This section focuses on combinations of trades, beginning with the work of undertakers. Undertaking was often a sub-trade of appraisers, trunk makers or furniture makers. Of 1,025 undertakers from 1839 to1842, for example, only 275 were solely undertakers.

William Moon’s card indicates the speed with which funerals could be furnished (‘All things necessary for funerals at an hour’s notice in town or country’).