Thread: Occupation Sugar Baker??

Hi All,



On one of the census form i found someone who's occ is put down as "sugar baker". Not come across this before but i'm assuming it's something to do with sweet making. Any ideas?



Andrew

Hi



From Old Occupations



Sugar Baker



1 ~ Sugar Refiner

2 ~ Confectionary or Cake Decorator

3 ~ Fancy Baker



Hope this helps



Kiwi

thanks Kiwi.

Think that clears it up.



Cheers



Andrew

From British History Site



"The bussiness of the Sugar Refiner, or Sugar Baker as he has been wrongly termed, is that of preparing from the common brown 'moist' the white conical lumps or loaves of crystallized sugar, famililary known as lump sugar "



Link to site

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rep...x?compid=22160



Another reference from Scotish occupations

Sugar Baker ~ One who owned or worked in a sugar factory, refining raw sugar from the West Indies



At a Sugar Baking

http://www.mernick.co.uk/thhol/sugarbak.html



Regards

Kiwi

Hi Andrew,



See:- http://www.mawer.clara.net/intro.html



If you need other occupations, go to the links and tips forum and enter occuptation in the search engine on the right. You will find a lot of links there.