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Re: Cordwinder?
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 15 April 18 10:26 BST (UK) »
I believe that cordwinder is a bastardisation of the French cordonnier. It means bootmaker. I can attest to that on the basis of census records of at least one individual at one point being referred to as cordwinder and at an another as a bootmaker.

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Re: Cordwinder?
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 27 April 19 08:05 BST (UK) »
FWIW an ancestor from the Channel Islands was listed as Occupation "cordwainer" in the 1851 census and "cord winder" in the 1861 census.

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Re: Cordwinder?
« Reply #11 on: Saturday 27 April 19 21:58 BST (UK) »
Well the Cord in Cordwainer is a corruption of Cordoba,or Cordovan as in Cordovan leather from Córdoba.
Cordonnier is also a shoemaker  in French as verseaumoineau says.
So he could be a shoe maker .
But might be a cord winder as he is among mariners.
Viktoria.( modified to recognise Verseaumoineau’s post.)


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