Shoemakers, Bootmakers, Saddler and Harness Makers

[robsal]

Hi my 2nd and 3rd grandfathers were cordwainers.

William Salisbury born Whepstead Suffolk 1803-1838
William Salisbury born Bury St. Edmunds 1832-1879

Hope this is of some use.

Robert

[dianat]

If you are still developing your database of Shoemakers from the 19th Century, may I please add my ggg grandfather John Robinson who was a Shoemaker in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.  He was born in 1789 and died in Cheshunt in 1831.  I have no idea where he was born and even who his parents were.  He married Sarah Hackice in 1811 in London and on the Church marriage record, it says they were both residents of Lambeth.   I know there was a huge family of Robinsons living at that time in Cheshunt and they were mainly Coach Builders, so whether my John Robinson was related to them is the question that is difficult to solve.

Kind regards
Diana Terry (Tasmania Australia)

[Capster]

Hi. According to Ireland Census 1901 my great grandfather was a Harness Maker and his son also.
McCarthy of Co Kerry.

[GrahamSimons]

William Vazie

b unknown (would love to know, I suspect links to Alston)
m 1720 Hexham Northumberland
Saddler in Hexham
d 1769 Hexham


His grandson Robert Vazie
b 1758 Hexham
d June 1830
Civil Engineer but was granted a Patent for Saddles No 1931 in 1793; advertised in The Times as manufactured by Edward Jee, Cannon-street, Birmingham and sold by Stanley, Green and Co, Rupert-street, Coventry-street, Birmingham.

As far as I can tell the Vazie surname (with this spelling) is extinct in Northern England

[pet50ite]

Hi,
My Gr Gr grandfather James Cowan is listed on his son's wedding certificate as a saddler.
James Cowan, 18(?) Clonliffe Avenue, Dublin. father James Cowan, saddler,
married Sophie Duffy in 1879.
He is also listed as saddler on his own marriage record to Mary Anne Addi in Dublin (Upper Sackville street) 1851 and his son Hugh's baptismal record also in Dublin (Mary Street)1857

[Janice123]

Hi,
I have a John Kidson who is a shoemaker in Neenton Shropshire in 1851. I also found a reference in the Shropshire Archives  referring to a Thomas Kidson on Netchwood Common, Shropshire (Near by). Dated 1762 it talks of a Thomas Kidson, Shoemaker,  leasing a property on Netchwood common. It reads as follows
20th June 1762, Indenture between Frances Canning of Cambrey in Flanders and Thomas Kidson of Netchwood Common in Ditton Priors, Shoemaker. Lease for shop and house for three lives on Netchwood Common.
I also have an ancestor called George Wenham Davies who with his brother William ran a boot and shoe manufacturing business in Manchester from around 1879 .
Best wishes Jan

[confused73]

Hi.  Quite a few of my ancesters were harness and saddle makers.
 Friend Bottle saddle maker and master harness makerabt1836-1880
 Friend Bottle harness maker,saddler journeyman.1812-1891
 William Iddenden Bottle harness maker1782-1853
   Best wishes llandinam

[walkerscott]

hi kevin,
it was interesting reading your message.
do you by any chance know of a john crocker, who would be about 75 today, of street, somerset. i believe his family were involved with the shoe business? 
he was a fit and handsome young man, light brownish hair, green or blue eyes ...
any information leading to his history or family would be welcome.
john

[terryjd]

John,

I have a fair amount of information on Daniel, (if you don't already have it). I am not sure if you can PM here?

Regards - Terry

GtGt Grandfather: Hugh Quinn 1809 Co Tyrone - shoe maker or boot maker in Finsbury, middx, in the '50's & 60's.
Step GtGt Grandfather: Daniel Dansey 1827 Finsbury Middx. Shoe maker in Finsbury.

Did these folks actually make boots and shoes or, like modern times, just repair them?   john.