Cornforth Time Keeper

[lennon2011]

Hmm looking at the 1881 census for my 3x Great Grandfather Christopher Cornforth it says that his occupation was a "time keeper" Does anyone have any idea what that would be for? I've tried the Google search but there's so many different things coming up. http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...s6%3dCornforth

[Elaine ..Spain]

Timekeeper: A person responsible for making sure things happened on time e.g. worker arriving or departing, trains, coaches, omnibuses, etc.

A useful website for old occupations: http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/a.html

[grumpy]

Lots of different sorts of time keepers, one was a clerk who kept track of an employees arrival and departure times from his/her occupation.

[lennon2011]

Cheers Elaine.

[Heather Positive Thinker]

There were still timekeepers at the factory where I worked in the office 20 years or so ago. They put out all the time cards for people to clock in and clock out on and then worked out the number of hours worked at the end of the week for each employee. The cards were then collected and sent up to wages department to calculate pay due.


Just looking at the image for your chap - the word "Mine" seems to be added in front of timekeeper, so I think we can assume he checked the working hours of the miners.

[lennon2011]

Not another Miner! Anyway I've added the daughter & family to the tree and in the 1881 census he's with another daughter so i've added them and now i've been given a hint through Mundia to a tree that goes back to the 15th century. If I add info to one site I check the other for trees and it's there that I found a lot more Cornforth than I origonally had.

If you check this you'll see all the connections to my family:

http://www.mundia.com/us/Tree/Family/51524930/13214486344