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CORDNER Family History

This interesting and unusual name, with variant spelling Cordiner and Codner, now found chiefly in Northern Ireland, is a variant of the French name "Cordonnier", which derives from two possible origins, the Anglo-French "cordewaner", Old French "cordoanier", which means a cordwainer, shoemaker, one who made shoes of Cordovan leather, or it may also have been an occupational name for a maker or seller of cord or ribbon, from the Old French "cordon", cord, ribbon. The surname from the former source first appears in records in the early 12th Century, (see below), while the first recording of the name from the latter source was a Stephen le Cordener in 1292, in the Subsidy Rolls of London.