Olde Occupations
T - Z
Olde Occupations
T - Z
| Tabernarius | taverner; innkeeper |
| 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 | made or repaired clothes |
| Tallow Chandler | made or sold candles |
| Tally Clerk | kept count of goods arriving or departing from warehouses, docks etc |
| Tallyfellow | sold goods that were paid for in installments |
| Tallyman | sold goods that were paid for in installments |
| Tan Bark Stripper | collected the bark that was used in the tanning process |
| Tannator | tanner; curer of animal hide into leather |
| Tanner | tans (cures) animal hides into leather |
| Taper | candlewick maker or seller |
| Taper Weaver | made the wicks for candles |
| Tapicer | wove worsted cloth |
| Tapiter | wove worsted cloth |
| Tapley | puts the tap in an ale cask |
| Tappiologist | 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 | made tassels used in furnishings or nobleman |
| Taverner | innkeeper |
| Tawer | one who taws (makes hide into leather without the use of tanning) |
| Tawyer | one who taws (makes hide into leather without the use of tanning) |
| Teamer | person in charge of a team of horses |
| Teamer Man | person in charge of a team of horses |
| Teamster | person in charge of a team of horses |
| Teaser | opens up matted wool for carding |
| Teemer | emptied grain from the cart; poured the molten steel into the molds |
| Teinter | dyer |
| Teinter | artists who performs tinting |
| Tenter | stretched the cloth on a machine while it was drying or looked after and maintained the machine used in the process |
| Tenterer | 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; roofer |
| Thirdborough | tithing man; deputy constable; underconstable |
| Thresher | separated the grain from the husks and straw |
| Throwster | in the textile trade - twisted the strands of fiber together into yarn |
| Ticket Writer | 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 | monitored the state of the tide |
| Tide Surveyor | monitored the state of the tide; customs officer who identified ships and cargoes |
| Tide Waiter | boarded ships to examine cargoes; customs inspector |
| Tidesman | boarded ships to examine cargoes; customs inspector |
| Tiemaker | made wooden railway ties |
| Tiger | small groom or pageboy in livery |
| Tiler | 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 or possibly a painter |
| Tinker | itinerant tin pot and pan seller and repairman |
| Tinman | tinsmith or tinker |
| Tinner | tin miner, tinsmith |
| Tinter | artists who performs tinting |
| Tipper | 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 |
| Todd | fox hunter |
| Todhunter | employed by the parish to hunt foxes |
| Toe Rag | worked at the docks as a corn porter |
| Toilinet Manufacturer | made toilinet (a kind of quilting) |
| Toller | worked at the toll gate to collect fees for use of the road |
| Tollgate Keeper | worked at the toll gate to collect fees for use of the road |
| Tollie | worked at the toll gate to collect fees for use of the road |
| Tolman | worked at the toll gate to collect fees for use of the road |
| Tonsor | barber |
| Tool Helver | made tool handles |
| Top Sawyer | upper man in a saw pit |
| Topman | sailor who works in the ship's rigging |
| Topsman | head cattle drover |
| Tosher | sewer hunters |
| Touch Holer | worked in the gun manufacturing industry |
| Tow Card Maker | made tow cards, used in the textile industry |
| Town Chaberlain | looked after the towns affairs |
| Town Crier | made public announcements 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 | dragged trams laden with coal in coal mine; young person who worked in the mines |
| Trampler | lawyer |
| Tranqueter | 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 | 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 | used a circular saw to cut timber |
| Trimmer | trims a ship by re-arranging its cargo |
| Tripper | dancer |
| Troacher | peddler |
| Troner | weighing official at the markets |
| Trotman | messenger |
| Trott | messenger |
| Trotter | messenger |
| Trouchman | interpreter |
| Trover | smuggler |
| Truchman | interpreter |
| Trugger | made long shallow baskets |
| Tubber | made tubs and barrels i.e. a cooper |
| Tubman | English barrister |
| Tucker | cleaner of cloth goods |
| Tucker In | maid who attended the bedroom and "tucked in the bedclothes" |
| Turner | turns wood on a lathe into spindles; gymnast |
| Turnkey | prison warder or jail keeper |
| Turnpike Keeper | worked at the toll gate to collect fees for use of the road |
| Turnspit | operated the spit handle |
| Tweenie | maid who worked "between the stairs" she assisted the cooks and the housemaids |
| Tweeny | maid who worked "between the stairs" she assisted the cooks and the housemaids |
| Twist Hand | operated a lace machine |
| Twister | operated the machine used for twisting yarns and threads together |
| Twisterer | operated the machine used for twisting yarns and threads together |
| Ulnager | appointed to examine the quality of woolen goods to be sold |
| Under carter | helped the carter - would help load on and off, tie the tarpaulin down, light the cart lamps, open/close gates, feed the horses, take them to their stable, shoved the hunk of wood into the wheel to stop the cart rolling |
| Underviewer | junior official in charge of mine in Viewer's absence |
| Upholder | upholsterer; seller of secondhand goods |
| Upright Worker | chimney sweep |
| Vageler | keeper or catcher of birds |
| Vaginarius | sheather; scabbard maker |
| Valet | male servant that attended a nobleman or gentleman |
| Valuator | valued objects |
| Vassal | servant of the lowest order |
| Vatman | put the paper pulp into the molds in paper-making industry; worked with vats |
| Venator | huntsman |
| Venur | huntsman |
| Verderer | tavern keeper; provides an army, navy, or ship with food supplies; official in charge of the royal forest |
| Verge Maker | made the spindles used in clocks and watches |
| Verger | worked with the priest in the running the church |
| Verrier | glazier |
| Vestmentmaker | made the gowns worn by priests |
| Victualer | tavern keeper; provides an army, navy, or ship with food supplies |
| Viewer | worked at the mines in a managerial capacity |
| Villein | paid dues to the lord of the manor in return for use of the land |
| Vineroon | grape farmer, wine maker |
| Vintager | grape farmer, wine maker |
| Vinter | wine merchant |
| Vintner | wine merchant |
| Virginal Player | player of a musical instrument similar to a harpsichord |
| Vogelaar | keeper or catcher of birds |
| Vogeler | keeper or catcher of birds |
| Vogler | keeper or catcher of birds |
| Vowler | keeper or catcher of birds |
| Vulcan | blacksmith |
| Wabster | weaver |
| Wadsetter | (Scottish) a creditor to whom a wadset (a right, by which lands, or other heritable subjects, are impignorated by the proprietor to his creditor in security of his debt) is made |
| Wagoner | teamster not for hire |
| Wailer | employed in the mines to remove the impurities from the coal |
| Wainwright | builder or repairer of wagons |
| Wait | night watchman |
| Waiter | customs officer or tide waiter; waited on the tide to collect duty on goods brought in |
| Wakeman | night watchman |
| Walker | fuller; cloth trampler or cleaner |
| Walking Stick Filer | made walking sticks |
| Waller | built walls either brick or dry stone; worked making coarse salt |
| Wantcatcher | mole catcher |
| Wanter | mole catcher |
| Warder | in charge of prisoners |
| Warehouseman | in charge of or employee in a warehouse |
| Warper | set the warp thread on the looms; 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 |
| Washer | worked in the tinplate manufacturing industry |
| Washman | worked in the tinplate manufacturing industry washing the plates between processes |
| 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 | transported and sold fresh drinking water |
| Water Leder | transported and sold fresh drinking water |
| Water Loder | transported and sold fresh drinking water |
| Waterman | boatman who plies for hire |
| Wattle Hurdle Maker | made a type of fence from wattle to keep the sheep in |
| Waulkmiller | fuller; cloth trampler or cleaner |
| Way Man | surveyor of roads |
| Way-Maker | employed to make roads |
| Wayter | customs officer or tide waiter; waited on the tide to collect duty on goods brought in |
| Weatherspy | astrologer |
| Webber | weaver; loom operator |
| Webster | weaver; loom operator |
| Weigher | customs officer who weighed goods for duty purposes |
| Well Sinker | dug wells |
| Well Wright | made the winding equipment used to raise the bucket in the well |
| Wellmaster | in charge of the local well with the responsibility of ensuring clean water for the village |
| Wet Glover | made leather gloves |
| Wet Nurse | woman employed to suckle the child of another |
| Wetter | dampened paper during the printing process; in the glass industry detached the glass by wetting |
| Whacker | horse or oxen team driver |
| 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; led the pit ponies that pulled the tubs underground in the mines |
| Wheelwright | made or repaired wheels; wheeled carriages, etc |
| Wheeryman | in charge of a wheery (a small light rowing boat) |
| Whig | horse driver (Scottish term) |
| Whipcord Maker | made whips |
| Whipmaker | made whips |
| Whipperin | managed the hounds in a hunt |
| Whitamer | involved in leather tanning/curing/processing trades |
| Whitcher | maker of chests |
| White Limer | plastered walls using lime and water plaster |
| White Smith | tin smith |
| Whitear | hide cleaner |
| Whitener | bleached cloth |
| Whitening Roll Maker | made the whitening used in whitening walls of cottages |
| Whitesmith | tinsmith; iron worker who finishes or polishes the work |
| Whitester | bleached cloth |
| Whitewing | street sweeper |
| Whitster | bleached cloth |
| Whittawer | preparer of white leather; made saddles and harness |
| Willow Plaiter | made baskets etc |
| Willow Weaver | made baskets etc |
| Windster | silk winder |
| Wonkey-Scoop | driver who operates a one horse scoop |
| Wood Reeve | in charge of the forest or woods |
| Woodbreaker | made wooden water casks |
| Woodranger | in charge of the forest or woods |
| Woodward | in charge of the forest or woods |
| Wool Comber | operated machines that separate the fibers ready for spinning in woolen industry |
| Wool Driver | brought the wool to market |
| Wool Factor | wool merchants agent |
| Wool Man | sorted the wool into different grades |
| Wool Sorter | sorted the wool into different grades |
| Wool Stapler | sorted the wool into different grades |
| Wool Winder | made up balls of wool for selling |
| Woolen Billy Piecer | worked in the woolen mills to piece together the broken yarns |
| Woolsted Man | seller of woolen cloth (from worsted man) |
| Worsted Manufacturer | made worsted |
| Wright | made or repaired wheels; wheeled carriages, etc |
| Wright | builder or repairer |
| Wyrth | laborer |
| Xlographer | used and made wooden blocks used in printing illustrations |
| Yardman | rail road yard worker |
| Yatman | gate keeper |
| Yearman | 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 animals |
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