1841 occupation - Oldham, Lancashire, England

[daniel3140]

Cotton _____?

[barryd]

Looks like Cotton Ironer.

A previous (2nd) answer from Biker on RootsChat is the link below

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=28506.0

[stanmapstone]

It is probably 'Cotton Loomer'. In the 1881 census you can search for occupations and there no such occupation as 'Cotton Ironer' but there are a number of Cotton Loomers.

Stan

[Bookbox]

I read it as Cotton Twiner. Have a look at the rest of page to compare how capital letters T and L are written?

[stanmapstone]

It could be Cotton Twiner, as you say it depends on how the enumerator wrote T or L. We need the census details to see the rest of the page.

Stan

[MelOfFife]

how about just plain old cotton farmer

[Lostris]

What Stan said !

[heywood]

I agree with 'Twiner' at the moment 

[daniel3140]

Thanks for all the replies! Here is the full page.