Cordwainers were among those who sailed to Virginia in 1610 to settle in Jamestown.
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In 2007, Galouye was named as the recipient of the Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award, which is co-sponsored by the heirs of Paul M. A. Linebarger (who wrote as Cordwainer Smith) and Readercon.
John Hardgrave was born in Ardee, County Louth, Ireland on 14 April 1826, the son of William Hardgrave (a cordwainer and cobbler) and Elizabeth Smith.
He has written critical essays and book introductions on Cordwainer Smith, and essays on Twin Peaks and The X-Files for the fanzines Wrapped in Plastic and Spectrum and has had other articles published in The New York Review of Science Fiction and Science Fiction Studies.
His father was a cordwainer by trade, though he purchased a large farm to the north of Newport on Red Clay Creek and moved his family there when Oliver was still in his infancy.
Queen Victoria Street, named after the British monarch who reigned from 1837 to 1901, is a street in the City of London which runs east by north from its junction with New Bridge Street and Victoria Embankment in Castle Baynard ward, along a section that divides the wards of Queenhithe and Bread Street, then lastly through the middle of Cordwainer ward, until it reaches Mansion House Street at Bank junction.
He is described in Robert Fabyan's Chronicles as son of a cordwainer in London, and he was not improbably a member of the London and Kent family of Wilford for example, see Sir James Wilford.