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Old Occupations


Cab Driver/ Cabbie/ Cabman

Cad

Caddie

Caddy Butcher

Cadger

Cafender

Caffler

Cainer

Caird

Calciner

Calender

Calender Worker/ Calenderer/ Calenderman

Calico Printer

Cambist

Cambric Maker

Camerist

Camister

Camlet Merchant

Cancellarius

Candle Maker/ Candler

Candy Man

Caner

Cannaller

Canter

Canting Caller

Canvaser

Cap Maker

Caper

Capillaire Maker

Capitalist


Capper

Captain

Card Nailer


Carder


Cardmaker


Cardroomer

Caretaker


Carman

Carnifex

Carpentarius

Carrier

Cart Wheeler

Carter

Cartographer

Cartomancer

Cartwright

Cashmarie

Caster Or Castor

Castrator

Catagman

Catchpole Or Catchpoll

Catechist

Cattle Jobber

Caulker


Causewayer

Ceapman

Ceiler

Cellarman

Cemmer

Chaff Cutter

Chafferer

Chair Bodger

Chair Bottomer

Chaise Driver



Chaise Maker

Chaloner

Chamber Master

Chamberlain





Chambermaid

Chandler



Chanty Man

Chapeler

Chapman


Charcoal Burner

Charman

Chartmaster

Charwoman

Chaser

Chatelaine

Chaunter

Cheese Factor/ 
Cheese Monger/ Cheeseman

Chiffonier

Childbed Linen Warehouse Keeper Or Dealer

Chimney Sweep

Chinglor

Chip

Chippers
Labourer

Chiropodist

Chirugion Or Chirurgeon

Chowder

Chronologist

Cinder Wench

Cissor

Claker

Clapman

Clark

Classman

Claviger

Clay Carrier

Clayman


Clerk In Holy
Orders

Clericus

Cleyman

Clicker




Clipper / Clipper On / Clipper Off

Clod Hopper

Clogger

Cloth Lapper


Cloth Linter Or Picker

Clothesman/ Clothier/Clothman

Clouter

Clower

Coachman / Coach Driver

Coal Backer

Coal Burner

Coal Drawer


Coal Heaver

Coal Higgler/ Coal Merchant

Coal Runner

Coal Whipper


Coalman

Coalmeter

Coast Surveyor Or Waiter

Cobbler

Cobleman

Cockfeeder

Cocus

Cod Placer

Cohen

Coiner

Collar Maker

Collier


Colonus

Colour Man


Colo(u)rator

Colporteur

Colt




Comb Maker


Comber(e)

Compositor

Conder


Coney Catcher

Confectioner

Conner

Conner

Contriver

Cooper Or Cuper

Copeman

Coper

Copperbe(a)ter/ Coppersmith

Coracle Maker

Cordiner/ Cordwainer

Cork Cutter

Corn Chandler

Corn Cutter

Corn Factor

Corn Meter

Cornet



Corver

Corveysera/ Corviner/ Corviser Or Corvisor

Coster Wife

Costermonger

Coteler Or
Cotyler

Cotiler

Cottager/ Cottar/ Cott(i)er

Cotton Feeder

Coucher

Countour

Couper

Couple Beggar

Coupler

Couranteer

Court Factor

Court Roller

Court Toolmaker

Courtier

Cow Leech

Cowherd

Cowkeeper/ Cowman

Cox(s)wain


Crier

Crimper

Crofter

Cropper



Crowner

Cuhreur (Cunreur)

Cuper

Curer

Curretter

Currier

Customer

Cutler


The driver of a small horse drawn passenger vehicle.


A person employed to feed and water horses at coach stops.

A boy who carried messages or who ran errands.

A butcher that dealt in horsemeat.

A beggar.

A carpenter.

A rag and bone collector.

A person who made walking sticks.

Another term for a tinker.

A person who burnt bones to make powdered lime.

A person who listed documents.

A person who operated a machine which pressed using two large rollers (calender) used
to press and finish fabrics or paper.


A person who dyed and coloured calico.

An expert in financial exchange, a dealer in bills of exchange.

A person who made a fine linen or cotton fabric called cambric.

A lady's maid.

A minister of the cloth.

A seller of camlet, cloth used to make cloaks & petticoats.

Chancellor.

A person who made and sold candles.


[1] A slang name for a bailiff.    [2] A travelling candy salesman.

A person who made the seats for chairs out of woven cane.

A canal boat worker.

[1] A beggar or vagrant.    [2] A religious speaker who uses cant.

An auctioneer.

A person who made canvas.

See CAPPER.

A cap maker.

A person who made orange flavoured syrup.

An investor who provided private capital or wealth for the production and distribution of
goods.

A person who made caps usually worn by the working class.

A person in charge of a ship or a group of soldiers. Also a term for an overseer.

A person who maintained the teeth (nails) on the carding machine used for preparing
wool and cotton for weaving.

 A person who operated a carding machine used to prepare wool and cotton for weaving
by removing the knots and tangles.

[1] A person who made the handheld implement used for carding wool and cotton.
[2] A maker of game playing cards.

A term for any person who worked in the carding room of the mills.

A person hired to take charge, especially of house or ship in owner’s absence, or a
person looking after public buildings.

See CARRIER.

A butcher.

A carpenter.

A person who drove a vehicle used to transport goods.

A person who made cartwheels.

A wagoner. See CARRIER.

A mapmaker.

A fortuneteller who used cards.

A person who made wagons and carts.

A person who sold fish usually at inland markets.

A person who made small bottles used for sprinkling salt, pepper, sugar etc.

A person who castrated farm animals. aka gelder.

A cottager.

A bailiff or sheriffs officer.


A teacher of religion.

A person who bought and sold cattle.

A person who made boats or casks watertight by caulking the seams using tar or
oakum-hemp fibre.

A person who was involved in road repairs from the term causewaying (Scottish c1800).

See CHAPMAN.

A person who put up the ceilings in buildings.

A person who look after the beer, wines and spirits in public houses or the warehouse.

A person who hand combed the yarn before weaving.

A person employed to make chaff by cutting straw.

A dealer in chaff.

A travelling chair repairman.

See CANER.

The driver of a two wheeled light open carriage generally furnished with a hood that
may be let down and capable of carrying one or two persons, used for pleasure or local
travelling purposes.

A person who made light carriages or chairs from wicker.

[1] A person who made blankets.   [2] A dealer in shalloon, a material made in Chalons.

A shoemaker that worked from home as an outworker or selling direct.

An officer of the royal household. He is responsible for the Chamber, meaning that he
controls access to the person of the King. He is also responsible for administration of
the household and the private estates of the king. The Chamberlain is one of the four
main officers of the court, the others being the Chancellor, the Justi-ciar, and the
Treasurer.

A female servant who looked after the bedrooms of large houses or hotels.

[1] A Candle maker or candle seller.   [2] A grocer or provisioner.
[3] Usually associated with provisioning ships but also applied to any dealer of a specific trade.

The sailor that led the singing of shanties on board ship.

A person who made and sold hats.

[1] A dealer or pedlar of goods usually itinerant going from village to village.
[2] A keeper of a booth or stall in a market.

A person who made charcoal usually in the woods where the trees were cut.

See CARRIER.

A middleman that negotiated mining contracts and supplied the labour.

A cleaning woman.

An engraver.

The mistress of a castle or house.

A street entertainer who sung ballads.

A dealer in cheeses.



A Ragpicker.

A person who hired bed linen for use at child-birth as most children before the 20th
century were born at home.


A chimney cleaner.

A rooftiler who used wooden shingles.

A shipwright or carpenter.

An assistant to a shipwright or ships carpenter.


A person who treats diseases of the feet & hands.

An apothecary or surgeon.


A fishmonger.

A person who recorded official events of historical importance.

A female who collected the cinders from gas works, and sold them door-to-door.

Tailor.

A magician or astrologer.

A man who took a person to prison.

Clerk

An unemployed labourer.

A servant.

An assistant to the shot firer in the pits.

A person who worked in the clay pits usually preparing the clay for making bricks. Also
a person who coated the outside of buildings with clay to make them water proof.

A Clergyman, cleric, or priest.


A medieval term for a clerk.

See CLAYMAN.

[1] A person who worked in the shoe trade cutting out the uppers also the person who
made the shoelace holes.
[2] In the printing trade a person in charge of the final stage of layout before printing.
[3] The servant of a salesman who stood at the door to invite customers.

In the mines, a person who attached the coal carts to the wire or rope that was used to
drag the carts to and from the coalface.

A ploughman.

A clog maker (wooden shoes).

A person who took the cloth from the carding machine and made it ready for the next
process.

A person who removed unwanted threads and lint from the finished material.


A person who made or sold clothes.


A person who made nails. Also another term for a shoemaker.

A person who made nails.

A person who drove any horse-drawn coach.


A person employed to carry the sacks of coal from the coal barge to the coal wagons.

A person who made charcoal.

A person who worked in the mines pushing or dragging the coal carts the bottom of the
pit.

A person employed to move coal e.g. from boat to shore or from shore to boat.

See COALMAN.


A person who attended the coal carts underground.

A person employed to unload coal from ships using baskets attached to a simple form of
crane.

A person who sold coal usually from a horse and cart, house to house.

A person who measured the coal.

A customs officer who watched over the off-loading of goods on the coast.


A person who mended shoes and boots.

A person who used a flat-bottomed boat for fishing.

A person who looked after fighting cocks.

A cook.

A person who put the fireproof containers that held the pottery for firing into the kiln.

A priest.

A person who worked at the Mint stamping out coins.

A person who made horse collars. In the clothing trade, a person who made shirt collars.

A coal miner, a coal merchant, or a person who worked on the coal barges. Also a
person who worked at the pit face and actually got the coal.

Latin for farmer or husbandman.

[1] A person who mixed the dyes in the textile trade.
[2] A shopkeeper who deals in paints etc.

A person who worked with dyes.

A pedlar who sold books, particularly religious books.

A name given to all those who have not served a regular apprenticeship. Especially used
to describe women and child workers in the framework knitting trade in
Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire during the Luddite disturbances
1811-12.

A person who made combs, either for the textile industry for combing wool etc., or the
maker of hair combs.

A person who combs wool or operated a combing machine in the mills.

A person who set the type ready for printing.

A person on shore who gave directions to inshore fisherman as to the movements of the
shoals of fish (usually from the top of cliffs or rocks).

A rabbit catcher.

A sweet and candy maker.

An inspector or tester.

See CONDER.

[1] An inventor.   [2] A schemer or plotter.

A person who made or repaired wooden barrels and casks.

[1] A dealer in goods,    [2] A dishonest dealer in horses. See CHAPMAN.

A horse dealer.

A person who worked with copper.


A person who made coracles, small round boats used for inland water fishing.

Originally a term used for a person who worked with Cordovan, a special soft leather
from Spain. Later it became the term used for a shoemaker.

A person who worked with cork.

A corn merchant.

A podiatrist.

A middleman in corn deals.

An official who measured and weighed the corn at market.

The fifth commissioned officer in a troop of cavalry, who carried the colours;
corresponding to the ensign in infantry. The lowest commissioned rank in a cavalry
regiment, equivalent to the present 2nd Lieutenant.

A person who made baskets used in coal mining known as corves.

See CORDINER.



A female street trader.

A person who sold fruit and vegetables in the street or market.

A person who made and repaired knives.


A cutler.

An agricultural labourer who lived in a cottage on the landowners farm.


A person employed in the cotton mills to feed the cotton into the loom.

A person employed in the paper making trade.

A person who collected rates.

A dealer, usually in cattle and horses.

An itinerant priest who performed marriages without licence or banns.

A person employed in the coalmines coupling the coal tubs together.

A journalist.

A person who bought and sold courts (small carts).

A person in charge of the court rolls and records.

A manufacturer of tools used to produce carts known as courts.

The owner and driver of a horse and cart known as a court.

An animal doctor.

A person who looked after cows.

A person who kept cows usually for their milk that was sold door to door.


[1] A member of the crew that gave the steering instructions to the helmsman,
[2] A helmsman, especially of a rowing boat.

[1] A law court officer,   [2] An auctioneer,   [3] A town announcer.

A member of navy press gang

A tenant of a small piece of land.

[1] A tenant who is paid with a share of the crop.
[2] A skilled worker in the Yorkshire weaving trade who sheared the nap from cloth,
often working in Gig Mills. See also SHEARMAN.

A Coroner.

A currier.

Cooper; a barrel maker

A person who cures tobacco.

A broker.

A person who cures or tans hides.

A customs tax collector.

A knife seller or sharpener.


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