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Re: Cork cutting
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 31 October 04 20:31 GMT (UK) »
A bit of information you could do without is that cork comes from a variety of oak tree! Oaks are of the species Quercus from which the word cork is derived.
Southern or Southan [Hereford , Monmouthshire & Glos], Jenkins, Meredith and Morgan [Monmouthshire and Glos.], Murrill, Damary, Damry, Ray, Lawrence [all Middx. & London], Nethway from Kenn or Yatton. Also Riley and Lyons in South Africa and Riley from St. Helena.
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Re: Cork cutting
« Reply #19 on: Monday 01 November 04 12:02 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Hackstaple.

For a LOT of information you could do without, see this link about the potential threat to cork oaks posed by synthetic bottle stoppers.

If saving oak trees doesn't do anything for you, maybe the cuddly lynx will tug at your heart-strings.  Buy cork!

http://www.panda.org/news_facts/newsroom/news.cfm?uNewsId=4802&uLangId=1

Cheers

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Re: Cork cutting
« Reply #20 on: Monday 01 November 04 12:06 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for that Tim. I knew that these people had a problem (I'd glimpsed them at work once or twice in the past) but was ignorant of the knock-on effects

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Re: Cork cutting
« Reply #21 on: Wednesday 03 November 04 21:42 GMT (UK) »
Glad to see "corkcutting" is getting some attention again.  Yes, most of the cork in England came from Portugal but by the 1880s it was coming from Spain, and Algeria too.  The very first imports in the seventeenth century were from France and Spain.

Let me have your corkcutting ancestor's details for my index PLEASE.  Over 700 names on it now.

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Ball(s), Mewett, Keegan, Stoner, Newman,
Thompson, Rolfe,Cullum, Bayley (Bailey)
Trade of CORKCUTTING


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Do you have corkcutter ancestors?
« Reply #22 on: Monday 08 November 04 19:00 GMT (UK) »
If you have found any ancestors who were cork cutters I would love to have their details for my index.  I'd like to know which decade(s) they were working in and where.  Also, if anyone just comes across corkcutters while census searching I would really appreciate the details.

I have over 700 names so far.  If anyone wants me to search the index, just let me know.

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Ball(s), Mewett, Keegan, Stoner, Newman,
Thompson, Rolfe,Cullum, Bayley (Bailey)
Trade of CORKCUTTING

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Re: Do you have corkcutter ancestors?
« Reply #23 on: Monday 08 November 04 22:43 GMT (UK) »
I do not have Cork Cutters in my family history, however as the Glamorganshire 1861 has an occupation search facility I entered Cork Cutters and there were 8 matches:

Glamorgan Family History Society 1861 Census CD

4031 011 067  WOMANBY STREET 10      CONNOLLY WILLIAM           SV M  31    -   LONDON   
                 
4073 047 171  19 BOWRINGTON ST       LOVERSIDE HENRY            BO -  26    GLS GLOUCESTER     
             
4031 011 067  WOMANBY STREET 10      MILTON JAMES               SO U  16    GLA CARDIFF         
           
4103 064 027  WILLIAMS STREET 22     MURPHY THOMAS FRANCIS      SO U  22    CMN LAUGHARNE       
           
4101 057 023  CALVERT STREET 18      RIDLER GEORGE              SO U  18    GLA SWANSEA         
           
4101 057 023  CALVERT STREET 18      RIDLER GEORGE              HD M  41    GLA SWANSEA         
           
4101 057 023  CALVERT STREET 18      RIDLER JAMES               SO U  14    GLA SWANSEA           
         
4105 017 137  BETHESDA ST.7          WILLIAMS WILLIAM           HD M  76    GLS BERKLEY HEATH               

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Re: Do you have corkcutter ancestors?
« Reply #24 on: Tuesday 09 November 04 13:08 GMT (UK) »
Thanks very much Jen, That a nice bunch for the index.

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Ball(s), Mewett, Keegan, Stoner, Newman,
Thompson, Rolfe,Cullum, Bayley (Bailey)
Trade of CORKCUTTING

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Re: Do you have corkcutter ancestors?
« Reply #25 on: Friday 12 November 04 23:43 GMT (UK) »
hi corkcutter
           
        I have found a corkcutter for you.           
 
 Thomas Edward Cottier born about 1844 in Liverpool. He is listed on the 1871 census living at 3 Union Place Hulme Lancashire
1881 census living at 30 Cross st Hulme Lancashire
1891 census living at 17 Newton St Hulme Lancashire
1901 census living at Prestwich Union Workhouse listed as a pauper corkcutter

this person was my mother in laws grandfather i dont know anything else about him yet, if i can find any more info on him regarding his occupation i will let you know 

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Quirot - Jersey C/I, Lancashire
Gouyette - France, Jersey C/I
Hall - Northampton, Lancashire
Buckley - Oldham Lancashire - Saddleworth Yorkshire
Leeson - Northampton
Bisson - Jersey C/I
Eastwood - Oldham, Shaw, Royton, Middleton Lancashire
Mayall - Oldham Lancashire
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Re: Do you have corkcutter ancestors?
« Reply #26 on: Saturday 13 November 04 12:53 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for that Sal.  Manchester was a really big corkcutting area.  Poor chap probably got made redundant when machine cutting took on in a big way.
Ball(s), Mewett, Keegan, Stoner, Newman,
Thompson, Rolfe,Cullum, Bayley (Bailey)
Trade of CORKCUTTING