Translation: eldare

[Karen Norwillo]

On my ggrandfather's emigranten record his title/ anm. is listed as eldare. I cannot find this occupation listed in any of the Swedish dictionaries. His companion is listed as arbetare, which I believe means laborer or worker. Can anyone help?

[Elisabeth Thorsell]

An eldare was the person who stoked a steam engine. The word eld means fire, and this guy had to keep the fire going in the engine on a train or a steamship.

[Lars Göran Larsson]

Eldare  on a train or boat is a stoker
        in a house he is a boilerman
 
Lars Göran