOEMAKER." The capital letters used here (in the
dictionary) indicate that the definition of cordwainer under 2. is the same
as that under shoemaker. This sort of thing was evidently done by the
lexicographers to save space, and for such a complete dictionary, the book
is indeed of convenient size. (The asterisks around "archaic" indicate that
this word was in italics in the dictionary.)

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[Chris Moore]

My wife's 2nd-great-grandfather listed his occupation in the 1850
census as cordwainer, so I looked it up. The American College
Dictionary states that a cordwainer is one who works cordovan leather.
Cordovan leather, according to the same dictionary, is a type of leather
developed in Cordoba, Spain, and was originally goatskin, but has come
to include split horsehide. Barrels . . cords . . ropes . . (mumble,
mumble, Harrummph!)

Chris Moore

[Peter N. Biddle]

According to my sources, a medieval Cordwainer is a shoe-maker. I have
references from the 1600's which use the terms seemingly interchangeably.
In deeds I have references to "William Biddle of Bishopsgate street,
London, shoemaker" (1667) and "William Biddle, Citizen and Cordwainer of
London" (1678).

Peter
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[Leonard M. Keane]

In <970212231...@onyx.bcl.net> Hugh Prescott <hu...@BCL.NET>
writes:

>
>At 06:16 PM 2/12/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>I believe a Cordwainer was a person who makes barrels...
>>
>> m_parker
>>
>Sorry, thats a cooper
>
>Cordwainers make cords, ropes etc.
>
>Hugh

No again! They are leather workers.
Len.

[Leonard M. Keane]

In <970212231...@oz.plymouth.edu> Matt Parker

<m_pa...@OZ.PLYMOUTH.EDU> writes:
>
>I believe a Cordwainer was a person who makes barrels...
>
> m_parker

No, a barrelmaker is a cooper; a cordwainer is a leather worker, often
a shoemaker.
Len.