Decipher Occupations

[zhunter71]

can anyone help with these two occupations off the 1911 census?

the top one looks like Coal Miner Cleaner

the lower one ? Driver Coal Mine


thanks!

[stanmapstone]

Horse Driver. Day Cleaner? i.e. Day labourer. A general term for workers above or below ground, receiving a fixed time rate of wages. The occupation code is 160 Coal and Shale Mine - Other workers below ground.
Stan

[Bookbox]

Or perhaps Way Cleaner? Compare the W in Widower.

http://www.dmm.org.uk/educate/mineocc.htm

[zhunter71]

it has been transcribed as Way cleaner.....but that wasnt a familiar term to me

the other one maybe Horse......?

[Bookbox]

the other one maybe Horse......?

I agree with Stan -- Horse Driver. I think it may be written as House (compare with Housekeeper), but surely Horse was intended.

See here, under Rolley-Way Man (1892)
http://www.dmm.org.uk/educate/mineocc.htm#r

[stanmapstone]

Or perhaps Way Cleaner? Compare the W in Widower.

http://www.dmm.org.uk/educate/mineocc.htm

I agree it is Way Cleaner, aka road cleaner, road sweeper; keeps underground roads clean by sweeping up debris and loading into tub. "A Dictionary of Occupational Terms"
Stan

[zhunter71]

Or perhaps Way Cleaner? Compare the W in Widower.

http://www.dmm.org.uk/educate/mineocc.htm

I agree it is Way Cleaner, aka road cleaner, road sweeper; keeps underground roads clean by sweeping up debris and loading into tub. "A Dictionary of Occupational Terms"
Stan

thanks Stan...i agree now you've said that, it makes good sense

[stanmapstone]

Just to say that a Way Cleaner would also be a Day labourer, or dataller/dataler/datailer/dateler/
The Lancashire term was 'dilker'.

Stan

[zhunter71]

thanks for that Stan..! i had seen the term dataller used before.....didnt know it was the same thing