|
Old Name |
New Name or Meaning |
| Tabernarius |
Tavern or innkeeper - from the Latin |
| Tabler |
Boarding House keeper |
| Tackler |
Overlooker of weaving shed workers |
| Taker Off / In |
Unhitched coal tubs from an endless rope system - usually children |
| Tallow Chandler |
Candle maker/seller |
| Tally Clerk |
As today, tallied goods into and out of warehouses, ships etc. |
| Tallyman / Tally Fellow |
1) Sold goods on instalment plan. 2) Local official who tallied the allowed number of persons in a dwelling for health reasons - usually 3 adults and four children |
| Tambour Worker |
Worked with embroidery on a (circular) Tambour Frame |
| Tan Bark Stripper |
Collected tree bark used for tanning leather |
| Tanner |
Tanned (cured) animal hides for leather making. Still used. More Info. |
| Tanner's Beamsman |
Draped part-cured skins over a Tanners Beam, a flat slab of wood or stone, to scrape off the remaining flesh, fat and hair |
| Taper Weaver |
Made candle wicks |
| Tapiter / Tapicer |
Weaver of figured cloth or tapestry |
| Tapley |
Put the taps in ale casks |
| Tapster |
Barman / woman |
| Tar Boy |
Applied tar (antiseptic) to sheep when nicked by shearers |
| Tasker |
Reaper |
| Tasseler |
Made tassels for furnishings |
| Taverner |
Innkeeper |
| Tawer/Tawyer/Tower |
Made white leather |
| Teamster / Teamer / Teamer Man |
Driver of a team horses used for hauling |
| Teemer |
1) Emptied grain brought by cart 2) Poured molten steel into moulds |
| Teerer/Tierer/Tier Boy |
Spread a fresh surface of colour on the printer's 'pad' each time he used it to print calico |
| Teizer |
Removed slag from molten glass (18c glass industry) |
| Tenter / Tenterer |
1) Tenterer - Someone who, after cloth was dyed, stretched it on a frame, called a "Tent" for drying . This frame was fitted with hooks known as "Tenterhooks" - about which we all know! Photo (1950) 2) The term was also used for a person who looked after or watched something. .i.e. Tip tenter - person inspecting finished shuttle tips after manufacture. (Tenter - from Tender, to tend) More Info. |
| Textor |
Weaver |
| Thacker / Thatcher |
Roof thatcher, using straw or, more usually, reeds |
| Theemaker |
Shoemaker |
| Thirdborough |
Under-constable |
| Thresher |
Separated chaff from grain |
Throstle Spinner/ Throstle Jobber
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Attended a spinning machine known as a Throstle, due to the noise it made, which resembled a lark, or throstle. The machine was used for the continuous spinning of cotton (or wool) simultaneously onto long rows of, perhaps 300 or 400, pirns or bobbins. More Info. More Info. Drawing. |
| Throwster / Thrower |
Textile worker attending machine which twisted together strands of fibre into yarn - cotton, silk, wool etc. |
| Ticket Porter |
Porter wearing badges, or 'tickets', licensed by the City of London to carry goods, as well as documents and messages. They could be found in the streets and hired when needed |
| Tickneyman / woman |
Travelling earthenware seller |
| Tide Gauger / Surveyor |
Monitored the state of the tides |
| Tide Waiter / Tidesman |
Customs inspector who boarded ship on arrival to enforce customs regulations |
| Tiger |
Liveried pageboy / groom |
| Tiler |
Worked with roof and floor tiles |
| Tiller |
Farmer |
| Tillman |
Ploughman |
| Timekeeper |
A person responsible for making sure things happened on time e.g. worker
arriving or departing, trains, coaches, omnibuses, etc. |
| Times Ironer |
Servant who literally ironed The Times newspaper! |
| Timoneer |
A ship's helmsman (from French, timonier) |
| Tin Dresser |
Processed tin ore. |
| Tinctor |
Dyer |
| Tinker |
An itinerant tin pot and pan seller, repairman / knife sharpener - also Iggler |
| Tinner |
1) Tin miner 2) Tinsmith |
| Tinsmith |
Worked with tin |
| Tinter / Teinter |
Artists who tinted photographs before colour was available |
| Tin Streamer |
Recovered tin ore by means of 'panning', as in gold panning, from rivers and streams |
| Tipper |
Tipped arrows etc. with metal |
| Tippler |
Alehouse keeper - It was also the name for an outside "toilet"!! (hole in the ground!) |
| Tipstaff |
1) Court official 2) Policeman |
| Tirewoman |
1) Female dresser - esp. theatrical 2) Milliner 3) Hairdresser |
| Tixtor |
Weaver |
| Tobacco Spinner |
Made cigars |
| Todhunter |
Employed by the parish to hunt foxes |
| Toe Rag |
Worked in the docks as a corn porter |
| Toilinet Maker / Knotter |
Made "toilinet" - a kind of quilting - The knotter made the knots at the edges |
| Toller / Tollie / Tollman / Tollgate Keeper |
Collected road tolls at a Toll Gate/House |
| Tonsor |
Barber - from Latin |
| Tool Helver |
Tool handle maker |
| Topman |
Seaman - worked in the "tops" (aloft) on sailing ships |
| Top Sawyer |
Upper man in a sawpit - using a long two-man saw |
| Topsman |
Head cattle drover |
| Tosher |
Scratched a living by scavenging the Victorian sewers |
| Touch holer |
Worked in gun making |
| Tow Card Maker |
Made "tow cards" used in weaving mills |
| Town Chamberlain |
Looked after a town's affairs |
| Town Crier |
"Cried" public announcements and used a bell to get attention |
| Town Husband |
Collected dues from fathers of illegitimate children of the parish for their upkeep |
| Townsman |
Commercial traveller |
| Townswaiter |
Customs man |
| Tozer |
Worked in the mills "tosing" (teasing) the cloth |
| Trace Maker/Tracer |
Worked in a draughting office, copying engineering diagrams, using tracing paper. In the days before photocopying, plans and diagrams for mining and manufacturing industries were copied by hand. It required accuracy, patience and a knack for using the pen without producing ink blots |
| Trammer |
Young mineworker |
| Trampler |
Lawyer |
| Tranqueter |
Made barrel hoops |
| Translator |
In the shoe trade - a person who translates or remakes old shoe parts into a new shoe. i.e. a cobbler |
| Tranter |
Peddler, often hiring himself out with his horse and cart |
| Trapper |
Opened and shut doors for miners |
| Traveller |
1) A Gypsy 2) Travelling salesman |
| Travers |
Toll bridge collector |
| Treen Maker |
Made wooden domestic goods |
| Treenail Maker |
Made "treenails" - long wooden pins used in shipbuilding |
| Trencher Maker |
Made wooden "trenchers" - platters for serving or cutting food |
| Trencherman |
Cook |
| Trimmer |
1) Ship's crewman who trimmed coal in ship's bunkers 2) Dockworker who trimmed grain or bulk cargo in ship's hold to spread it out evenly |
| Troacher |
Peddler |
| Troner |
Official weigher in markets |
| Trouchman / Truchman |
Interpreter |
Trouncer |
Drayman's assistant (Brewers) |
| Trover |
Smuggler |
| Truchman |
Interpreter |
| Trugger / Trug maker |
Made "trugs" - shallow baskets |
| Trusser |
Hay baler - made up hay trusses |
| Tubber |
Made tubs and barrels - a cooper |
| Tubedrawer |
Made tubes |
| Tubman |
1) English barrister 2) Court official 3) Filled tubs in a coalmine |
| Tucker |
Cleaned cloth goods |
| Tucker-in |
Chambermaid who tucked in the bed-clothing |
| Turncock |
Worked for the local water company, opening and closing the water supply. He also had to inform householders that their water was being turned off. |
| Turner |
1) Lathe worker 2) Gymnast esp. street performers 3) In the Potteries; Turns the dried clay ware to the required outline before firing |
| Turnkey |
Jailer |
| Turning Boy |
Weaver's assistant - turned the loom bar |
| Turnpike Keeper |
Collected road tolls |
| Turnspit |
Boy who turned the spit handle, roasting meat. (Medieval) |
| Tweeny / Tweenie |
Maid employed "between the stairs" assisting cook and housemaids |
| Twiller |
Produced a raised diagonal rib appearance in fabric |
| Twine Spinner |
Engaged in ropemaking by hand. |
| Twist Hand |
Used a lace-making machine |
| Twister / Twisterer |
Worked a machine twisting the yarns or threads Ring Frame Twister |
| Tyresmith |
Blacksmith who specilised in making the iron bands (tyres) around wooden cart wheels before the introduction of rubber, later pneumatic tyres. |
