Census Occupations - Stoker
Below are some resources I recommend if any of your ancestors in your family tree were Stokers.
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Description: Someone who was in charge of a furnace, keeping it at the appropriate temperature by feeding wood or coal into. These were used to drive a variety of steam machinery, but also in foundries and more local businesses such as blacksmiths. Fireman is the designation for someone whose job is to tend the fire for the running of a steam engine, typically a steam locomotive. In other places where steam engines are employed, such as steamships and saw mills, the designation stoker is usually used. Much of the job is hard physical labor, such as shoveling fuel, typically coal, into the engine's boiler.
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