Oddly Specific Job Description?

[saw119]

I get that the second part reads Iron Stamper but does the first really read '2 1/8'? Anyone know what a 2 1/8 Iron Stamper is? His brother was one as well. This is in Wolverhampton 1891 census.

[rosie99]

It is probably a code being used by the enumerator, it has been added to other Iron Stampers and others in the Iron Industry in Wolverhampton - other entries show it as 0 then 21 over 8

[Kay99]

I wonder if it was a code that was added later??   I found another pair of brothers in Wolverhampston with a smiliar notation after Iron Stamper

[saw119]

I wonder if it was a code that was added later??   I found another pair of brothers in Wolverhampston with a smiliar notation after Iron Stamper

Yes and your code looks like 21/8 and not 2 1/8.

[rosie99]

Other entries I have looked at it has been added later (eg John Bloor - Platesmith Furnaceman )

[MaureeninNY]

Would this be in regards to their wages?

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Maureen



 

[ShaunJ]

It's the occupation classification code. Order 21, sub-order 8, heading ‘others’, refers to ‘Others in Iron and Steel Manufacture'.

[Gadget]

I've been checking the Occupation and Industrial classification codes  for 1881 (1891 would be similar)  and I've found that 21 is mineral substances. This would be the industrial classification.  I've not yet found the refs for the occ classification codes used. 

snap Shaun 

[rosie99]

Thank you Shaun 

Do you have a link to those codes please I gave up looking for a list of them

Rosie