EMPATH Professions

The Empath has a number of historical professions which are no longer in common usage. Here is a list of professions and a breakdown of their meaning

Profeession	Description
Able Seaman	A seaman who reached a standard of skill above that of Ordinary Seaman.
Academic	A scholarly person, of a university, etc.
Academician	A member of an academy, especially of the Royal Academy of Arts.
Acater, or Achateur	supplied food provisions, e.g. a ships chandler
Accipitrary	falconer
Accomptant	accountant
Accoucheur	A man who assisted women in childbirth - Midwife
Accoucheuse	A Woman who assisted women in childbirth - Midwife
Accountant	A person involved in maintenance and auditing of accounts and financial matters
Accoutre	supplier of military clothing and accessories
Accoutrement Maker	supplier of military clothing and accessories
Ackerman/Acreman	a ploughman, or an oxherder
Actuary	One who calculates insurance risks, and kept public accounts of business,
Administrator	Someone who directed the affairs of another, or one who settles the estate of a deceased person who died intestate.
Administratrix	A female Administrator
Adventurer	A person who seeks adventures; a mercenary soldier; one who lives by his wits.
Advertisement Conveyancer	Sandwich board man
Advocate	A Prosecutor in a court of law in Scotland, also a Solicitor, or Lawyer.
Advocate Deputy	A Scottish law officer who could act as public prosecutor.
Advowee	One who has an Advowson, normally a nobleman, who had the right to presentation to a vacant benefice, in English ecclesiastical law.
Aeronaut	A balloonist or a trapeze artist in the circus or music halls
Affeeror	(Assessor) responsible for ensuring that those fined by a Manor Court, actually paid their fines
Agent, broker, factor	One who acts or transacts business for another
Agister	official of the Royal Forests
Agricultural Labourer	A farm servant, shepherd, etc
Agriculturist	A person involved with land cultivation or animal husbandry.
Alabasterer	worked with alabaster
Alblastere	crossbow man
Alchemist	A medieval chemist who claimed to be able to turn base metals into gold.
Alderman	senior councillor one position down from Mayor in the local council
Ale Connor/Founder	official who tested quality and measure of ale served in public houses
Ale Draper	seller of ale
Ale Taster	tested ale and beer for quality
Ale Tunner	brewery worker who fills ale casks (tuns) with ale
Ale Wife	woman who keeps an alehouse or tavern
All Spice	grocer
Almoner	Giver of Charity to the needy - one who gave out alms to the poor on behalf of the parish. Also the title of a hospital manager, or one in charge of an Almshouse.
Almsman	one who received alms or charity
Alnager	(Aulnager)A town official who examined the quality of woollen goods and stamped them with a seal of approval.
Amanuensis	A person employed to take dictation or to copy manuscripts - A Secretary or Stenographer.
Amber & Jet Cutter	A person who cut and polished amber for jewelry
Amber Cutter	A person who cuts amber
Ambler	Officer of the Royal Stable who broke in horses
Amen Man	Parish clerk
Anchor Smith	A person who made anchors
Anchoress	A female hermit or religious recluse
Anchorite	A male hermit or religious recluse
Angle Iron Smith	A person who made angle iron
Anilepman	A smallholder, or tenant of the manor
Ankle Beater	A young person who helped to drive the cattle to market
Annatto Maker	Worked in the manufacture of dyes for paint or printing
Annuitant	A person who received an annual income not from working e.g. a pensioner.
Antigropelos Maker	A person who made waterproof leggings
Anvil Smith	One who made anvils and hammers for blacksmiths
Apiarian	Beekeeper
Apothecary (Apotheecary)	Prepared and medicines and drugs; pharmacist
Apparitor	Official who summoned witnesses in the ecclesiastical courts
Appraiser	(Broker) A person who appraised the value of goods.
Apprentice	One who was bound to a skilled worker for a specified time to learn a trade - Apprenticeship
Aproneer	A shopkeeper
Apronman	Mechanic
Aquarius	(Ewar) Waterman
Aquavita Seller	A person who sold alcohol
Arbiter	A person who judged disputes.
Archer	A person skilled in using a bow and arrow.
Archiator	Physician
Archil Maker	Made a violet dye from lichens, used in the textile industry
Archivist	A person who kept records of historical value.
Arkwright	Skilled craftsman who produced arks; wooden chests or coffers
Armiger	Squire who carried the armour of a knight, or one entitled to bear heraldic arms.
Armourer	Made suits of armour or plates of armour for buildings or ships etc.
Artificer	A soldier mechanic who does repairs
Artificer	Skilled or artistic worker or craftsman
Artificial Flower Maker	Made and sold artificial flowers
Artisan	A skilled tradesman.
Artist in Fireworks	A person who prepared fireworks displays.
Ashman	Dustman, or Refuse Collector. Also someone who cleans trhe ashes from a boiler.
Ashmanshipman	A Sailor who cleaned the ashes from a ships boiler
Assay Master	One who determined the amount of gold or silver to go into coins to be minted
Assayer	One who determined the proportions of metal in ore.
Assessor	(Affeeror)An official in the manorial courts who assessed monetary penalties (fines). They also collected taxes and dues
Assistant	Assisted someone else in their trade, often a master
Assurance Agent	Sells life assurance policies
Attendant on Sick	Nurse
Auger Maker	Made carpenters augers, used for boring holes in wood
Aulnager	(Alnager)A town official who examined the quality of woollen goods and stamped them with a seal of approval.
Aurifaber	Goldsmith
Avenator	(Plantifene) A hay and forage merchant.
Avowry	The Lord of the Manor
Axle Tree Maker / Turner	Made axles for coaches and wagons
Back Washer	cleans the wool in the worsted manufacturing industry
Backmaker	a Cooper; made backs, vats and tubs
Backster / Baxter	baker
Backus Boy or Back'us Boy	kitchen servant, abreviation of: "back of the house"
Badger	licensed pauper who wore a badge with the letter P on it, or a corn miller or dealer, or an itinerant food trader.
Badgy Fiddler	A boy trumpeter in the military.
Bag Maker, Canvas / Paper	made bags
Bagman	travelling salesman
Bagniokeeper	A person in charge of a bath house or brothel.
Bailie, Baillee or Baillie	Bailiff
Bailiff	officer of the sheriff, a land steward acting on behalf of the landowner
Bairman / Bareman	a pauper or beggar
Baker	baked bread and pastries
Bal Maiden	female mine worker who worked on the surface; Pit Brow Lass
Balancer	One who operates the "balance" in a coal mine, which is a slope with a pulley at the top where empty coal tubs pulled full tubs up the slope.
Baler	A person who bales hay, and in the mills one who baled wool or cotton goods
Balister	archer, or crossbowman
Ballad Monger	A person who sold printed ballads(song lyrics) on the street.
Ballast Heaver	loaded ballast into the hold of empty ships
Ballast Master	A person in charge of loading the ballast into the holds of empty ships.
Baller, or Baller Up	measured out the balls of clay for a potter
Band Filer	metal worker in the gun making industry
Bandster	bound the wheat sheaves after harvest
Bang Beggar	An officer of the parish who controlled the length of stay of any stranger to the parish.
Banker	dug ditches to allow drainage, placing the surplus earth in banks
Banksman or Browman	in charge of the cages at the pit head; aka bank manager
Bar Manager, Inn	managed an inn
Barber or Barber Surgeon	A men's hairdresser, also a surgeon
Bard	a poet or minstrel
Bareman or Bairman	beggar or pauper
Barge Mate	Naval officer
Bargee or Bargeman	worked on or owned and operated a barge
Barilla Manufacturer	made barilla; a sodium salt used in the glass and ceramics trade
Barkeeper	Tollkeeper
Barker	tanner
Barleyman or Bylawman	An official of the manorial courts who enforced the courts orders.
Barm Brewer	A person who made yeast.
Barmaid	serves drinks in an inn, public house or tavern
Barman	serves drinks in an inn, public house or tavern
Barmaster	The arbiter of disputes in the lead mining industry. They were also in charge of the standard measure for the ore.
Barrel Filer	A person employed in the gun manufacturing industry.
Barrowman	A person employed in the coal mines to push the barrow from the pit face to the shaft.
Bartoner or Barton	in charge of a monastic farm.
Basil Worker	worked with sheep and goat skins
Basket Maker	made baskets
Basketman	made wicker products, also emptied the baskets
Bass / Bast Dresser	employed in dressing fibre or matting
Bathing Machine Proprietor	One who owned and hired the changing huts used by bathers at the seaside in the 18th century.
Batman	an officer's servant in the army
Batt Maker	A person who made the wadding used in quilt and mattress making.
Battledore Maker	made the beaters used on clothes and carpets etc, to remove dust
Bauer	farmer
Baven Maker	A maker of kindling. A baven (or bavin) is a thin piece of wood or splint, with the end wittled and curled with a knife and used for kindling.
Baxter	baker
Bayweaver	one who wove bay (a fine woollen fabric also known as baize)
Bead Maker	Made beads
Bead Piercer	One who drilled the holes in beads
Beadle or Beadel	officer of a church or synagogue whose principle duty was to keep order. Also a town cryer
Beadman, Beadsman or Bedesman	A person employed to pray for his employer, or the inhabitant of an almshouse, poorhouse or hospital. also, a tenant employed by the manor for a specific service.
Beamer	winds the warp on the roller before putting it on the loom in the textile industry
Bearer	worked undergrpound carrying the coal to the bottom of the pit shaft
Beater or Fuller	washed and thickened the cloth by treading it underwater with fullers earth
Beaver	made felt used in hat making
Bed Maker	made beds
Bedel or Bedell	See Beadle
Bedesman	See Beadman.
Bedman	sexton
Bedwevere	made the webbing for bed frames and also one who wove quilts
Beekeeper or Beemaster	A person who kept bees.
Beer or Wine House Keeper	usually unlicensed drinking establishments
Beerseller	same as above, but more like an off-license
Beershop Keeper	one who sells beer, not usually licensed
Beeskep Maker	A person who made beehives.
Beetler	A person who operated a beetling machine, used in the textile trade for embossing fabric.
Beggar	Obvious really!
Belhoste	tavern keeper.
Bell Hanger	installed bells in churches
Belleyetere	Bellfounder
Bellfounder	(Billiter) bell maker
Bellman	A person employed as a watchman or town crier, or a person who worked for the post office and collected letters for the mail coach by walking the streets and ringing a bell.
Bellowfarmer	A person who was responsible for the care and maintenance of the church organ.
Bellows Maker	made bellows used for organs or blacksmiths fires
Belly Builder	built and fitted the interiors of pianos
Belter	See Bellfounder
Bender	a person who cut leather
Besom Maker	made brooms made of a bundle of birch twigs bound onto a handle
Besomer	A person who sweeps with a besom.
Besswarden	A person appointed by the parish to look after its animals.
Bicycle Repairer	repaired bicycles
Biddy	female servant, usually Irish
Bill Poster	put up notices and signs
Billiard Marker	A person who attends on players at billiards and records the progress of the game.
Billier or Billyman	A person who operated a Billy Roller, a machine used in the cotton industry to prepare the cotton for spinning.
Billiter	See Bellfounder
Billyman	See Billier
Binder	bound items, e.g., books, hats etc.
Bird Boy	employed to scare away birds from crops
Bird Catcher	caught birds for selling
Birds Nest Seller	sold birds nests collected from the wild complete with eggs which were then hatched by domestic birds and sold as pets
Black Borderer	made black edged stationery for funerals
Black Tray Maker	made Japanned trays
Blacking Maker	made polish for shoes
Blacksmith	one who shoes horses
Bladesmith	swordmaker or knife maker
Blaxter or Bleacher	bleached cloth or paper pulp
Blemmere	A Plumber
Blentonist	A water diviner
Blindsman	A person employed by the Post Office to deal with incorrectly addressed letters and parcels.
Block Maker	engraved the blocks used in the printing industry.
Block Printer	printer who used wooden blocks for printing
Blockcutter, or Blocker	A person who made wooden blocks used in the hat trade, or a person who laid down the blocks on which a ships keel was laid.
Bloodletter, or Bloodman	used leeches for letting blood, thought to be a cure for many ailments
Bloomer or Bloom Smithy	A person who produced iron from iron ore.
Blower	A glass blower, or a person who operated a "blowing machine" used to clean and separate fibres in the textile trade, or a person who operated the bellows at a blacksmiths.
Blowfeeder	A person who fed the fibres into a "blowing machine".
Blue Dyer or Maker	A person who worked with blue dye used by calico printers and laundries to stop the white materials from discolouring.
Bluestocking	A nickname for a female writer
Bluffer	An innkeeper or landlord of a pub
Board Liner	One who covers cardboard with plain or ornamental paper by hand, using paste and brush, or one who passes cardboard into a pasting machine.
Boarder or Lodger	A person who was provided with accommodation and meals.
Boarding Officer	inspected ships before entering port
Boardman	truant officer who checked school attendance, or a tenant of manorial land who paid rent by maintaining the manor's table.
Boardwright, or Carpenter	made tables and chairs.
Boatman	worked on a boat, predominately on rivers and canals, also a boat repairer
Boatswain	ship's officer in charge of riggings & ground tackle and looked after the ships stores.
Bobber	one who polished metals, or who helped to unload fishing boats
Bobbin Carrier	worked in spinning and weaving sections of the mills
Bobbin Turner	made the bobbins used in the spinning and weaving industry
Bobby	policeman usually of constable rank
Bodeys or Bodice Maker	made bodices for women's garments
Bodger	craftsman who made wooden chair legs
Boiler Engineer	designed boilers
Boiler Maker, or Boilermaker	made boilers, or general metalworker
Boiler Plater	made rolled iron plate used to make boilers for steam engines etc
Boiler Smith	made or repaired boilers
Boll	A person who looked after power looms in the weaving industry.
Bolter	A person who sifted meal.
Bondager	female worker on a farm who was bonded
Bondman, or Apprentice	bonded to a master for the purpose of learning a skill or trade.
Bondsman	stood bond or surety for another where a bond was required by law
Bone Button Turner	made buttons using a lathe
Bone Lace Maker	made pillow lace
Bone Mould Turner	made the moulds for button manufacturers
Bone Picker	collected rags and bones aka Rag and Bone Man
Bonesetter	set broken bones
Boniface	keeper of an inn
Bonnet Maker	made bonnets
Bonnet Shape Maker or Wirer	made the wire base which formed the shape of the bonnet
Book Binder	bound books
Book Finisher	put the finishing touches to books
Book Folder	folded paper to make books
Book Gilder	decorated books with gold leaf
Book Keeper	looked after the accounts for businesses
Book Seller	sold books
Bookholder	The prompter in the theatre.
Bookman	A student.
Boonmaster	A surveyor of roads with the responsibilities of maintaining and repairing the road.
Boot Black	polisher of shoes
Boot Clicker	punched eylet holes using a machine that clicked
Boot Closer	worked in the shoe trade stitching together all the parts of a shoe upper
Boot Finisher	put the finishing touches to boots
Boot Fitter	fitted boots
Boot Heeler	put the heels on boots
Boot Knifer	cut up parts for boots
Boot Laster
Boot Machiner or Machinist
Boot Maker	made boots
Boot Maker Paste Fitter
Boot Repairer	repaired boots
Boot Rivetter	rivetted boots
Boot Seller	sold boots
Boot Sewer	sewed boots
Bootbinder	A person employed to operate the machines which bound footwear.
Boothman	A corn merchant
Borer	travelling salesman or peddler
Borler	A person who made cheap coarse clothing.
Borsholder	officer appointed by the manor or parish, constable. (in Kent)
Boss Maker, Wood	made wooden bosses
Botcher	tailor or cobbler
Bottiler or Bottler	made leather containers for holding liquids eg wine flasks or water bottles
Bottle Boy	pharmacists assistant
Bottle Machinist
Bottle Washer
Bottler, Cellar	worked in a cellar, bottling drinks
Bottom Knocker	A sagger makers assistant in the pottery industry.
Bottom Maker	A person who moulded the bottoms for saggers in the pottery industry.
Bottomer	A person who worked down the pits moving the ore etc to the bottom of the shaft for removal.
Bowdler	worked with iron ore
Bower or Bowyer	made bows used in archery
Bowker	A person who bleached yarn. Also a local term in some parts of Lancashire for a butcher.
Bowler	A person who made bowls and dishes. Also a term used for people who made the rounded part of spoons before casting.
Bowlman or Bowlwoman	A dealer in crockery.
Bowlminder	A person in charge of the vats used for washing raw wool before processing.
Box and packing case maker
Box Maker
Bozzler	A parish constable.
Brabener	A Weaver.
Brachygrapher	A shorthand writer
Braider	made cord by twisting threads or strips of leather
Brailler	made girdles
Brakeman or Brakesman	operated the brakes on the winch at the pit head or on trains or trams
Brasiator	A brewer of ale
Brasiler	A dyer
Brass Cutter	A person who made copperplate engravings.
Brass Finisher	A person who polished brass goods.
Brass Fitter
Brass Founder	A person who cast brass.
Brass Pole Maker
Bratman	A rough garment maker.
Brayer	A person who ground things up in a mortar.
Brazier	A person who made or repaired household items made from brass.
Breach Maker	A person who made breaches for guns.
Breakman	A bricklayer
Brewer	brewed alcoholic beverages
Brewer's Labourer	assisted - obvious really
Brewster	brewer, or female brewer
Brick maker, dealer	Made and sold bricks
Brickburner	A brickmaker who used a kiln to make bricks.
Bricklayer or Brickman	laid bricks
Bricklayer's Labourer	assisted - obvious really
Bridewell Keeper	The person in charge of a lock-up or jail.
Bridgeman or Bridger	A toll keeper at bridges.
Brightsmith	Tin metal worker
Broad Cloth Weaver	A person who operated a wide loom.
Broad Cooper	A person employed as a go between for the brewery and the innkeepers.
Broderer, Brotherer or Broiderer	An Embroiderer
Brogger	A wool merchant
Broom Dasher	A dealer in brooms
Broom Squire	Broom maker
Brotherer	Embroiderer
Brouge Maker	A shoe maker
Brow Girl	female employed at the pit head, Pit Brow Girl
Brownsmith	worked with copper or brass
Brush Dresser
Brush, broom maker, seller
Brushmaker
Buck Washer	A laundress
Buckle Tongue Maker	made the metal points that go in the holes of a belt
Buckler or Bucklesmith	made buckles
Buckram Maker	A person who worked with buckram (used for stiffening cloth etc) e.g. belts, lapels and collars.
Bud Stuffer
Buddleboy	Maintained the vats used in the lead and tin mines for washing the ore
Builder	built houses and other buildings
Builder's Labourer	assisted - obvious really
Bullwhacker	oxen driver
Bumboat Man	A person who met ships at anchor, with goods for passengers and crew to purchase.
Bummaree	middle man between the wholesaler and the retailer at the fish markets
Bummer	army deserter
Bunter	female rag & bone collector
Bureler or Boreler	A person who made borel, a woollen cloth with a coarse feel.
Burgess	A person who represented a borough at official levels.
Burgomaster	A Town Mayor
Burl	Cup Bearer
Burler	quality inspector for clothing
Burler Mender	A skilled finisher of woven fabrics.
Burleyman	See Bylawman
Burmaiden	chambermaid or lady-in-waiting
Burneman	carrier of barm or water for brewers
Burnisher	Metal polisher
Burye Man	grave digger
Bushel Maker	A Cooper, one who makes barrels
Busheler	tailor's helper
Busker	hair dresser or a street entertainer
Buss Maker	maker of guns
Butcher, meat salesman	prepared and sold meat for cooking
Butcher's Assistant	assisted - obvious really
Butner	Button maker
Butter Carver	A person who made imprints in butter pats.
Button Burnisher	button polisher
Button Clothing
Button Hole Hand	cut and stitched button holes
Button Hole Hand Stitcher	cut and stitched button holes
Button Holer or Hole Maker	cut and stitched button holes
Butty	The person who negotiated mining contracts and supplied the labour.
Bylawman	An official of the manorial courts who enforced the courts orders.
Cab Driver	drove a cab. Also Cab Man, Cabman, Cabbie or Carman
Cab Man, Cab Nasher, or Groom	drove a cab
Cabinet Hawker
Cabinet Maker	a highly skilled maker of quality furniture
Cabinet Maker Apprentice	apprentice to above
Cabinet maker, upholsterer	one who specialised in seating
Cabinet Maker's Labourer	assisted - obvious really
Cabinet Polisher	often a french polisher
Cable Jointer	joined cables
Cad	A person employed to feed and water horses at coach stops.
Caddie	A boy who carried messages or who ran errands.
Caddy Butcher	butcher that dealt in horse meat
Cadger	A beggar
Cafender	A carpenter
Caffler	rag and bone collector
Cainer	made walking sticks
Caird	A tinker
Calciner	burnt bones to make powdered lime
Calender	One who listed documents
Calender Worker, Calenderer or Calenderman	A person who operated a machine which pressed cloth and paper using two large rollers (calenders).
Calico Printer	dyed and colored calico
Cambist	An expert in financial exchange, a dealer in bills of exchange.
Cambric Maker	A person who made a fine linen or cotton fabric called cambric.
Camerist	A lady's maid.
Camister	A minister of the cloth
Camlet Merchant	A seller of camlet, cloth used to make cloaks & petticoats.
Campaner	Bell Maker
Cancellarius	Chancellor.
Candle Maker or Candler	One who made candles
Candy Man	A travelling candy salesman, or a slang name for a bailiff.
Caner or Chair Bottomer	made the seats for chairs out of woven cane
Cannaller	canal boat worker
Canter	A religious speaker who uses cant, or a beggar or vagrant.
Canting Caller	An auctioneer
Canvaser or Canvasser	One who made canvas
Cap Cutter	cut cloth to make caps
Cap Machinist	machined caps
Cap Maker	made caps
Cap Makers Apprentice	apprentice to above
Cap Manufacturer	owner of a cap making factory or establishment
Caper or Capper	cap maker
Capillaire Maker	A person who made orange flavoured syrup.
Capitalist	A person who provided private capital or wealth for the production and distribution of goods.
Capsule Maker
Captain	in charge of a ship or a group of soldiers and also a term for an overseer or boss
Card Nailer	A person who maintained the teeth (nails) on the carding machine used for preparing wool and cotton for weaving.
Carder	A person who operated a carding machine used to prepare wool and cotton for weaving by removing the knots and tangles.
Cardmaker	A person who made the handheld implement used for carding wool and cotton, or a maker of playing cards.
Cardroomer	A person who worked in the carding room of the cotton mills.
Caretaker	takes care of another's property
Carman Contractor	carman contracted to a company
Carman with Mineral Waters	carman delivering water
Carman, Carrier or Carter	drove a vehicle used to transport goods
Carman, Railway	carman working for the railway
Carman's Assistant	assisted - obvious really
Carner	A granary keeper
Carnifex	A Butcher
Carpentarius	A Carpenter
Carpenter & Joiner	Skilled woodworker
Carpenter's Labourer	assisted - obvious really
Carpet and rug manufacture	made carpets and rugs
Carpet Weaver	wove carpets
Carriage Painter	painted carriages
Carrier	A person who drove a vehicle used to transport goods.
Cart Boy	junior version of a carman I'd guess
Cart Minder in Market	a boy who looked after a stall in a market
Cart Wheeler	made cart wheels
Carter	A carman, carrier, drayman or wagoner.
Cartographer	map maker
Cartomancer	A fortune teller who used cards.
Cartridge Maker	made cartridges for the firearms industry
Cartwright	maker of carts & wagons
Case Maker	made cases (often packing cases)
Cashmarie	A person who sold fish usually at inland markets.
Caster or Castor	A person who made small bottles used for sprinkling salt, pepper, sugar etc.
Castrator	A person who castrated farm animals aka a Gelder.
Catagman	A cottager
Catchpole or Catchpoll	A bailiff or sheriffs officer.
Catechist	A teacher of religion.
Cattle Drover	drove cattle
Cattle Jobber	A person who bought and sold cattle.
Caulker	filled up cracks and seams in ships or barrels to make them watertight using tar or oakum-hemp fibre
Causewayer	A person who was involved in road repairs.
Cautioner	guarantor, one who acts as security for another.
Ceapman	See Chapman
Ceiler	puts up the ceilings in buildings
Cellar Boy	boy who worked in a cellar
Cellarman	looked after the beer, wines and spirits in public
Cellarman Winestores	looked after the beer, wines and spirits in wine stores
Cemmer	A person who hand combed the yarn before weaving.
Chaff Cutter	made chaff by cutting straw
Chafferer	dealer in chaff
Chain Maker	made chains
Chair Bodger	traveling chair repairman
Chair Maker	made chairs
Chaise Driver	The driver of a two wheeled, one or two person, light open carriage with a hood that may be let down.
Chaisemaker	Carriage maker
Chaloner	A dealer in shalloon, a material made in Chalons, or a person who made blankets.
Chamber Master	A shoemaker that worked from home as an outworker or selling direct.
Chamberlain	steward to either royalty or nobility, in charge of the household
Chambermaid	female servant attending to bedrooms in houses or inns
Chandler	grocer, dealer or trader; one who makes or sells candles
Chandler Shop Asst	assisted - obvious really
Chanty Man or Shanty Man	sailor that led the singing of shanties on board ship
Chapeler	made and sold hats
Chapman or Copeman	itinerant dealer or peddler of goods, or a keeper of a booth or stall in a market
Char	cleaner
Charcoal Burner	made charcoal usually in the woods where the trees were cut
Charman	See Carrier
Chartmaster	A middleman that negotiated mining contracts and supplied the labour.
Charwoman / Char	cleaning woman
Chaser	An engraver
Chatelaine	The mistress of a castle or house.
Chaunter	street entertainer who sung ballads
Cheese Factor or Monger, or Cheeseman	dealer in cheeses
Chest Maker	made chests
Chesterman	A guard.
Chiffonier or Chiffonnier	wig maker or ragpicker
Childbed Linen Warehouse Keeper or Dealer	A person who hired bedlinen for use at child-birth as most children were born at home in the 19th century.
Children's Boot Maker	made boots for children
Chimney Sweep or Sweep	Swept the soot out of chimneys
China & Glass Dealer	sold china and glassware
Chinglor	A rooftiler who used wooden shingles.
Chip or Chippy	shipwright or carpenter
Chipper's Labourer	An assistant to a shipwright or ships carpenter.
Chiropodist	A person who treats diseases of the feet & hands.
Chirugion or Chirurgeon	An apothecary or surgeon.
Chowder	fish monger
Chronologist	A person who recorded official events of historical importance.
Cigar Box Maker Cutter	cut and made cigar boxes
Cigar Box Paperer	lined cigar boxes with paper
Cigar Maker	made cigars
Cigar Maker's Apprentice	apprentice to above
Cigar Sorter & Bundler	sorted and bundled cigars
Cigar Stripper	tobacco stripper, part of the cigar making process
Cigarette Cutter	cut cigarettes
Cigarette Maker	made cigarettes
Cinder Wench	female who collected cinders from gas works and sold them door to door
Circuit Rider	Traveling Preacher
Cissor	A tailor.
Claker	A magician or astrologer.
Clapman	A man who took a person to prison.
Clark, Clarke or Clericus	clerk
Classman	An unemployed labourer.
Claviger	A Servant
Clay Carrier	An assistant to the shot firer in the pits.
Clayman	One who worked in the clay pits, preparing the clay for making bricks, or a person who coated the outside of buildings with clay to make them water proof.
Cleaner, Char	domestic cleaner
Clericus	See Clerk
Clerk	general clerical work, also can mean clergyman, cleric
Clerk (C.C.)	commercial clerk
Clerk (Junior)	obvious really
Clerk in Holy Orders	A Clergyman, cleric or priest.
Clerk Secretary	secretarial clerk
Cleyman	See Clayman
Clicker	One who made eyelet holes or uppers in boots using a machine which clicked, or a person in charge of the final stage of layout before printing in the print industry, or the servant of a salesman who stood at the door to invite customers in.
Clipper, Clipper on, or Clipper Off	One who attached the coal carts to the rope which was used to drag the carts to and from the coal face in the mines.
Clock Maker	made clocks
Clod Hopper	plowman or ploughman
Clog Dancer	street entertainers - Actors
Clogger	A clog maker (wooden shoes).
Cloth Cutter	cut cloth
Cloth Lapper	A person who took the cloth from the carding machine and made it ready for the next process.
Cloth Linter or Picker	A person who removed unwanted threads and lint from the finished material.
Cloth Presser	pressed cloth
Clothes Cutter	cut clothes
Clothesman or Clothier	A person who made or sold clothes.
Clothier	who made or sold clothes
Clothier's Cutter	cut clothes
Clotnman	See Clothier
Clouter	A person who made nails. Also another term for a shoemaker.
Clower	A person who made nails.
Club Proprietor	manager of a club
Coach Maker	made coaches
Coach Painter	painted coaches
Coachman	drove a coach, or acted as a guard, or looked after the horses
Coal Backer	A person employed to carry the sacks of coal from the coal barge to the coal wagons.
Coal Burner	A person who made charcoal.
Coal Dealer & Greengrocer	sold fruit and vegetables as well as coal
Coal Drawer	worked in the mines pushing or dragging the coal carts to the bottom of the pit
Coal Heaver	A person employed to move coal e.g. from boat to shore or from shore to boat.
Coal Higgler or Coalman	A person who sold coal usually from a horse and cart, house to house.
Coal merchant/dealer	sold coal
Coal mine service	worked in a coal mine
Coal Miner	worked in a coal mine
Coal Porter or Coal Bearer	carried and delivered coal
Coal Runner	A person who attended the coal carts underground.
Coal Whipper	One employed to unload coal from ships using baskets attached to a simple form of crane.
Coalheaver, Coal labourer	Similar
Coalmeter	A person who measured the coal.
Coast Surveyor or Waiter	A customs officer who watched over the off-loading of goods on the coast.
Cobbler	One who mended shoes and boots.
Cobleman	A person who used a flat bottomed boat for fishing.
Cockfeeder	A person who looked after fighting cocks.
Cocoa Nut Opener	opened cocoa nuts
Cocus	A cook
Cod Placer	A person who put the fire proof containers which held the pottery for firing into the kiln.
Coffee House Manager	managed a coffee house
Coffee House/Shop Keeper	kept a coffee house or coffee shop
Coffin Maker	made coffins
Coffin Maker, Undertaker	made coffins and took care of funeral arrangements
Cohen	a priest
Coiner	A person who worked at the Mint stamping out coins.
Collar Cutter, Shirt	cut collars for shirts
Collar Dresser Shirt	fitted collars onto shirts
Collar Ironer	ironed collars on shirts
Collar Maker	made horse collars or shirt collars
Collier	coal miner, a coal merchant or one who worked on the coal barges
Colour Man	mixed the dyes in the textile trade and also assistant to a house painter
Colourator or Colorator	A person who worked with dyes.
Colporteur	Peddler of books, sometimes religious books.
Colt	A name for unskilled workers. Used to describe women and children working in the framework knitting trade.
Comb Maker	A person who made combs either for the textile industry for combing wool etc. or the maker of hair combs.
Comber	One who operated a combing machine in the mills.
Combere	A person who combs wool.
Commercial Agent	another name for an agent
Commercial Clerk	another name for a clerk
Commercial Traveller	another name for a travelling salesman
Compositor, Printer	set the type ready for printing
Conder	A person on shore who gave directions to fisherman as to the movements of the shoals of fish (usually from the top of cliffs).
Coney Catcher	rabbit catcher
Confectioner	maker of sweets
Conner	An inspector or tester.
Contriver	An inventor, or a schemer or plotter.
Conveyor	A grantor or seller.
Cook	someone who cooks food
Cook, Domestic	someone who cooks food domestically
Cooper or Cuper	makes or repairs barrels or other vessels made of staves & hoops, such as casks, tubs, vats, etc
Copeman	dealer in goods, or a dishonest dealer in horses.
Coper	A horse dealer. Sometimes a dishonest horse dealer.
Copper miner	mined copper ore
Copperbeater or Copperbeter	A coppersmith, someone who worked with copper or brass.
Coppersmith's Labourer	assisted - obvious really
Coppice Keeper	A person who looks after a small wood.
Coracle Maker	A person who made coracles, small round boats used for inland water fishing.
Cordiner or Cordwainer	A shoemaker. Also a person who worked with Cordovan, a special soft leather from Spain.
Cork Cutter	A person who worked with cork.
Cork Porter	one who carried cork
Corn Chandler	sold corn
Corn Cutter	A podiatrist.
Corn Factor	A middleman in corn deals.
Corn Meter	An official who measured and weighed the corn at market.
Corn Porter	carried corn
Cornet	The lowest commissioned rank in a cavalry regiment.
Correspondent	journalist or writer
Corset Maker, Bone	made corsets
Corver	A person who made baskets used in coal mining known as corves.
Corveysera, Corviner or Corviser	See Cordiner
Coster	peddlar, hawker, seller of goods on the street, sometimes fruit, but not always
Coster Monger or Costermonger	fruit seller, or peddler, hawker, seller of goods on the street
Coster Wife	female fruit seller
Coteler or Cotyler	A person who made and repaired knives.
Cotiler	A cutler
Cottager, Cottar, Cotter or cottier	An agricultural labourer who lived in a cottage on the landowners farm.
Cotton Feeder	A person employed in the cotton mills to feed the cotton into the loom.
Cotton Winder	wound cotton
Coucher	A person employed in the paper making trade.
Countour	A person who collected rates.
Couper	A dealer, Buys and sells, usually cattle and horses.
Couple Beggar	An itinerant priest who performed marriages without licence or banns.
Coupler	A person employed in the coal mines coupling the coal tubs together.
Couranteer	A journalist.
Court Factor	A person who bought and sold courts (small carts).
Court Roller	A person in charge of the court rolls and records.
Court Toolmaker	A manufacturer of tools used to produce carts known as courts.
Courtier	The owner and driver of a horse and cart known as a court.
Cow Boy, Milk	milked cows
Cow Leech	An animal doctor.
Cowherd	A person who looked after cows.
Cowkeeper, Cowman or milkseller	kept one or more cows and sold the milk from the front door, or from door to door
Coxwain	ship or boat helmsman, or a member of the crew that gave the steering instructions to the helmsman
Crayman	driver of a cart carrying heavy loads.
Creaque Hand
Crier	law court officer, auctioneer, town announcer
Crimper	A member of navy press gang.
Crocker	Potter
Crofter	tenant of a small piece of land
Cropper	tenant who is paid with a share of the crop, or a skilled worker in the Yorkshire weaving trade who sheared the nap from cloth.
Crowner	A Coroner
Cuhreur or Cunreur	A currier.
Culler	A gelder of male animals.
Curate - Clergy
Curer	cures tobacco or pork
Curretter	A Broker.
Currier	One who dresses the coat of a horse with a curry comb, or one who cures or tans hides
Customer or Customs Officer	A customs tax collector.
Cutler	knife seller or sharpener
Cutter	One who cuts things
Daguerreotype Artist	An early name for a photographer (from the Daguerreotype method).
Dairyman	worker or owner of a dairy farm or seller of dairy products
Damster	A builder of dams for logging purposes.
Danter	female overseer in the winding rooms of a silk mill
Dareman	A Dairyman
Dataller, Dateler, Daytaleman or Day Labourer	See Day Man
Daunsel	A gentleman in waiting; groom; squire
Day Man	A casual worker, usually employed and paid by the day, the term was used in many different industries and trades.
Dealer in Books	ditto
Dealer in Building Material	Obvious really
Dealer in Dogs	ditto
Dealer in Handcarts	ditto
Dealer in second hand clothes	ditto
Dealer, Shop	Shopkeeper, all kinds
Deathsman	An Executioner.
Decimer	A person elected by the householders in a street to act as their representative at the borough's Court Leet.
Decorator	decorates houses
Decoyman	A person employed to decoy the wild fowl, animals, etc, into a trap or within shooting range.
Decretist	A person knowledgeable in decrees, decretals.
Deemer, Deemster, Demster or Dempster	A judge, often in the Channel Isles or Isle of Man.
Delivery Clerk	clerk in charge of delivery
Delver	dug ditches
Dentist	fixed teeth
Departer	A refiner of precious metals.
Deputy	safety officer for the pit crew in the mining industry.
Deputy, Lodging House	made sure that everyone paid for their bed
Derrickman	A person who worked on an oil well handling the tubes and rods used in drilling.
Devil	printer's errand boy
Deviller	operated the devil, a machine that tore rags used in the textile industry
Dexter	A dyer
Dey Wife	female dairy worker
Diamond Polisher	polished diamonds
Digger	A person who worked at the coal face in a mine, or a day labourer in a stone or slate quarry.
Dikeman	A hedger or ditcher.
Dipper	worked in the pottery trade and was responsible for the glazing of items
Dish Thrower, or Disher	A person who made bowls and dishes from clay.
Dish Turner	A person who made wooden bowls or dishes.
Distiller	A person who made alcoholic beverages by distillation - spirits. Also called a Rectifier.
Distributor	A parish official attached to the workhouse or poorhouse who looked after the secular needs of the poor.
Diviner	See Dowser
Dock Cooper	a cooper who worked on the dock
Dock Laborer	american spelling of general labourer who worked on the dock
Dock Labourer	general labourer who worked on the dock
Dock Master	in charge of a dockyard
Dock Porter	a porter who worked on the dock
Dock Walloper	A dock worker, or Longshoreman.
Docker	Stevedore, dock worker who loads & unloads cargo
Doctor's Lad, Porter	doctor's assistant
Dog Breaker	A person who trained dogs.
Dog Killer	A person employed by the parish to kill any dogs found wandering around loose.
Dog Leech	A veterinarian.
Dog Muzzle Maker	made dog muzzles
Dog Whipper	When foxes were hunted for bounty the tail of the fox was nailed to the church door as proof of capture. The Dog Whipper was employed to deal with the dogs which disrupted the church service, attracted by the tails.
Domesman	Nickname for a judge.
Domestic, Dom or Domestic Servant	household servant
Donkey Boy or Man	The driver of a carriage for passengers.
Door Keeper	guard, janitor, or porter
Dorcas	A seamstress.
Doubler	A person who operated a machine used to twist together strands of cotton, wool or other fibre.
Dowser or Diviner	Someone who claims to be able to find water underground, using a forked rod or witching stick made of hazel.
Dozener	See Decimer.
Dragman	A fisherman who fished by dragging a net along the bottom of the water.
Dragoman	A Turkish or Arabic interpreter.
Dragoon	A cavalryman.
Drainer	A person who made drains.
Draper	dealer in fabrics and sewing needs, cotton, linen and woollen, or a dealer in dry goods
Draper Come Traveller	travelling draper
Draper's Assistant	assisted - obvious really
Draper's Porter	carried stuff for a draper
Drapery Painter	One whose painting skills were not that good, they usually finished paintings for the artists by painting on the clothes of the subject, hence Drapery Painter.
Draughtsman	drew technical drawings
Draughtsman Engineer	got a degree and drew technical drawings
Drawboy	A weavers assistant in the shawl making mills. They sat atop the looms and lifted the heavy warps.
Drawer	A person who made wire by drawing the metal through a die, or a person who raised the coal up the shaft to the surface in a mine.
Dray Man or Drayman	One who drives a long strong 4 wheeled cart called a dray, without fixed sides for carrying loads, usually beer kegs
Dredgerman	A person who went on the River Thames in a boat to collect the debris that had fallen overboard from other vessels which they would then sell. Also an Oyster Fishermen.
Dress Fitter	fitted dresses
Dress Maker	made dresses
Dresser	A surgeon's assistant in a hospital, or a person who prepared things, e.g. clothing for a noble person, food, etc. Also a person who operated a machine that prepared threads in the textile industry.
Dressing Gown Maker	made dressing gowns
Dressing Machine Maker	A person who made sewing machines.
Dressmaker	A person who made clothing, particularly dresses.
Drift Maker	A person who made drift nets, used in the fishing industry.
Dripping Man	dealer in dripping (the fat collected during the cooking of meats)
Driver	A slave overseer.
Drover	One who drove cattle, sheep to market, also a dealer in cattle.
Drug Grinder	ground drugs to a powder
Drugger	A Chemist or Pharmacist.
Druggist	prepared drugs for sale
Drum Battledore Maker	A person who made galvanised metal drums fitted with paddles used as mechanical agitators in washing machines (battledore is the name of the bat shaped paddles).
Drum Maker	made drums
Drummer	Traveling salesman
Dry Salter	A dealer in pickles, dried meats, salted meats, and sauces. A dealer in dyes and colours used in the dying trade. Also a person who made or dealt in salt.
Dry Stone Waller	A person who built stone walls usually using the stones removed from the fields as building materials. The art was in not using any cement or mortar. Dry Stane Dyker - Scottish term for the same thing.
Dubbere	A cloth dubber, someone who raises the nap of the cloth.
Dudder	A maker of coarse cloaks.
Duffer	peddler of cheap goods
Dustman or Dustbin Man	collected domestic refuse, a garbage collector
Dyer	employed in the textile mills to color fabric prior to weaving
Dykeman or Dysshere	A hedger or ditcher.
Dyker	Scottish term for a stonemason.
Ealdorman	An official of the shire courts who acted as the King's deputy taking payment from the profits of the court.
Earer	A ploughman.
Earth Stopper	A person employed to close up the entrances of a fox's earth before the hunt began.
Earthenware manufacture	made earthenware products; plantpots etc
East India Man	A person employed by the East India Company, on a commercial or military basis.
Ebonite Turner	A person who worked with ebonite or vulcanite, making combs or ornaments.
Edge Tool Maker	Blacksmith who made knives and agricultural implements such as scythes.
Egg Dealer, Egg Factor or Eggler	egg or poultry dealer
Electrician	did electical work
Electro typer	type setter for a printer
Elephants Teeth Dealer	A person who dealt in ivory ornaments etc.
Ellerman, Elliman or Oilman	One who sold oil used for lamps
Elymaker	An oilmaker
Embosser	moulded or carved designs that were raised above the surface of the material
Embroider	makes embroidery
Empresario	A land broker, settlement scheme promoter, showman.
Endholdernn	An inn keeper
Engine and machine maker	makes engines and machines
Engine driver, stoker	drives an engine and stokes the boiler
Engine Fitter	fitted engines
Engine Tenter	A person who operated the machine which stretched the cloth whilst drying in a woollen mill.
Engine Turner	An engraver who produced overlaping geometric patterns on fancy goods. Engine turning was commonly seen on ladies powder compacts and other such items.
Engineer	A person who designed roads, bridges, or machinery. Also a person who drove or serviced any machinery e.g. engine drivers.
Engineer's Apprentice	apprentice to above
Engineman	employed at a mine to be in charge of the machinery in the engine house used to crush and transport the ore.
Engraver	One who cuts or carves designs or lettering in metal or stone etc.
Enumerator	collected and recorded the information for the census from the householder
Envelope Cutter	cut envelopes
Envelope Folder	folded envelopes
Envelope Stamper	Stamped envelopes.
Equerry	An officer of the Royal household usually responsible for the royal horses.
Eremite	A Hermit.
Erite	An heretic.
Errand Boy	Obvious really
Errand Girl	ditto
Esquire	attended a knight, carried his shield among other things. Later it became a title for a man of standing in society, by birth, position or education.
Estafette	A mounted courier.
Etcher	A person who cuts or carves designs or lettering in metal or stone etc. A person who made the plates for printing patterns on cloth or banknotes. An Engraver.
Ewe Herd	A shepherd.
Exchequer	revenue collector
Exciseman	excise tax collector
Executrix	A female Executor.
Export Clothier
Expressman	One who delivered mail
Eyer or Holer	one who made eyes in needles used for sewing
Faber	artisan or workman, a smith.
Fabricator	A maker
Factor	An agent employed by merchants to transact business of buying and selling
Factor Agent	Merchant for commission or factor, one who transacts business for another (usually absent).
Factory Girl
Factory Labourer
Factory Lad
Fagetter	made up faggots into bundles, seller of firewood
Faker	Photographic assistant who added colour to photographs by hand before colour film was available.
Falconer or Falkner	breeds, trains, or hunts with hawks
Fancy Basket Liner
Fancy Box Maker
Fancy Man	pimp
Fancy Pearl Worker	worked in mother-of-pearl making buttons or fancy goods
Fancy Salesman
Fancy Trimmer
Fancy Woman	prostitute
Fanner	A grain winnower.
Fanwright	A maker and repairer of fans or winnowing baskets.
Farandman<.td>	A stranger or traveller, especially a travelling merchant.
Farm bailiff
Farmer	often descendant of the gentry; usually having servants and farm workers, or a tax-collector or bailiff.
Farmer, grazier	A farmer who pastures and raises cattle.
Farrier	A horse doctor, or a blacksmith, one who shoes horses
Farrier's Assistant	Obvious really/td>
Faulkner	A Falconer.
Fawkner	trainer of falcons
Fear Nothing Maker	A weaver of a special kind of thick woollen cloth known as fear-nought, used for protective clothing and lining portholes, walls, and doors of powder magazines on board ships.
Feather Beater	cleanser of feathers
Feather Curler	curled feathers to prepare them for use in hat making etc
Feather Dresser	cleaned and prepared feathers for sale
Feather Man	dealer in feathers and plumes
Feather Wife	woman who prepared feathers for use
Feeder	A herdsman.
Fell monger	One who removes hair or wool from hides in preparation for leather making, or a dealer in hides & sheepskins.
Feller	A woodcutter, or a person who laid or felled seams in textiles.
Felter	worker in the hatting industry
Fence Viewer	A person who inspects farmer's fences.
Feroner	An ironmonger.
Ferreter	Dealer in or manufacturer of ferret, or silk tape.
Ferur or Ferator	A farrier or blacksmith.
Festitian	Doctor or Physician
Fettler	cleaned the machinery in woollen mills, removing accumulated fibres, grease, etc, or one who sharpened the fustian cutters knives, or a needlemaker who filed the needle to a point.
Feuar	A holder of lands granted for services
Fever	A blacksmith.
Fewster	A maker of saddletrees.
Fewterer	The keeper of hounds, for hunting or coursing. A keeper of greyhounds.
Feydur Beater	A feather beater.
Field Master	See Hayward
File Cutter - Maker	a maker of files, involved the cutting of grooves on the file surface
Filler	A person who filled bobbins in mills.
Fine Drawer	One who is employed in tailoring to repair tears in the cloth. Invisible mending.
Finisher	operated machine giving final touches to a manufactured article in various trades
Finisher's Assistant	assisted - obvious really
Firebeater	A person who tended the boilers that powered the machinery in a cotton mill.
First Hand	silk weaver who had his own loom (an outworker)
Fiscere	A fisherman.
Fish Curer	cured fish
Fish Fag	female fish monger
Fish Hawker	sold fish on the street
Fish Monger	sold fish from a shop
Fish Porter	carried and delivered boxes of fish in the fish market
Fisher or Fishdryver	A victualler
Fisherman/woman	caught fish
Fitter	A common term for a person who assembled several portions of machinery together, or a coal broker.
Flasher	A specialist process worker in the glass industry.
Flatman	Navigated a broad flat-bottomed boat used for transport, especially in shallow waters. Common in the salt trade.
Flauner	A confectioner.
Flaxdresser	prepared flax prior to spinning
Flesher	A butcher or a person who worked in a tannery, or a nickname for a pimp.
Fleshewer	A butcher.
Fleshmonger	butcher or one who worked in a tannery
Fletcher	One who made bows and arrows; arrowsmith
Floater	A vagrant.
Floatman	See Flatman.
Florist	sold flowers from a shop
Flower	An archer (Flo-arrow).
Flower Hawker/Seller/Coster	sold flowers on the street
Flower Maker	made flowers (artificial)
Flower Worker	worked in the flower trade; looking after growing flowers
Flusherman	cleaned out water mains
Flycoachman or Flyman	driver of one-horse carriage hired by the day
Flying Stationer	street broadsheet seller
Flyman	Driver of a light vehicle hired out for carriage of passengers, or a theatre stage hand.
Fogger	Petty chapman, carrying wares from village to village, or a middleman in the nail and chain trade, or an agricultural worker responsible for feeding the cattle, or a low class lawyer (Pettifogger).
Foister or Foisterer	A joiner.
Foot Boy	A servant or attendant in livery.
Foot Maiden	female servant
Foot Man	servant who ran errands, or one who opened the doors for passengers
Foot Pad	thief or robber
Foot Post	letter carrier or messenger who travelled on foot
Foot Straightener	In watchmaking, a person who assembled watch and clock dials.
Foreman	a person in charge in almost any industry
Forestarius	A forester.
Forester	A game warden or forest ranger.
Forgeman, Smith or Forger	blacksmith, worker at a forge
Forkner	A falconer.
Fossetmaker	who made faucets for ale-casks, etc
Fower	A street cleaner, sweeper.
Fowler or Fugler	keeper or catcher of birds
Framar	A farmer
Frame Mounter	mounted frames
Frame Spinner	A worker on a loom.
Framer	A person who made frames for houses.
Framework Knitter	An operator of a machine which made hosiery. Originally a hand loom was used. Often abbreviated to FWK.
Freedman	one released from slavery
Freeholder	one who holds land by fee simple. In colonial times, a freeholder had the right to vote and hold public office.
Freeman	one who held the full rights of citizenship, such as voting and engaging in business, and a man who had served his apprenticeship and who could then work at his trade in his own right.
Freemason	stonecutter
French Polisher	polished quality wooden furniture using French polish, wax or special lacquer
Frereman	servant of the Friars.
Freser	A maker of frieze, a rough plaster.
Freshwater Man	A sailor who sailed boat on fresh water only or in the coastal trade.
Fringemaker	A person who made fringes, ornamental borders of cloth.
Fripperer	A buyer & seller of old clothes.
Friseur	A hairdresser.
Frobisher or Furbisher	remover of rust, a polisher of metal, eg. armour
Fruit Hawker	sold fruit on the street
Fruit Sorter	sorted fruit
Fruiterer or Fruit Salesman	sold fruit from a shop
Fruitestere	A female fruit seller.
Fulker	A pawnbroker
Fuller	fulls cloth; shrinks and thickens woollen cloth using fullers earth by moistening, heating, and pressing; one who cleans and finishes cloth
Funambulist	A tightrope walker.
Funeral Coachman	Drove a funeral coach or hearse.
Funeral Wreath Maker	Made wreaths for funerals
Fur Cape Maker	Made fur capes
Fur Cutter	Cut fur
Fur Dealer	Bought and sold fur and articles made from fur.
Fur Dresser	Dressed fur
Fur Machinist	Machined fur
Fur Puller	Pulled fur
Fur Sewer	Sewed fur
Fur Trimmer	Trimmed fur
Furbisher, Furber or Furbour	armor polisher, see Frobisher
Furner	baker
Furnisher	Dealt in furniture
Furniture Labourer	A labourer in the furniture industry
Furrier	seller, dresser or maker of furs
Fustian Weaver	A maker of corduroy.
Fuyster	See Foister.
Gabeler	A tax collector.
Gaffer	foreman of a work crew, or an elderly rustic, an old man.
Gaffman	a bailiff
Gager	A tax collector of liquor taxes.
Galvaniser	iron worker who coated metal with zinc, to inhibit rust
Gamekeeper	looked after the grounds and protected the game against poachers on a country estate
Gamester	gambler or prostitute
Ganger or Gangsman	An overseer or foreman
Ganneker	A tavern keeper.
Gaoler	A keeper of the gaol, a jailer
Garcifer or Garcio	A groom, or attendant.
Gardener	looked after gardens
Garlekmonger or Garlicmonger	A dealer in garlic.
Garthman	A yardman or herdsman, or one responsible for the upkeep of a garth, a dam built in a river to catch fish.
Gas Fitter & Plumber	fitted gas appliances; gas lamps initially, and lead piping
Gas Stoker	stoked the fire in a gas works
Gater	A watchman.
Gatherer	A glassworker who inserted the blow iron into the molten glass ready for the glass blower.
Gatherer's Boy	A person who held a shovel to shield the gatherer's face from the heat of a fire or furnace.
Gauger	A customs official who measured the capacity of imported barrels of liquor in order to calculate the customs duty.
Gaunter	A glover
Gaveller	A Usurer, or in the Forest of Dean, an officer of the Crown who granted gales or the right to work a mine, or in Suffolk a harvest worker, usually female.
Gelder	A castrator of animals, usually horses.
General Dealer, Shop	a shop that sold almost everything. General was often abreviated to Gen, or Gen'l.
General Laborer	American spelling of general labourer
General Labourer	general labourer, usually lifting and carrying etc
General Servant	general servant, usually domestic
Gentleman	a member of the gentry, a descendant from an aristocratic family whose income came from the rental of his land.
Geometer	A person skilled in geometry.
Gerund Grinder	A nickname for a latin instructor.
Gilder	applies gold leaf
Gimler	A machinist involved in making a gimp, a kind of card.
Ginerr	A joiner.
Ginour or Gynour	An engineer.
Girdler	A leather worker who made girdles and belts, mainly in the army.
Girthhoxter	See Girthweaver.
Glass Blower	maker of glass items
Glass Coachman	A driver of a two-horse carriage hired out for the day.
Glassewryght, or Glasswright	maker and mender of glassware.
Glassman	A seller of glassware.
Glazier	glass cutter or window glassman
Glove Finisher	finished gloves
Glover	One that makes or sells gloves
Goat Carriage Man	A driver of small passenger carriage.
Gobar	A jobber.
Gold Beater	Someone who beats gold to shape it into something.
Gold Embroider	Someone who embroiders in gold thread.
Goldsmith	maker of gold articles. Also a nickname for a banker.
Goldsmith, silversmith	Maker of gold and silver articles.
Goodman	a solid member of the community who ranked above a free-man but below a gentleman on the social scale.
Goose Herd	A person who keeps or tends geese.
Gorzeman	A person who sells gorse or broom.
Grace Wife	A midwife.
Graffer	A notary or scrivener.
Granger	farmer
Graver	An engraver, a carver or sculptor, or a dockside worker who cleaned ships bottoms by burning and tarring.
Grazier	pastures and raises cattle
Greave or Grieve	A bailiff, foreman or sheriff.
Grecher	A grocer.
Green Grocer	Someone who sells fruit and vegetables.
Green Smith	Someone who works with copper & latten
Greenwich Barber	A retailer of sand collected from the Greenwich pits.
Griffin	A European newly arrived in India, and unaccustomed to Indian ways; a novice, a newcomer, a greenhorn.
Grimbribber	A lawyer.
Grinder	One who operated a grinding machine in various trades, or a worker who maintained a carding machine in the textile industry, or a private tutor (slang).
Grindery Dealer	dealer in ground stuff; spices etc
Grocer	short for green groce
Grocer's Manager	manager of a green grocer's shop
Grocery & General Dealer	sold almost everything including fruit and veg
Groom	looked after horses
Groover	A miner.
Groundsel & Chickweed Seller	A street seller of common weeds, used to feed pet song-birds.
Guardian	Appointed by the court, someone who cares for the property and rights of a minor or someone incapable of handling his or her own affairs.
Guilderer	A maker of gold or silver coins
Guinea Pig	An unattached or roving person whose fee was usually a guinea (slang).
Gummer	A person who improved old saws by deepening the cuts.
Gunsmith, Gun manfacturer	made guns
Gynour or Ginour	An engineer.
Gyp	college servant especially one attending undergraduates
Haberdasher	Dealer in ribbons, needles, pins, or a dealer in men's clothing; hats, shirts, ties, collars, etc.
Hacker	Maker of hoes, axes, and other cutting tools. or a woodcutter.
Hackler	A person in the linen trade, who separated the coarse part of flax or hemp with a hackle, an instrument with teeth.
Hackman or Hackmann	One who drove a carriage
Hackney Man	renter of horses & carriages
Hair Dresser	cut and styled hair
Hair Dresser & Wig Maker	ditto & made wigs
Hair Dresser's Apprentice	apprentice to above
Hair Seating & Curled Hair Merchant	A dealer in horse-hair stuffing used in upholstery.
Hairman	Hairweaver.
Hairweaver	A weaver of cloth composed wholly or partly of horsehair.
Halbert Carrier	A soldier or halberdier, armed with a halberd, a combination spear and battleaxe. A ceremonial officer.
Halter	made halters for horses
Hamberghmaker or Hamberow	A horse collar maker.
Hammerman (Smith)	hammerer, a smith
Hanchman	horseman or groom
Hand	assistant
Handseller	street vendor
Handwoman	midwife or female attendant
Handy Man	odd job man - very handy, lives just around the corner
Hansard	weapon maker or seller
Harlot	A Vagabond, beggar, rogue, or a loose woman
Harmer Beck	A Constable.
Harness Maker	made horses harnesses
Harper	A person who plays the harp; a musician.
Hat & Cap Hand	assistant cap and hat maker
Hat & Cap Manufacturer	owner of a hat and cap factory
Hat Furrer	added fur to hats
Hatcheler	One who cleaned, combed or carded flax
Hatter	maker of or dealer in hats
Hawker, Huckster or Coster	peddler - sells things on the streets, matches,laces etc
Haymonger	dealer in hay
Hayward	Keeper of fences, or one tending a hayfield
Headborough	A constable.
Headsman	A nickname for an executioner.
Headswoman	A midwife.
Heald Knitter	An operator of a textile machine which produced a jersey type of fabric as opposed to woven fabric.
Hebrew Book seller	Obvious really
Hebrew Reader Master	taught students to read hebrew
Hebrew Teacher	ditto
Hebrew Writer	wrote hebrew
Heck Maker	A maker of a part of a spinning machine by which the yarn is guided to the reels.
Heckler	See Hackler.
Hedge Looker	supervised repair of fences and hedges. See Hayward
Hedger	hedge trimmer
Heel Maker or Heelmaker	made boot and shoe heels
Hellier	A slater or tiler of roofs.
Helper-Up	A young boy employed in pits to help other workers.
Hemp Heckler	A flax dresser. See hackler.
Henchman	A horseman or groom, or a Squire, or page of honour.
Hensman	A horseman or groom.
Henter	A thief.
Herd	A shepherd or herdsman
Hetheleder	One who provided heather for fuel.
Hewer	A miner, or face worker, who cut coal, stone, etc, in a mine
Higgler	A person who haggles or bargains, an itinerant peddler
High Sheriff	the highest-ranking sheriff, as opposed to deputy sheriffs.
Highwayman	A robber who preys on public roads.
Hillier	A roof tiler, or slater.
Hind	A skilled farm labourer, or a household or domestic servant.
Hinxman	See Henchman.
Hired Man	A gardener, farmhand, or stableman.
Hobbler	A person who was employed to tow a boat on the rivers or canals.
Hod	A bricklayer's labourer.
Hodsman	mason's assistant
Hog Reeve	One who rounded up the stray hogs on city streets
Hoggard	A pig drover.
Holloware Worker	Pottery worker who made ornaments, teapots, etc, or one involved in the production of tin trunks, boxes, etc.
Holster	A groomer of horses
Hoofer	A dancer.
Hooker	A reaper, or a worker in textile industry who operated a machine which laid fabric flat in uniform folds
Hooper	One who made hoops for casks and barrels
Horner	A worker in horn making spoons, combs, or musical horns.
Horse Capper	dealer in worthless horses
Horse Coper	A horse dealer.
Horse Courser	owner of race horses
Horse Driver	Drove horses.
Horse Hair Comber Brush	One who made horse brushes and curry combs
Horse Hair Curler	dressed horse hair which was used extensively in the upholstery trade
Horse Hair Dealer	Dealer in horse hair
Horse Hair Dresser	Dresses horse hair
Horse Hair Dresser, Brush
Horse Keeper	Kept horses
Horse Keeper, Groom
Horse Knave	A groom.
Horse Leech	A horse-doctor, Farrier, or Veterinarian.
Horse Marine	Man-handled barges on canals when horses could not be used.
Horsler or Horstler	A groom, or a horse servant at an inn.
Hose (stocking) manufacturer	Manufacturer of stockings
Hosier	retailer of stockings, socks, gloves, nightcaps
Hosteller	An innkeeper.
Hostler or Ostler	Horse groomer. See Horsler
Hotpresser	A worker who operated a machine to press the material between glazed boards and hot metal plates to obtain a smooth and shiny surface in paper or textile industries.
House Agent
House Boy, Dom
House Decorator
House Joiner	house framer
House Keeper or Housekeeper	A domestic servant
House Maid
House Painter
House proprietor
House Wright	house builder
Howdy Wife	A midwife.
Hoyman	A person who carried goods and passengers by water in a hoy, a small coastal vessel.
Huckster	Sells small wares, or a street seller of ale.
Huissher	An usher, or door attendant.
Hurdleman or Hurdler	Someone who made hedges, of wattled framework fencing.
Hurriers	Girls aged 5-18 who were employed as coal-drawers in the coal mining industry.
Husbandman	A farmer who cultivated the land, tenant farmer
Hush Shop Keeper	brewed beer and sold it without a license (usually as a side line)
Ice Cream Vendor	One who sells ice cream
Iceman	A seller or deliverer of ice
Idleman	A gentleman of leisure
Indentured Servant	Someone who has committed to working for someone for a fixed number of years.
Infirmarian	Someone in charge of an infirmary
Innkeeper	one who runs an inn
Insurance Collector	collected insurance premiums from customers
Intelligencer	A spy.
Intendent	A director of a public or government business.
Interfactor	A murderer.
Iron Founder	Someone who works in an iron foundry, one who casts, or founds iron.
Iron Master	The owner or manager of a foundry
Iron miner	One who mined iron ore
Iron Monger or Ironmonger	dealer in hardware made of iron
Iron Smith	A blacksmith, a worker in iron.
Ironer	ironed clothing
Ironmonger, hardware dealer	dealer in hardware made of iron and other products
Ivory Worker	A person who makes combs, boxes, billard balls, buttons, and piano keys
Jack	young male assistant, sailor, or lumberjack
Jack Smith	maker of lifting machinery, etc.
Jack-Frame Tenter	A worker who operated a jack-frame, used for giving a twist to the thread in the Cotton industry.
Jagger	Fish peddler, carrier, or carter.
Jakes Farmer	A person who emptied cesspools.
Jam Maker	Someone who makes jam.
Japanner	Someone who varnishes wooden furniture with a hard brilliant coat of hard lacquer. Invented in Japan.
Jerquer	Custom house officer who searched ships.
Jersey Comber	A worker in woollen manufacture. (wool which has been combed but not spun into yarn is called Jersey).
Jeweller	made jewelry
Jeweller & Watchmaker	Someone who made jewelry and watches
Job Coachman	The driver of coach hired out for long periods to nobility or gentry.
Jobber	A buyer in quantity to sell to others, a pieceworker
Jobbing Gardener	One employed on a casual basis.
Jobling Gardener	One employed on a casual basis. May be a misspelling, see Jobbing Gardener.
Jobmaster	A person who supplied carriages, horses and drivers for hire.
Joiner	A skilled carpenter. One who works with wood. See also Joyner.
Jongleur	A travelling minstrel.
Jorman	A journeyman.
Journeyman	one who served his apprenticeship and mastered his craft - time served, and no longer had to work for someone else (though they often still did).
Journeyman Baker	time served baker - in other words, fully qualified
Journeyman Shoemaker	ditto, shoemaker
Journeyman Sweep	ditto, sweep
Jouster	A fish monger, usually a female hawker of fish, travelling from town to town.
Joyner	A skilled carpenter. See Joiner
Junior Clerk	a junior anything is usually one learning the job
Justiciar	The head of the royal judicial system and the king's viceroy when absent from the country.
Kedger	A fisherman
Keeker	Colliery official who checked quantity and quality of coal output. A weighman.
Keeler	A bargeman who sailed a flat bottomed boat known as a keel.
Keelman	A Keeler
Keller	A keeper of salt.
Kellogg	A slaughterman.
Kempster	A Wool comber
Kepegest	An innkeeper.
Kiddier	A skinner or dealer in young goats
Kilner	limeburner, in charge of a kiln
Kisser	Someone who made cuishes and high armour.
Kitchen Assistant	assisted - obvious really
Knacker	harness maker or saddler, also the buyer of old horses and dead animals
Knappers	Someone who shaped and dressed flints into the size shape required for use in flintlock guns for the British Army.
Kneller	A chimney sweep who went from door to door looking for business.
Knight	This is the English term for a European social position. It is no longer the pricipal duty to fight as and lead heavy cavalry as was the case in the late middle ages. But the ideals to which a knight may aspire are still largely prowess, loyalty, generosity and courtesy.
Knocker-Up	A person employed to wake up workers in northern mills and factorys on early shifts, going from house to house using a long pole to knock on bedroom windows.
Knockknobbler	A dog catcher.
Knoller	The toller of bells
Knuller	A chimney sweep who went from door to door looking for business.
Laborer	see general laborer
Labourer	see general labourer
Lace Drawer	A child employed in lace work, drawing out threads.
Lace Master or Mistress	Someone who employed workers in factories or in their homes for the production of lace
Lace Runner	Someone who embroidered patterns on lace.
Lace Warehouseman	employed in a lace warehouse
Laceman	A dealer in lace.
Lacewoman	A lady's maid.
Ladies Jacket Maker	Someone who made lady's jackets.
Lady's Tailor	Someone who specialised in tailoring for ladies.
Lagger	A sailor.
Lagraetman	A constable.
Lamp Maker
Lamplighter Gas
Land proprietor	Manages land.
Land Waiter	A customs officer whose job was to wait or attend on landed goods.
Landsman	A seaman on his first voyage.
Lapidary	Someone who cuts, polishes or engraves precious or semi-precious stones.
Lardner	The keeper of the cupboard, or an official in charge of pig food.
Laster	A shoe maker, one who uses a last, a cobbler.
Lath Render or Renderer	A plasterer's assistant, someone who puts the first coat of plaster onto laths on walls and ceiling.
Latouner	Someone who works with latten, a brass-like metal alloy.
Lattener	A brass worker. See Latouner.
Launderer	washer
Launderess or Laundress	A washer woman.
Laundry Woman	A washer woman
Lavender	A washer woman (from French laver - to wash).
Law clerk	a clerk who works for a court or a solicitor
Layer	Someone who works in a paper mill.
Lead Factory Hand
Lead miner
Leaf Stripper	someone who strips leaves from tobacco plants
Learner or Learning	anyone learning a trade which is not an apprenticeship
Leather Cutter	cuts leather
Leather Drawer	draws leather
Leather Dresser	dresses leather
Leather Seller	sells leather
Leather Sewer	sews leather
Leavelooker	Someone who examined food on sale at market.
Lederer	A leather maker
Leech	A physician. Also known as a Sawbones.
Legerdemainist	A magician.
Legger	A canal boatman who had to leg the barges through tunnels as they were not big enough for horses to get through. See Horse Marine.
Leightonward	A gardener.
Lemon Dealer
Letter Carrier	A postman
Letterpress Printer	A printer using the letterpress printing method.
Licensed Messenger	A messenger
Licensed Reader, Preach	A preacher
Licensed Victualler	one who is licensed to sell alcoholic beverages
Life Buoy Maker
Lighterman	A worker on a flat-bottomed boat, a lighter.
Limeburner	A maker of lime.
Limner	A draughtsman or artist. An illustrator or painter.
Linen, flax manufacturer	A manufacturer of linen.
Linener	A shirtmaker, or linen draper.
Liner or Lyner	A flax dresser.
Linkerboy or Man	Someone who carried a link or torch to guide people through the streets at night for a small fee, or a general manservant.
Lint Maker	Someone who made lint.
Lister or Litster	Someone who dyed textiles.
Litho Printer	A printer who used the litho method.
Litterman	A horse groom.
Liveryman	Cared for horses for a fee
Loadsman	A ship's pilot.
Loblolly Boy	An errand boy, or a surgeon's assistant on a ship.
Lock Keeper	Someone who oversees the operation of canal locks.
Lodge Porter	Someone who looks after a lodging house.
Lodger	Someone who sleeps in a lodging house. See Boarder.
Lodging House Keeper	Someone in charge of a lodging house.
Lodging House Manager	Someone in charge of or owner of a lodging house.
Log Reader
Log Wood Grinder	Someone who prepared a dye made from logwood, used in the textile industry.
Lokeer	A locksmith
Long Song Seller	A street seller who sold songsheets of popular music printed on paper about a yard long.
Longshoreman	A stevedore
Looking Glass Fitter	Someone who fits mirrors.
Looking Glass Gilder	Someone who gilds the frames of mirrors.
Looking Glass Maker	Someone who makes mirrors.
Lorimer, Loriner or Lormer	A maker of bridles, spits, and other metal parts for the harnesses of horses. Also a maker of small ironware, or a worker in wrought iron. See Spurrier
Lorner	Maker of horse gear
Lotseller	A street seller.
Lum Swooper	A chimney sweep.
Lumper	A dock labourer who loaded and unloaded timber from ships, who was employed by a Master Lumper. Also a fine grained saltmaker, from the practice of moulding salt into lumps.
Lungs	An alchemist's servant whose duty was to fan the fire.
Maccaroni Loper
Machine Boy	A boy who operated a machine.
Machine Breaker	English labourers who in the early 19th century revolted and broke threshing machines, spinning machines, and other forms of mechanisation.
Machine Girl	A girl who operated a machine.
Machine Ruler or Machiner	A machine operator
Machinist	A machine operator
Macon	A mason.
Macun	A mason.
Maderer	A person who gathered and sold garlic.
Maid	A female domestic servant. They included Scullery, Kitchen, House, General, Parlour, Nurse, Laundry, Lady's etc.
Mail Guard	An armed guard employed to protect the mail coach service.
Maise Maker	A person who made measures for weighing herring catch.
Maker-Up	A person who prepared or 'made up' material to customers clothing requirements, or chemist or druggist, or an agent for paraffin.
Malemaker	A maker of "Males" or travelling bags. A Royal Mail term for the bags in which the letters were carried.
Malender	A farmer
Maler	See Malemaker.
Malster or Maltster	A brewer, maker or seller of malt beverages; beer and ale.
Manager	in charge of; any industry
Manageress	in charge of; any industry.
Manageress do	A woman in charge of; any industry.
Manchester Man	A wholesale travelling salsman trading between factory and shops with goods on packhorses.
Manciple	A steward
Mangle Keeper	woman who offered use of a mangle for a fee
Mangle Worker or Mangler	Someone who works a mangle
Mango	A slave dealer.
Mantle Cutter	Someone who cut mantles for gas lamps.
Mantle Finisher	Someone who finished mantles for gas lamps.
Mantle Forewoman	A highly skilled dressmaker.
Mantle Machinist	Someone who machined mantles for gas lamps.
Mantle Maker	Someone who made mantles for gas lamps.
Mantle Trimming Maker	Someone who made the trimming for gas mantles
Mantua Maker	A Dressmaker. Mantua is a woman's loose gown.
Manufacturer, Mechanic
Manufacturing chemist, labourer
Marble Mason
Marble Polisher, Mason
Marbler	one who stained paper or other material, veined to imitate marble
Marescallus	A marshall.
Marine Store Dealer	A person who buys and sells used cordage, bunting, rags, timber, metal, etc, sorts waste, repairs and mends sacks.
Mariner	A sailor, or seaman.
Mark Cutter
Market Carrier	A porter.
Market Labourer	A labourer in the market.
Market Porter	A porter
Market Regulator	Regulates trade in the market.
Market Salesman	Sells item in a market.
Market Warehouseman	A labourer.
Marshall	A horse doctor or shoesmith. Alternative definition, a horse servant or groom.
Marshman	Someone employed by landowners to look after marshlands and tend the animals put to graze there for the season.
Marson	A mason.
Mashmaker	Someone who makes the mash-vats or mashels used for mixing malt.
Mason	A stone dresser or cutter.
Mason, or Paviour	lays paving stones
Master	The holder of one of three grades of skill recognised by the Guild of Crafts. A skilled workman or one in business on his own.
Master Baker	A highly skilled baker.
Master Carman	A cab driver who works for himself or employs others to drive.
Master Lumper	A contractor of labourers at cheap rate of pay.
Master Mariner	The Captain of a sea going vessel.
Master Tailor	A highly skilled tailor
Match Box Maker	Someone who makes matchboxes.
Match Maker	Someone who makes matches.
Match Seller, Coster	Someone who sells matches.
Matchbox Maker	Someone who makes matchboxes.
Matchet or Machete Forger	A knifemaker, or machetemaker; a heavy axe-like knife used as a chopping tool.
Matchgirl	Sold matches on the street (Six for a fip)
Mather	See Mawer.
Matron - Institute	Head nurse in charge of a ward in an institution.
Mawer	A mower.
Mayer	A physician.
Mealman	dealer in meal or flour
Meat Porter	A person who carried meat from place to place in a meat market.
Mechanic	A manual labourer, working in a trade, or the operator of a machine, or a person who uses machinery to produce things.
Medical Assistant	Assistant to a Doctor.
Medicus	A leech doctor.
Melder	A corn miller.
Mercator	A merchant
Mercer	Someone who sells cloth, mainly silks and velvets. A Draper.
Merchant	Someone who sells things
Messenger	Someone who carries messages.
Met Policeman	metropolitan police officer
Metalman	A worker in metal
Meterer	A poet.
Midwife	experienced woman who assists in child birth
Milk Carrier	Someone who carries milk.
Milk Dairyman	Someone who keeps dairy cattle and produces milk.
Miller	One who operated a mill; grain, cloth, timber etc.
Milleress	A female miller, or the miller's wife
Milliner	Someone who sells fancy wares and articles of apparel, or the maker of ladies hats, bonnets, etc.
Millner	See Milliner.
Millow	A miller.
Millpeck	Someone who sharpens mill stones.
Millstone Inspector	A vagrant, a gentleman of the road.
Millwright	designer & builder of mills or mill machinery
Miner	Someone who works in a mine, digging for coal, iron, lead, tin ore, etc.
Mintmaker, Mintmaster or Mintner	One who issued local currency.
Mixer	A barman or barwoman.
Mocado Weaver	A weaver of woollen cloth called mock velvet, used for making clothes.
Molendinarius or Muner	A miller.
Molitor	A miller
Mondayman	A person who worked for the landowner on Mondays in lieu of rent.
Monger	A dealer or seller of goods (ale, fish)
Monthly Nurse	someone who assisted women during the first month after giving birth
Moulder	maker of molds or castings, brickmaker
Moulder Runner	A pottery moulder's assistant.
Mountebank	A seller of ineffectual patent medicines. A "Snake Oil Salesman".
Mouse Trap Maker
Mudlark	A sewer cleaner or riverbank scavenger
Muffin Maker	A baker who made muffins, or a pottery worker who made a specific type of plate called a muffin, a seven inch tea plate.
Muffin Man	An itinerant seller of muffins.
Muggler	See Pigman.
Mugseller	Someone who sells mugs and cups.
Muleteer	A mule driver.
Multurer	A miller.
Music Teacher
Musical Student
Musician, Music master	Someone who made music.
Musicker	A musician.
Muslin manufacture	Someone who made muslin.
Mustard Maker	made and sold mustard.
Mustarder	See Mustardman
Mustardman	A dealer in mustard.
Nail manufacturer	The owner of a nail making shop or factory.
Naperer	A royal servant in charge of table linen.
Napier	A person in charge of the table linen in a Manor House. See Naperer
Narrow Weaver	A weaver of ribbons and tapes, etc.
Navigator	A sailor in charge of navigating, a pilot, or a labourer who dug canals and later worked on the railways. The origin of navvy.
Navigor	See Navigator.
Navvy	labourer
Neatherd or Neatherder	Herds cows
Necessary Woman	A servant responsible for emptying and cleaning chamber pots
Necker	Someone who fed cardboard into the machine that makes cardboard boxes.
Nedder or Nedeller	A needle maker.
Needle Pointer	A filer or fettler in needlemaking, or a person engaged in the craft of needlepoint.
Needle Woman or Worker	one who sews
Netter	Someone who made nets.
Nettir	A knitter.
News Vendor, Coster	Someone who sold newspapers in the streets.
Newsagent	Ashop that sold newspapers.
Night Soilman	one who emptied cesspits, ashpits and backyard toilets
Night Watchman	A caretaker, or watchman.
Nightman	See Night Soilman.
Nightwalker	A watchman or bellman.
Nimgimmer	A doctor.
Nipper	A lorry boy, or young person employed by the carter or wagoner to assist with the collection and delivery of goods.
Nob Thatcher	A maker of wigs.
Noon Tender	Someone who guarded goods on the quay while the customs officers or dockers were at lunch.
Notary	Someone authorised to draw up or witness contracts, wills, deeds, or similar documents.
Noterer	A Notary.
Nudel Sorter	Someone who sorts Nudels.
Nudel Sorter, Apprentice	An apprentice to a qualified Nudel Sorter.
Nurse	Tended the sick.
Nurse Girl	A trainee nurse.
Nurse, Dom	A domestic nurse.
Nurse, Sick	Nurse.
Nursemaid	Nurses children
Nursery Boot Maker	Made boots.
Occupier	A tradesman.
Office Boy	An office junior
Office Cleaner, Char	Someone who cleans an office.
Oilman	One who sold oil for lamps.
Olitor	A kitchen gardener, from Olitory; a kitchen garden.
Omnibus Conductor	Collects fares in an omnibus (bus).
Omnibus Driver	Drives an omnibus.
Optician	Someone who examines eyes and precribes glasses.
Orange Peeler	Someone who peels oranges.
Orange Porter	Someone who carries crates of oranges in a fruit market.
Orderly	A soldier who acted as a servant for an officer.
Ordinary, or Ordinary Keeper	An innkeeper with fixed prices
Orrery Maker	Someone who made a mechanical device for showing the movements of the planets. Named after the inventor; the Earl of Orrery.
Orrice Weaver	A weaver of lace patterns in silk thread and silk.
Osier or Withy Peeler	Someone who removed bark from willow rods or osiers which were used in basket weaving
Osler	A bird catcher.
Osnard	An oxen herder.
Ostiary	A monastery door keeper.
Ostler	one who looks after horses; stableboy. See Hostler.
Ostrich Feather Dealer	Someone who deals in ostrich feathers.
Out Crier	An auctioneer.
Outrider	An attendant riding a horse before or behind a carriage.
Outworker	Someone who worked from home.
Overlooker	A superintendent or overseer, especially in the textile mills. sometimes an hereditary position.
Overman	A foreman in a mine who checked the miners work and the quality of the mined coal.
Owler	sheep or wool smuggler
Oyster Dredger	member of the crew on board an oyster fishing boat
Pack Thread Spinner	The operator of the machine which made thread or twine.
Packer	packs goods such as tobacco, pickles or herring
Packing Case Maker	Someone who makes packing cases.
Packman	A peddler, someone who travelled around carrying goods for sale in a pack.
Pad Maker	A person who made small baskets used for measuring things.
Painter	Someone who paints things.
Painter & Grainer	Someone who paints and applies a grain to imitate a different type of wood.
Painter (Sign)	Someone who paints signs.
Paintress	A woman employed in the pottery industry to hand paint the finished articles.
Paling Man	Someone who sells eels, or a fishmonger.
Palister	A Park Keeper, someone who ensured the parks were safe and well kept.
Palmer	A pilgrim, someone who had been, or pretended to have been, to the Holy Land
Paneler	A saddler.
Pannarius	A clothier or draper.
Pannebeter	A pan-hammerer, or a clothdriver.
Pannier Man	A fish monger
Pannifex	A person who worked in the cloth trade.
Pansmith	Someone who made pans; a metal worker.
Panter	Keeper of the pantry.
Pantler	A butler.
Papaya Man	Someone who was involved in trade with Papua New Guinea.
Paper Bag Maker	Made paper bags.
Paper Colorer	Coloured paper.
Paper Cutter	Someone who Cut paper.
Paper Dealer	Someone who dealt in paper.
Paper Embosser	Someone who embossed paper.
Paper Hanger	A decorator, one who hung wallpaper.
Paper Hanger, Plasterer	An interior decorator who hung paper and plastered.
Paper Maker	Someone who worked in the paper making industry. See Vatman, Coucher, Layer, Sizer.
Paper manufacture	The owner of a paper making factory.
Paper Presser	Someone who worked a paper pressing machine.
Paper Sorter	Someone who sorted paper.
Paper Stainer	A person who coloured paper by hand or machine.
Paperer	Someone employed in the needlemaking industry to insert the needles into the paper ready for sale.
Parcheminer	Someone who makes parchment.
Pardoner	Someone who is licensed to sell papal indulgences.
Pargeter	Someone who applied ornamental plaster to buildings.
Paritor	An officer who attended the magistrates and judges at court to execute their orders.
Parker	A park caretaker, or type of game warden in a hunting or game park.
Parochus	A pastor or rector.
Passage Keeper	kept passages and alleys clean.
Passover Cake Baker
Pasteler	A pastry chef.
Pastor	A shepherd.
Pastry Cook	A cook who bakes pastry.
Patler	A groom.
Patten or Patton Maker	A clog maker, one who made wooden soles or pattens, to fit under shoes to protect them from wet and muddy ground
Pattern Maker	A maker of a clog shod with an iron ring. A clog was a wooden pole with a pattern cut into the end
Paver	Someone who laid paving stones or paved roads. See Paviour
Paviour or Road Paver	Someone who laid paving stones or paved roads.
Pavyler	Someone who put up marquees, pavilions or tents etc.
Pawnbroker	Someone who lent money with interest against an item of value, and who would later sell the item to recoup their investment unless the lender expressed the wish to buy it back themselves when funds were available.
Pedascule	A school master.
Pedlar	A street seller who bought and sold goods for cash.
Peeler	A policeman, constable or bobby, named after Sir Robert Peel, the founder of the police force.
Peever	Someone who sold pepper.
Pelliparius or Peltarius	A skinner, one who worked with animal skins.
Pelterer	A skinner, one who worked with animal skins.
Pensioner	Someone who draws a pension
Perambulator	A surveyor.
Perchemear	Someone who made parchment.
Peregrinator	An itinerant worker or wanderer.
Perfumer	Someone who makes or sells perfume.
Periwig Maker	Someone who made wigs.
Peruke Maker	Someone who made wigs.
Peruker	Someone who made wigs.
Pessoner	A fishmonger.
Peter Man	A fisherman.
Pettifogger	A shyster lawyer.
Petty Chapman	A pedlar. or an itinerant dealer in small goods. See Chapman.
Pew Opener	Someone who was paid to open the doors to private pews in a church.
Philosophical Instrument Maker	A skilled craftsman who made scientific instruments.
Phrenologist	Someone who claimed to be able to assess a person's character based on the bumps on their head.
Pianist	Someone who played the piano.
Pianoforte Maker	Someone who made piano's (pianoforte's).
Picker	Someone who cast the shuttle on a loom.
Pickler	Someone who pickled things, eggs, onions beetroot etc.
Pictor	A painter.
Picture Dealer	Someone who buys and sells pictures
Picture Frame Gilder	Someone who gilds picture frames.
Picture Frame Maker	Someone who makes picture frames.
Piece Broker	A person who sold material off-cuts or remnants.
Piece Master	Someone who acted as a middleman between employer and employee, and who passed out the piecework.
Piece Worker	Someone who was paid for the number of pieces produced rather than by the hour. This applied to many industries. People who worked from home were usually pieceworkers.
Piecener	See Piecer.
Piecer	Someone who worked in a spinning mill, piecing together any threads which broke. Often a child.
Pigmaker	Someone who made pig or cast iron, also a pottery worker.
Pigman	A crockery dealer, or someone who bred or looked after pigs on the farm.
Pikelet Maker	A baker who specialised in making pikelets; small pancakes or crumpets.
Pikeman	A millers assistant, or someone who worked at the turnpike.
Piker	A vagrant or tramp, someone with no fixed abode.
Pilcher	Someone who made pilches.
Pill Box Bottomer	Someone who made the bottoms of pill boxes in the pottery industry.
Pill Box Lidder	Someone who made the lids of pill boxes in the pottery industry.
Piller	A thief, or robber.
Pilot	A ship steersman or navigator.
Pinder	A dog catcher and pound keeper, or someone in charge of the pinfold.
Piner	A labourer.
Pinner	A pin maker.
Pinner Up	A dressmakers assistant, or someone who sold broadsheets or ballads in the streets.
Pipe Case Maker	Someone who made pipe cases.
Pipe Maker	Someone who made pipes.
Piper	An innkeeper.
Piscarius	A fishmonger.
Piscator	A fisherman.
Pistor	A baker or miller.
Pit Brow Lass	A female worker who worked at the pit head of a mine.
Pitman	A coal miner
Plaicher	A hedge layer.
Plain Worker	Someone who performed plain sewing or needlework as opposed to an embroiderer.
Plaisterer	A plasterer.
Plaiter	Someone who made straw plaits used in making hats etc.
Planker	Someone who planks, or kneads the body of the hat during felting.
Plantifene	A hay and forage merchant. See Avernator.
Plasher	A hedge layer.
Plaster Ship Maker
Plasterer	Someone who plasters walls and ceilings, or someone who worked with roman cement used in stuccoing.
Platcher	A hedge layer.
Platelayer	laid and maintained railway tracks.
Playderer	Someone who made plaid.
Pleacher	A hedge layer.
Plomer	A plumber.
Plowman	farmer
Plowwright or Ploughwright	maker or repairer of plows
Plumassier	Someone who made or sold plumes, or ornamental feathers.
Plumber	Someone who worked with lead, for gas and water pipes etc. One who applied sheet lead for roofing and set lead frames for plain or stained glass windows
Plumber & Gas Fitter	one who worked with lead piping for gas fittings
Plumbum Worker	plumber; literally, worker in lead
Plumer	See Plumassier.
Pocket Book Maker	Someone who made pocket books.
Podiatrist	Another name for a chiropodist.
Pointer	Someone who sharpened needles or pins, etc.
Pointmaker	Someone who made the tips of laces.
Pointman	Someone who made the tips of laces.
Pointsman	A person who operated the points to change the railway track on which a train was travelling.
Poldave Worker	Someone who made poldave, a coarse fabric.
Pole Lathe Turner	A skilled craftsman in wood.
Poleman	A surveyor's assistant.
Polentier	A poulterer.
Police Sergeant	A police officer who had achieved the rank of Sergeant.
Policeman, Railway	A person employed by the railway as a policeman to guard the railway assets.
Poller	A barber, or men's hairdresser.
Ponderator	An inspector of weights and measures.
Pony Driver	Someone, often a child, in charge of the pit pony which pulled the coal tubs underground.
Porcher	A pig keeper.
Pork Butcher	A butcher who specialised in Pork meat.
Portable Soup Maker	Someone who converted soup into a dry form for transporting from place to place.
Porter	door or gatekeeper, or one who carried things
Porter on Railway	A porter who worked for the railways.
Portmanteau Maker	Someone who made leather trunks for clothes, etc., which opened into two equal parts.
Post Boy	Someone who carried mail from town to town. A guard who travelled on the mail coach. An outrider who travelled with the stagecoach as a postillion.
Poster	Someone who worked in the quarries breaking rocks.
Postillion	Someone who attached extra horses to wagons & coaches to help pull them up hills, or one who worked on long distance coaches and who's duty it was to change the horses at the stops.
Postman	someone who carried letters for the Post Office.
Pot Boy or Man	worked in public houses collecting and washing dirty pots and glasses
Pot Burner	Someone who placed pots in a furnace to be fired.
Potato Badger	Someone who sold potatoes.
Potato Salesman	Someone who sold potatoes.
Potman & Barman	worked in public houses collecting and washing dirty pots and glasses and serving drinks
Potter	Someone who made or sold pottery.
Potter Carrier	A pharmacist or chemist.
Potter Presser	A potter who used a mould.
Potter Thrower	A potter who used a wheel had to "throw" the clay onto the spinning wheel.
Pouch Maker	Someone who made pouches or purses.
Poulter or Poulterer	A buyer and seller of poultry.
Power Loom Tuner	Someone who maintained the loom in a weaving mill.
Powler	A barber, or men's hairdresser.
Poynter	Someone who makes lace.
Practical Brewer	Someone who brews ale or beer.
Preceptress	A school mistress.
Prentis	Another name for an apprentice
Presser	Someone who presses, clothes for example.
Pressmaker	Someone who makes presses.
Prick Louise	A tailor.
Pricker	A pattern maker, or a horseman, or a witch hunter.
Prig Napper	A horse thief.
Printer	Someone who works at or owns a printing press
Printer's Apprentice	Someone who is training to be a printer.
Printer's Boy	An assistant to a printer.
Printer's Compositor	Someone who sets print type.
Printer's Cutter	Someone who cuts paper that has been printed.
Printer's Devil	A printer's assistant.
Printer's Factory Lad	An assistant to a printer.
Printer's Foreman	Someone in charge in a printing shop.
Printer's Labourer	Someone who labours for a printer
Printer's Machine Boy	An assistant to a printer.
Printing Mark Maker
Proctor	An official of a university.
Proffensor of Swing
Prop Bobby	Someone who worked in mines checking the pit props.
Protestant Dissenting minister
Prothonary	A law clerk.
Provision Curer	Someone who cures meat.
Provision Dealer	Someone who supplies provisions.
Provision Warehouseman	Someone who works in a provisions warehouse.
Publican	innkeeper, one who runs a public house, usually licensed
Puddler	Someone who worked clay into puddle, or one who worked with puddle to make things watertight e.g. canal walls, or one who worked with puddling iron or wrought iron.
Puggard	A thief or robber.
Pugger	Someone employed by brick manufacturers to produce clay paste by treading like grapes, often women and children.
Pugilist	A prize fighter.
Puller Down
Pulley Maker	Someone who made pulleys.
Pump Maker	Someone who made mechanical pumps.
Punky	A chimney sweep.
Pupil Teacher	A schoolteacher.
Pure Gatherer or Picker	Someone who roamed the streets, especially in London, gathering dog faeces, often an old woman or child. These were used in the tanning industry for processing hides.
Purser	A ship's officer in charge of provisions & accounts
Purveyor of Horse Flesh	Someone who sold horse meat.
Putter	Someone who worked in the coal mine hauling the mine tubs.
Putter In	Someone who was employed to put things in to some type of mechanised process.
Pynner	A pin maker.
Quarantine	Officers of customs and quarantine, they were responsible for ensuring that anyone arriving on a vessel with a foul bill (i.e. coming from a country where plague existed), did not come ashore until they had spent a period of quarantine to make sure that symptoms of plague did not develop. This practice started in England with an act of parliament in 1710, although the origins of the word quarantine dates from 1377 in Dubrovnik. The last vestige of the British quarantine law was removed by the Public Health Act of 1896, which repealed the Quarantine Act of 1825.
Quarrel Picker	A glazier
Quarrier	A quarry worker
Quarry Man or Quarryman	A stone cutter
Quay Clerk	A clerk who worked at a quay or wharf.
Quiller	Someone who operated a machine that wound yarn onto spools.
Quilter	Someone who quilted material.
Quiltress	A female who quilted material.
Quister	Someone who bleached things.
Qwylwryghte	A wheelwright.
Rack Maiden	Someone employed in the tin mines of Corwall to dress the ore, often a girl.
Raff Merchant	Someone who sold fibre used to make raffia bags etc.
Raffman	Someone who dealt in raff (saleable rubbish).
Rag and Bone Man	went from street to street with a cart and collected any old rubbish
Rag Cutter	cut up rags into small pieces to be used for making paper etc
Rag Gatherer	cleared the rags from the machinery in the mills; often children
Rag Man	one who went from street to street collecting and selling old clothes and rags
Rag Merchant	Someone who bought and sold rags.
Rag Picker	Someone who sorted through the left over rags to find reusable ones.
Rag Sorter
Railway Clerk
Railway Engine Driver, Stoker
Railway Labourer
Railway officer, clerk
Railway Porter
Railway Servant Port
Railway Shunter	Someone who shunts carriages and wagons in a railway yard.
Railway Station Master
Raker	A street sanitation worker.
Ratoner	A rat catcher.
Rattlewatch	A town watchman.
Redar	Someone who interprets dreams.
Redsmith	A goldsmith.
Reeder	someone who worked with reeds for hedging or thatching.
Reedmaker	Someone who made the pipe for a musical instrument, or a person who made a weavers implement (a reed) or reed cloth or the comb used in tapestry.
Reeler	Someone employed to operate the machine that wound the yarn onto the bobbin.
Reeve	A royal or manor official, appointed by the lord or elected by the peasants. A church warden.
Reever	A shriever.
Refuge Attendant SA	A refuge attendant with the Salvation Army
Regd Shoeing Smith	registered shoeing smith
Registrar	An official who registers events such as land purchases or births, marriages or deaths.
Relieving Officer	An official who took charge of poor or insane persons not otherwise cared for.
Renovator	Someone who repaired clothing.
Rent Collector	A landlord or someone who works for them who collects rent from tenants.
Rescue Worker	Someone who rescues people in trouble.
Restaurant Keeper	A proprietor or owner of a restaurant.
Restaurant Proprietor	A manager or owner of a restaurant.
Revenuer	A taxman who enforces tax laws on liquor.
Ribbon manufacturer	Someone who makes ribbons.
Rickmaster	A horse Captain.
Riddler	A wool stapler.
Riftere	A reaper.
Rigger	hoist tackle worker; works on a ship's rigging
Ripper or Rippier	sold fresh water fish at the markets or maker and seller of baskets
Riverman	Someone who works on a river boat.
Rivetter	Someone who rivets, i.e. metal plates on a ship.
Road labourer	Someone who repairs roads
Road Sweeper	Someone who sweeps the streets.
Rockgetter	A salt miner (rock salt).
Rockman	Someone who worked in a quarry, often the one who placed the charges on the rockface.
Rodman	A surveyor's assistant. See Poleman.
Roll Coverer	Someone who covered the rollers for the spinning process.
Roll Turner	A carder of wool, cotton etc into rolls prior to spinning.
Rolleyway Man	Someone who maintained the underground road in the mines.
Roman Cementer	Someone who worked with roman cement used in stuccoing.
Rope Maker	Someone who makes rope.
Roper	maker of rope or nets
Rotarius	A wheelwright.
Rough Packing Case Maker	Someone who made rough packing cases.
Rover	An archer, or the operator of a machine used in the cotton mills, which prepared the carded fibre into rolls.
Rower	Someone who builds small wagon wheels.
Rubbisher	Someone who sorted the small stones in the quarries.
Rubbler	Someone who sorted the small stones in the quarries.
Rugman	A dealer in rugs and carpets.
Rule Maker, tape	Someone who made tape rules.
Runner	One who solicited business for a hotel, steamship, etc
Runner	A smuggler, or a messenger or one who worked for the magistrate; Bow St Runners
Rustler	A cattle thief.
Sack Maker	Someone who made sacks.
Saddle Tree Maker	Someone who made the frames for saddles that the saddler used.
Saddler or Harness Maker	One who makes, repairs or sells saddles or other furnishings for horses
Safernman	A grower of saffron.
Sagger Maker	someone who made the fireclay containers in which the stoneware was placed ready for firing.
Sail Mantle Maker	A sailmaker.
Sailor	Someone who worked on a ship at sea.
Salesman	Someone who sold things.
Saleswoman	A woman who sold things.
Saloonist	A saloon keeper.
Salt Boiler	Someone who obtained salt by boiling water.
Salter	Someone who made or dealt in salt.
Samitere or Samite	Someone who makes a kind of heavy silk.
Sand Boiler
Sandesman	A messenger or ambassador.
Sandwichman	Someone who wears a sandwich billboard for advertising.
Sanitas Packer
Sarcinet Weaver	A silk weaver.
Saucer	Someone who made or dealt in salt.
Sauntere	Someone who made or dealt in salt.
Sausere	A salter.
Savant	A servant.
Saw Maker	Someone who made saws.
Sawbones	A surgeon or physician.
Sawdust Dealer	Someone who bought and sold sawdust.
Sawyer	carpenter, one who saws timber to boards
Say Weaver	Someone who made Say, a material used for table cloths or bedding.
Scabbler	Someone who uses a scabbler (pick) to trim the sides of a tunnel.
Scaffolder	Someone who erected scaffolding for building work.
Scagiola Maker	Someone who made imitation marble.
Scaleraker or Scavenger	employed by the parish to clean the streets
Scappler	Someone who roughly shaped the stone prior to being finished by the stonemason.
Scavelman	employed to keep the waterways and ditches clear
Scavenger
School Master	A schoolteacher.
School Mistress	A schoolteacher.
School Teacher	A schoolteacher.
Schrimpschonger	An artisan who carves in bone, ivory, or wood.
Schumacker	A shoemaker.
Scotch Draper	Someone who sold goods door to door with payment to be made by instalments.
Scotchman	Someone who sold goods door to door with payment to be made by instalments.
Screener	Someone who screened the ore at the mines surface.
Scribbler	Someone employed in a scribbling mill where the wool was roughly carded before spinning, or a minor or worthless author.
Scribe	clerk
Scriber	Someone who worked at the docks marking the cotton bales with the approximate weight ready for selling by the brokers.
Scribler	A minor or worthless author
Scrimer	A fencing master.
Scripture Reader	Someone employed by the clergy to go from house to house reading parts of the bible to try and encourage people to attend church.
Scrivener	Professional or public copyist or writer; notary public
Scrutineer	An election judge
Scullery Maid	female servant who performed all the menial tasks
Scullion	male servant who performed all the menial tasks
Sculptor	Someone who made sculptures.
Scutcher	Someone who beat the flax to soften the straw.
Seal Mantle Maker	Someone who made gas mantles.
Seal Presser	Someone who worked in the glass industry.
Seaman	A sailor.
Seamstress	Someone who sewed seams.
Searcher	A customs officer.
Seed Warehousewoman	A seed warehouse worker.
Seedsman	A dealer of seeds, or a sower of seeds
Seedwoman, Cook
Seinter	A girdle maker.
Seler or Sellarius	A saddler.
Self Acting Minder	Someone in charge of the automatic spinning mule in a mill.
Seller of Cats Meat	Someone who sold cats meat.
Semi Lorer	Someone who made leather thongs.
Sempster	A seamstress.
Sempstress	A seamstress.
Seneschal	A senior steward at the Manor.
Servant, General, Domestic	A domestic servant.
Serviens	A sergeant.
Servus	A servant.
Sevier	A sieve maker.
Sewer	A tailor or shoemaker.
Sewer Hunter	A scavenger who concentrated on the sewers looking for valuable objects.
Sewer Rat	bricklayer who specialised in making and repairing sewers and tunnels
Sewer, Shirt	Someone who sews shirts.
Sewing Clerk	The collector of piecework clothing.
Sewster	seamstress
Sewsward of Boots	A man who sewed boots.
Sexton	employee or officer of a church who cared and upkept church property
Shagreen Case Maker	Someone who worked with shagreen leather.
Shanty Man	A lumber man.
Sharecropper	A tenant farmer who would be paid with part of the crop.
Sharman	Someone who raised the surface of wollen cloth and then sheared it to a smooth surface; cutter of woolen cloth.
Shearer	Someone who cut the fleece from sheep.
Sheargrinder	Someone who sharpened shears, scissors, etc.
Shearman	Someone who sheared cloth or metal, or skilled worker who sheared the nap from cloth.
Sheath Maker	Someone who made scabbards for swords.
Sheepman	A sheep herder.
Shepster	A sheep shearer or a dressmaker.
Sherman	Someone who raised the surface of wollen cloth and then sheared it to a smooth surface; cutter of woolen cloth.
Shether	See Vaginarius.
Shingler	A roof tiler who used wooden tiles; shingles.
Ship Engineer	The engineer on a ship.
Ship Husband	repairer of ships while in harbour
Ship Master	owner or captain of a ship
Ships Chandler	grocer, provisioner, usually associated with provisioning ships
Shipwright	constructor or repairer or ships; a shipbuilder.
Shirt Draper
Shirt Dresser
Shirt Maker
Shoe Black
Shoe Cutter
Shoe Finder	Someone who sells shoe maker's tools.
Shoe Maker
Shoe Maker Finish
Shoe Manufacturer
Shoe Smith	A cobbler, or someone who shoed horses.
Shoe Trimmer
Shoe Wiper	A servant who polished shoes.
Shoeing Smith
Shoes Last
Shoesmith	cobbler, one who shoed horses
Shop Assistant
Shop Boy
Shop Girl
Shop Keeper
Shopman
Shot Firer	Someone in charge of blasting in mines or quarries.
Shrager	Someone who trimmed and pruned trees.
Shrieve	A sheriff
Shrievet	A sheriff
Shuffler	A yardman on a farm.
Shunter	one who moved rolling stock around the railway yards
Shuttle Maker	Someone who made the shuttles for the weaving mills.
Sick Nurse
Sickleman	A reaper.
Sidesman	Someone who assisted the churchwarden.
Sifker	A sieve maker.
Sign Painter or Writer	Someone who paints or writes signs.
Silk Dresser	Someone who prepared the silk for weaving.
Silk Dyer	Someone who dyed silk.
Silk Engine Turner	Someone who turned the wheel on the automatic silk weaving looms.
Silk manufacturer	The owner of a silk making factory
Silk Mercer	Someone who sold silk cloth and items made from silk.
Silk Thrower or Throwster	Someone who twisted silk into thread or yarn.
Silk Twister	Someone who spins silk.
Silk Veloct Weaver
Silk Weaver	Someone who wove silk.
Silk Weaveress	A woman who wove silk.
Silk Winder	Someone who wound silk.
Silker	Someone who sewed the ends of the fabric to prevent the layers from separating.
Silversmith	Someone who worked with silver.
Sinker	Someone skilled who contracted to sink new shafts for coal mining.
Sissor	A tailor.
Sizer	Someone who applies size to textiles.
Skepper	Someone who made or sold wicker or straw beehives.
Skin Dresser	Someone who dresses animal skins.
Skin Dresser, Fur	Someone who dresses animal fur.
Skinker	A tapster in an alehouse.
Skinner	A dealer in hides, or a mule driver.
Skipmaker	Someone who made the skips used in mining and quarrying for moving men or materials to the surface.
Skipper	master of a ship
Slaper or Slapper	Someone who worked in a pottery preparing the clay for the potter.
Slater or Slatter	A roofer or roof tiler who used slate tiles.
Slaymaker	Someone who makes reeds or slays; instruments to part threads in weaving, for looms.
Slipper Binder
Slipper Maker
Slipper Maker Assistant
Slipper Sewer
Slopseller or Slop Seller	Seller of ready-made clothes in a slop shop or a seller of baskets.
Slubber	Someone who operated the machine used to prepare cotton for spinning.
Slubber Doffer	Someone who removed the bobbins from the spindles in a mill.
Smallware Maker	Someone who made smallware e.g. tapes, braids etc.
Smelter	Someone who works in a metal smelter, or smelt fishermen.
Smiddy	A smith.
Smith	A metal worker
Smugsmith	A smuggler.
Snobscat or Snob	One who repaired shoes, a cobbler.
Snow Warden	Someone who kept the snow flat
Snuffer Maker	Someone who made candle snuffers.
Soap Boiler	A soap maker.
Soap Licker (Boiler)	A soap maker.
Sojourner	Someone who was staying somewhere temporarily, i.e. just passing through.
Sojourner Clothier	A travelling salesman in clothing.
Soldier	Served in the army.
Sole Cutter (Boot)	Someone who cut the soles for shoes and boots.
Solicitor	A lawyer, a person qualified to carry out legal duties.
Soper	A soap maker.
Sorter	Tailor
Sortor	Tailor
Souter	A shoemaker.
Soyor	A sawyer.
Spallier	Someone who worked in a tin works performing the menial tasks.
Sperviter	Someone who keeps sparrows.
Spicer	Someone who deals in spices, a grocer.
Spinner	Someone who spins yarn or fabric.
Spinster	A woman who spins or an unmarried woman.
Spittleman	A hospital attendant.
Splint Cutter	Someone who cut splints.
Splint Setter	Someone who set splints.
Splitter	Someone who operated a splitting machine or a person who split things by hand e.g. stone, timber etc.
Spooner	Someone who made spoons.
Spragger	Someone who inserts a piece of wood (sprag) between the wheels of a lorry (truck) to bring it to a standstill.
Spurrer	Someone who made spurs
Spurrier	Someone who made spurs
Squarewright	A cabinet maker.
Squire	Country gentleman; farm owner; justice of peace; knight's attendant. Esquire
Stable Foreman	Someone in charge of stables.
Stableman	A groom.
Stabler	An ostler
Stainer	Someone who coloured glass or wood.
Stall Keeper	Keeper of a market stall.
Stallman	Keeper of a market stall.
Stamper	Someone who operated a stamping machine.
Stampman	Someone who operates an ore crushing machine.
Stasyon or Stawsun	A stationer.
Stationary Engine Driver	Someone who operated a steam engine which was used for pumping water or sewage, etc.
Stationary Engine Stoker	Someone who stoked a stationary engine.
Stationary Engineer	Someone who looks after machinery such as pumping engines or lifts/hoists.
Stationer	A bookseller, seller of paper & writing implements.
Stationery Leade
Statist	A politician.
Stay Maker, Dress	A corset maker.
Steersman	A ship's helmsman.
Stenterer	Someone who operated the cloth finishing machine.
Step Boy	Someone employed to help passengers to enter or leave the coach.
Stevedore	labourer who unloads and loads ships' cargoes
Sticher	Someone who does decorative stitching.
Stick Dresser	Someone who dresses walking sticks.
Stick Finisher	Someone who finishes walking sticks.
Stick Maker or Stickmaker	Someone who made walking sticks.
Stick Manufacturer	The owner of a walking stick making factory.
Stick Polisher	Someone who polished walking sticks.
Stitcher	Someone who does decorative stitching.
Stock & Share Broker	Someone who dealt in stocks and shares.
Stockinger	Someone who made stockings.
Stoker	Someone who stoked the fire of a boiler.
Stokiner	A weaver of stockings.
Stone Dresser	Someone who dressed stone.
Stone Mason	A skilled craftsman who cut stone.
Stone Picker	Someone employed to remove the stones from the farmers fields before planting.
Stone quarrier	Someone who worked in a stone quarry
Stone Workers	Someone who worked with stone e.g. masons, quarries etc.
Stoneman	A surveyor of highways.
Stonewarden	A surveyor of highways.
Store Dresser	Someone who dressed a shop window.
Stove Blocker
Stowyer	Someone who stowed the nets away on fishing boats.
Stravaiger	A vagrant.
Straw hat and bonnet maker	Someone who made straw hats and bonnets.
Straw Joiner	Someone who thatched roofs.
Straw Plaiter	Someone who made straw braids for the hat industry.
Straw-plait manufacturer	someone who owned a straw plait making factory.
Streaker	Someone who prepared the body for burial.
Street Minstrel, Actor	A busker basically.
Street Orderly	A street cleaner.
Street Singer (Actor)	A busker basically.
Street Sweeper	Swept the streets.
Stretcher	Someone who stretched fabrics in the textile trade, sometimes called a tenter.
Striker	A blacksmith's assistant. Also in whaling, the one who harpooned the whale.
String Seller, Rope	Someone who sold string and rope.
Stringer	Someone who made the strings for bows.
Stripper	Someone employed in the woollen trade to remove the rubbish from the carding machines.
Stripper in Tobacco Factory	Stripped tobacco leaves.
Stuff gown or Stuffed Gown.	Junior barrister. Stuff Gowsman is probably a misspelling
Stuff gownsman	Junior barrister
Stuff Weaver	Someone who wove stuff, the coarse part of flax.
Sucksmith	Someone who made ploughshares.
Sugar Boiler	Someone who boiled sugar.
Sugar Finer	Someone who refined sugar.
Sugar Grocer	Someone who sold sugar.
Sugarer	A sugar dealer.
Sumner	A summoner or apparitor.
Sumpter	A porter.
Supercargo	Officer on merchant ship who is in charge of cargo and the commercial concerns of the ship
Superintendant or Super	A boss, someone in charge.
Surface Man	Someone who worked at the surface of a mine.
Surgeon Gen Pract: Regd	G.P. - a doctor
Surgeon, apothecary	Someone who was qualified to carry out surgical operations.
Sutler	A peddler or merchant in an army camp, one who supplies them with provisions.
Swailer	A corn miller; a miller or a dealer in grain.
Sweep	A chimney sweep
Sweeper Out	Someone employed in the mills, and other industries, to keep the floor clean.
Sweet Stuff Vendor	A confectioner, or a sweet shop.
Swell Maker	Someone who made shallow baskets.
Swineyard or Swineherder	Someone who keeps pigs.
Sword Cutler	A sword maker.
Tabernarius	A taverner, or innkeeper.
Table Maker	Someone who made tables.
Tabler	A boarding house proprietor.
Tackler	An overlooker of power loom weavers.
Tailor	Someone who made or repaired clothes.
Tailor & Clothier	Someone who made or repaired clothes.
Tailor Coat Hand	A tailor's assistant.
Tailor Hand	A tailor's assistant.
Tailoress	A female tailor
Tailor's Apprentice	Someone learning the tailor's trade.
Tailor's Assistant	A tailor's assistant.
Tailor's Cutter	A tailor's assistant - cuts cloth.
Tailor's Labourer	A tailor's assistant.
Tailor's Machiner	A tailor's assistant - machines cloth.
Tailor's Machinist	A tailor's assistant - machines cloth.
Tailor's Presser	A tailor's assistant - presses cloth.
Taker Off or Taker In	Someone, often a child, employed to unhitch the coal tubs from the endless rope system.
Tallow Chandler	Someone who made or sold candles
Tally Clerk	Someone who kept count of goods arriving or departing from warehouses, docks etc.
Tallyman or Tally Fellow	Someone who sold goods that were paid for in instalments.
Tan Bark Stripper	Someone who collected the bark that was used in the tanning process.
Tannator	A tanner.
Tanner	One who tans (cures) animal hides into leather
Taper	A candlewick maker or seller.
Taper Weaver	Someone who made the wicks for candles.
Tapicer or Tapiter	Someone who wove worsted cloth.
Tapley	One who puts the tap in an ale cask
Tapster	Someone employed to serve the beer in public houses, a barman.
Tarpaulin Maker	Someone who made tarpaulins.
Tarrier	Someone in charge of a pack of terriers used for hunting.
Tasker	A reaper or thresher.
Tasseler	Someone who made tassels used in furnishings. Also a nobleman.
Taverner	An inn keeper.
Tawer	Someone who made white leather.
Tawyer	Someone who made white leather.
Tea Cooper	tea chests were fastened with metal bands. Any container fastened with metal bands was considered a cooper's trade
Tea Packer	Someone who packs tea into boxes.
Teacher	someone who teaches.
Teacher, School	someone who teaches.
Teamer or Teamer man	Someone in charge of a team of horses.
Teamster	Someone in charge of a team of horses.
Teemer	Someone who emptied grain from the cart, or someone who poured the molten steel into the moulds.
Teinter	A dyer.
Telegraph Messenger	Someone who delivers messages sent by telegraph.
Telegraphist & Clerk	Someone who sends and receives telegraph messages.
Tenter	Someone who stretched the cloth on a machine whilst it was drying, or who looked after and maintained the machine used in the process. Also a term for someone who looked after something e.g. a door tenter or pony tenter in the mining industry.
Terrier	Someone in charge of a pack of terriers used for hunting.
Textor	A weaver.
Thacker	A roof thatcher.
Thatcher	roofer, one who covered roofs with straw or reeds.
Thirdborough	An under, or deputy constable. Also a tithing man.
Thresher	Someone who separated the grain from the husks and straw.
Throwster	Someone in the textile trade who twisted the strands of fibre together into yarn.
Ticket Writer	Someone who writes tickets.
Tickney Man or Woman	Someone who sold earthenware from town to town.
Tide Gauger	Someone who monitored the state of the tide.
Tide Surveyor	Someone who monitored the state of the tide.
Tide waiter	Customs inspector
Tidesman	A customs officer who checked the goods being unloaded from ships to ascertain the amount of duty due.
Tiemaker or Tie Maker	someone who made wooden railway ties.
Tiger	A small groom or pageboy in livery.
Tiler	Someone who lays tiles on roofs or floors.
Tiller	A farmer.
Tillman	A ploughman.
Tiltmaker	Someone who made canvas awnings or canopies.
Timber Dealer	Someone who dealt in timber.
Timber Porter	Someone who carried or moved timber.
Timekeeper	Someone responsible for making sure things happened on time e.g. worker arriving or departing, trains, coaches, buses, etc.
Times Ironer	Someone responsible for ironing the daily newspaper.
Tin miner	Someone who mined tin ore.
Tin Plate Worker	Someone who worked with tin plate.
Tinctor	A dyer.
Tinker	An itinerant tin pot and pan seller and repairman
Tinman	a tinsmith or tinker
Tinner	Someone who worked in the tin mines or a tinsmith.
Tinsmith or Tin Smith	Someone who worked with tin.
Tinter or Teinter	An artist who performs tinting.
Tipper	Someone who put the metal tips on arrows, etc.
Tippler	Someone who ran an alehouse.
Tipstaff	A policeman or court official.
Tirewoman	A milliner, a hairdresser, or a female dresser, often in the theatre.
Tixtor	A weaver.
Tobacco Spinner	maker of cigars
Tobacconist	shop selling tobacco products
Todd or Todhunter	Someone employed by the parish to hunt foxes.
Toe Rag	worked at the docks as a corn porter
Toilinet Manufacturer	Someone who made toilinet (a kind of quilting).
Toller	Someone who collected tolls.
Tollgate Keeper	Someone who worked at the toll gate to collect fees for the use of the road.
Tollie	See Tollgate Keeper
Tollman	Someone who collected tolls.
Tonsor	A barber, or men's hairdresser. (Latin)
Tool Helver	Someone who made tool handles.
Top Sawyer	The upper man in a saw pit.
Topman	A sailor who works in the ship's rigging.
Topsman	The head cattle drover.
Touch Holer	Someone who worked in the gun manufacturing industry.
Tow Card Maker	Someone who made tow cards, used in the textile industry.
Town Chamberlain	Someone who looked after the towns affairs.
Town Crier	one who made public announcments in the streets
Town Husband	Someone employed by the parish to collect money from the fathers of illegitimate children for their upkeep.
Townswaiter	A customs official.
Toy Maker	Someone who made toys.
Toyman or Toy Dealer	Someone who sold children's toys.
Tozer	Someone who worked in the wool mills employed to tose or tease the cloth.
Tradesman
Trammer	A young person who worked in the mines.
Trampler	A lawyer.
Tranqueter	Someone who made hoops.
Tranter	A peddler
Trapper	A young person employed in the mines to open and shut the doors for the miners.
Traveller	A travelling salesman.
Travelling Bag Maker	Someone who made travelling bags.
Travelling Glazier	Someone who replaced broken windows.
Travers	Toll bridge collector
Treen Maker	Someone who made domestic articles from wood.
Treenail Maker	someone who made the long wooden pins used in shipbuilding.
Trenchermaker	Someone who made wooden boards or platters for serving food from or cutting and slicing food on.
Trencherman	A cook.
Trepanger	one who used a circular saw to cut timber
Trimmer	trims a ship by re-arranging its cargo
Trimmer in Braid	Someone who sews braid onto the edges of clothing.
Trimmer Up
Trimming Head
Trimming Maker	someone who made trimming.
Trimming Seller	Someone who sold trimming.
Tripper	A dancer.
Troacher	A peddler.
Trolley Carter	Someone who operated the tubs in the mines.
Troner	A weighing official at the markets.
Trouchman	An interpreter.
Trousers Finisher	Someone who finished trousers.
Trover	A smuggler.
Truchman	An interpreter.
Truck Lad
Trugger	Someone who made long shallow baskets.
Trunk Maker	Someone who made trunks.
Trusser	Someone who bundled and tied hay.
Trustee
Tubber	made tubs and barrels ie a cooper
Tubedrawer	Someone who made tubes.
Tubman	Someone who worked in the mines filling the tubs, or a court official, or an English barrister.
Tucker	Cleaner of cloth goods
Tucker In	A maid who attended the bedroom and "tucked in the bedclothes".
Tunist	Someone who tuned musical instruments.
Turned Sulky
Turner	a person who turns wood on a lathe into spindles, or a gymnast, particularly street performers or beggars.
Turning Boy	Someone who assisted the weaver by turning the bar on the loom.
Turnkey	prison warder or jail keeper
Turnpike Keeper	See Tollgate Keeper.
Turnspit	Someone who operated the spit handle.
Tweenie or Tweeny	A maid who worked "between the stairs" she assisted the cooks and the housemaids.
Twist Hand	Someone who operated a lace machine.
Twister or Twisterer	Someone who operated the machine used for twisting yarns and threads together.
Ulnager	examined the quality of woollen goods to be sold
Umbrella Cutter
Umbrella Frame Maker
Umbrella Maker
Undertaker
Unfortunate	prostitute
Upholder	An upholsterer, or someone who made quilts or mattresses. Also a cheapjack and seller of secondhand goods. Also someone who assisted an auctioneer.
Upholsterer
Upholsterer's Tunner
Upholsteress	A female upholsterer.
Upright Worker	A chimney sweep.
Vaginarius	A sheather, or scabbard maker.
Valet	male servant that attended a nobleman or gentleman.
Valuator	Someone who assessed the value of objects.
Van Boy
Van Guard	A guard on a train.
Van Inspector
Varnisher (Furniture)	Someone who applied varnish to furniture.
Vassal	Servant of the lowest order
Vatman	Someone employed in the paper making industry to put the paper pulp into the moulds. Also someone who worked with vats in a brewery.
Vegetable Salesman	Someone who sold vegetables.
Vellum Binder	Someone who bound vellum.
Vellum Sewer	Someone who sewed vellum.
Venator	A huntsman.
Vendor of Sweets	Someone who sold sweets, a confectioner.
Venur	A huntsman.
Verderer	An official in charge of the royal forest, they are the watchdogs of the Forest landscape.
Verge Maker	Someone who made the spindles used in clocks and watches.
Verger	one who worked with the priest in the running the church
Verrier	A glazier.
Vestment Maker	Someone who made the gowns worn by priests.
Veterinery Surgeon
Victualler or Victualer	A tavern keeper, or one who provides an army, navy, or ship with food supplies. A seller of food and drink.
Viewer	one who worked at the mines in a managerial capacity
Villein	Someone who paid dues to the lord of the manor in return for use of the land.
Vintager	grape farmer, wine maker
Vintner	wine merchant
Virginal Player	Someone who played a musical instrument similar to a harpsichord.
Visitor of Sick	A volunteer who visits sick people to cheer them up.
Vulcan	Blacksmith
Wabster	A weaver.
Waggoner	Someone who drove a wagon, a carrier.
Wagoner	wagon or cart driver
Wailer	Someone employed in the mines to remove the impurities from the coal.
Wainwright	A builder or repairer of wagons
Waistcoat Maker
Waiter	Customs officer or tide waiter; one who waited on the tide to collect duty on goods brought in
Waiter, Inn	Someone who waited on tables at an inn.
Waitman	A night watchman.
Waitress, Inn	A female who waited on tables at an inn.
Wakeman	A night watchman.
Walker	A cloth worker who cleaned and thickened the cloth by wetting it then walking over it.
Walking Stick Dresser	someone who dressed walking sticks.
Walking Stick Maker	Someone who made walking sticks.
Waller	someone who built walls either with bricks or dry stone, also someone who worked making coarse salt.
Wantcatcher	Someone employed to catch moles.
Wanter	A mole catcher
Warder	Someone in charge of prisoners.
Wardrobe Dealer	Someone who dealt in wardrobes.
Wardrobe Shop Keeper	Keeper of a shop which sold wardrobes.
Wards Maid Hospital
Warehouse Boy	An assistant in a warehouse.
Warehouse Lad	An assistant in a warehouse.
Warehouse Man	Someone in charge of or employee in a warehouse.
Warehouse Porter	An employee in a warehouse.
Warper	Someone who set the warp thread on the looms, also someone employed to move boats by hauling on the warps (the ropes attached to the boats).
Warrener	Someone in charge of a portion of land used for breeding rabbits and other small game.
Washman	A tin coater.
Waste Paper Dealer	Someone who dealt in waste paper.
Wasteman	Someone employed in the mines to check the old workings for gas and maintain them in good order. A person employed to remove waste.
Watch & Clock Maker	Someone who makes watches and clocks.
Watch Finisher	assembled watches and clocks
Watchman	A town official who guarded the streets at night.
Water Bailiff	official in charge of the fishing rights on a stretch of water
Water Carrier	Someone who carried and sold fresh water
Water Cress Woman	A woman who grew and sold water cress.
Water Gilder	Someone who trapped water fowl.
Water Leader, Leder or Loder	Someone who transported and sold fresh drinking water.
Waterman	someone who worked with or on boats usually on rivers.
Waterproof Cab Maker	Someone who waterproofed cabs.
Waterproof Garment Maker	Someone who made waterproof clothing.
Waterside Labourer	A dock labourer who worked on the ships in harbour.
Wattle Hurdle Maker	Someone who made a type of fence from wattle to keep the sheep in.
Waulkmiller	See Walker.
Waver	A weaver
Way Maker	employed to make roads
Way Man	surveyor of roads
Weatherspy	An astrologer
Weaver	Someone who weaves.
Webber	A weaver.
Webster	A weaver operating weaving looms (originally a female weaver).
Weeder	Someone employed to remove the weeds from the gardens of the rich.
Weigher	Someone employed on the docks to weigh the cargo as it was unloaded.
Well Sinker	Someone who dug wells.
Well Wright	Someone who made the winding equipment used to raise the bucket in the well.
Wellmaster	Someone in charge of the local well with the responsibility of ensuring clean water for the village.
Wet Glover	Someone who made leather gloves.
Wet Nurse	woman employed to suckle the child of another (common practice with the rich)
Wetter	Someone employed to dampen paper during the printing process. Also someone in the glass industry who detached the glass by wetting.
Whacker	A horse or oxen team driver.
Wharf Labourer	A labourer who works on a wharf.
Wharfanger	The owner of a wharf.
Wharfinger	The owner of a wharf, or one who is in charge.
Wheeler	wheel maker, attended to the spinning wheel in the textile industry
Wheelwright	maker or repairer of wagon wheels, carriages
Wheeryman	Someone in charge of a wheery, a small light rowing boat.
Whig	A horse driver.
Whipcord Maker	Someone who made whips.
Whipmaker	Someone who made whips.
Whipperin	Someone who managed the hounds in a hunt.
Whit Cooper	Someone who made barrels etc from tin.
Whitcher	Someone who makes chests.
White Limer	Someone who plastered walls using lime and water plaster.
Whitear	Someone who cleaned hides.
Whitener	Someone who bleached cloth.
Whitening Moulder
Whitening Roll Maker	Someone who made the whitening used in whitening walls of cottages.
Whitesmith	Tinsmith; worker of iron who finishes or polishes the work
Whitester	Someone who bleached cloth.
Whitewing	A street sweeper.
Whitster	Someone who bleached cloth.
Whittawer	Someone who made saddles and harnesses. Also someone who prepared white leather.
Wholesale Butcher	A butcher who supplied other shops rather than the general public.
Wholesale Oilman	Someone who supplied oil to oil dealers.
Willeyer	Someone who throws handfulls of wool or hair, hemp or flax tow, etc., on to the feed apparatus of a willeying machine. A textile process.
Willow Plaiter or Weaver	Someone who made baskets, etc.
Winder	Someone who transferred the yarn from bobbins onto cheeses or into balls ready for weaving. Also, in the mines someone who operated the pulley or winch.
Window Cleaner	Someone who cleaned windows.
Windster	A silk winder.
Wine and spirit merchant	A dealer in wine and spirits.
Wire Drawer	Someone who made wire from metal by drawing the metal through various size holes in a template.
Wire Frame Maker
Wire Worker	Someone who works with wire.
Wonkey-Scoop	A driver who operates a one horse scoop.
Wood Box Maker	Someone who makes wooden boxes.
Wood Carver	Someone who carves in wood.
Wood Chopper	Someone who chops wood.
Wood Cutter	Someone who cuts wood.
Wood Sawyer	Someone who saws wood.
Wood Tier
Wood Turner	Someone who turns wood on a lathe.
Wood, Timber Merchant	Someone who dealt in wood.
Woodbreaker	Someone who made wooden water casks.
Woodranger	Someone in charge of the forest or woods.
Woodreeve	Someone in charge of the forest or woods.
Woodward	Someone in charge of the forest or woods.
Woodworker	Someone who works with wood.
Wool Comber	Someone employed in the woollen mills to operate the machines that separate the fibres ready for spinning.
Wool Driver	Someone who brought the wool to market.
Wool Factor	wool merchants agent.
Wool Grower	A sheep farmer.
Wool Knitter	Someone who knits wool.
Wool Labourer	A general labourer who works in the woollen industry.
Wool Man	Someone who sorted the wool into different grades.
Wool Sorter or Woolsorter	Someone who sorted the wool into different grades.
Wool Stapler	Someone who sorted the wool into different grades.
Wool Winder	Someone who made up balls of wool for selling.
Woolen or Woollen Billy Piecer	Someone employed in the woollen mills to piece together the broken yarns.
Woollen cloth manufacture	The owner of a woollen cloth factory.
Woolsted Man	A seller of woollen cloth; from worsted man.
Working Builder	A builder.
Working in Fur	Someone who works with fur.
Works in Soap Factory	Someone who works in a soap factory.
Worsted Manufacturer	Someone who made worsted cloth.
Worsted Shearman	Someone who made worsted cloth.
Worsted Winder	Someone who winds wool.
Wright	A skilled workman; builder or repairer, many different trades.
Writer	Someone who writes, a scribe or a clerk.
Wyrtha	A labourer.
Xylographer	Someone who used and made wooden blocks used in printing illustrations.
Yard Labourer	Someone who works in a yard.
Yardman	Rail road yard worker, or a farm worker.
Yatman	A gate keeper.
Yearman	Someone contracted to work for a year.
Yeoman	A farmer who owns his own land; a freeholder, the next class down from gentry, or an assistant to an official, or a ships officer in charge of stores.
Zinc Worker	Someone who worked with zinc.
Zincographer	designer who etched in relief a pattern on zinc plates used for printing
Zitherist	A player of a simple, flat many-stringed instrument.
Zoetrope Maker	A craftsman who made zoetropes, an optical toy in the form of a cylinder with a series of pictures painted on the inner surface which gave the impression of continuous motion when viewed through slits in the rotating cylinder.
Zoographer	one who classifies species of animals

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