Victorian Occupations

A collection of the occupations or job descriptions of the people living in London in the 1890's.  Most of the descriptions are fairly self explanatory, I'll elaborate on the ones that aren't in due course.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Tabernarius	A taverner, or innkeeper.
Table Maker	Someone who made tables.
Tabler	A boarding house proprietor.
Tackler	An overlooker of power loom weavers.
Tailor	Someone who made or repaired clothes.
Tailor & Clothier	Someone who made or repaired clothes.
Tailor Coat Hand	A tailor's assistant.
Tailor Hand	A tailor's assistant.
Tailoress	A female tailor
Tailor's Apprentice	Someone learning the tailor's trade.
Tailor's Assistant	A tailor's assistant.
Tailor's Cutter	A tailor's assistant - cuts cloth.
Tailor's Labourer	A tailor's assistant.
Tailor's Machiner	A tailor's assistant - machines cloth.
Tailor's Machinist	A tailor's assistant - machines cloth.
Tailor's Presser	A tailor's assistant - presses cloth.
Taker Off or Taker In	Someone, often a child, employed to unhitch the coal tubs from the endless rope system.
Tallow Chandler	Someone who made or sold candles
Tally Clerk	Someone who kept count of goods arriving or departing from warehouses, docks etc.
Tallyman or Tally Fellow	Someone who sold goods that were paid for in instalments.
Tan Bark Stripper	Someone who collected the bark that was used in the tanning process.
Tannator	A tanner.
Tanner	One who tans (cures) animal hides into leather
Taper	A candlewick maker or seller.
Taper Weaver	Someone who made the wicks for candles.
Tapicer or Tapiter	Someone who wove worsted cloth.
Tapley	One who puts the tap in an ale cask
Tapster	Someone employed to serve the beer in public houses, a barman.
Tarpaulin Maker	Someone who made tarpaulins.
Tarrier	Someone in charge of a pack of terriers used for hunting.
Tasker	A reaper or thresher.
Tasseler	Someone who made tassels used in furnishings. Also a nobleman.
Taverner	An inn keeper.
Tawer	Someone who made white leather.
Tawyer	Someone who made white leather.
Tea Cooper	tea chests were fastened with metal bands.  Any container fastened with metal bands was considered a cooper's trade
Tea Packer	Someone who packs tea into boxes.
Teacher	someone who teaches.
Teacher, School	someone who teaches.
Teamer or Teamer man	Someone in charge of a team of horses.
Teamster	Someone in charge of a team of horses.
Teemer	Someone who emptied grain from the cart, or someone who poured the molten steel into the moulds.
Teinter	A dyer.
Telegraph Messenger	Someone who delivers messages sent by telegraph.
Telegraphist & Clerk	Someone who sends and receives telegraph messages.
Tenter	Someone who stretched the cloth on a machine whilst it was drying, or who looked after and maintained the machine used in the process. Also a term for someone who looked after something e.g. a door tenter or pony tenter in the mining industry.
Terrier	Someone in charge of a pack of terriers used for hunting.
Textor	A weaver.
Thacker	A roof thatcher.
Thatcher	roofer, one who covered roofs with straw or reeds.
Thirdborough	An under, or deputy constable. Also a tithing man.
Thresher	Someone who separated the grain from the husks and straw.
Throwster	Someone in the textile trade who twisted the strands of fibre together into yarn.
Ticket Writer	Someone who writes tickets.
Tickney Man or Woman	Someone who sold earthenware from town to town.
Tide Gauger	Someone who monitored the state of the tide.
Tide Surveyor	Someone who monitored the state of the tide.
Tide waiter	Customs inspector
Tidesman	A customs officer who checked the goods being unloaded from ships to ascertain the amount of duty due.
Tiemaker or Tie Maker	someone who made wooden railway ties.
Tiger	A small groom or pageboy in livery.
Tiler	Someone who lays tiles on roofs or floors.
Tiller	A farmer.
Tillman	A ploughman.
Tiltmaker	Someone who made canvas awnings or canopies.
Timber Dealer	Someone who dealt in timber.
Timber Porter	Someone who carried or moved timber.
Timekeeper	Someone responsible for making sure things happened on time e.g. worker arriving or departing, trains, coaches, buses, etc.
Times Ironer	Someone responsible for ironing the daily newspaper.
Tinctor	A dyer.
Tinker	An itinerant tin pot and pan seller and repairman
Tinman	a tinsmith or tinker
Tin miner	Someone who mined tin ore.
Tinner	Someone who worked in the tin mines or a tinsmith.
Tin Plate Worker	Someone who worked with tin plate.
Tinsmith or Tin Smith	Someone who worked with tin.
Tinter or Teinter	An artist who performs tinting.
Tipper	Someone who put the metal tips on arrows, etc.
Tippler	Someone who ran an alehouse.
Tipstaff	A policeman or court official.
Tirewoman	A milliner, a hairdresser, or a female dresser, often in the theatre.
Tixtor	A weaver.
Tobacco Spinner	maker of cigars
Tobacconist	shop selling tobacco products
Todd or Todhunter	Someone employed by the parish to hunt foxes.
Toe Rag	worked at the docks as a corn porter
Toilinet Manufacturer	Someone who made toilinet (a kind of quilting).
Toller	Someone who collected tolls.
Tollgate Keeper	Someone who worked at the toll gate to collect fees for the use of the road.
Tollie	See Tollgate Keeper
Tollman	Someone who collected tolls.
Tonsor	A barber, or men's hairdresser. (Latin)
Tool Helver	Someone who made tool handles.
Topman	A sailor who works in the ship's rigging.
Top Sawyer	The upper man in a saw pit.
Topsman	The head cattle drover.
Touch Holer	Someone who worked in the gun manufacturing industry.
Tow Card Maker	Someone who made tow cards, used in the textile industry.
Town Chamberlain	Someone who looked after the towns affairs.
Town Crier	one who made public announcments in the streets
Town Husband	Someone employed by the parish to collect money from the fathers of illegitimate children for their upkeep.
Townswaiter	A customs official.
Toy Maker	Someone who made toys.
Toyman or Toy Dealer	Someone who sold children's toys.
Tozer	Someone who worked in the wool mills employed to tose or tease the cloth.
Tradesman
A shopkeeper or a skilled craftsman.
Trammer	A young person who worked in the mines.
Trampler	A lawyer.
Tranqueter	Someone who made hoops.
Tranter	A peddler
Trapper	A young person employed in the mines to open and shut the doors for the miners.
Traveller	A travelling salesman.
Travelling Bag Maker	Someone who made travelling bags.
Travelling Glazier	Someone who replaced broken windows.
Travers	Toll bridge collector
Treen Maker	Someone who made domestic articles from wood.
Treenail Maker	someone who made the long wooden pins used in shipbuilding.
Trenchermaker	Someone who made wooden boards or platters for serving food from or cutting and slicing food on.
Trencherman	A cook.
Trepanger	one who used a circular saw to cut timber
Trimmer	trims a ship by re-arranging its cargo
Trimmer in Braid	Someone who sews braid onto the edges of clothing.
Trimmer Up
Trimming Head
Trimming Maker	someone who made trimming.
Trimming Seller	Someone who sold trimming.
Tripper	A dancer.
Troacher	A peddler.
Trolley Carter	Someone who operated the tubs in the mines.
Troner	A weighing official at the markets.
Trouchman	An interpreter.
Trousers Finisher	Someone who finished trousers.
Trover	A smuggler.
Truchman	An interpreter.
Truck Lad
Trugger	Someone who made long shallow baskets.
Trunk Maker	Someone who made trunks.
Trusser	Someone who bundled and tied hay.
Trustee
Tubber	made tubs and barrels ie a cooper
Tubedrawer	Someone who made tubes.
Tubman	Someone who worked in the mines filling the tubs, or a court official, or an English barrister.
Tucker	Cleaner of cloth goods
Tucker In	A maid who attended the bedroom and "tucked in the bedclothes".
Tunist	Someone who tuned musical instruments.
Turned Sulky
Turner	a person who turns wood on a lathe into spindles, or a gymnast, particularly street performers or beggars.
Turning Boy	Someone who assisted the weaver by turning the bar on the loom.
Turnkey	prison warder or jail keeper
Turnpike Keeper	See Tollgate Keeper.
Turnspit	Someone who operated the spit handle.
Tweenie or Tweeny	A maid who worked "between the stairs" she assisted the cooks and the housemaids.
Twister or Twisterer	Someone who operated the machine used for twisting yarns and threads together.
Twist Hand	Someone who operated a lace machine.

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