Thanks Sandra. I’ve searched and searched trying to find him and an associated occupation without success. My suspicion of it being Word was fueled by his sons occupation being shown as ‘iron ore miner and newsagent’ in one of the census’s post marriage.
Hello
Interesting the reference to Newsagent.
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Monger being a Merchant or Trader.
A Word Monger maintained a written inventory of goods to be sold usually for a dealer, or trader.
When I was a Buyer at a Merchants handling a purchase of 16,000 items, we had a chap that prepared an "
Indent " of our stock, for the purpose of requistioning or ordering goods, (like a 'stock check').
He could have been called our Word Monger, whose job it was to maintain names of items and their quantities held in stock, for the purpose of buying and selling (trading).
I would get carbon copies of the pages from his Book and decide whether to place an order, with the manufacturers of those items. The order always had to reach minimum order value, to be 'carriage paid' by the supplier.
It was no good our customers coming in and we were out of stock, as we also prided ourselves with holding items and tools, nobody else stocked.
Now much of this is computerised and only requires a stock check against a massive print out.
The inventories and checks can also discover amounts lost due to theft and resulted in five dismissals, when checked against Orders and Sales figures.
Mark
