Old occupations

Can anyone please tell me what a check-manufacturer might have been
doing/making in Lancashire in the 1830s?

Don Phillipson...

Checks were specially marked or numbered disks
used in many industries to count work done. E.g.
in a coal mine every miner delivering a tub of coal
to the check-weighman (tallyman) would get in return
a check (tally, usually a small metal disk stamped
with a number): and if paid by piecework would
deliver his checks to the accountant, as proof of
work done. Thousands of checks were used in
many northern towns so their manufacture was
probably an independent industry.

John Cartmell...

Possibly a weaver of check cloth - or someone who owned the mill that did
that?

In Lancashire it's best to assume everything links to cotton unless you know
otherwise! ;-)

Eve McLaughlin...

Probably making checked material (i.e. patterned calico etc)

Doc Shenley...

This, I think, is probably the most likely. searching the web for 'old occupations
check manufacturer' produces a number of different instances of use of the
term, so mine is not a unique example.