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What on earth is a Calendar Worker? COMPLETED THANKS
« on: Friday 19 March 10 20:15 GMT (UK) »
I have a Michael Wynn on a marriage cert, his occupation is listed as a Calendar Worker.

What on earth is this??

Tried googling, but got nowhere


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Dundee:
Byrne, Cooney, Clark, Wilson, Milne, McCormack, Wynn, Taylor, Morrison, Traynor, Stewart, Kilmartin, Hays, Cheape, Hosie, Carr, Stormont.

Ireland: Devanah, Byrne, Traynor, Carr, Canon.

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Re: What on earth is a Calendar Worker?
« Reply #1 on: Friday 19 March 10 20:20 GMT (UK) »
Hi there

Maybe this?!.......

Calenderer / Calenderman - "Calender" operator. A machine used to press and finish fabrics or paper between rollers

http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/c.html

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Re: What on earth is a Calendar Worker?
« Reply #2 on: Friday 19 March 10 20:22 GMT (UK) »
I can't be certain but when I worked in England many years ago the calendars were used in the rubber and plastics industry to prepare the compounds before spreading the material on fabrics.
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Re: What on earth is a Calendar Worker?
« Reply #3 on: Friday 19 March 10 20:23 GMT (UK) »
Calender: A machine consisting of two or more cylinders revolving so nearly in contact with each other that cloth passed between them is smoothed and glazed by their pressure; an establishment in which woven fabrics are calendered, starched, stretched and otherwise finished for the market; one engaged in calendering; a calenderer - vt. To press or finish in a calender.
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Re: What on earth is a Calendar Worker?
« Reply #4 on: Friday 19 March 10 20:25 GMT (UK) »
I have just read your name Gortonboy- The place I worked was Greengate & Irwell Rubber Co down in Salford.
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Re: What on earth is a Calendar Worker?
« Reply #5 on: Friday 19 March 10 20:25 GMT (UK) »
During the 40s and early 50s my mother worked in a laundry where they used a calendar press.  I'm not sure whether it was used to iron dry garments or, like the old fashioned mangle, to squeeze water out of wet garments.

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Re: What on earth is a Calendar Worker?
« Reply #6 on: Friday 19 March 10 20:26 GMT (UK) »
Does it make any difference if the Marriage cert where the occupation came from was in 1885 in Scotland?
Dundee:
Byrne, Cooney, Clark, Wilson, Milne, McCormack, Wynn, Taylor, Morrison, Traynor, Stewart, Kilmartin, Hays, Cheape, Hosie, Carr, Stormont.

Ireland: Devanah, Byrne, Traynor, Carr, Canon.

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Re: What on earth is a Calendar Worker?
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Re: What on earth is a Calendar Worker?
« Reply #8 on: Friday 19 March 10 21:39 GMT (UK) »
Thanks very much everyone!!

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Dundee:
Byrne, Cooney, Clark, Wilson, Milne, McCormack, Wynn, Taylor, Morrison, Traynor, Stewart, Kilmartin, Hays, Cheape, Hosie, Carr, Stormont.

Ireland: Devanah, Byrne, Traynor, Carr, Canon.