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Daguerreotype Artist Dairyman Damster Danter Dataller/ Dateler Day Labourer Day Man/ Daytaleman Deathsman Decimer Decoyman Decretist Deem(st)er Delver Dem(p)ster Departer Deputy Derrickman Devil Deviller Dexter Dey Wife Digger Dikeman Dipper Dish Thrower Dish Turner Disher Distiller Distributor Diviner Dock Master Dock Walloper Docker Dog Breaker Dog Killer Dog Leech Dog Whipper Domesman Domestic Donkey Boy Or Man Door Keeper Dorcas Doubler Dowser Dozener Dragman Dragoman Dragoon Dragsman Drainer Draper Drapery Painter Drawboy Drawer Drayman Dredgerman Dresser Dressing Machine Maker Dressmaker Drift Maker Dripping Man Driver Drover Drugger Drum Battledore Maker Drummer Dry Salter Dry Stane Dyker Dry Stone Waller Drysalter Dubbere Dudder Duffer Dustbin Man/ Dustman Dyer Dykeman Dyker Dysshere |
An early name for a photographer (from the Daguerreotype method). A worker or owner of a dairy farm or seller of dairy products. A builder of dams for logging purposes. A female overseer in the winding rooms of a silk mill. See DAY MAN. A person who was hired and paid on a day-by-day basis. A casual worker, usually employed by the day, the term was used in many different industries and trades. An executioner. A person elected by the householders in a street to act as their representative at the borough's Court Leet. A person employed to decoy the wild fowl, animals, etc, into a trap or within shooting range. A person knowledgeable in decrees, decretals. A judge, usually in the Channel Isles or Isle of Man. A person who dug ditches. See DEEMSTER. A refiner of precious metals. In the mining industry, the Deputy was the safety officer for the pit crew. A person who worked on an oil well handling the tubes and rods used in drilling. A printer's errand boy. A person who operated the devil, a machine that tore rags used in the textile industry. A dyer. A female dairy worker. [1] A person who worked at the coalface. [2] A day labourer in a stone or slate quarry. A hedger or ditcher. A person who worked in the pottery trade and was responsible for the glazing of items. A person who made bowls and dishes from clay. A person who made wooden bowls or dishes. See DISH THROWER. A person who distilled spirits, aka Rectifier. A parish official attached to the workhouse or poorhouse who looked after the secular needs of the poor. See DOWSER. A person in charge of a dockyard. A dockworker, longshoreman. A person employed in a dockyard to load and unload cargo between ship and quayside, aka stevedore, longshoreman. A person who trained dogs. A person employed by the parish to kill any dogs found wandering around loose. A veterinarian. When foxes were hunted for bounty the tail of the fox was nailed to the church door as proof of capture. The Dog Whipper was employed to deal with the dogs that disrupted the church service, attracted by the tails. Nickname for a judge. A household servant. The driver of a carriage for passengers. A guard, janitor, or porter. A seamstress. A person who operated a machine used to twist together strands of fibre (cotton, wool etc). A person who claimed to be able to find water using a forked stick of hazel held close to the body in both hands and passed over the ground. See DECIMER. A fisherman who fished by dragging a net along the bottom of the water. A person who acted as interpreter or guide in Turkish or Arabic. A Cavalryman. A driver of a small stagecoach or carriage used for public transport or private hire. A person who made drains. A dealer in fabrics, chiefly woollen and linen cloth, and sewing needs. Larger dealers also sold ready-made clothes. A person whose painting skills were not of the highest level, they usually finished paintings for the artists by painting on the clothes of the subject, hence Drapery Painter. A weavers assistant in the shawl making mills. They sat atop the looms and lifted the heavy warps. [1] A person in the metal industry who made wire by drawing the metal through a die. [2] In the mining industry, it was a person who raised the coal up the shaft to the surface. A person who drove a dray (a heavy four wheeled cart used to transport beer kegs). [1] A London occupation. A person who went on the River Thames in a boat to collect the bits and pieces that had fallen overboard from other vessels that they would then sell. [2] Oyster Fishermen. [1] A person who prepared things, e.g. clothing for a noble person, food, etc.. [2] A person who assisted in medical operations by dressing the wounds. [3] A person who operated a machine that prepared threads in the textile industry. A person who made sewing machines. A person who made clothing. A person who made drift nets, used in the fishing industry. A dealer in dripping (the fat collected during the cooking of meats). A slave overseer. A person who drove animal stock to market. A pharmacist. A person who made galvanised metal drums fitted with paddles used as mechanical agitators in washing machines (battledore is the name of the bat shaped paddles). A travelling salesman. A dealer in pickles, dried meats, and sauces. A Scottish term for a Dry Stone Waller. A person who built stone walls, usually using the stones removed from the fields as building materials. The art was in not using any cement or mortar and generally not cutting the stone, but being able to see where various stones would fit together. A dealer in salt or salted meats. A dealer in dyes and colours used in the dying trade. A cloth dubber, i.e., one who raises the nap of cloth. Probably a maker of coarse cloaks. A Pedlar (of cheap goods). A person who collected domestic refuse, aka janitor or garbage collector. A person employed in the textile mills to colour fabric prior to weaving. A hedger or ditcher. A Scottish term for a stonemason. Probably a ditcher, or in some cases a disher. |
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Faber Fabricator Factor Fagetter Faker Fancy Man Fancy Woman Fancy-Pearl Worker Fanner Fanwright Farandman Farrier Fawkner Fear-Nothing Maker Feather-Beater Feather-Dresser Feather-Wife Featherman Feeder Fell Monger Feller Felter Feroner Ferreter Ferur (Ferator) Festitian Fettler Fever Fewster Fewterer Feydur Beater Field Master Filibuster Filler Fine Drawer Finisher Firebeater First Hand Fiscere Fish Fag Fisher (Fishdryver) Fitter Flasher Flatman Flauner Flaxdresser Flesher Fleshewer Fleshmonger Fletcher Floater Floatman Flower Flusherman Flycoachman Flying Stationer Flyman Fogger Foister(er) Foot Maiden Foot Man Foot Pad Foot Straightener Foot-Boy Or Man Foot-Post Forestarius/ Forester. Forgeman Forger Forkner Fossetmaker Fower Frame Spinner Framer Frameworker Knitter Freedman Freeholder Freeman Freemason Frereman Freser Freshwater Man Fringemaker Fripperer Friseur Frobisher Fruiterer Fruitestere Fulker Fuller Funambulist Furber/ Furbour Furbisher Furner Furrier Fustian Weaver Fuyster |
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