From: jja@blueyonder.co.uk   
      
   On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 15:46:20 +0000, Jenny M Benson   
    wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   My 2x great aunt, living in Glasgow, had her occupation described as   
   "Boot Top Fitter" in the 1881 and 1891 censuses.  She gave her ages as   
   16 and 25  respectively.  In 1893 she married a man with the same   
   occupation.  After marriage she stopped working, but I see that in the   
   1911 census her husband's occupation had become "Boot Top Cutter".   
      
   Was this promotion? Possibly. More skill was presumably required to   
   cut, rather than to fit.   
      
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