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A person who made the frames for saddles that the saddler used. 


A person who made saddles, harnesses, horse collars, bridles etc.

Grower of Saffron. 

A person who made the fireclay containers in which the stoneware was placed ready for
firing. 

A person who sold things. 

A saloon keeper. 

A person who obtained salt by boiling water. 

A person who made or dealt in salt. 

Maker of a kind of heavy silk suff. 

An ambassador or messenger. 

A person who wears a sandwich billboard for advertising. 
 
A silk weaver. 

A person who made or dealt in salt. 

Probably Salt maker. 

Salter. 

A Surgeon. 

A person who worked in a timber mill or pit, sawing timber into boards. 

A person who made Say, a material used for table cloths or bedding. 

A person who made imitation marble. 

A person employed by the parish to clean the streets. 


A person who roughly shaped the stone prior to being finished by the stonemason. 

A person employed to keep the waterways and ditches clear. 

An artisan who carves in bone, ivory, or wood. 

A shoemaker 

A person who sold goods door to door with payment to be made by instalments. 

A person who sold goods door to door with payment to be made by instalments. 

A person who screened the ore at the mines surface. 

[1] A person employed in a scibbling mill where the wool was roughly carded before
spinning. 
[2] A minor or worthless author. 

A clerk. 

A person employed at the docks to mark the cotton bales with the approximate weight
ready for selling by the brokers. 

A minor or worthless author. 

A fencing master. 

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. 

[1] A person who wrote out legal documents etc. 
[2] A clerk or notary 

An election judge. 

A female servant who performed all the menial tasks. 

A male servant who performed all the menial tasks. 

A person who beat the flax to soften the straw in the bundles. 

A person employed in the glass industry to seal the bath against air intake which could
spoil the finished surface. 

A customs man. 

[1] A dealer of seeds,  [2] A sower of seeds. 

A person in charge of the automatic spinning mule in the mills. 


Girdlemaker. 

Sadder. 

A person who made leather thongs. 

A seamstress. 

A seamstress.

A senior steward at the Manor.

Sergeant. 

Servant.

A scavenger who concentrated on the sewers trying to find valuable objects. 

A bricklayer who specialised in making and repairing sewers and tunnels. 

A collector of clothing piecework. 

A seamstress. 

A person who worked with shagreen leather. 


A lumberman. 

A tenant farmer who would be paid with part of the crop. 

A person who removed the fleece from sheep. 

A person who sharpened shears, scissors. 

One who raised the surface of woolen cloth and then sheared it to a smooth surface.

A person who made scabbards for swords. 

A sheep herder. 

[1] A sheep shearer.    [2] A dressmaker. 

See Shearman

A roof tiler who used wooden tiles (shingles). 

A repairer of ships while in harbour. 

An owner or captain of a ship. 

A constructor or repairer or ships. 

A seller of shoe maker's tools. 

A servant who polished shoes. 

A person who made shoes. 

[1] A cobbler.    [2] A person who shoed horses. 

A person in charge of blasting in mines or quarries. 

A person who trimmed and pruned trees. 

A Sheriff. 

A yardman on the farms. 

A person who moved rolling stock around the railway yards. 

A person who made the shuttles for the weaving mills. 

A reaper. 

A person who assisted the churchwarden.

Sievemaker. 

A person who prepared the silk for weaving. 
 
A person who turned the wheel on the automatic silk weaving looms. 


A person who sold silk cloth and items made from silk. 

A worker who twisted silk into thread or yarn. 

A silk spinner. 

A person who sewed the ends of the fabric to prevent the layers from separating. 

A person who worked with silver. 

A skilled person who contracted to sink new shafts for coal mining. 

A tailor. 

[1] A person who applied the size to cloth. 
[2] A person who sorted objects according to size. 
[3] A person who worked in a paper mill. 

A person who made or sold wicker or straw beehives. 

A tapster in an ale house. 

[1] A dealer in hides, 
[2] A mule driver. 

A person who made the skips used in mining and quarrying for moving men or materials
to the surface. 

The master of a ship. 

A person who worked in a pottery preparing the clay for the potter. 

A roof tiler who used slate.

Maker of instruments to part threads in weaving. 

A person who sold baskets. A seller of ready made clothes. 

A person who operated the machine used to prepare cotton for spinning. 

A person who removed the bobbins from the spindles in the mills. 

A person who made smallware e.g. tapes, braids etc. 


[1] A worker in a metal smelter, [2] smelt fisherman. 

A smith. 

A person who worked with any metal. 

A smuggler. 

A shoe repairer. 

A person who made candle snuffers. 

A soap maker. 


A person who was staying in a place or position temporary, i.e. passing through. 

A travelling clothes salesman. 


A lawyer.

Soapmaker. 

A tailor. 

A shoemaker. 

A person who worked in a tin works performing the menial tasks. 

A keeper of sparrows. 

A grocer or dealer in spices. 

A person who spins yarn or fabric. 

[1] A woman who spins;     [2] An unmarried woman. 

Hospital Attendant. 

A person who operated a splitting machine or a person who split things by hand e.g.
stone, timber etc.

A person who made spoons. 

A maker of spurs.  

(See ESQUIRE) [1] A practitioner of a profession, 
[2] A magistrate or lawyer, 
[3] A country gentleman especially the chief landed proprietor in a district, 
[4] A knights attendant. 

See OSTLER. 

A person who coloured glass or wood. 

A keeper of a market stall. 

A person who operated a stamping machine. 

A worker of an ore crushing machine.

Probably a Stationer. 


A person who operated a steam engine which was used for pumping water or sewage, or
driving machinery in an industrial environment such as a factory, mill or mine. 

A caretaker of machinery such as pumping engines or lifts/hoists. Also used later for a
person who looked after the electrical and plumbing installations in an apartment block
or office block. aka Janitor. 

A bookseller, seller of paper & writing implements. 

A politician. 

A corset maker. 

A ship's helmsman. 

A person who operated the cloth finishing machine. 

A person employed to help passengers to enter or leave the coach. 

A dock worker or labourer who unloads and loads ships' cargoes. 

A person who does decorative stitching. 

A person who made stockings, or dealer in stockings. Usually, a dealer would be known
as a Hosier. 

A person who tends the fire of an engine boiler. 

A person employed to remove the stones from the farmers fields before planting. 

A person who worked with stone e.g. masons, quarries etc. 

A Surveyor of Highways. 


A person who stowed the nets away on fishing boats. 

A vagrant. 

A person who thatched roofs. 

A person who made straw braids for the hat industry. 

A person who prepared the body for burial. 

A street cleaner. 


A person stretched fabrics in the textile trade, sometimes called a tenter. 

A blacksmiths helper. The person who harpooned the whale. 

A person who made the strings for bows. 

A person employed in the woollen trade to remove the rubbish from the carding
machines. 

A junior barrister. 

A person who wove stuff, the coarse part of flax. 

A person who made ploughshares.

Dealer in sugar. (Grocer ?) 

A summoner or apparitor. 

A porter. 

A person who worked on the surface of a mine. 

A merchant or peddler in an army camp.

Shoemaker or cobbler.

A miller or dealer in grain. A corn miller. 

A herdsman. 

A chimneysweep. 

A person employed in the mills to keep the floor clean. 

A person who made shallow baskets. 

A pig keeper. 


A sword maker.