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List of Jobs/Occupations Part 3

Deviation Actions

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QUARREL PICKER - glazier
QUARRIER / QUARRYMAN - quarry worker
QUILLER - one who operated a machine that wound yarn onto spools
QUILTER / QUILTRESS - one who quilted material
QUISTER - one who bleached things
QWYLWRYGHTE - wheelwright
RACK MAIDEN - girl employed in the tin mines of Cornwall to dress the ore
RAFFMAN - one who dealt in raff (saleable rubbish)
RAFF MERCHANT - seller of fibre used to make raffia bags etc
RAG CUTTER - one who cut up rags into small pieces to be used for making paper etc
RAG GATHERERS - employed to clear the rags from the machinery in the mills (usually children)
RAG MAN - one who went from street to street collecting and selling old clothes and rags
RAG AND BONE MAN - one who went from street to street with a cart and collected any old rubbish, usually in exchange for a small item, e.g. a block of soapstone
RAG PICKER - sorted through the left over rags to find re usable ones
RAKER - street sanitation worker
RATONER - rat catcher
RATTLEWATCH - town watchman
RECTIFIER - one who distilled alcoholic spirits
REDAR - interpreter of dreams
REDSMITH - goldsmith
REEDER - worked with reeds for hedging or thatching
REEDMAKER - made the pipe for a musical instrument or made a weavers implement (a reed) or reed cloth or the comb used in tapestry
REELER - operated the machine that wound the yarn onto the bobbin
REEVE - church warden
REEVER - shriever
REGISTRAR - official who registers events such as land purchases or births
RENOVATOR - one who repaired clothing
REVENUER - taxman who enforces tax laws on liquor
RICKMASTER - Captain of Horse
RIDDLER - wool stapler
RIFTERE - reaper
RIGGER - hoist tackle worker; works on a ship's rigging
RIPPER / RIPPIER - one who sold fresh water fish at the markets or maker and seller of baskets
RIVERMAN - worker on a river boat
ROCKMAN - worked in a quarry usually placing the charges on the rockface
ROCKGETTER - rocksalt miner
ROLLER COVERER - one who covered the rollers for the spinning process
ROLLEYWAY MAN - maintained the underground road in the mines
ROLL TURNER - carder of wool, cotton etc into rolls prior to spinning
ROMAN CEMENTER / PLASTERER - one who worked with roman cement used in stuccoing
ROPER - maker of rope or nets
ROVER - archer or operator of a machine used in cotton mills which prepared the carded fibre into rolls
RODMAN - surveyor's assistant
RUBBISHER / RUBBLER - sorted the small stones in the quarries
RUGMAN - dealer in rugs
RUNNER - smuggler, messenger and ironically one who worked for the magistrate best remembered as Bow Street Runners
RUSTLER - cattle thief
SADDLER - one who made saddles, harnesses, horse collars, bridles
SADDLE TREE MAKER - one who made the frames for saddles that the saddler used
SAGGAR (also SAGGER) MAKER - one who made the fireclay containers in which the stoneware was placed ready for firing
SAGGAR (also SAGGER) MAKER'S BOTTOM KNOCKER- was the saggar maker's assistant who tapped the bottom of the pots
SALT BOILER - one who obtained salt by boiling water
SALTER / DRYSALTER / SAUCER - one who made or dealt in salt
SARCINET WEAVER - silk weaver
SALOONIST - saloon keeper
SANDESMAN - ambassador or messenger
SAND HOG - those who dug the tunnel under the river
SANDWICHMAN - wears a sandwich billboard for advertising
SAW DOCTOR - made, repaired, maintained and sharpened a wide range of cutting tools and saw blades and also maintained and aligned mechanical parts of a range of production machines
SAWYER - saws timber to boards
SAY WEAVER - one who made Say, material used for table cloths or bedding
SCAGIOLA MAKER - one who made imitation marble
SCALERAKER / SCAVENGER - employed by the parish to clean the streets
SCAPPLER - one who roughly shaped the stone prior to being finished by the stonemason
SCAVELMAN - employed to keep the waterways and ditches clear
SCHRIMPSCHONGER - artisan who carves in bone, ivory, or wood
SCHUMACKER - shoemaker
SCOTCH DRAPER / SCOTCHMAN - sold goods door to door with payment to be made by installments
SCREENER - screened the ore at the mines surface
SCRIBE - clerk
SCRIBLER - a minor or worthless author
SCRIMER - fencing master
SCRIVENER - clerk, notary
SCRIBBLER - employed in a scibbling mill where the wool was roughly carded before spinning
SCRIBER - employed at the docks to mark the cotton bales with the approximate weight ready for selling by the brokers
SCRIPTURE READER - employed by the local clergy to go from house to house reading parts of the bible to try and encourage people to attend church, also read scriptures during some services
SCRIVENER - wrote out legal documents etc
SCRUTINEER - election judge
SCUTCHER - beat the flax to soften the straw in the bundles
SCULLERY MAID - female servant who performed all the menial tasks
SCULLION - male servant who performed all the menial tasks
SEAL PRESSER - employed in the glass industry to seal the bath against air intake which could spoil the finished surface
SEARCHER - customs man
SECRET SPRINGER - one made watch springs
SEEDSMAN - sower of seeds
SEDGEMAN - skilled workman who applied sedge (type of grass) which was used as an early roofing material
SELF ACTING MINDER - one in charge of the automatic spinning mule in the mills
SEMI LORER - maker of leather thongs
SEMPSTER - seamstress
SENESCHAL - A senior steward at the Manor
SEWER HUNTER (also see TOSHHR) - scavenger who concentrated on the sewers trying to find valuable objects
SEWER RAT - bricklayer who specialised in making and repairing sewers and tunnels
SEWING CLERK - collector of clothing piecework
SEWSTER - seamstress
SEXTON - employee or officer of a church who cared and upkept church property and sometimes rang bells and dug graves
SHAGREEN CASE MAKER - one who worked with shagreen leather
SHANTY MAN - lumberman
SHARECROPPER - tenant farmer who would be paid with part of the crop
SHEARER - removed the fleece from sheep
SHEARGRINDER - sharpened shears, scissors
SHEARMAN or SHERMAN - shearer of cloth, metal
SHEATH MAKER - one who made scabbards for swords
SHEEPMAN - sheep herder
SHEPSTER - dressmaker
SHINGLER - A roof tiler who used wooden tiles (shingles)
SHIP HUSBAND - repairer of ships while in harbor
SHIP MASTER - owner or captain of a ship
SHIPWRIGHT - constructor or repairer or ships
SHOE FINDER - seller of shoe maker's tools
SHOESMITH - cobbler, one who shoed horses
SHOE WIPER - servant who polished shoes
SHOT FIRER - one in charge of blasting in mines or quarries
SHRAGER - one who trimmed and pruned trees
SHRIEVE - sheriff
SHUFFLER - yardman on the farms
SHUNTER - one who moved rolling stock around the railway yards
SHUSTER - shoe maker
SHUTTLE MAKER - made the shuttles for the weaving mills
SICKLEMAN - reaper
SIDESMAN - one who assisted the churchwarden
SILK ENGINE TURNER - turned the wheel on automatic silk weaving looms
SILK THROWER - worker in the silk industry
SILKER - sewed the ends of the fabric to prvent the layers from separating
SILK DRESSER - prepared the silk for weaving
SILK MERCER - sold silk cloth and items made from silk
SILK TWISTER - silk spinner
SIMPLER - agriculturist that we would call herbalist today
SILVERSMITH - worked with silver
SISSOR or CISSOR - tailor
SIZER - applied the size to cloth or worked in a paper mill
SKEINER MAKER - made wheels used in spinning industry upon which yarn was wound
SKEPPER / SKELPER - one who made and sold beehives
SKINKER - tapster in an ale house
SKINNER - dealer in hides, mule driver
SKIPMAKER - one who made the skips used in mining and quarrying for moving men or materials to the surface
SKIPPER - master of a ship
SLAPPER / SLAPER - one who worked in a pottery preparing the clay for the potter
SLATER - roofer
SLAYMAKER - apparently an Old English name meaning maker of slay's--wooden pegs used in weaving
SLOPSELLER - seller of readymade clothes in a slop shop
SLUBBER - operated the machine used to prepare cotton for spinning
SLUBBER DOFFER - removed the bobbins from the spindles in the mills
SMACKMAN - worked on a sailing ship (as a sloop or cutter) used chiefly in coasting and fishing
SMALLWARE MAKER - who made smallware, e.g. tapes, braids etc
SMELTER - worker in a metal smelter, smelt fisherman
SMIDDY - smith
SMITH - metal worker
SMUGSMITH - smuggler
SNAPPER - worker in glass factory who placed molded bottle (by neck) into furnace hole
SNOBSCAT - one who repair shoes
SNUFFER MAKER - made the candle snuffer
SOAP BOILER (SOPER) - soap maker
SOJOURNER CLOTHIER - travelling clothes salesman
SOLICITOR - lawyer
SORTOR - tailor
SOUTER - shoe maker
SPALLIER - tin worker who performs chiefly menial tasks
SPERVITER - keeper of sparrows
SPICER - grocer or dealer in spices
SPINNER - spins yarn
SPLITTER - operated a splitting machine or one who split things by hand, e.g. stone, timber etc
SPOONER - made spoons
SPURRER or SPURRIER - maker of spurs
SQUIRE - (esquire) practitioner of a profession, a gentleman
SUPERCARGO - officer on merchant ship in charge of cargo
SUTLER - followed soldiers to encampments, set up tents to sell supplies, foodstuffs and dry goods
STABLER - ostler
STALLMAN - keeper of a market stall
STAMPMAN - worker of an ore crushing machine
STATIONER - bookseller, seller of paper & writing implements
STATIST - politician
STAY MAKER - corset maker
STEEPLE JACKER - painted flag poles etc.
STEERSMAN - ship's helmsman
STENTERER - operated the cloth finishing machine
STEP BOY - employed to help passengers to enter or leave the coach
STEVEDORE - laborer who unloads and loads ships' cargoes
STEWARD - manager of property, purveyor of supplies or someone who attended passengers on conveyance
STICHER - one who does decorative stitching
STOCKINGER - knitter, weaver, or dealer in stockings
STOKER - tends the fire of an engine boiler
STONEMAN / STONEWARDEN - a surveyor of highways
STONE PICKER - employed to remove the stones from the farmers fields before planting
STONE WORKERS - worked with stone eg masons, quarriers etc
STOREMAN - one responsible for stored goods
STOWYER - one who stowed the nets away on fishing boats
STRAVAIGER - vagrant
STRAW JOINER - one who thatched roofs
STRAW PLAITER - one who made straw braids for the hat industry
STREAKER - one who prepared the body for burial
STREET ORDERLY / BOY - street cleaner
STRIKER - blacksmiths helper or harpooned the whale
STRIPPER - employed in the woollen trade to remove the rubbish from the carding machines
STRINGER - made the strings for bows
STUFF GOWSMAN - junior barrister
STUFF WEAVER - wove stuff (the coarse part of flax)
SUCKSMITH - one who made ploughshares
SUMNER - summoner or apparitor
SUMPTER - porter
SUTLER - merchant or peddler in an army camp
SWAILER - miller or dealer in grain
SWAIN - herdsman
SWEEP - chimneysweep
SWELL MAKER - one who made shallow baskets
SWINEYARD / SWINEHERDER - pig keeper
SWINGLER - one who beats flax to remove woody parts
SWORD CUTLER - sword maker
TABLER - boarding house operator
TACKLER - an overlooker of power loom weavers
TACKSMAN - middleman who leased a large piece of land from the owner and sublet it in small lots
TAILOR - one who made or repaired clothes
TALLOW CHANDLER - made or sold candles
TALLY CLERK - kept count of goods arriving or departing from warehouses, docks etc
TALLYMAN / TALLYFELLOW - one who sold goods that were paid for in installments
TAN BARK STRIPPER - collected the bark that was used in the tanning process
TANNER - leather maker
TAPER WEAVER - one who made the wicks for candles
TAPITER / TAPICER - one who wove worsted cloth
TAPLEY - One who puts the tap in an ale cask
TAPPIOLOGIST - someone who taps the wheels of trains to check for cracks and flaws
TAPSTER - bartender or barmaid
TAR BOY - applied tar (as antiseptic) to sheep when they were nicked by shearers
TASKER - reaper
TASSELER - one who made tassels used in furnishings or nobleman
TAVERNER - innkeeper
TAWER / TAWYER - white leather maker
TEAMER / TEAMER MAN / TEAMSTER - person in charge of a team of horses
TEASER - one who opens up matted wool for carding
TEEMER - person who emptied grain from the cart or who poured the molten steel into the moulds
TENTER / TENTERER - one who stretched the cloth on a machine while it was drying or looked after and maintained the machine used in the process
TEXTOR - weaver
THACKER - thatcher
THATCHER - one who covered roofs with straw or reeds
THIRDBOROUGH - an underconstable
THRESHER - one who separated the grain from the husks and straw
THROWSTER - one in the textile trade who twisted the strands of fibre together into yarn
TICKET WRITER - person (usually female) who hand wrote or painted the price tickets on goods displayed for sale and painted the signs that go up to make a window display
TICKNEY MAN / WOMAN - sold earthenware from town to town
TIDE GAUGER / SURVEYOR - monitored the state of the tide
TIDESMAN / TIDE WAITER - customs official
TIEMAKER - one who made wooden railway ties
TIGER - small groom or pageboy in livery
TILER - one who put tiles in place either on the roof or floor
TILLER - farmer
TILLMAN - plowman
TIMES IRONER - servant responsible for ironing the daily newspaper
TINCTOR - dyer
TINKER - traveling repairman
TINMAN - a tinsmith or tinker
TINNER - tin miner, tinsmith
TINTER OR TEINTER - artists who performs tinting
TIPPER - one who put the metal tips on arrows etc
TIPPLER - kept an ale house
TIPSTAFF - policeman
TIREWOMAN - female dresser, especially in the theater
TIXTOR - weaver
TOBACCO SPINNER - maker of cigars
TODHUNTER - employed by the parish to hunt foxes
TOE RAG - who worked at the docks as a corn porter
TOILINET MANUFACTURER - made toilinet (a kind of quilting)
TOLLER / TOLLGATE KEEPER / TOLLIE / TOLMAN / TURNPIKE KEEPER - worked at the toll gate to collect fees for use of the road
TONSOR - Latin for barber
TOOL HELVER - made tool handles
TOPMAN - sailor who works in the ship's rigging
TOP SAWYER - upper man in a saw pit
TOPSMAN - head cattle drover
TOUCH HOLER - one who worked in the gun manufacturing industry
TOSHER (also see SEWER HUNTER) - sewer hunters were formerly, and indeed still are, called by the name of toshers, the articles which they pick up in the course of their wanderings along the shore being known among themselves by the general term tosh
TOW CARD MAKER - one who made tow cards, used in the textile industry
TOWN CHABERLAIN - one who looked after the towns affairs
TOWN CRIER - one who made public announcments in the streets
TOWN HUSBAND - employed by the parish to collect the money from the fathers of illegitimate children for their upkeep
TOWNSWAITER - customs man
TOZER - worked in the wool mills employed to tose or tease the cloth
TRAMMER - young person who worked in the mines
TRAMPLER - lawyer
TRANQUETER - person who made hoops
TRANTER - peddler
TRAPPER - employed in the mines to open and shut the doors for the miners
TRAVERS - toll bridge collection
TREEN MAKER - made domestic articles from wood
TREENAIL MAKER - one who made the long wooden pins used in shipbuilding
TRENCHERMAKER - made wooden boards or platters for serving food from or cutting and slicing food on
TRENCHERMAN - cook
TREPANGER - one who used a circular saw to cut timber
TRIMMER - trims a ship by re-arranging its cargo
TROACHER - pedlar
TRONER - weighing official at the markets
TROTTER / TROTMAN / TROTT - messenger
TROUCHMAN / TRUCHMAN - interpreter
TROVER - smuggler
TRUGGER - one who made long shallow baskets
TUBBER - one who made tubs and barrels ie a cooper
TUBMAN - English barrister
TUCKER - cleaner of cloth goods
TUCKER IN - maid who attended the bedroom and "tucked in the bedclothes"
TURNER - gymnast, lathe worker
TURNKEY - prison warder or jail keeper
TURNSPIT - one who operated the spit handle
TWEENIE / TWEENY - maid who worked "between the stairs" she assisted the cooks and the housemaids
TWISTER / TWISTERER - one who operated the machine used for twisting yarns and threads together
TWIST HAND - one who operated a lace machine
ULNAGER - one appointed to examine the quality of woollen goods to be sold
UPHOLDER - upholsterer and also a seller of secondhand goods
UPRIGHT WORKER - chimney sweep
VALET - male servant that attended a nobleman or gentleman
VALUATOR - who valued objects
VENATOR (VENUR) - huntsman
VASSAL - servant of the lowest order
VATMAN - one who put the paper pulp into the moulds in paper-making industry or worked with vats e.g. in beer and wine making
VERDERER - official in charge of the royal forest
VERGER - one who worked with the priest in the running the church
VERGE MAKER - one who made the spindles used in clocks and watches
VERRIER - glazier
VESTMENTMAKER - one who made the gowns worn by priests
VICTUALER - seller of food/drink
VIEWER - one who worked at the mines in a managerial capacity
VILLEIN - one who paid dues to the lord of the manor in return for use of the land
VINTAGER / VINEROON - grape farmer, wine maker
VINTNER / VINTER - wine merchant
VIRGINAL PLAYER - player of a musical instrument similar to a harpsichord
VULCAN - blacksmith
WABSTER - weaver
WADSETTER - under Scottish law a creditor to whom a wadset is made; a wadset is a right, by which lands, or other heritable subjects, are impignorated by the proprietor to his creditor in security of his debt
WAGONER - wagon or cart driver
WAILER - one employed in the mines to remove the impurities from the coal
WAINWRIGHT - builder or repairer of wagons
WAIT / WAKEMAN - night watchman
WALKER / WAULKMILLER - cloth worker (see also FULLER)
WALKING-STICK FILER - one who made walking sticks
WALLER - one who built walls either brick or dry stone, also a person who worked making coarse salt
WANTER / WANTCATCHER - mole catcher
WARDER -in charge of prisoners
WAREHOUSEMAN - in charge of or employee in a warehouse
WARPER - set the warp thread on the looms or employed to move boats by hauling on the warps (the ropes attached to the boats)
WARRENER - in charge of a portion of land used for breeding rabbits and other small game
WASHMAN - tin coater
WASTEMAN - checked the old workings for gas and maintaining them in the mines or employed to remove waste
WATCH FINISHER - assembled watches and clocks
WATCHMAN - town official who guarded the streets at night
WATER BAILIFF - official in charge of the fishing rights on a stretch of water
WATER CARRIER - carted and sold fresh water
WATER GILDER - trapped water fowl
WATER LEADER / LEDER / LODER - transported and sold fresh drinking water
WATERMAN - worked with or on boats usually on rivers
WATTLE HURDLE MAKER - made a type of fence from wattle to keep the sheep in
WAY-MAKER - employed to make roads
WAY MAN - surveyor of roads
WEATHERSPY - astrologer
WEBSTER / WEBBER - weaver (originally a female weaver)
WEIGHER - worked on the docks to weigh the cargo as it was unloaded
WELLMASTER - one in charge of the local well with the responsibility of ensuring clean water for the village
WELL SINKER - dug wells
WELL WRIGHT - made the winding equipment used to raise the bucket in the well
WET GLOVER - made leather gloves
WET NURSE - woman employed to suckle tthe child of another (common practice with the rich)
WETTER - dampened paper during the printing process or in the glass industry who detached the glass by wetting
WHARFINGER - owner of a wharf
WHEEL TAPPER - railway worker who checked for cracked wheels by striking them with a long handled hammer and listening for a clear ring
WHEELER - wheel maker, attended to the spinning wheel in the textile industry and one who led the pit ponies that pulled the tubs underground in the mines
WHACKER - horse or oxen team driver
WHEELWRIGHT / WRIGHT - maker or repairer of wagon wheels
WHEERYMAN - in charge of a wheery (a small light rowing boat)
WHIG - horse driver (Scottish term)
WHIPCORD MAKER / WHIPMAKER - made whips
WHIPPERIN - managed the hounds in a hunt
WHITEAR - hide cleaner
WHITE LIMER - plastered walls using lime and water plaster
WHITE SMITH - tin smith
WHITENING ROLL MAKER - made the whitening used in whitening walls of cottages
WHITTAWER - one who made saddles and harness
WHITENER / WHITESTER / WHITSTER - one who bleached cloth
WHITEWING - streetsweeper
WHITSTER - bleacher of cloth
WHITTAWER - preparer of white leather
WILLOW PLAITER / WEAVER - one who made baskets etc
WINDSTER - silk winder
WOODBREAKER - one who made wooden water casks
WOODRANGER / WOOD REEVE / WOODWARD - in charge of the forest or woods
WOOLCOMBER - operated machines that separate the fibres ready for spinning in woolen industry
WOOL DRIVER - one who brought the wool to market
WOOL FACTOR - wool merchants agent
WOOLEN BILLY PIECER - worked in the woolen mills to piece together the broken yarns
WOOL MAN /WOOL SORTER / STAPLER - one who sorted the wool into different grades
WOOLSTED MAN - a seller of woollen cloth (from worsted man)
WOOL WINDER - one who made up balls of wool for selling
WORSTED MANUFACTURER / SHEARMAN - one who made worsted
WRIGHT - builder or repairer
WYRTH - laborer
XYLOGRAPHER - one who used and made wooden blocks used in printing illustrations
YARDMAN - rail road yard worker
YATMAN - gate keeper
YEARMAN - one contracted to work for a year
YEOMAN - farmer who owns his own land
ZINCOGRAPHER - designer who etched in relief a pattern on zinc plates used for printing
ZITHERIST - player of a simple, flat many-stringed instrument
ZOETROPE MAKER - 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 - described and classified