what jobs did a flesher, a cordiner, a fletcher, a cooper, amerchant and a soutar do?

Question

thank you everyone. got them all now.

Answer 1

A flesher skins game animals, and prepares them for the tanner.

I THINK a cordiner stacks firewood for sale. (but I am not sure of this one)

A fletcher attached the feathers to the back of an arrow.

A cooper made barrels.

Of course, a merchant sells things.

I do not know what a soutar is.

Answer 2

Cooper is a common English [Anglo-Saxon] trade name. A Cooper is a person who makes wooden barrels.

Probably the most famous English Cooper by name, is Henry Cooper, English Heavy Weight Boxing champ, who once had Muhammed Ali down on the canvas. Unfortunatly not for the count of three. A good effort never-the-less.

Fletcher is also an English [Anglo-Saxon] trade name. A person called Fletcher makes arrows for the Long-bow.
[A Bowyer makes the actualy bow itself].

Flesher is probably something to do with the butchery trade. A cordiner is probably a person who makes ropes.

As for amerchant and soutar...your guess is as good as mine.

All of the words you asked about, FLESHER, CORDINER, FLETCHER, COOPER & SOUTAR. Are English [Anglo-Saxon] surnames. Not sure what amerchant is, unless it is a typographical error for 'a merchant'.

As if often the case, Anglo-Saxon surnames are associated with trades. If this is not the case, then they are usually associated with places or an indication of a place. For example, the now famous English name BECKHAM. No, it's not a mis-spelling of PECKHAM in south London. Beckham means a small hamlet/village next to the beck or brook. Or something like that.

Parton - as in Dolly Parton is an English [Anglo-Saxon] place name - a small town up in the North West of England, also another one further north over the Scottish border.

I suggest you check out English and Anglo-Saxon names to find the meanings for the words you have given.

Answer 3

A flesher scrapes hides which will then be tanned or prepared as parchment.

A cordiner, codwainer or corvisser was a leather-worker, making belts, sheaths, scabbards, shoes, pouches and so on.

A fletcher attaches the fletchings to an arrow.

A cooper makes barrels, tubs, casks and buckets.

A mechant imports and exports a particular commodity - he might specialise in spices, cloth, silk, timber or sugar.

A soutar is another term for a cobbler - someone who repaired old shoes.

You have not asked about a "gongfermer" - the worst job in history. He was the man who came round to your house with a spade and cart whenever the cesspit in your back garden was full, dug it all out into the cart and took it away for manuring fields. You had to pay him for doing it, but you probably didn't shake hands.

Answer 4

A flesher was a butcher,a cordiner was a maker of leather shoes and boots. A soutar was a shoemaker or cobbler,from the Latin' sutor' shoemaker. A fletcher was responsible for the equipping of the bowmen, a medieval supply officer. A cooper was, and still is, a maker of barrels and casks, often for a distiler.

Answer 5

A flesher removes flesh from hides for tanning. A cordiner or cordwainer makes shoes (a cobbler repairs them), a fletcher makes arrows by putting the feather fletching on them, a cooper makes barrels, kegs, buckets, a merchant sells items...never heard of soutar. Do you mean a suiter, who is courting someone for marrage?

Answer 6

I think you mean "cordwainer" which was a leather worker, primarily someone who made leather shoes. The fletcher made arrows and a cooper made barrels. Merchants were entrepreneurs. I've never encountered the term "soutar" so I cannot help you there.

Professions and occupations account for the majority of English surnames, with geographical origins accounting for the next largest number.

Answer 7

Cordiner is the Scottish spelling of cordwainer, which has some origin in the Spanish town of Cordoba, famous for quality leather. He was a craftsman in good quality leather, but the word came to be used for any leather worker or shoemaker.

Answer 8

I know a fletcher made arrows and a cooper made barrels. The others I can't help with, sorry.

Answer 9

butcher

maker of fine shoes

arrow maker - la fleche in Fr

barrel maker

tradesman in all sorts of stuff, probably a bit posher than the other

another shoemaker - esp scottish (Souter's wife decorated St Crispin's alter in the 3 Estaites by Lindsay of the Mount) st Crispin was patron Saint of shoemakers

Answer 10

flesher
English: occupational name for a butcher. In part it is from Middle English flescher, an agent derivative of Old English fl?sc ‘flesh’, ‘meat’; in part a reduced form of Middle English fleschewere, Old English fl?scheawere, in which the second element is an agent noun from heawan ‘to hew or cut’.

CORDINER
Originally a term used for a person who worked with Cordovan, a special soft leather from Spain. Later it became the term used for a shoemaker.
CORDWAINER
See CORDINER.


fletcher
English: occupational name for an arrowsmith, Middle English, Old French flech(i)er (from Old French fleche ‘arrow’).

cooper
English: occupational name for a maker and repairer of wooden vessels such as barrels, tubs, buckets, casks, and vats, from Middle English couper, cowper (apparently from Middle Dutch kuper, a derivative of kup ‘tub’, ‘container’, which was borrowed independently into English as coop).

merchant
English: occupational name for a buyer and seller of goods, from Old French, Middle English march(e)ant, Late Latin mercatans (see Marchand).

soutar
Scottish: variant of Souter
Souter
Scottish and English: occupational name for a cobbler or shoemaker, Middle English soutere, sutere (from Latin sutor, an agent derivative of suere ‘to sew’).