Genealogy Chat

No, North Newington is not in Tai Wan!! and they called themselves cordwainers, but don't tell Jess, because she will be jealous..............(or something) Did you know Jess is emptying her chest freezer? Hope she didn't fall in? Merry

Bloody fascinating lives we all lead, eh? I guess thats in preparation for the exodus?

My cordwainers became shoemakers. One was a Cordwainer apprentice to a shoemaker in a village of about 200 people but eventually became a shoemaker living with his mother and having his own business in a market town close by. I found him leaving a will and all his wordly goods of £35 to the Workhouse Master of the local Workhouse. He never married, and died aged 40. Perhaps the dog poo put any potential brides off. His brother had more sense and became a policeman and escaped from Northamptonshire to Hertfordshire. Heather Momentarily forgot about Norwich!! Janet

I've got a murderess--except she's not really mine-she's my uncle by marriages g gran! does that count? I've also got several hundred miners!!

Oh dear, are you quite sure about the dog poo? My cordwainer made boots for the Gentry on the Isle of Man, cant imagine him messing about with dog poo. I have also just found a dish turner but want to hang on to him for a bit, till I find out what sort of dishes he was turning, and why, in 1714, in the middle of God's last acre. And, ahem, I was too modest to mention this before, but (preen, preen) I DO have four Baronets and a Knight Baronet, but am keeping them too, just wanted to wave them in your faces. Olde Crone

lol you are a pair !! i will be showing off soon ol i have found artists with web sites and a boiler maker lol he should b strong

where did my mesage go lol

it ok i found it i just am a bit of a twitt on here what with all these buttons lol i get there in the end just ignore any waffle

ok then, if I'm allowed to include my gt grannie's step brother, he was a photographer (1891) & one of his daughters a painter of miniatures

just been telling OH about this thread - he said it sounds like a game of Happy families LOL I've got butchers & bakers, but no candlestick makers...

Oh old Crone! I bet you end up related to Merry and Brenda. Meanwhile back down the docks ................. Actually, has ANYONE got a candlestick maker?

Can any of you beat this? I've got: Tinker - Tailor - Soldier - Spy Remember that?! Merry

............................and my 3xg-grandfather made soap and candles (and went bust doing it!!) Merry

Now, why am I not surprised eh? Seeing as people have found this interesting, I shall try to bump up the amusing deaths thread for newbies. Does the rude names one still exist?

Well as an ex shoe shifting truck driver,i can say Northampton is now populated by Italian made shoes,and the odd very small shoe company,all using Italian hides. As for my lot well how many ag labs for a sapper,and then a merchants clerk,Railway Station Master,Coldstream Guard and my final offering Farmer (250 acres of Norfolk) employing ten men and two boys plus 3 household servants. Oh forgot my Master Mariner,he must be worth a bit. Glen

Oh, completely forgot my Incontinent Whore - anyone want her, complete with rubber sheet, presumably? Olde Crone

Glen, the best larger in the world - probably , brewed in the UK by Northamptonians! ...and the small shoe companies are not odd! They are world famous!! And to all of you that doubt it, Northamptonshire IS the home of shoemaking! Great boot and shoe museum in the town centre, been there - its good. ...and what is the nickname of Northampton town Football club?? **anywhere having a pub called the St Crispin will probably have association with shoemaking too - he was the patron saint

I've found a few more of husband's London lot on the census today. As well as the paper stainers, he also has a paper marbler (ooh! eat your heart out, Laurence llewelyn-Bowen), many of the unmarried women are fancy box makers, and I've also found a PLAIN BOX MAKER! Don't know what they were putting in all these boxes, fancy or otherwise! nell

I've got one chap from Spain I don't fancy much. He was called Alfonzo Fernandez IX otherwise known as 'The Slobberer'. Despite being royal he doesn't sound very pleasant. Sue

Hi Heather, My s-i-l comes of a long line of hatters. The family founder rejoiced in the name of Thomas Grain Twight Bays. Lots of his descendants have exotic names too -is that a sign of madness? Some of them branched out -one was a traveller in paper and type,another was a china buyer after serving his time as an ironmonger's assistant, one daughter SAID she was a sailor's wife (but he never seemed to be home on census night) while her sister became a governess and their nephew,young Percy Leopold became a page boy Beverley