A Cordwainer was a high class shoe-maker using "Cordovan", a very high-class, genteel, fine quality [expensive !] leather from Cordovan in Spain. Bye the bye, a cobbler is not a shoe/boot maker ~ he is a shoe/boot repairer/mender, hence shoemaker & cobbler. A Chapman is/was a travelling door-to-door salesman of trinkets, ribbons, pins & the like ~ a pedlar or in Yorkshire dialect ~ a Higgler. Geoff Lewin BLAXALL [Hextable, Kent, S.E. England] NWKentFam.Hist.Society #3593. http://GeoffBlaxall.tripod.com All mail protected by Norton AV.

Hi Sure a Shoemaker would do repairs but a cobbler who only does repairs can't make shoes my Grandfather was a shoemaker he had a shop where they lived & I know that my father said he repaired shoes/boots. Regards Janice ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Lewin BLAXALL" <Geoff-Blaxall@beeb.net> To: <ENG-CAMBRIDGESHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 11:14 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-CAMB] Trades > A Cordwainer was a high class shoe-maker using "Cordovan", a very high-class, genteel, fine quality [expensive !] leather from Cordovan in Spain. > > Bye the bye, a cobbler is not a shoe/boot maker ~ he is a shoe/boot repairer/mender, hence shoemaker & cobbler. > > A Chapman is/was a travelling door-to-door salesman of trinkets, ribbons, pins & the like ~ a pedlar or in Yorkshire dialect ~ a Higgler. > > Geoff Lewin BLAXALL [Hextable, Kent, S.E. England] > NWKentFam.Hist.Society #3593. http://GeoffBlaxall.tripod.com > All mail protected by Norton AV. > > > > ==== ENG-CAMBRIDGESHIRE Mailing List ==== > . >