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Antonia
30-12-2006, 11:16 PM
I have creeler listed as the occupation of a 15 year old male in 1881
and rover listed for a 39 year old female in 1881.
Can someone explain these occupations? I think creeler may have
something to do with cotton mills.

Trish
31-12-2006, 12:35 AM
I have creeler listed as the occupation of a 15 year old male in 1881
and rover listed for a 39 year old female in 1881.
Can someone explain these occupations? I think creeler may have
something to do with cotton mills.Antonia, here's a description of a creeler -- probably more than you wanted to know...

Weaving and Knitting Machine Operators
Creeler; Creel Boy; Connectionman arranges cones or spools on creels for warping. Brings filled spools or cones from winding machine. Ascertains number of yarn ends to be wound on warp beam, places required number of spools or cones on pegs of creel (rack equipped with several hundred pegs or spindles) and ties tail end of yarn of one cone to lead end of another for continuous winding. Replaces exhausted cones with full ones and joins ends. Cleans creel and warping machine. May also work as Endman.

Source: National Classification of Occupations

HTH,
Trish

Paul Marshall
31-12-2006, 1:04 AM
ROVER - archer or operator of a machine used in cotton mills which prepared the carded fibre into rolls

Paul

Antonia
01-01-2007, 5:45 PM
Hi Trish and Paul,

Thank you Trish. I am always interested in learning more about occupations.

Thank you Paul. I didn't know of this occupations site before.

Antonia