Olde Occupations
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Faber artisan; workman; smith
Fabricator maker
Factor Agent merchant for commission (or factor); attorney (not in the modern US sense); transacts business for another (usually absent); Scottish steward or bailiff of an estate
Fagetter made up faggots into bundles, seller of firewood
Faker photographic assistant who added color to photographs by hand before color film was available
Falconer breeds, trains, or hunts with hawks
Falkner keeper/trainer of falcons
Fancy Man pimp
Fancy Woman prostitute
Fancy-Pearl Worker worked in mother-of-pearl making buttons or fancy goods
Fanner grain winnower
Fanwright maker and repairer of fans or winnowing baskets
Farandman traveling merchant
Farmer often descendant of the gentry and noble classes having servants and farm workers; tax-collector or bailiff
Farrier horse shoer or blacksmith
Faulkner falconer
Fawkner trainer of falcons
Fear-Nothing Maker weaver of fear-naught (thick woolen cloth) used for protective clothing and lining portholes, walls, and doors of powder magazines on board ships.
Feather Beater cleanser of feathers
Feather Dresser cleaned and prepared feathers for sale
Feather Driver cleanser of feathers
Featherman dealer in feathers and plumes
Feather-Wife woman who prepared feathers for use
Feeder herdsman
Fell monger remover of hair or wool from hides in leather making
Feller woodcutter
Felon someone who commits a serious crime such as murder
Felter worker in the hatting industry
Fence Viewer inspects farmer's fences
Ferator farrier or blacksmith
Feroner ironmonger
Ferreter dealer in or manufacturer of ferret, ie. silk tape
Ferrour horse shoer or blacksmith
Ferur farrier or blacksmith
Fettler cleaned the machinery in woolen mills; sharpened the fustian cutters knives; needle maker who filed the needle to a point
Feuar holder of lands granted for services
Fever blacksmith
Fewster maker of saddletrees
Fewterer keeper of hounds for hunting or coursing
Fiddler used a fiddle (small knife) to remove the flashing from cast clay forms
File Cutter maker of files, involved the cutting of grooves on the file surface
Filibuster American mercenaries in South America; gun runners
Filler filled bobbins in mills; iron industry worker
Fine Drawer employed in tailoring to repair tears in the cloth (invisible mending)
Finer employed in Iron Works
Finerman worked in the part of an ironworks or tinworks called a Finery
Finisher operated machine giving final touches to a manufactured article in various trades
Firebeater tended the boilers that powered the machinery in a cotton mill
Fireman inspected for, and removed explosive gasses underground in mining; stoked the boilers on ships and locomotives
First Hand silk weaver who had his own loom (an outworker)
Fiscere fisherman
Fish Fag female fish monger
Fishdryver victualler
Fisher victualler
Fitter coal broker; worked in the tinplate manufacturing industry
Flasher specialist process worker in the glass industry
Flatman navigated a flat (a broad flat-bottomed boat used for transport) in shallow waters
Flauner confectioner
Flaxdresser prepared flax prior to spinning
Flesher butcher; tannery worker
Fleshewer butcher
Fleshmonger butcher; tannery worker
Fletcher made bows and arrows
Floater vagrant; regulated the year-round workings of the watermeadows
Floatman navigated a flat (a broad flat-bottomed boat used for transport) in shallow waters
Flusherman cleaned out water mains
Flycoachman driver of one-horse carriage hired by the day
Flying Stationer street broadsheet seller
Flyman driver of a light vehicle hired out for carriage of passenger; theatre stage hand
Fogger peddler; low class lawyer
Fogler keeper or catcher of birds
Foister joiner
Foisterer joiner
Foot Maiden female servant
Foot Man servant who ran errands
Foot Pad robber
Foot Straightener assembled watch and clock dials in watch making
Foot-Post letter carrier or messenger who traveled on foot
Forestarius forester
Forester game warden or forest ranger
Forgeman blacksmith or assistant
Forger blacksmith, worker at a forge
Fossetmaker made faucets for ale-casks, etc
Founder iron industry worker
Fower street cleaner, sweeper
Fowler keeper or catcher of birds
Frame Spinner worker on a loom
Framer farmer; frames houses
Framework Knitter operator of machine which made hosiery
Freedman released from slavery
Freemason stonecutter
French Polisher polish wood by hand using French polish, wax or lacquer
Frereman servant of the Friars
Freser maker of frieze, a rough plaster
Freshwater Man sailed boat on fresh water only or in the coastal trade
Fripperer buyer & seller of old clothes
Friseur hair dresser
Frobisher remover of rust, a polisher of metal
Fruiterer fruit seller
Fruitestere female fruit seller
Fugler keeper or catcher of birds
Fulker pawnbroker
Fuller fulls cloth; shrinks and thickens woolen cloth by moistening, heating, and pressing; cleans and finishes cloth.
Funambulist tightrope walker
Furber remover of rust, a polisher of metal
Furbisher remover of rust, a polisher of metal
Furbour remover of rust, a polisher of metal
Furnaceman heated the sheets in a Tin Plate Works
Furner baker
Furrier seller or maker of furs
Fustian Weaver maker of corduroy
Gabeler tax collector
Gaffer foreman of a work crew in glass factory - smoothed, reheated the neck of and formed lip on a bottle
Gaffman a bailiff
Gager tax collector of liquor taxes
Galvaniser iron worker who handled process of coating metal with zinc, to inhibit formation of rust
Gamester gambler or prostitute
Ganger overseer or foreman from 1850 onwards
Gangsman foreman
Ganneker tavern keeper
Gaoler keeper of the goal, a jailer
Garcifer groom; attendant
Garcio groom; attendant
Garlekmonger garlicmonger; dealer in garlic
Garthman owner or worker of a fish trap
Gas Manager foreman position in charge of checking for poisonous gas in coal mine shafts
Gater watchman
Gatherer glassworker who inserted the blow iron into the molten glass ready for the blower
Gatherer's Boy held a shovel to shield the gatherer's face from the heat
Gatward goat keeper
Gauger customs official who measured the capacity of imported barrels of liquor in order to calculate the customs duty
Gaunter glover
Gaveller userer; (Forest of Dean) officer of the Crown who granted gales or the right to work a mine; (Suffolk) harvest worker, usually female
Gelder castrated farm animals
Geometer skilled in geometry
Gerund Grinder Latin instructor
Getter produced coal at the coal face
Gilder applies gold leaf
Gimler machinist involved in making a gimp, a kind of card
Ginerr joiner
Ginour engineer
Girdler leather worker who made girdles and belts, chiefly for the Army
Glass Coachman driver of two-horse carriage hired out for the day
Glassewryght glasswright; maker and mender of glassware
Glazier glass cutter or window classman
Glimmerman (Dublin) turned out/down the gas street-lights; warned people to turn out lights for blackouts during bombing raids
Glover dealer or maker of gloves
Goat Carriage Man driver of small passenger carriage
Gobar jobber
Goldsmith maker of gold articles, banker
Goose Herd tends geese
Gorzeman seller of gorse or broom
Grace Wife midwife
Graffer notary or scrivener
Grainer painted wood to make it look like great and exotic woods
Granger farmer
Graver carver or sculptor, engraver of images; dockside worker who cleaned ship bottoms by burning and tarring
Grazier pastures and raises cattle
Grease Boys worked in the tinplate  manufacturing industry
Greave bailiff, foreman, sheriff
Grecher grocer
Green Grocer fruit and vegetable seller
Green Smith worker in copper or latten
Grieve bailiff, foreman, sheriff
Grimbribber lawyer
Groover miner
Groundsel & Chickweed Seller street seller of common weeds used to feed pet songbirds
Guilderer maker of gold or silver coins
Guinea Pig an unattached, or roving person whose fee was usually a guinea
Gummer improved old saws by deepening the cuts
Gutta-Percha Manufacturer makes a tough plastic substance derived from latex and percha scrap used especially as insulation and in dentistry
Gynour engineer
Gyp college servant especially one attending undergraduates
Gyrrwr a subordinate to a cattle/sheep drover.
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