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Cotton porter Liverpool docks 1850s
« 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 .

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Re: Cotton porter Liverpool docks 1850s
« Reply #1 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
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Cotton porter Liverpool docks 1850s
« Reply #2 on: Monday 05 May 25 18:23 BST (UK) »
Thanks I already saw this article . It was useful and portrays the daily grind perfectly .

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Re: Cotton porter Liverpool docks 1850s
« Reply #3 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

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Re: Cotton porter Liverpool docks 1850s
« Reply #4 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.
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