Does anyone know what being a "Cotton cop winder", entails.?

I found i had a relative, who lived in Stockport circa 1850, whose job was a%26quot;Cotton cop winder%26quot;, doing a family tree is good but finding out how people lived and worked is intriguing, but this job has me stumped. plus does Stockport still have a Barlow St, of an age that it might fit into my puzzle, any info will be thankfully received. Cheers loo.

Does anyone know what being a %26quot;Cotton cop winder%26quot;, entails.?
Although I don%26#039;t know the actual job of a %26quot;cotton cop winder%26quot; I believe it was a job done in the cotton mills, have a look at the links posted below you may find the two about occupations worth keeping for reference at a later date.


http://rmhh.co.uk/occup/c2.html


http://www.genproxy.co.uk/old_trades_occ...


http://www.ourwardfamily.com/cotton_trad...


http://www.postcodeanywhere.co.uk/


hope this helps.
Reply:They would have worked in a cotton mill ensuring that the looms (machine for spinning cotton) were constantly supplied with cotton thread or yarn stored on the bobbins (cops)...a dirty noisy and dangerous job...
Reply:Cop means Bobbin. The yarn which emerges from the spinning process cannot usually be woven directly and needs some preparation. Winding is the process of transferring the yarn to larger bobbins or cones. The idea is to get a long continuous length. Weft-winding inolves winding on to smaller bobbins that will go into a shuttle. %26quot;Winder%26quot; is a common occupation in the census records.
Reply:the job is winding cotton or yarn onto a bobbin. See Alcone Engineering for a good picyure of a cops winder.
Reply:So far folks got into the job description and I%26#039;m still wondering where in the world that city is.
Reply:might be something like cotton crop winder, misspelled.





i.e. someone who winds cotton fibers onto a spool for use later in a special cotton combing machine. That would be my first guess.





Realize, as you might have seen all public records are done by people, and people make mistakes. Good luck.
Reply:For granny toad, Stockport is in or near Lancashire England.
Reply:I thought it was called a %26quot;top%26quot; a large spool onto which the thread was wound. But I come from the other side of the Pennines and that may have been for winding wool.



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