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   Jenny M Benson to All   
   Boots and Shoes   
   02 Jan 22 15:46:20   
   
   From: NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk   
      
   I have frequently come across both Bootmakers and Shoemakers (and maybe   
   sometimes the different words describing the same person) but to-day, in   
   the 1881 Census, I found a man who described himself as a Shoemaker and   
   his wife as a Boot Binder.  It made me wonder whether shoes do not also   
   have to be bound - whatever the process may be.   
      
   --   
   Jenny M Benson   
   Wrexham, UK   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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