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Tabernarius

Tabler 

Tackler 

Tailor 

Taker Off Or
Taker In

Tallow Chandler 

Tally Clerk 

Tallyman/
Tallyfellow

Tan Bark
Stripper 

Tannator/
Tanner

Taper Weaver 

Tapicer Or
Tapiter

Tapley 

Tapster 

Tarrier 

Tasker 

Tasseler 

Taverner 

Tawer/ Tawyer

Teamer, Teamer
Man, Teamster 

Teemer 


Teinter

Tenter 



Terrier 

Textor

Thacker,
Thatcher

Thirdborough 

Thresher 

Throwster 

Tickney Man Or
Woman

Tide Gauger 

Tide Surveyor 

Tide Waiter 

Tidesman 

Tiemaker 

Tiger 

Tiler 

Tiller 

Tillman 

Tiltmaker 

Timekeeper 


Times Ironer 

Tinctor

Tinker 

Tinner 

Tinsmith 

Tinter Or
Teinter

Tipper 

Tippler 

Tipstaff

Tirewoman 

Tixtor 

Tobacco Spinner

Todhunter 

Toe Rag 

Toilinet
Manufacturer

Toller 

Tollgate Keeper 

Tollie 

Tollman 

Tonsor 

Tool Helver 

Top Sawyer 

Topman 

Topsman 

Touch Holer 

Tow Card
Maker

Town
Chaberlain 

Town Crier

Town Husband 


Townswaiter 

Toyman Or Toy
Dealer

Tozer 

Tradesman 

Trammer 

Trampler 

Tranqueter 

Tranter 

Trapper 

Travers 

Treen Maker

Treenail Maker 

Trenchermaker 


Trencherman 

Trepanger 

Trimmer 

Troacher 

Trolley Carter 

Troner 

Tr(o)uchman

Trover 

Truchman 

Trugger 

Trusser 

Tubber 

Tubedrawer 

Tubman 


Tucker 

Tucker In 

Tunist 

Turner 

Turning Boy 

Turnkey 

Turnpike
Keeper 

Turnspit 

Tweenie Or
Tweeny

Twist Hand 

Twister(er)

Taverner, Innkeeper.

A boarding house operator. 

An overlooker of power loom weavers. 

A person who made or repaired clothes. 

A person (usually a child) employed to unhitch the coal tubs from the endless rope
system. 

A person who made or sold candles. 

A person who kept count of goods arriving or departing from warehouses, docks etc. 

A person who sold goods that were paid for in instalments. 


A person who collected the bark that was used in the tanning process.


A person who tanned hides and skins to make leather. 


A person who made the wicks for candles. 

A person who wove worsted cloth. 


One who puts the tap in an ale cask. 

A person employed to serve the beer in public houses, a barman. 

A person in charge of a pack of terriers used for hunting. 

A thresher or reaper. 

A person who made tassels used in furnishings. A nobleman. 

An innkeeper. 

A person who made white leather. 

A person in charge of a team of horses. 


[1] A person who emptied grain from the cart. 
[2] A person who poured the molten steel into the moulds.

Dyer. 

A person who stretched the cloth on a machine whilst it was drying. A person who
looked after and maintained the machine used in the process. Also the term for a person
who looked after something e.g. a door tenter or pony tenter in the coal mining trade. 

A person in charge of a pack of terriers used for hunting. 

A weaver. 

A person who covered roofs with straw or reeds. 


An under-constable. 

A person who separated the grain from the husks and straw. 

A person in the textile trade who twisted the strands of fibre together into yarn. 
 
A person who sold earthenware from town to town. 


A person who monitored the state of the tide. 

A person who monitored the state of the tide. 

A customs inspector. See TIDESMAN. 

A customs officer who watched the unloading of ships to ascertain the duty due. 

A person who made wooden railway ties. 

A small groom or pageboy in livery. 

A person who put tiles in place either on the roof or floor. 

A farmer. 

A ploughman. 

A person who made canvas awnings or canopies. 

A person responsible for making sure things happened on time e.g. worker arriving or
departing, trains, coaches, omnibuses, etc. 

A servant responsible for ironing the daily newspaper. 

Dyer or possibly a painter. 

A travelling salesman of pots & pans etc. or travelling repairman 

A person who worked in the tin mines or a tinsmith 

A person who worked with tin. 

An artists who performs tinting. 


A person who put the metal tips on arrows, etc. 

A person who kept an ale house. 

[1] A court official.   [2] A policeman. 

[1] A milliner    [2] A hairdresser.   [3] A female dresser, especially in the theatre. 

A weaver. 

A maker of cigars. 

A person employed by the parish to hunt foxes. 

A person who worked at the docks as a corn porter. 

A person who made toilinet (a kind of quilting). 


See TOLLMAN. 

A person who worked at the toll gate to collect fees for use of the road. 

See TOLLGATE KEEPER. 

A person who collected tolls. 

Latin for barber. 

A person who made tool handles. 

The upper man in a saw pit. 

A sailor who works in the ship's rigging. 

The head cattle drover. 

A person who worked in the gun manufacturing industry. 

A person who made tow cards, used in the textile industry. 


A person who looked after the towns affairs. 


A person who made public announcements in the streets. 

A person employed by the parish to collect the money from the fathers of illegitimate
children for their upkeep. 

A customs man. 
 
A person who sold children’s toys. 


A person who worked in the wool mills employed to tose or tease the cloth. 

A shopkeeper or skilled craftsman. 

A young person who worked in the mines. 

A lawyer. 

A person who made hoops. 

A peddler. 

A young person employed in the mines to open and shut the doors for the miners. 

A collector of fees at a toll bridge. 

A person who made domestic articles from wood. 

A person who made the long wooden pins used in shipbuilding. 

A person who made wooden boards or platters for serving food from or cutting and
slicing food on. 

A cook. 

A person who used a circular saw to cut timber. 

A person who trims a ship by re-arranging its cargo. 

A pedlar. 

A person who operated the tubs in the mines. 

A weighing official at the markets. 

An interpreter. 

A smuggler. 

An interpreter. 

A person who made long shallow baskets. 

A person who bundled and tied hay, aka Hay Baler. 

A person who made tubs and barrels, i.e. a cooper. 

A person who made tubes. 

[1] A person who worked in the mines filling the tubs.   [2] A court official. 
[3] An English barrister 

A cleaner of cloth goods. See Fuller. 

A maid who attended the bedroom and "tucked in the bedclothes". 

A person who tuned musical instruments. 

[1] A lathe operator.   [2] A gymnast, particularly street performers or beggars. 

A person who assisted the weaver by turning the bar on the loom. 

A prison warder or jail keeper. 

See TOLLGATE KEEPER. 


A person who operated the spit handle. 

A maid who worked "between the stairs" she assisted the cooks and the housemaids. 


A person who operated a lace machine. 

A person who operated the machine used for twisting yarns and threads together. 


Ulnager 

Upholder 


Upholsterer 

Upright Worker 


A person appointed to examine the quality of woollen goods to be sold. 

[1] A person who made quilts or mattresses. 
[2] A person who assisted the auctioneer.

A person who finished furniture by putting on the padding and cloth. 

A chimney sweep.


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