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Could any kind people advise what kind of work you would be doing if you were employer as a calendar worker?

I have googled it but nothing comes up as an occupation so I don't know if it meant some one who printed calendars etc (this is about 1820 - 1890.

I have three people employed in various places and at differing times as calendar workers and one who is noted as a calendar warehouse woman!

Thanks all,

Rachelle

From an old occupations site:-

Calender Worker, Calenderer or Calenderman - A person who operated a machine which pressed cloth and paper using two large rollers (calenders).

Kath. x

Thanks Kath, much appreciated! I would never have guessed that!

I found it on Google by putting the following into the search:-

calender worker+occupation+census

It depends on what you put into the search as to what results you get.

Kath. x

hi Kath,

Thanks, on their marriage & death certs they had spelt their occupation as Calendar not Calender so I searched for the prior and not the latter!

Cheers

Rachelle

Calendering

Calender: A machine consisting of two or more cylinders revolving so nearly in contact with each other that cloth passed between them is smoothed and glazed by their pressure; an establishment in which woven fabrics are calendered, starched, stretched and otherwise finished for the market; one engaged in calendering; a calenderer - vt. To press or finish in a calender.

Thanks Ann

Thank you for all your replies

Kind regards

Rachelle

When I was auditing a laundry group in the 1970s the term calendar was still in use.