Occupations, Page 2

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Occupations, Page 2

This is a continuation of archaic occupation names...

JAKES-FARMER: one who emptied cesspools
JOBBER: [1] a person who bought in quantity and sold to individual dealers; [2] one who worked by the job or did piecework; [3] a person who worked in an official capacity and was dishonest, using the office for his own gain
JOBMASTER: Supplied carriages, horses and drivers for hire
JOINER / JOYNER: a carpenter who did interior finish work by joining pieces of wood
JONGLEUR: an itinerant minstrel
JOURNEYMAN: one who served an apprenticeship and was no longer bound to serve a master
JOUSTER: hawker or peddler of fish
KEDGER: a fisherman, or one who peddled fish
KEELMAN: a bargeman
KEMPSTER: a wool comber
KIDDIER: [1] skinner; [2] dealer in young goats
KNACKER: [1] one who made harnesses; [2] one who bought old horses and sells the flesh for dog meat, etc.; [3] one who bought and wrecked old houses and sells the various parts
KNELLER: a chimney sweep who solicited customers by knocking on doors
KNOLLER: one who tolls bells, i.e. as in a church
LACEMAN: a dealer in lace
LACEWOMAN: a lady's maid
LAGGER: a sailor
LANDS JOBBER: one who bought land on speculation and sold it to others
LANDSMAN: an inexperienced sailor
LAND WAITER: a customs official who examined, weighed, and took account of goods that had just been landed (off a ship)
LASTER: one who worked or shaped shoes on a last [the mold of the human foot made of wood and used to shape shoes]
LATTENER: a maker of or worker in latten, a mixed metal of yellow color, either identical with or closely resembling brass
LAUNDERER: a person who washed linen
LAVENDAR: a washerwoman
LEDERER: leather maker
LEECH or SAWBONES: physician
LEGERDEMAINIST: magician
LEIGHTONWARD: a gardener
LIGHTERMAN: one who owns or is employed on a lighter, a large flat-bottomed barge used to unload and load ships where the water is too shallow for the ships to dock
LIMNER: one who illuminated books or parchments; one who paints or draws
LINENER: a linen draper; shirt maker
LINKERMAN: a person who carried a link or torch to guide people through city streets at night for a small fee
LISTER: one who kept a list of persons being taxed and their property
LITSTER: a dyer; one who dyed fabrics
LOADSMAN / LODESMAN: a pilot of a ship or boat
LOBLOLLY BOY: a ship's doctor assistant
LOCK KEEPER: overseer of canal locks
LONGSHOREMAN: one who worked on the waterfront loading and unloading ships
LORESMAN: a teacher
LORIMER: a maker of bits and metal mounting for horse bridles, generally a maker of small ironware and a worker in wrought iron
LUNGS: a servant whose duty was to blow the fire of an alchemist
MADERER: one who gathered and sold garlic
MALEMAKER: a maker of 'Males' or traveling bags
MALENDER: a farmer
MALSTER: one who made or dealt in malt
MANGLE KEEPER: a woman who offered use of the mangle to others for a fee
MANTUAMAKER: a dressmaker
MASON: a stonecutter; one who worked with stone or brick
MASTER: a skilled workman or one in business on his own
MASTER MARINER: the commander of a ship
MASTER OF THE ROLLS: an equity judge
MATCHET FORGER: knife maker, or machete maker
MEADER: a mower
MEALMAN: dealer in meal or flour
MECHANIC: [1] Manual laborer; [2] Operator of a machine
MEDICINE PEDDLER: an itinerant salesman who dealt in herbs, elixirs, pills, etc. which were bought in large batches and sold under his own label
MELDER: a corn miller
MENAGE-MAN: an itinerant vendor who sold goods to be paid for in installments
MERCATOR: a merchant
MERCER: a person who dealt in costly fabrics, especially silks
MERCHANT: an occupation that might mean anything involving the buying and selling of a variety of products
MESSENGER: [1] a constable; [2] one who was appointed by a court to handle certain duties in a bankruptcy case
METALMAN: a worker in metals
METERER: a poet
MIDSHIPMAN: usually, a wealthy second or third son who could not inherit
MIDWIFE: a woman trained in the birthing process who helped other women in the birth of a child
MILLER: one who owned or operated a flour mill
MILLERESS: miller's wife
MILLINER: [1] a seller of fancy wares and articles of apparel; [2] a maker of ladies hats and bonnets
MILLWRIGHT: one who planned and built mills or mill machinery
MINER: a worker in a mine, such as coal, iron, etc.
MINT MASTER: the person in charge of a mint
MIXER: bartender
MONEY-SCHRIVENER: a person who raised money for others
MOULDER: one who made molds for casting or one who molded clay into bricks
MUDLARK: sewer cleaner, riverbank scavenger
MUFFIN MAN: itinerant seller of muffins
MULESKINNER: a mule driver
MULETEER: one who drove a team of mules
MULTURER: a miller
MUSIKER: a musician
MUSTARDER: one who made and dealt in mustard
NAVIGATOR: a laborer digging canals and later, railways
NECESSARY WOMAN: servant responsible for emptying and cleaning chamber pots
NECKER: a worker responsible for the feeding of cardboard into the machine that makes boxes
NEDELLER: one who made needles
NETTER: a net maker
NIGHT SOILMAN: one employed to empty cesspits, ash pits and backyard toilets
NIGHT MAGISTRATE: a constable
NIGHTWALKER: a watchman or bellman
NIMGIMMER: doctor, surgeon, or apothecary
NOB-THATCHER: one who made wigs
OCCUPIER: a tradesman
OILMAN: a person who sold the oil for lamps
OLITOR: a kitchen gardener
ORDERLY: a non-commissioned officer or private in the military service assigned to look after the needs of superior officers or to carry orders or messages
ORDINARY KEEPER: innkeeper
ORFEVER: a goldsmith
OSTREGER: a keeper of goshawks
OSTLER: See Hostler
OUT-CRIER: an auctioneer
OWLER: a sheep or wool smuggler
PACKMAN: a peddler, or person who traveled around carrying goods for sale in a pack
PACKER: one who packed goods for preservation, such as pickles or herring
PAINTRESS: a woman employed in the pottery industry to hand-paint the finished articles
PALING MAN: one who dealt in eels; fishmonger
PAN SMITH: one who made pans; metalworker
PANTER: keeper of the pantry
PARKER: one who kept a park; a caretaker
PASSAGE KEEPER: a person who kept passages and alleys clean
PASTELER: a pastry maker
PASTOR: a shepherd or herdsman
PAVER: one who maintained pavements; a person who laid paving stones
PAVYLER: one who put up pavilions or tents
PAWNBROKER: one who loaned money with interest against items of value left for security
PEAGER: a toll-keeper
PEDAILE: a footman; a foot soldier
PEDDLER: a person who traveled from place to place selling small goods
PELTERER: a person who worked with animal skins
PERFUMER: a maker or seller of perfumes
PERCHEMEAR: one who made parchment
PERIWIG MAKER: a wigmaker
PERUKER: wigmaker
PESSONER: a fishmonger
PETERMAN: a fisherman
PETTIFOGGER: a small time lawyer retained by a small or mean business
PETTY CHAPMAN: an itinerant dealer in small goods, a peddler
PEW OPENER: a person hired to open the doors to private pews in church
PHARMAOPOEIST: a person who sold medicines; an apothecary
PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENT MAKER: a maker of scientific instruments
PICAROON: a pirate, or a pirate's ship; a thief, adventurer, or rogue
PIECE BROKER: one who sold material remnants
PIGMAKER: a person who made pig or cast iron; pottery worker
PIGMAN: [also MUGGER] a seller of crockery
PIKELET MAKER: baker who specialized in making small pancakes or crumpets
PIKEMAN: a miller's assistant
PIKER: tramp or vagrant
PILL BOX LIDDER: one responsible for making the lids of pill boxes in the pottery trade
PILLER: a robber

PILOT: one licensed to steer ships through difficult waters
PINDER: a person whose duty was to catch and confine stray animals
PINER: [1] a pioneer; [2] a laborer
PINNER: a pin maker
PINNER UP: [1] a dressmakers assistant; [2] person who sold broadsheets or ballads in the streets
PIPER: an innkeeper
PITMAN: a coal miner; one who worked in a pit
PLAIN WORKER: one who performed plain sewing or needlework as opposed to an embroiderer
PLAITER: one who made straw plaits used in making hats
PLANKER: one who planks or kneads the body of the hat during felting
PLOUGH JOGGER: a plowman
PLOWMAN: a farm worker; a husbandman
PLOWRIGHT: one who made or repaired plows
PLUMASSIER / PLUMER: a person who made or sold plumes, ornamental feathers
PLUMBUM MAN: a plumber; one who worked with lead pipes
POINTER: someone who sharpened needles or pins
POLEMAN: a surveyor's assistant
PONDERATOR: an inspector of weights and measures
PORTER: [1] a pallbearer; [2] a doorman
POSTILLION: one who worked on long distance coaches and whose duty it was to change the horses at stops
POST RIDER: one who carried mail over a post road
POTATO BADGER: a potato seller
POT BOY: person who worked in public houses washing, removing dirty pots and other menial jobs
POTTER: one who made or peddled pottery or earthenware vessels
POTTER CARRIER: a chemist or pharmacist
POUCH MAKER: a person who made pouches or purses
POULTER: one who dealt in poultry
POYNTER: lace maker
PRESTIDIGITATOR: a magician; a juggler; one who juggles words
PRICKER: witch hunter
PUBLICAN: [1] an innkeeper or tavern keeper; [2] a person who collected fees of any kind such as tithes, tolls, tributes, customs, etc.
PUGGER: a woman or child employed by brick manufacturers to produce clay paste by treading
PULLEYMAKER: one who made pulleys for hoists
PUMPMAKER: a person who made pumps
QUARRIER: a quarry worker
QUARRYMAN: quarry worker
QUILLER: a person who operated a machine that wound yarn onto spools
QUILTER: a person who quilted material
QUISTER: one who bleached things
RAG CUTTER: someone who cut up rags into small pieces to be used for making paper
RAG GATHERER: usually children, employed to clear the rags from the machinery in the mills
RAG MAN: a person 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
RAG PICKER: a person who sorted the leftover rags to find reusable ones
RATONER: a rat catcher
REDSMITH: goldsmith
REVENUER: taxman who enforced tax laws on liquor
RIGGER: one who worked with the rigging of a ship
RIPPER: a person who brought fish inland to the market
RIVERMAN - unlicensed employee of a river boat, such as agent, barker, bartender, clerk, cook, deck hand, etc.; usually does not refer to the owner, master, mate, or pilot
RODMAN: a surveyors assistant who carried a leveling rod
ROPER: a rope or net maker
ROVER: an archer
RUGMAN: rug dealer
RUNNER: [1] a smuggler; [2] a messenger, collector, or agent
RUSTLER: a cattle thief
SADDLER: one who made saddles, harnesses, horse collars, bridles, etc.
SADDLE TREE MAKER: one who made the frames for saddles that the saddler used
SALOONIST: a saloon keeper; one who promoted the idea of having saloons for drinking
SALTER: a maker of and dealer in salt; a drysalter
SANDESMAN: a messenger, envoy, or ambassador
SAPPERS AND MINERS - soldiers who belonged to the engineer corps whose duty was to make trenches or saps
SARTOR: a tailor
SAWYER: one who cut timber into logs or boards
SAY WEAVER - a weaver of say, a cloth of fine texture resembling serge
SAYER: a poet
SCAVELMAN: one who kept the waterways and ditches clear
SCHOOLMASTER: teacher
SCHRIMPSCHONGER: one who carved bone, ivory, etc. into pieces of art
SCRIBE - an official clerk transcriber; one who copied manuscripts before printing was developed
SCRIMER: a fencing master
SCRIPTURE READER: A person 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: a clerk or notary; formerly, a moneylender; a broker
SCULLERY MAID: a female servant who performed all the menial tasks
SCULLION: a male servant who performed all the menial tasks
SEALER: an inspector who was elected by the town to put his "seal" or stamp of approval on items he inspected, tested and certified
SEARCHER: one who was employed at a custom-house station to inspect incoming goods; a customs-man
SEEDSMAN: one who dealt in seeds; a sower of seeds
SEMI LORER: a person who made leather thongs
SEMPSTRESS: seamstress
SEWSTER: a seamstress
SHANTY-MAN: a lumberman
SHARECROPPER: a person who would farm ground owned by another, and divide the crops or the profits with the owner
SHEARER: one who removed the fleece from sheep
SHEARGRINDER: one who sharpened shears, scissors
SHEARMAN: one who sheared cloth, metal, etc.
SHEATH MAKER: a person who made scabbards for swords
SHEEPMAN: a person whose business was raising sheep; a sheepherder
SHEPSTER: a female pattern cutter; a dressmaker
SHINGLER: a roof tiler who used wooden tiles or shingles

SHOESMITH: a cobbler; one who shod horses

SHIP MASTER: the owner or commander of a ship

SHIPWRIGHT: a carpenter skilled in building and repairing ships

SHOE-FINDER: a person who sold shoemakers' tools and appliances

SHOE-WIPER: a servant whose duty it was to clean shoes

SHORESMAN: a person who made his living on the shore in the fishery business; a shore-gunner

SHRAGER: a person who trimmed and pruned trees

SHRIEVE: sheriff

SILK THROWSTER: one who wound, twisted, spun, or threw silk fibers in preparation for weaving

SILVER SMITH: a person who worked with silver

SKEPPER: a person who made and sold beehives

SKINKER: a tapster; one who drew ale

SKINNER: one who dealt in animal skins; a mule driver

SLATER: one who slated roofs

SLOP SELLER: a person who sold cheap, ready-made garments

SMELTER: [1] one who worked in a smelter melting down ores; [2] a fisherman who fished for smelts

SMITH: one who made or repaired metal items

SNOBBER: a shoemaker or cobbler

SNOW WARDEN: a person whose duty was to make sure the snow was evenly dispersed on the streets so the sleigh runners could move easily

SNUFFER MAKER: one who made the candle snuffer for putting out or "snuffing" candlelight

SOAPBOILER: a soap-maker

SOJOURNER CLOTHIER: a traveling clothes salesman

SOUTER: a shoemaker

SPALLIER: a tin works laborer

SPERVITER: a keeper of sparrow hawks

SPICER: one who dealt in spices

SPINNER: one who spins yarn

SPLITTER: one who operated a splitting machine or who split things by hand

SPOONER: a person who made spoons

SPURRIER: a person who made spurs

STAMPMAN: a person who worked with an ore-crushing stamp mill

STAPLER: a dealer in various goods

STATIONARY TENDER: see STOKER

STATIONER: a bookseller; one who sold paper, quills, ink stands, pencils, and other writing items

STAY MAKER: a corset maker

STEERSMAN: the helmsman of a ship

STEP BOY: one employed to help passengers to enter or leave a coach

STEVEDORE: a workman employed either as overseer or laborer in loading and unloading the cargoes of merchant vessels

STEWARD: a person entrusted with the care and management of another's estate or household

STITCHER: one who sewed, decorated with stitching, etc. STOCKINGER: one who knitted, wove, or dealt in stockings STOKER: a person who tended a furnace; stoked the fire or shoveled coal to feed a furnace.
STONE CUTTER: one who cut and dressed stones
STONER: a person who cut stones

STONEMAN / STONEWARDEN: a surveyor of highways

STONE PICKER: one hired to remove the stones from the farmers' fields before planting

STONE WORKER: one who worked with stone such as masons or quarry workers

STRAW JOINER: a person who thatched roofs

STREAKER: one who prepared the body for burial

STREET CLEANER: a street sweeper

STRINGER: a person who made the strings for bows

SUCKSMITH: a person who made ploughshares

SURVEYOR: one who determined the boundaries, area, or elevations of land or structures on the earth's surface by means of measuring angles and distances, using the techniques of geometry and trigonometry

SUTLER: a person who followed an army camp peddling provisions and supplies

SWAIN: [1] a herdsman; [2] a servant; a young man who was a knight's attendant

SWAMPER: [1] a laborer who cleared roads in a swamp or forest; [2] a person who did odd jobs in a saloon

SWEEP: chimneysweep

SWINEHERDER: a pig keeper

SWORD CUTLER: one who made and mounted swords
TABLER: one who boarded others or was a boarder himself; boarding house operator

TAILOR: one who made or repaired clothes

TALLOW CHANDLER: a person who made and sold tallow candles

TALLY-CLERK: a person who counted votes; one who kept track of cargo or merchandise

TALLYMAN: a person who sold goods on credit and was paid by installments

TANKARD BEARER: a person employed in the drawing and carrying water from public pumps and conduits

TANNER: one who tanned or converted hides into leather

TAPER WEAVER: a person who made candlewicks

TAPISER: one who made tapestry; an upholsterer

TAPSTER/TAPLEY: a barmaid or bartender

TAPPER: a tavern-keeper

TAVERNER: an innkeeper

TAWER: one who made white leather

TEAMSTER: one who drove a team for hauling cargo

TENTER: one who looks after machinery in a factory, such as a loom tenter

THACKER: a thatcher

THATCHER: one who covered roofs with straw or reeds

THRESHER: a person who separated the grain from the husks and straw

THROWSTER: one who threw (wound or twisted) silk into thread

TICKNEY MAN: a person who sold earthenware from town to town

TIDE GAUGER: a person who monitored the tide

TIDE WAITER: a custom house officer

TIEMAKER: one who made wooden railway ties

TILER: a person who put tiles in place either on the roof or floor

TILLER: a farmer; a cultivator

TILLMAN: a farmer; a ploughman

TINKER: an repairman who mended pots and pans; a jack-of-all trades

TINNER: a worker in a tin mine; a tinsmith; one who made tin ware

TINTER: an artist skilled in tinting

TILTMAKER: a person who made canvas awnings or canopies

TIMEKEEPER: a person responsible for making sure things happened on time such as workers arriving or departing, trains, coaches, etc.

TIMES IRONER: a servant responsible for ironing the daily newspaper

TINCTOR: a dyer

TINKER: a traveling repairer of pots and pans

TINSMITH: a person who worked with tin

TIPPER: person who put the metal tips on arrows

TIPPLER: a person who kept an ale house

TIREWOMAN: a woman who assisted in the dressing room, especially in the theater; a dressmaker; a costumier

TOBACCO SPINNER: cigar maker

TOLLER: a person who collected tolls

TOLLGATE KEEPER: one who worked at the toll gate to collect fees for use of the road

TONSOR: a barber

TOOL HELVER: a person who made tool handles

TOPMAN: a sailor who served in the top mast station; the man who stood at the topmost point when sawing lumber

TOPSMAN: the foreman or head cattle drover

TOWN CRIER: a person who made public announcements in the streets

TRADESMAN: a shopkeeper or skilled craftsman

TRAMPER: [1] a vagabond; a tramp; [2] a person who trampled or walked on clothing in the wash to clean them

TRAMPLER: an attorney

TRANQUETER: a person who made hoops

TRANTER / TRAUNTER: a peddler with a horse and cart

TREEN MAKER: a person who made domestic articles from wood

TREENAIL MAKER: one who made the long wooden pins used in shipbuilding

TRENCHERMAKER: a person who made wooden boards or platters for serving food from or cutting and slicing food on

TRENCHERMAN: a cook

TRUCHMAN: an interpreter

TRUGGER: a person who made long shallow baskets

TUBBER: a person who made tubs and barrels

TUBEDRAWER: a person who made tubes

TUNIST: one who tuned musical instruments

TURNER: a person who worked with a lathe

TURNKEY: a prison warden or jail keeper

UPHOLDER: upholsterer and also a seller of secondhand goods

UPHOLSTERER: one who finished furniture by putting on the padding and cloth

UPRIGHT WORKER: a chimney sweep

VALET: a male servant who attended a nobleman or gentleman

VATMAN: [1] a person employed in the paper making industry to put the paper pulp into the moulds; [2] a person who worked with vats in beer and wine making

VERGE MAKER: a person who made the spindles used in clocks and watches

VERRIER: a glazier

VERSER: a versifier; a poet

VICTUALLER: a grocer or tavern keeper

VINTAGER: grape farmer, wine maker

VINTNER: a wine merchant

VIRGINAL PLAYER: one who played a musical instrument similar to a harpsichord

VULCAN: blacksmith

WAFERER: one who made and sold wafers or thin unleavened cakes

WAGONER: a driver of a wagon; a carter

WAINWRIGHT: one who built or repaired wagons

WAITMAN / WAKEMAN: night watchman

WALKER: a cloth-worker

WALLER: [1] a person who built walls either brick or dry stone; [2] one who worked making coarse salt

WANTCATCHER: a person employed to catch moles

WARDER / WARDEN: a person in charge of prisoners

WARPER: [1] one who set the warp thread on the looms; [2] one employed to move boats by hauling on the warps (the ropes attached to the boats)

WARRENER: a person in charge of a portion of land used for breeding rabbits and other small game

WASHMAN: a person who applied the wash (or coating) of tin when making tinplate

WATCH FINISHER: a person employed to assemble watches and clocks

WATCHMAN: one whose job it was to guard the streets at night

WATER BAILIFF: an official in charge of the fishing rights on a stretch of water; a river policeman or in coastal towns a customs official

WATER CARRIER: a person who carted and sold fresh water

WATER GILDER: a person who trapped water fowl

WATER LEADER: a person who carts water for sale

WATERMAN: person who worked with or on boats usually on rivers

WATTLE HURDLE MAKER: a person who made a type of fence from wattle to keep the sheep, i.e. construction of poles intertwined with twigs, reeds, or branches

WAY-MAKER: a person employed to make roads

WAY MAN: surveyor of roads

WEATHERSPY: an astrologer

WEBBER/WEBSTER: a weaver

WEEDER: a person employed to remove weeds from the gardens of the rich

WEIGHER: a person employed 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: a person who dug wells

WELLWRIGHT: a person who made the winding equipment used to raise the bucket in a well

WET GLOVER: a person who made leather gloves

WET NURSE: a woman employed to suckle the child of another

WETTER: [1] a person employed to dampen paper during the printing process; [2] a person in the glass industry who detached the glass by wetting

WHACKER: one who drove a team of oxen, horses, etc.

WHARFINGER: the person who owned or managed a wharf

WHEELER: [1] a wheel maker; [2] a person in the textile industry who attended to the spinning wheel; [3] a person who led the pit ponies that pulled the tubs underground in the mines

WHEELWRIGHT: a person who repaired and made wheels and wheeled vehicles

WHEERYMAN: a person in charge of a wheery (a small, light rowing boat)

WHIPCORD MAKER: a person who made whips

WHIPPERIN: one who handled the hounds in a hunt

WHITEAR: a cleanser of hides

WHIT COOPER: one who made barrels from tin

WHITE LIMER: a person who plastered walls using lime and water plaster

WHITENING ROLL MAKER: a person who made the whitening used in whitening walls of cottages

WHITENER: a person who bleached cloth

WHITE SMITH: a maker of utensils in tin, especially dairy utensils

WHITE TAWER / WHITTAWER: a saddler, harness-maker

WHITEWING: a street sweeper

WILLOW PLAITER: one who made baskets

WINDER: in the textile industry, a person who transferred the yarn from bobbins onto cheeses or into balls ready for weaving; in the mines a person who operated the pulley or winch

WINDSTER: a silk winder

WIRE DRAWER: one who made wire from metal by drawing the metal through various size holes in a template

WOODBREAKER: one who made wooden water casks

WOODRANGER / WOOD REEVE: a person in charge of the forest or woods

WOOLCOMBER: one who operated the machines that separate the fibers ready for spinning

WOOL DRIVER: one who brought the wool to market

WOOL GROWER: sheep farmer

WOOL SORTER: a person who sorted the wool into different grades

WOOLSTED MAN: a seller of woolen cloth

WOOL WINDER: one who made up balls of wool for selling

WORSTED MANUFACTURER: a person who made worsted

WRIGHT: a skilled worker in various trades, i.e., shipwright, wheelwright, cartwright, etc.

YARDMAN: rail road yard worker

YATMAN: a gate keeper

YEARMAN: a person contracted to work for a year

YEOMAN: farmer who owns his own land

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