While scannig through some old apprenticelists for Edinburgh, Scotland saw two trades that puzzled me 1. Currier 2. Cordinor Had always thought Currier was somthing to do with horses or printing but looked it up so am sharing these definitions with the list: 1. http://www.maybole.org/home/pettit/currier.htm 2.http://www.standrewschurch.btinternet.co.uk/cordiner_Trade.htm Would never have got the second meaning and am wondering if it only applied to Scotland. Lauraine

Hi Lauraine, There are many trades from the 1800's and early 1900's, in both the U.K. and North America that I'm not familiar with. Up until Age 9, I lived on small farms, and then we moved to a house in the next town. My father's only trade was that, after serving in WW II, he became an appliance repairman, and was a backyard mechanic. Later he went to college nights and got an office job. But, on that one small farm we lived with my father's grandmother and his disabled uncle. As a 9-year-old, he had a terrible accident. He ran in front of a 5-ton truck and it ran over his leg. He lost it. I don't know when he learned how to build / create "artificial limbs," but he started making his own. Probably, when I was 10 or 11, my aunt would take my sister and I (and her young son) into Downtown Boston to visit her husband. He was working in a little shop on the 2nd floor of a building on Bromfield Street. In the 1950's, the "artificial limbs" were made of -- wood and leather. And, I can still remember the aroma of the wood and leather being worked on - in that shop ! I don't know if my cousin has any pictures of his father's "artificial leg." (full leg) But, his father lived into the 1980's and was buried with his "leg." Even though he had built it, it was part of him. I don't remember if I've told this story before. But, when my sister and I were pre-schoolers and living in that farmhouse, our great-uncle would spend a lot of time with us. And, when we wanted to sit on his lap, we would go over and "knock" on each leg -- to see which leg we wanted to sit on ! :o) Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) List Administrator P.S. My father's uncle married my mother's sister, so they were both my uncle and aunt and my great-uncle and great-aunt. And their son was both my father's first-cousin and my first-cousin. P.S.2 Slightly off-topic is a story on the news yesterday. A man with .2. "artificial hands" went into a bank and wanted to cash a check. He didn't have an account in that bank and the teller "insisted" that he had to provide them with a "fingerprint." He insisted on talking to the Manager - who also insisted that he need to be "fingerprinted." I know "artificial limbs" have - come a long way ! But ... ----- Original Message ----- From: <syrnick@mts.net> To: <can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 1:29 PM Subject: [CAN-USA-MIG] Trades > While scannig through some old apprenticelists for Edinburgh, Scotland saw > two trades that puzzled me > > 1. Currier > 2. Cordinor > > Had always thought Currier was somthing to do with horses or printing but > looked it up so am sharing these definitions with the list: > > 1. http://www.maybole.org/home/pettit/currier.htm > > 2.http://www.standrewschurch.btinternet.co.uk/cordiner_Trade.htm > Lauraine > > >