Cartoon Maker -

[Bettyanne]

Hi
I have just started to research my family tree and see from 1881 census that several members were listed as "cartoon Maker" or "cartoon Factory" foreman.
Can anyone tell me if they know of a Cartoon Fatory in Stafford or what it was?
Thank you

[stanmapstone]

Are you sure it is not Carton  Is this from the transcription or the original image ?

Stan

[Bettyanne]

Thanks for the reply.  It definitely says Cartoon Factory and Cartoon Pictures.

[stanmapstone]

I see that the enumerator has written Cartoon but it should be Carton a box or case made of light pasteboard, cardboard. John Hillman's   George L. Wood's occupation is given as Foreman Trunk & Cartoon Factory which the census clerk has crossed out and annotated with Wood Box
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Stan

[Bettyanne]

Thank you for the reply and explanation.  Who is John Hillman.

[daval57]

Box office stuff? 

Sorry Bettyanne, just having fun.

[stanmapstone]

Thank you for the reply and explanation.  Who is John Hillman.

Sorry, wrong name  It should be George L. Wood  In the 1896 Directory there is one Cardboard Box Maker in Stafford, an S. Lea in Ingestre Road. Unfortunately there are no directories for the 1880s on http://www.historicaldirectories.org

Stan

[Bettyanne]

many thanks

[Steve G]

 Sorry to be interjecting, after the event and with such trivial banality, but; I had a little smile to myself, not so long back, when I found one of my own rellies listed as " Box Maker. Cardboard Box Factory ". This would have been somewhere in the early 1900's. I just sort of pictured this fourteen year old girl making boxes.

 Then, days later, I get my cousins (relatively far more up to date) MC. Lo and behold! His wife was ..... A Box Maker in a Cardboard Box Factory! 

 Just goes to show; Down the years, as we live our lives and search for dead rellies, there's a whole, hidden undercurrent of people out there: Making cardboard boxes, in box factories!

 I don't know why this tickles me so. It just does!