Olde Occupations
F - G
Olde Occupations
F - G
| A | B | C | D-E | F-G | H-L | M-P | Q-S | T-Z |
| Faber | artisan; workman; smith |
| Fabricator | maker |
| Factor Agent | merchant for commission (or factor); attorney (not in the modern US sense); transacts business for another (usually absent); Scottish steward or bailiff of an estate |
| Fagetter | made up faggots into bundles, seller of firewood |
| Faker | photographic assistant who added color to photographs by hand before color film was available |
| Falconer | breeds, trains, or hunts with hawks |
| Falkner | keeper/trainer of falcons |
| Fancy Man | pimp |
| Fancy Woman | prostitute |
| Fancy-Pearl Worker | worked in mother-of-pearl making buttons or fancy goods |
| Fanner | grain winnower |
| Fanwright | maker and repairer of fans or winnowing baskets |
| Farandman | traveling merchant |
| Farmer | often descendant of the gentry and noble classes having servants and farm workers; tax-collector or bailiff |
| Farrier | horse shoer or blacksmith |
| Faulkner | falconer |
| Fawkner | trainer of falcons |
| Fear-Nothing Maker | weaver of fear-naught (thick woolen cloth) used for protective clothing and lining portholes, walls, and doors of powder magazines on board ships. |
| Feather Beater | cleanser of feathers |
| Feather Dresser | cleaned and prepared feathers for sale |
| Feather Driver | cleanser of feathers |
| Featherman | dealer in feathers and plumes |
| Feather-Wife | woman who prepared feathers for use |
| Feeder | herdsman |
| Fell monger | remover of hair or wool from hides in leather making |
| Feller | woodcutter |
| Felon | someone who commits a serious crime such as murder |
| Felter | worker in the hatting industry |
| Fence Viewer | inspects farmer's fences |
| Ferator | farrier or blacksmith |
| Feroner | ironmonger |
| Ferreter | dealer in or manufacturer of ferret, ie. silk tape |
| Ferrour | horse shoer or blacksmith |
| Ferur | farrier or blacksmith |
| Fettler | cleaned the machinery in woolen mills; sharpened the fustian cutters knives; needle maker who filed the needle to a point |
| Feuar | holder of lands granted for services |
| Fever | blacksmith |
| Fewster | maker of saddletrees |
| Fewterer | keeper of hounds for hunting or coursing |
| Fiddler | used a fiddle (small knife) to remove the flashing from cast clay forms |
| File Cutter | maker of files, involved the cutting of grooves on the file surface |
| Filibuster | American mercenaries in South America; gun runners |
| Filler | filled bobbins in mills; iron industry worker |
| Fine Drawer | employed in tailoring to repair tears in the cloth (invisible mending) |
| Finer | employed in Iron Works |
| Finerman | worked in the part of an ironworks or tinworks called a Finery |
| Finisher | operated machine giving final touches to a manufactured article in various trades |
| Firebeater | tended the boilers that powered the machinery in a cotton mill |
| Fireman | inspected for, and removed explosive gasses underground in mining; stoked the boilers on ships and locomotives |
| First Hand | silk weaver who had his own loom (an outworker) |
| Fiscere | fisherman |
| Fish Fag | female fish monger |
| Fishdryver | victualler |
| Fisher | victualler |
| Fitter | coal broker; worked in the tinplate manufacturing industry |
| Flasher | specialist process worker in the glass industry |
| Flatman | navigated a flat (a broad flat-bottomed boat used for transport) in shallow waters |
| Flauner | confectioner |
| Flaxdresser | prepared flax prior to spinning |
| Flesher | butcher; tannery worker |
| Fleshewer | butcher |
| Fleshmonger | butcher; tannery worker |
| Fletcher | made bows and arrows |
| Floater | vagrant; regulated the year-round workings of the watermeadows |
| Floatman | navigated a flat (a broad flat-bottomed boat used for transport) in shallow waters |
| Flusherman | cleaned out water mains |
| Flycoachman | 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 passenger; theatre stage hand |
| Fogger | peddler; low class lawyer |
| Fogler | keeper or catcher of birds |
| Foister | joiner |
| Foisterer | joiner |
| Foot Maiden | female servant |
| Foot Man | servant who ran errands |
| Foot Pad | robber |
| Foot Straightener | assembled watch and clock dials in watch making |
| Foot-Post | letter carrier or messenger who traveled on foot |
| Forestarius | forester |
| Forester | game warden or forest ranger |
| Forgeman | blacksmith or assistant |
| Forger | blacksmith, worker at a forge |
| Fossetmaker | made faucets for ale-casks, etc |
| Founder | iron industry worker |
| Fower | street cleaner, sweeper |
| Fowler | keeper or catcher of birds |
| Frame Spinner | worker on a loom |
| Framer | farmer; frames houses |
| Framework Knitter | operator of machine which made hosiery |
| Freedman | released from slavery |
| Freemason | stonecutter |
| French Polisher | polish wood by hand using French polish, wax or lacquer |
| Frereman | servant of the Friars |
| Freser | maker of frieze, a rough plaster |
| Freshwater Man | sailed boat on fresh water only or in the coastal trade |
| Fripperer | buyer & seller of old clothes |
| Friseur | hair dresser |
| Frobisher | remover of rust, a polisher of metal |
| Fruiterer | fruit seller |
| Fruitestere | female fruit seller |
| Fugler | keeper or catcher of birds |
| Fulker | pawnbroker |
| Fuller | fulls cloth; shrinks and thickens woolen cloth by moistening, heating, and pressing; cleans and finishes cloth. |
| Funambulist | tightrope walker |
| Furber | remover of rust, a polisher of metal |
| Furbisher | remover of rust, a polisher of metal |
| Furbour | remover of rust, a polisher of metal |
| Furnaceman | heated the sheets in a Tin Plate Works |
| Furner | baker |
| Furrier | seller or maker of furs |
| Fustian Weaver | maker of corduroy |
| Gabeler | tax collector |
| Gaffer | foreman of a work crew in glass factory - smoothed, reheated the neck of and formed lip on a bottle |
| Gaffman | a bailiff |
| Gager | tax collector of liquor taxes |
| Galvaniser | iron worker who handled process of coating metal with zinc, to inhibit formation of rust |
| Gamester | gambler or prostitute |
| Ganger | overseer or foreman from 1850 onwards |
| Gangsman | foreman |
| Ganneker | tavern keeper |
| Gaoler | keeper of the goal, a jailer |
| Garcifer | groom; attendant |
| Garcio | groom; attendant |
| Garlekmonger | garlicmonger; dealer in garlic |
| Garthman | owner or worker of a fish trap |
| Gas Manager | foreman position in charge of checking for poisonous gas in coal mine shafts |
| Gater | watchman |
| Gatherer | glassworker who inserted the blow iron into the molten glass ready for the blower |
| Gatherer's Boy | held a shovel to shield the gatherer's face from the heat |
| Gatward | goat keeper |
| Gauger | customs official who measured the capacity of imported barrels of liquor in order to calculate the customs duty |
| Gaunter | glover |
| Gaveller | userer; (Forest of Dean) officer of the Crown who granted gales or the right to work a mine; (Suffolk) harvest worker, usually female |
| Gelder | castrated farm animals |
| Geometer | skilled in geometry |
| Gerund Grinder | Latin instructor |
| Getter | produced coal at the coal face |
| Gilder | applies gold leaf |
| Gimler | machinist involved in making a gimp, a kind of card |
| Ginerr | joiner |
| Ginour | engineer |
| Girdler | leather worker who made girdles and belts, chiefly for the Army |
| Glass Coachman | driver of two-horse carriage hired out for the day |
| Glassewryght | glasswright; maker and mender of glassware |
| Glazier | glass cutter or window classman |
| Glimmerman | (Dublin) turned out/down the gas street-lights; warned people to turn out lights for blackouts during bombing raids |
| Glover | dealer or maker of gloves |
| Goat Carriage Man | driver of small passenger carriage |
| Gobar | jobber |
| Goldsmith | maker of gold articles, banker |
| Goose Herd | tends geese |
| Gorzeman | seller of gorse or broom |
| Grace Wife | midwife |
| Graffer | notary or scrivener |
| Grainer | painted wood to make it look like great and exotic woods |
| Granger | farmer |
| Graver | carver or sculptor, engraver of images; dockside worker who cleaned ship bottoms by burning and tarring |
| Grazier | pastures and raises cattle |
| Grease Boys | worked in the tinplate manufacturing industry |
| Greave | bailiff, foreman, sheriff |
| Grecher | grocer |
| Green Grocer | fruit and vegetable seller |
| Green Smith | worker in copper or latten |
| Grieve | bailiff, foreman, sheriff |
| Grimbribber | lawyer |
| Groover | miner |
| Groundsel & Chickweed Seller | street seller of common weeds used to feed pet songbirds |
| Guilderer | maker of gold or silver coins |
| Guinea Pig | an unattached, or roving person whose fee was usually a guinea |
| Gummer | improved old saws by deepening the cuts |
| Gutta-Percha Manufacturer | makes a tough plastic substance derived from latex and percha scrap used especially as insulation and in dentistry |
| Gynour | engineer |
| Gyp | college servant especially one attending undergraduates |
| Gyrrwr | a subordinate to a cattle/sheep drover. |
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