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From: "Ann C Brennan" <>
Subject: Re: GENIRE-D Digest V99 #328:Shoe Makers
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 22:07:00 -0400


Please help someone who is not familiar w/GENIRE Digest. What is it & what
does it offer?

Ann Brennan
wrote in message ...
>I ran into the same problem as on some of his papers my gf said he was a
>shoe maker; found him on the 1920 Census where he stated he was a "shoe
>laster"-this is person who puts the upper part of the shoe together with
the
>rest. I don't know if there were any actual shoe makers per se. You might
try
>under "Ireland-Guilds" to see if there was any training in Ireland for shoe
>makers-I think by the latter part of the 19th Century most shoes were
>factory-rather than hand made. Edward Loftus <>
>

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