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Title: Was an iron bundler the same as a stock taker?
Post by: Flemming on Monday 27 February 23 13:45 GMT (UK)

...or are they totally different occupations?

Both come up as groom/bride's father's occupation on the marriage records of alleged siblings, but I wonder if there are two different family groups involved here  ???

Many thanks, Flemming

Title: Re: Was an iron bundler the same as a stock taker?
Post by: Stanwix England on Monday 27 February 23 14:58 GMT (UK)

I had a little dig about online and I found this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_stock

I could sort of see this being along the same lines as an iron bundler. Maybe.

Title: Re: Was an iron bundler the same as a stock taker?
Post by: youngtug on Monday 27 February 23 15:19 GMT (UK)

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01s58/

Title: Re: Was an iron bundler the same as a stock taker?
Post by: Flemming on Monday 27 February 23 18:40 GMT (UK)

Quote from: Stanwix England on Monday 27 February 23 14:58 GMT (UK)

I had a little dig about online and I found this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_stock

I could sort of see this being along the same lines as an iron bundler. Maybe.

Aha, that's interesting. And so a 'stock taker' might not be quite what we imagine today as in counting items in a shop or warehouse.

Title: Re: Was an iron bundler the same as a stock taker?
Post by: Flemming on Monday 27 February 23 18:41 GMT (UK)

Quote from: youngtug on Monday 27 February 23 15:19 GMT (UK)

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01s58/

Blimey, that's pretty advanced for 1834.

Title: Re: Was an iron bundler the same as a stock taker?
Post by: JenB on Monday 27 February 23 18:51 GMT (UK)

Not in the right era, but these might help:

From the Dictionary of Occupational Terms

faggoter, faggot maker (metal trades) ; iron binder, bundler (iron and steel rolling, tinplate), piler (puddling), scrap lad (galvanised sheet), scrap piler (rolling, steel manufacture)
is employed in different metal trades, e.g., puddling, rolling, steel manufacture, tinplate and galvanised sheet trades, in making-up shearings and other scrap metal into bundles, piles, or "faggots," which he binds with wire in preparation for the melting down and utilising of such scrap; cf. bundler, sheet.

http://doot.spub.co.uk/idx.php?letter=B

A possibility
stockman (pig iron)
general term for any man employed in pig iron stock yard; includes stock metal carrier, pig lifter, pig loader, pig tipper.
http://doot.spub.co.uk/idx.php?letter=S

Title: Re: Was an iron bundler the same as a stock taker?
Post by: Flemming on Monday 27 February 23 19:35 GMT (UK)

More interesting info, thanks. Now thinking they are the same occupation as I'm finding more paper evidence that this group were siblings.