|
Old Name |
New Name or Meaning |
| Maderer |
Garlic seller |
| Maker-up |
1) Made up garments to order 2) Chemist 3) Agent for paraffin sales |
| Mail Agent |
Government appointed Agent sailing on Royal Mail Ships (RMS) to ensure the mail was "protected and handled in a proper manner" |
| Male Maker |
Maker of travelling bags - "males" - from the bags used by the Royal Mail |
| Malender |
Farmer |
| Maltster / Malster |
Brewer, Made or sold malts |
| Manchester Warehouseman |
Cotton warehouseman - Manchester being the centre of the cotton industry at the time, cotton cloth was called "Manchester" cloth |
| Manciple |
Steward |
| Mangler |
Worked a mangle for wringing out water from washing Pictures |
| Mangle Keeper / Mangle Woman |
Woman who hired out her mangle. The possession of a mangle, for the use of which a small sum was charged, was, among the poorer class of English cottagers, a common means of earning money. |
| Mango |
Slave dealer |
| Mantle Cutter |
Cut out the mantles for gas lamps |
| Mantle Cutter Dress/Tailor |
Cut ladies' Mantles - a cape-like apparel - Picture |
| Mantua Maker |
A specific type of Dressmaker. More Info |
| Marbler |
Stained paper or other surfaces to look like marble |
| Mariken Maker |
A dresser & tanner of moroccan leather. |
| Marine Store Dealer |
Proprietor of a store selling equipment to Mariners. There were also those who aspired to that but who were nothing but junk dealers |
| Mark Maker |
Marked steel, silver or gold with the purity/quality of silver - where made etc |
| Marksman |
1) Sharpshooter 2) Marked out land 3) One who makes a mark in place of a signature 4) A grade or degree of the Orange Order 5) One who ranges competitors in a race 6) One who superintended marking New Forest ponies More Info. |
| Marshall |
Horse doctor or shoe smith |
| Marshman |
Employed by landowners to tend marshland and the animals grazing there |
| Mashmaker |
Made the mash-vats or "mashels" used in brewing |
| Mason |
Stone cutter or dresser. More Info. Bricklayer |
| Master |
One of the three grades of skill recognised by a Crafts Guild. Skilled tradesman, often with his own business |
| Master Lumper |
Contractor employing cheap labour (working on the lump) |
| Master Mariner |
Ship's officer qualified to take command of a ship - not necessarily a Captain. (current term) |
| Master Writer |
Scribe or writer. (In Scotland, a Writer would be a Lawyer) |
| Matchet Forger |
Forged knife blades |
| Matchet Mounter |
Worked in the cutlery industry mounting knife blades to the handles - commonly made of bone then |
| Mawer / Mather |
Mower |
| Mealman |
Dealer in meal or flour |
| Mechanic |
1) Machine operator, less skilled than an engineer 2) A journeyman engaged in one of the lower forms of handicraft |
| Medicus |
From the Latin; doctor, physician, also can refer to a homeopath |
| Melder |
Corn miller |
| Mercator |
Merchant |
| Mercer |
Cloth seller |
| Meterer |
Poet |
| Mewer |
Made cages for hawks |
| Miller |
Miller of corn, cloth miller, saw miller, oil miller (see) |
| Miller's Carman |
Drove cart delivering flour or seed |
| Milliner |
Women's hat maker / seller |
| Millwright |
Designed, built and maintained mills or mill machinery, requiring a variety of skills, from reading plans to diagnosing and solving mechanical problems. |
| Milestone Inspector |
Vagrant - "gentleman of the road" |
| Milner |
Worker in a Miln (Mill) |
| Mine Captain |
Senior
supervisor or the equivalent of a superintendent in a mining operation. |
| Mintmaster / Maker |
Issued local currency |
| Misegatherer |
Local tax collector |
| Mocado Weaver |
16-17th Century weaver of wool (mock velvet) for clothing |
| Modeller |
A designer in the pottery industry |
| Molitor |
Miller |
| Mondayman |
Worked for the landowner in lieu of rent - usually a Monday |
| Monger |
Seller of goods (ale, fish etc.) i.e. fishmonger |
| Monthly Nurse |
An attending woman during the first month after childbirth. Also known as 'Confinement Nurse'. May also have the initials S.M.S. (Subsidiary Medical Services. i.e. not a doctor, but trained in some way) |
| Mordant Maker |
Made a chemical known as Mordant, used in fixing the dye in cloth. This was obtained, amongst other chemicals, from the vapours given off from 'stewing' charcoal |
| Moss Reeve |
A bailiff who received and dealt with claims for land on swamps
and mossy areas.
|
| Moulder |
Made moulds for castings, brick making etc |
| Mountebank |
Seller of fake patent medicines. An impostor |
| Mudlark |
Scratched a living by scavenging river banks at low tide |
| Muffin Carrier |
A street seller of muffins |
| Mugger |
1) A hawker of earthenware. 2) A grimacing comedian |
| Muggler |
Pigman |
| Mugman |
Possibly a variant of 'Potman' a term sometimes used for a barman or other helper in a inn or public house |
| Mule Scavenger |
Young children, sometimes bought from Workhouses, worked some twelve hours a day crouched under working spinning mules, clearing out the debris accumulated there. A very dangerous occupation. |
| Mule Spinner |
See Spinner |
| Muleskinner |
Teamster |
| Muleteer |
Mule driver |
| Multurer |
Miller |
| Mumper |
Beggar |
| Musicker |
Musician |
| Mustarder / Mustardman |
Dealer in mustard |
