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« on: Sunday 05 April 09 22:15 BST (UK) »
Hi, could anyone help with deciphering this occupation from the 1841 England census, please? By 1851, he'd become a shoemaker.

Many thanks!

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« Reply #1 on: Sunday 05 April 09 22:17 BST (UK) »
Coardwainer

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« Reply #2 on: Sunday 05 April 09 22:18 BST (UK) »
Looks like "Coardwainer" to me  :)

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Stevens (Devizes, Calne, Wootton Bassett): Hunt (Milford/Lymington, Calne): Moore/Rudland (Ipswich): Whitlock (Pitton & Farley): Hayter (Whiteparish)

O'Reilly (Sheffield, Flint, L'pool, Co. Longford): Foxton (Sheffield, Northallerton, Thirsk): Spragg (St. Teath, Delabole, Pengelly): Stabb (Berry Pomeroy)

Gore (Newbury, Wigan): Hawkins (Gt Bedwyn/Hungerford): Massey/Wallis (Shalbourne): Mildenhall (Ogbourne): Smith/Lilley (Nhants): Wernham (Chieveley): Woosnam (Mont./Salop): Yaldwyn (Blackdown)

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« Reply #3 on: Sunday 05 April 09 22:18 BST (UK) »
It's a badly spelt "Cordwainer", i.e. shoemaker  :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwainer

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« Reply #4 on: Sunday 05 April 09 22:19 BST (UK) »

Cordiner or Cordwainer     A shoemaker. Also a person who worked with Cordovan, a special soft leather from Spain.

mab
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Inishowen: Meenamullaghan (Big Hill), Foffenagh (Rock), Illies and area...mainly McCallion, Doherty, Bradley, Grant, Devlin
Kilmacrenan: Gortnacorrib....Bonner
Scotland: Bonar, Boner Bonner etc
Conwal: Kirkstown.....Toner, Parke
Derry City: Bonner, McGowan, McGilloway, McElwee, Bradley
Omagh: Bradley
Fanad Penninsular, Donegal.....McBride, Friel, Fielty
Sligo: McGowan

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« Reply #5 on: Sunday 05 April 09 22:20 BST (UK) »
I second fourth that ;D
Booth, Hornsby, Northumberland & Durham
Jackson, Northumberland & Durham
Douthwaite, N Yorks & Durham
Geldard, N Yorks
Ward, Cheshire & W Yorks
Swallow, Boid, W Yorks
Kirby, Lowe, Studholme, Geary, Emery, Baldock

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« Reply #6 on: Sunday 05 April 09 22:24 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Forthefamily on Sunday 05 April 09 22:19 BST (UK)

Cordiner or Cordwainer     A shoemaker. Also a person who worked with Cordovan, a special soft leather from Spain.

mab

Is that where the name comes from!! Well, I never, you learn something new every day.

I agree with everyone else by the way.

Jen :)
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ESS: Howe French Cant Annis Noakes Turner Marshall Makerow Duck Spurden Harmony
SCT: Howe Shaw Raitt Milne Forsyth Birnie Crichton Duncan McBeath Daniel Hay Robertson Jaffrey Smith McDonald Alexander Craighead
NRY: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
WES; Dickenson Jackson Ewbank Waller
STS: White
SRY: Knight
DUR: Smith Littlefair
HAM: Williams Grose Lush Venson

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« Reply #7 on: Sunday 05 April 09 22:34 BST (UK) »
Many thanks, everyone, that's really helpful, and will save me from another late night attempt at deciphering!
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