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Title: Oddly Specific Job Description?
Post by: saw119 on Saturday 03 April 21 13:16 BST (UK)
I get that the second part reads Iron Stamper but does the first really read '2 1/8'? Anyone know what a 2 1/8 Iron Stamper is? His brother was one as well. This is in Wolverhampton 1891 census.
Title: Re: Oddly Specific Job Description?
Post by: rosie99 on Saturday 03 April 21 13:26 BST (UK)
It is probably a code being used by the enumerator, it has been added to other Iron Stampers and others in the Iron Industry in Wolverhampton - other entries show it as 0 then 21 over 8

Title: Re: Oddly Specific Job Description?
Post by: Kay99 on Saturday 03 April 21 13:27 BST (UK)
I wonder if it was a code that was added later??   I found another pair of brothers in Wolverhampston with a smiliar notation after Iron Stamper
Title: Re: Oddly Specific Job Description?
Post by: saw119 on Saturday 03 April 21 13:29 BST (UK)
Quote from: Kay99 on Saturday 03 April 21 13:27 BST (UK)
I wonder if it was a code that was added later??   I found another pair of brothers in Wolverhampston with a smiliar notation after Iron Stamper
Yes and your code looks like 21/8 and not 2 1/8.
Title: Re: Oddly Specific Job Description?
Post by: rosie99 on Saturday 03 April 21 13:29 BST (UK)
Other entries I have looked at it has been added later (eg John Bloor - Platesmith Furnaceman )
Title: Re: Oddly Specific Job Description?
Post by: MaureeninNY on Saturday 03 April 21 13:45 BST (UK)
Would this be in regards to their wages?

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Maureen



 
Title: Re: Oddly Specific Job Description?
Post by: ShaunJ on Saturday 03 April 21 13:52 BST (UK)
It's the occupation classification code. Order 21, sub-order 8, heading ‘others’, refers to ‘Others in Iron and Steel Manufacture'.
Title: Re: Oddly Specific Job Description?
Post by: Gadget on Saturday 03 April 21 13:52 BST (UK)
I've been checking the Occupation and Industrial classification codes  for 1881 (1891 would be similar)  and I've found that 21 is mineral substances. This would be the industrial classification.  I've not yet found the refs for the occ classification codes used. 

snap Shaun  ;D
Title: Re: Oddly Specific Job Description?
Post by: rosie99 on Saturday 03 April 21 13:55 BST (UK)
Thank you Shaun  :)

Do you have a link to those codes please I gave up looking for a list of them

Rosie
Title: Re: Oddly Specific Job Description?
Post by: ShaunJ on Saturday 03 April 21 14:42 BST (UK)
I couldn't find the list either. But there is a reference to Order 21, sub-order 8 on page 11 of this PDF: http://www.henleycensus.info/articles/Woollard_1881_Classifications.pdf
Title: Re: Oddly Specific Job Description?
Post by: rosie99 on Saturday 03 April 21 14:46 BST (UK)
Thank you Shaun.   :). 

Rosie
Title: Re: Oddly Specific Job Description?
Post by: Gadget on Saturday 03 April 21 14:49 BST (UK)
I found it by going through this

https://www.le.ac.uk/eh/teach/ug/modules/eh3107/occupations.pdf

Pages 67-70 ish. 

In the olden days, I used to go to a library shelf and get an RG blue book for the 2Oth century classifications!
Title: Re: Oddly Specific Job Description?
Post by: rosie99 on Saturday 03 April 21 14:54 BST (UK)
Thank you Gadget, I had seen that one but discounted it as it said 18 - 21 Textiles.  I have now bookmarked them both  :)
Title: Re: Oddly Specific Job Description?
Post by: Gadget on Saturday 03 April 21 15:56 BST (UK)
I think it was another ref and I can't find it now. I close my history when I exit   ::)
Title: Re: Oddly Specific Job Description?
Post by: Gadget on Saturday 03 April 21 16:06 BST (UK)
An extensive lsiting of the 1881 - Pages 50-51 have the relevant listing

https://www.researchgate.net/publication
/252186925_The_Classification_of_Occupations_in_the_1881_Census_of_England_and_Wales