Occupation | Description |
|---|---|
Accoucheur | A professional obstetrician. Assisted women in childbirth. |
Accoutrement Maker | Supplier or maker of military clothing and accessories. |
Alderman | A senior member of a town council who would have been selected by the elected members themselves rather than by popular vote, or a council member elected by voters. |
Apiculturist | A keeper of bees. |
Artizan | One who is employed in any of the industrial arts; a mechanic, handicraftsman, artificer. |
Ballad Seller | Seller of sheet music. |
Barker | Tanner i.e. tans (cures) animal hides into leather. |
Carter | Carries or conveys goods in a cart. |
Chandler | A candle maker, or someone who would sell groceries or provisions to ships. |
Colporteur | Travelling Bible or religious books and pamphlets salesman. |
Compositor | Set the type ready for printing. |
Cooper | Maker of wooden barrels. |
Cork Cutter | Someone who cuts the bark of the cork tree into cylindrical pieces to be used in casks or bottles. |
Costermonger | Person who sells fruit or vegetables (sometimes fish or other commodities) from a street stand, barrow or cart. |
Curled Hair Merchant | A dealer in horse-hair stuffing used in upholstery. |
Eggler | One who gathers, or deals in, eggs (or Poultry). |
Feather Dresser | Cleaned and prepared feathers for sale. |
Fuller | Fabric worker who shrinks, beats and presses the cloth. |
Ganger | Foreman i.e. in charge of a gang of men. |
Haberdasher | A dealer in drapery goods of various types, such as laces, silks, trimmings, etc. |
Hackle Setter | Set and maintained the pins in a Hackle (metal plate with rows of pointed needles used to blend or straighten hair or flax). |
Hobbler | rows or sculls small boat (in docks or rivers), in which he acts as unlicensed pilot, or does odd jobs. |
Huckster | Seller of small wares. |
Japanner | One who applies a hard brilliant coat of any of several varnishes to objects. |
Journeyman | A tradesman who has served his trade apprenticeship and mastered his craft, not bound to serve a master, but originally hired by the day. |
Lamplighter | A man who would put out or turn on, the gas street-lights. |
Lapper | A textile worker involved in the finishing process of the cloth prior to packing. |
Laster | Person who shaped shoes on a last (the mould of the human foot made of wood and used to shape footwear). |
Navvy | A labourer building canals, roads or railways. |
Osler | A bird catcher. |
Packet Porter | Logistics of working with packet boats were medium-sized boats designed for domestic mail, passenger, and freight transportation. Note City of Dublin Steam Packet Company. |
Philosophical Instrument Maker | A person who made scientific instruments e.g. kaleidoscope |
Phrenologist | Studied the conformation of the skull to decipher mental faculties and traits of character. |
Pin Setter | Hammers in pins, spikes, pegs or needles in component parts of textile machinery. |
Rivetter | Someone who rivets, i.e. metal plates on a ship. |
Saw Doctor | Person who made, repaired, and maintained cutting tools and saw blade. Also maintained and aligned mechanical parts of a range of production machines. |
Tallow Chandler | One who made or sold candles. |
Tanner | Tans (cures) animal hides into leather. |
Trimmer | A person who trims a ship by re-arranging its cargo to distribute the weight properly. |
Tucker | Cleaner of cloth goods. |
Wheelwright | A maker of wheels for carts etc. |
Whipper-In | Someone who managed the hounds in a hunt. |
Whitesmith | A metal worker who finishes and polishes metals; in particular tin plate and galvanized iron. |
Whitewasher | Whitewashed the walls of cottages and other buildings. |
Winder | Someone who transferred the yarn from bobbins onto cheeses or into balls ready for weaving. Also, in the mines someone who operated the pulley or winch. |