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Occupation - Corn Chandler
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Melba64 | Report | 12 Dec 2003 19:23 |
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My gr grandfather was a Corn Dealer and later Hay and Straw Merchant and he lived in Salford/Manchester area in the mid - late 1800's. Mel |
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Bob | Report | 12 Dec 2003 01:05 |
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Have a look at this from the Old Baily...It gives an insight into the scope of the corn chandlery business in the 18c http://hri.shef.ac.uk/db/bailey/gtrial.jsp?id=t17950218-30&orig=k&s_hil=corn%20chandler#hil |
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CelticShiv | Report | 11 Dec 2003 22:55 |
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Hi Stan thanks for that, so carman and corn chandler could relate then. cheers |
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Stan | Report | 11 Dec 2003 22:47 |
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Hi Siobhan A chandler was a dealer. Corn would be required even in central London. Don't forget that for most people the only way to get eggs would be to keep your own hens in the back yard. What would you feed the hens on? In addition, some of the corn he bought and sold could have been turned into flour in London as well - it wasn't all necessarily brought in as bagged flour, and there were steam-powered mills and tide mills to do the job. Corn was the generic name for wheat, barley and oats (not maize as we might think today). He could have sold barley for the beer, or oats for the thousands of horses people kept in the City - gentlemen for their carriages, draymen for the deliveries. Best wishes Stan |
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CelticShiv | Report | 11 Dec 2003 22:42 |
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It is funny that he goes from being a corn chandler then to a carman. |
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Carol | Report | 11 Dec 2003 22:34 |
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My trusty Longmans dictionary states Corn Chandler - retail dealer in corn |
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CelticShiv | Report | 11 Dec 2003 22:31 |
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I have today recieved the birth certificate of my Great Great Grandmother and her fathers occupation is a Corn Chandler. Does anyone have any idea what this is, I have never heard that before, I doubt it has anything to do with corn, as he lived in the city of london. LOL |
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