Are these two jobs similar?

[Gibel]

I'm helping a friend with her family and we are trying to decide if a man who was a Weight Taker in 3 court appearances in the 1880s is the same man who is described by his children as a freight clerk on their marriages in the 1880s and 1890s. We think it is the same person but someone else wants more proof.

Is a Weight Taker similar to a Freight Clerk? The man in the court was accused of forging a request for the delivery of goods with intent to defraud. In court he is described as a Weight Taker?

[tup1]

My first thought was there a spelling error and should have said Freight taker in the court?

[ScouseBoy]

Some cargo would be measured by weight.  Coal, flour, cotton  the list is endless.

[jennifer c]

Have you found him on census?

Jennifer

[mazi]

I would think they are are one and the same.

Mike

[maddys52]

I think it's probably the same, see this thread for more info of weight takers (reply 11)
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=735575.9
 

[jess5athome]

I think they are both the same, just a different job description 

Frank.

[jaybelnz]

I think so too - same job different name!

[stanmapstone]

If he worked on the railways then a Freight Clerk, aka goods clerk; receives cosignment notes in respect of goods for despatch; collects cash in certain instances; invoices goods to receiving station; prepares delivery sheets for carmen; keeps and prepares certain returns and undertakes some correspondence; at the larger stations, the work is sectionalised and particular duties are allocated to each clerk; e.g. parcels clerk. "A dictionary of Occupational Terms"

Stan