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From: "John/Sherry Quade" <>
Subject: Re: [WR] Upholder
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 15:15:24 -0600
References: <001101c209ae$92dfdfa0$b9caf9cc@oemcomputer>

Thank you for the explanation. Always a pleasure to expand my mental
horizons!

Sherry Quade

----- Original Message -----
From: "Calvin Wright" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 2:54 PM
Subject: [WR] Upholder


> Upholder is a Middle English word for upholsterer. However, it meant much
more than upholstery. An Upholder was in the business of making and/or
selling cabinets, furniture and any kind of home furnishings.
>
> The famous furniture maker Thomas Chippendale was an Upholder (Chippendale
is not related to us).
>
> In the City of London, the approximate square mile business district, it
was illegal to conduct business unless you were a member of a Livery Company
such as the Worshipfull Company of Upholders as were my ancestors.
>
> Many London city officials were chosen from these Livery Companies.
Another family link to my ancestors in old London was John Cowan of The
Waxchandlers Company. In 1837 he was elected Lord Mayor of London. He
officially welcomed the newly crowned Queen Victoria to the City of London.
>
> For some of you with "brick walls" in London, there is information about
many Livery Companies along with names you might check out. There are other
Wrights listed as Upholders that were apparently no relation to us.
>
>
> Calvin James Wright
>
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>
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>
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