Jo, Forgive my ignorance but at least I'm willing to learn something new...what is a Fustian Cutter? Kimberley ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josi" <seosimhin@btopenworld.com> To: <IRL-CAVAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 7:44 AM Subject: [IRL-CAVAN] FUSTIAN CUTTER > > Looking for a Michael Geoghegan a Fustian Cutter > who legged it from the 2nd of Foot...born 1806 Ireland. > Someone once told me that emails over 50 words are seldom read > Hence the brevity > Thank you > Jo > -------------------------------- > Visit my newsletter website at: > www.btinternet.com/~finty/ > --------------------------------- > >

Fustian Cutter / Weaver: A person who lifted and cut the threads in the making of Fustian, formerly a kind of coarse cloth made of cotton and flax. Now a thick, twilled cotton cloth with a short pile or nap, a kind of cotton velvet. A long thin knife was inserted into the loops and the threads cut as it was pulled through, stretched between rollers. The cloth was then brushed to raise the pile. Fustian is the old name for corduroy / A weaver of Fustian ----- Original Message ----- From: Kimberley Walters To: IRL-CAVAN-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 8:57 AM Subject: Re: [IRL-CAVAN] FUSTIAN CUTTER Jo, Forgive my ignorance but at least I'm willing to learn something new...what is a Fustian Cutter? Kimberley ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josi" <seosimhin@btopenworld.com> To: <IRL-CAVAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 7:44 AM Subject: [IRL-CAVAN] FUSTIAN CUTTER > > Looking for a Michael Geoghegan a Fustian Cutter > who legged it from the 2nd of Foot...born 1806 Ireland. > Someone once told me that emails over 50 words are seldom read > Hence the brevity > Thank you > Jo > -------------------------------- > Visit my newsletter website at: > www.btinternet.com/~finty/ > --------------------------------- > >