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Machine Breaker Macun Maderer Maid Mail Guard Maise Maker Maker-Up Malemaker Malender Maler Malster Manchester Man Manciple Mangle Keeper Mango Mantle Forewoman Mantua Maker Marbler Marescallus Marine Store Dealer Mariner Marshall Marshman Mashmaker Mason Master Master Lumper Master Mariner Matchet Forger Mather Mawer Mealman Mechanic Medicus Melder Mercator Mercer Metalman Meterer Midwife Miller Milleress Milliner Millpeck Millwright Milstone Inspector Miner Mintmaker Or Mintmaster Mixer Mocado Weaver Molendinarius (Muner), Molitor Mondayman Monger Monthly Nurse Moulder Moulder Runner Mountebank Mudlark Muffin Maker Muffin Man Muggler Mugseller Muleskinner Muleteer Multurer Musicker Mustarder, Mustardman |
Members of the English labouring class who in the early 19th century revolted and broke threshing machines, spinning machines, and other forms of mechanisation. Mason. A person who gathered and sold garlic. A female domestic servant. Class included Scullery, Kitchen, House, General, Parlour, Nurse, Laundry, Lady's etc. An armed guard, frequently an ex-soldier, employed on the mail coach service, inaugurated in 1784. Later Post Office guards were officially appointed. A person who made measures for weighing herring catch. [1] Garment assembler, A person who prepared or 'made up' material to customers requirements. [2] Chemist or druggist. [3] Agent for paraffin. A maker of 'Males' or travelling bags. Term was adopted by the Royal Mail from the bags in which the letters were carried. A Farmer. See Malemaker. A person who prepared malt for the brewing industry. also Shrewsbury, Sheffield, etc. Late 18c. A wholesale travelling merchant trading between factory and shopkeeper with goods on packhorses. Sometimes independent, sometimes employed by the manufacturer. Steward. A woman who hired the use of the mangle to others for a fee. A slave dealer. A highly skilled dressmaker. A Dressmaker. (Mantua = a woman's loose gown). A person who stained paper or other material, veined in imitation of marble. Marshall. A licensed broker (N. England and Scotland) (i) buys and sells used cordgae, bunting, rags, timber, metal and other general waste materials; usually sorts waste, when purchased, by kind, grade, etc; repairs and mends sacks, etc., or employs workers for these purposes; (ii) in Scotland, a Ship Candler. A person who obtained a living on the sea in whatever rank, equivalent to the R.N. rank of Able Seaman. A horse doctor or shoesmith. A man employed by various landowners to look after marshlands and tend the animals put to graze there for the season. A maker of the mash-vats or mashels used for mixing malt. A stonecutter or stone-dresser. One of three grades of skill recognised by the Guild of Crafts. A skilled workman or one in business on his own. A contractor of labourers at cheap rate of pay. Generally a publican who only hired and paid customers who frequented their public houses. A Sea Captain. A knifemaker (Machete = heavy axe-like knife used as a chopping tool). See MAWER. A mower. A dealer in meal or flour. [1] Manual labourer, working at a trade. [2] Operator of a machine (less skilled than an engineer). [3] A person who uses machinery to produce goods, e.g. frame-work knitter, spinner, weaver, etc. Leech, Doctor. A corn miller. A merchant. A cloth seller, chiefly silks and velvets. See DRAPER. A worker in metals. A poet. An experience woman who assists in child birth. A person who converted materials into another form, e.g. Corn miller, cloth miller, saw miller. A miller's wife. [1] Seller of fancy wares and articles of apparel. [2] Maker of ladies hats, bonnets, etc. A sharpener of mill stones. A person who designed or built mills and mill machinery. A vagrant, a gentleman of the road. A worker in a mine, digging for coal, ironstone, lead, tin miner, etc. An issuer of local currency. A bartender. A weaver of woollen cloth used for making clothes 16-17c. Sometimes called mock velvet. A Miller. See Cottager. A person who worked for landowner on Mondays in lieu of rent. A dealer in goods (i.e., fishmonger, ironmonger). A nurse attending women in the first month after confinement. A maker of moulds or castings, a brickmaker. A pottery moulder's assistant, a young boy who ran between master and drying oven, carrying full moulds and returning with empty ones. A seller of ineffectual patent medicines. A sewer cleaner, riverbank scavenger. A baker who made muffins, round flat cakes of dough which were toasted before eating. [2] Pottery worker who made a specific type of plate, i.e. a seven inch tea plate known as a muffin. An itinerant seller of muffins. See PIGMAN. A seller of cups, mugs. A teamster. A mule driver. A miller. A musician. Grower and grinder of mustard, a dealer in mustard. |
Nailor Naperer Napier Narrow Weaver Navigator Navigor Neatherd(er) Necessary Woman Necker Nedder/ Nedeller Needle Pointer Netter Night Soilman, Nightman Nightwalker Nimgimmer Nipper Nob Thatcher Noon Tender Notary, Noterer |
See CARD NAILER. A Royal servant in charge of the table linen. A person in charge of the table linen in the Manor House. See NAPERER. A weaver of ribbons, tapes, etc. [1] A sailor in charge of navigating. [2] A labourer who dug canals and later worked on the railways. The origin of navvy. See NAVIGATOR. A cowherder. A servant responsible for emptying and cleaning chamber pots. A worker responsible for the feeding of cardboard into the machine the makes boxes. A needle maker. [1] In needlemaking a filer or fettler. [2] A person engaged in the craft of needlepoint. A net maker. A person employed to empty cesspits, ashpits and backyard toilets. A watchman or bellman. A doctor. A lorry boy, a young person employed by the carter or wagoner to assist with the collection and delivery of goods. A wig maker. A person who guarded the goods on the quay while the officers were a lunch. A person officially authorised to draw up or attest to contracts, wills, deeds, or similar documents, to protest bills of exchange. |
Occupier Oilman Olitor Orderly Ordinary Keeper Orrery Maker Orrice Weaver Osier Peeler Ostiary Ostler Out Crier Outworker Overlooker Overman Owler Oyster Dredger |
A tradesman. A person who sold the oil for lamps. A kitchen gardener. From Olitory (a kitchen garden). A soldier who functioned as a servant for an officer. An innkeeper. A person who made a mechanical apparatus for showing the movements of the planets. Named after the Earl of Orrery the inventor. A designer of lace patterns to be woven with silk thread and silk. A person who removed bark from willow rods or osiers which were used in basket weaving, usually women and children. Also known as withy peelers. A monastery door keeper. see HOSTLER. An auctioneer. A worker who carried on their occupation at home, e.g., cotton or woollen weavers but it applies to many occupations. A superintendent or overseer, especially in the textile mills. Often an hereditary position. A supervisor in a colliery who checked the miners work and the quality of the mined coal. A person associated with smuggling particularly a sheep or wool smuggler. A member of the crew on board an oyster fishing boat. |