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Title: Cotton porter Liverpool docks 1850s
Post by: tornado on Monday 05 May 25 17:45 BST (UK)

So "What was a cotton porter in the 1850s ?". Has anyone any social history of this work at the time please ? An ancestor of mine is on a census as being a porter in Docks Liverpool . Thank you .

Title: Re: Cotton porter Liverpool docks 1850s
Post by: Jebber on Monday 05 May 25 18:02 BST (UK)

You should find this informative about dock workers.

https://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/docklabourer.html

Title: Re: Cotton porter Liverpool docks 1850s
Post by: tornado on Monday 05 May 25 18:23 BST (UK)

Thanks I already saw this article . It was useful and portrays the daily grind perfectly .

Title: Re: Cotton porter Liverpool docks 1850s
Post by: hanes teulu on Monday 05 May 25 18:37 BST (UK)

Snipped from
1. Liverpool Daily Post, 30 Dec 1857
2. Liverpool Albion, 5 Oct 1857

I noticed one article where a Cotton Porter had used it in a fight -
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1256167742/these-hooks-are-for-draging-or-lifting

Title: Re: Cotton porter Liverpool docks 1850s
Post by: hanes teulu on Monday 05 May 25 18:59 BST (UK)

Northern Daily Times (Liverpool), 27 May 1856

Jebber's reply #1 includes descriptions of the "would be dockers" ready to spend a few days on the dock. Some were going to struggle with 3cwt bales.

Added - just realised the accident may not be a Dock's case.