Pike County Missouri - Olde Occupations

Tabernarius	taverner; innkeeper
Tabler	boarding house operator
Tackler	an overlooker of power loom weavers
Tacksman	middleman who leased a large piece of land from the owner and sublet it in small lots
Tailor	made or repaired clothes
Tallow Chandler	made or sold candles
Tally Clerk	kept count of goods arriving or departing from warehouses, docks etc
Tallyfellow	sold goods that were paid for in installments
Tallyman	sold goods that were paid for in installments
Tan Bark Stripper	collected the bark that was used in the tanning process
Tannator	tanner; curer of animal hide into leather
Tanner	tans (cures) animal hides into leather
Taper	candlewick maker or seller
Taper Weaver	made the wicks for candles
Tapicer	wove worsted cloth
Tapiter	wove worsted cloth
Tapley	puts the tap in an ale cask
Tappiologist	taps the wheels of trains to check for cracks and flaws
Tapster	bartender or barmaid
Tar Boy	applied tar (as antiseptic) to sheep when they were nicked by shearers
Tasker	Reaper
Tasseler	made tassels used in furnishings or nobleman
Taverner	innkeeper
Tawer	one who taws (makes hide into leather without the use of tanning)
Tawyer	one who taws (makes hide into leather without the use of tanning)
Teamer	person in charge of a team of horses
Teamer Man	person in charge of a team of horses
Teamster	person in charge of a team of horses
Teaser	opens up matted wool for carding
Teemer	emptied grain from the cart; poured the molten steel into the molds
Teinter	dyer
Teinter	artists who performs tinting
Tenter	stretched the cloth on a machine while it was drying or looked after and maintained the machine used in the process
Tenterer	stretched the cloth on a machine while it was drying or looked after and maintained the machine used in the process
Textor	weaver
Thacker	thatcher; roofer
Thirdborough	tithing man; deputy constable; underconstable
Thresher	separated the grain from the husks and straw
Throwster	in the textile trade - twisted the strands of fiber together into yarn
Ticket Writer	hand wrote or painted the price tickets on goods displayed for sale and painted the signs that go up to make a window display
Tickney Man/Woman	sold earthenware from town to town
Tide Gauger	monitored the state of the tide
Tide Surveyor	monitored the state of the tide; customs officer who identified ships and cargoes
Tide Waiter	boarded ships to examine cargoes; customs inspector
Tidesman	boarded ships to examine cargoes; customs inspector
Tiemaker	made wooden railway ties
Tiger	small groom or pageboy in livery
Tiler	put tiles in place either on the roof or floor
Tiller	farmer
Tillman	plowman
Times Ironer	servant responsible for ironing the daily newspaper
Tinctor	dyer or possibly a painter
Tinker	itinerant tin pot and pan seller and repairman
Tinman	tinsmith or tinker
Tinner	tin miner, tinsmith
Tinter	artists who performs tinting
Tipper	put the metal tips on arrows etc
Tippler	kept an ale house
Tipstaff	Policeman
Tirewoman	female dresser, especially in the theater
Tixtor	weaver
Tobacco Spinner	maker of cigars
Todd	fox hunter
Todhunter	employed by the parish to hunt foxes
Toe Rag	worked at the docks as a corn porter
Toilinet Manufacturer	made toilinet (a kind of quilting)
Toller	worked at the toll gate to collect fees for use of the road
Tollgate Keeper	worked at the toll gate to collect fees for use of the road
Tollie	worked at the toll gate to collect fees for use of the road
Tolman	worked at the toll gate to collect fees for use of the road
Tonsor	barber
Tool Helver	made tool handles
Top Sawyer	upper man in a saw pit
Topman	sailor who works in the ship's rigging
Topsman	head cattle drover
Tosher	sewer hunters
Touch Holer	worked in the gun manufacturing industry
Tow Card Maker	made tow cards, used in the textile industry
Town Chaberlain	looked after the towns affairs
Town Crier	made public announcements in the streets
Town Husband	employed by the parish to collect the money from the fathers of illegitimate children for their upkeep
Townswaiter	customs man
Tozer	worked in the wool mills employed to tose or tease the cloth
Trammer	dragged trams laden with coal in coal mine; young person who worked in the mines
Trampler	lawyer
Tranqueter	made hoops
Tranter	peddler
Trapper	employed in the mines to open and shut the doors for the miners
Travers	toll bridge collection
Treen Maker	made domestic articles from wood
Treenail Maker	made the long wooden pins used in shipbuilding
Trenchermaker	made wooden boards or platters for serving food from or cutting and slicing food on
Trencherman	cook
Trepanger	used a circular saw to cut timber
Trimmer	trims a ship by re-arranging its cargo
Tripper	dancer
Troacher	peddler
Troner	weighing official at the markets
Trotman	messenger
Trott	messenger
Trotter	messenger
Trouchman	interpreter
Trover	smuggler
Truchman	interpreter
Trugger	made long shallow baskets
Tubber	made tubs and barrels i.e. a cooper
Tubman	English barrister
Tucker	cleaner of cloth goods
Tucker In	maid who attended the bedroom and "tucked in the bedclothes"
Turner	turns wood on a lathe into spindles; gymnast
Turnkey	prison warder or jail keeper
Turnpike Keeper	worked at the toll gate to collect fees for use of the road
Turnspit	operated the spit handle
Tweenie	maid who worked "between the stairs" she assisted the cooks and the housemaids
Tweeny	maid who worked "between the stairs" she assisted the cooks and the housemaids
Twist Hand	operated a lace machine
Twister	operated the machine used for twisting yarns and threads together
Twisterer	operated the machine used for twisting yarns and threads together
Ulnager	appointed to examine the quality of woolen goods to be sold
Under carter	helped the carter - would help load on and off, tie the tarpaulin down, light the cart lamps, open/close gates, feed the horses, take them to their stable, shoved the hunk of wood into the wheel to stop the cart rolling
Underviewer	junior official in charge of mine in Viewer's absence
Upholder	upholsterer; seller of secondhand goods
Upright Worker	chimney sweep
Vageler	keeper or catcher of birds
Vaginarius	sheather; scabbard maker
Valet	male servant that attended a nobleman or gentleman
Valuator	valued objects
Vassal	servant of the lowest order
Vatman	put the paper pulp into the molds in paper-making industry; worked with vats
Venator	huntsman
Venur	huntsman
Verderer	tavern keeper; provides an army, navy, or ship with food supplies; official in charge of the royal forest
Verge Maker	made the spindles used in clocks and watches
Verger	worked with the priest in the running the church
Verrier	glazier
Vestmentmaker	made the gowns worn by priests
Victualer	tavern keeper; provides an army, navy, or ship with food supplies
Viewer	worked at the mines in a managerial capacity
Villein	paid dues to the lord of the manor in return for use of the land
Vineroon	grape farmer, wine maker
Vintager	grape farmer, wine maker
Vinter	wine merchant
Vintner	wine merchant
Virginal Player	player of a musical instrument similar to a harpsichord
Vogelaar	keeper or catcher of birds
Vogeler	keeper or catcher of birds
Vogler	keeper or catcher of birds
Vowler	keeper or catcher of birds
Vulcan	blacksmith
Wabster	weaver
Wadsetter	(Scottish) a creditor to whom a wadset (a right, by which lands, or other heritable subjects, are impignorated by the proprietor to his creditor in security of his debt) is made
Wagoner	teamster not for hire
Wailer	employed in the mines to remove the impurities from the coal
Wainwright	builder or repairer of wagons
Wait	night watchman
Waiter	customs officer or tide waiter; waited on the tide to collect duty on goods brought in
Wakeman	night watchman
Walker	fuller; cloth trampler or cleaner
Walking Stick Filer	made walking sticks
Waller	built walls either brick or dry stone; worked making coarse salt
Wantcatcher	mole catcher
Wanter	mole catcher
Warder	in charge of prisoners
Warehouseman	in charge of or employee in a warehouse
Warper	set the warp thread on the looms; employed to move boats by hauling on the warps (the ropes attached to the boats)
Warrener	in charge of a portion of land used for breeding rabbits and other small game
Washer	worked in the tinplate manufacturing industry
Washman	worked in the tinplate manufacturing industry washing the plates between processes
Wasteman	checked the old workings for gas and maintaining them in the mines or employed to remove waste
Watch Finisher	assembled watches and clocks
Watchman	town official who guarded the streets at night
Water Bailiff	official in charge of the fishing rights on a stretch of water
Water Carrier	carted and sold fresh water
Water Gilder	trapped water fowl
Water Leader	transported and sold fresh drinking water
Water Leder	transported and sold fresh drinking water
Water Loder	transported and sold fresh drinking water
Waterman	boatman who plies for hire
Wattle Hurdle Maker	made a type of fence from wattle to keep the sheep in
Waulkmiller	fuller; cloth trampler or cleaner
Way Man	surveyor of roads
Way-Maker	employed to make roads
Wayter	customs officer or tide waiter; waited on the tide to collect duty on goods brought in
Weatherspy	astrologer
Webber	weaver; loom operator
Webster	weaver; loom operator
Weigher	customs officer who weighed goods for duty purposes
Well Sinker	dug wells
Well Wright	made the winding equipment used to raise the bucket in the well
Wellmaster	in charge of the local well with the responsibility of ensuring clean water for the village
Wet Glover	made leather gloves
Wet Nurse	woman employed to suckle the child of another
Wetter	dampened paper during the printing process; in the glass industry detached the glass by wetting
Whacker	horse or oxen team driver
Wharfinger	owner of a wharf
Wheel Tapper	railway worker who checked for cracked wheels by striking them with a long handled hammer and listening for a clear ring
Wheeler	wheel maker; attended to the spinning wheel in the textile industry; led the pit ponies that pulled the tubs underground in the mines
Wheelwright	made or repaired wheels; wheeled carriages, etc
Wheeryman	in charge of a wheery (a small light rowing boat)
Whig	horse driver (Scottish term)
Whipcord Maker	made whips
Whipmaker	made whips
Whipperin	managed the hounds in a hunt
Whitamer	involved in leather tanning/curing/processing trades
Whitcher	maker of chests
White Limer	plastered walls using lime and water plaster
White Smith	tin smith
Whitear	hide cleaner
Whitener	bleached cloth
Whitening Roll Maker	made the whitening used in whitening walls of cottages
Whitesmith	tinsmith; iron worker who finishes or polishes the work
Whitester	bleached cloth
Whitewing	street sweeper
Whitster	bleached cloth
Whittawer	preparer of white leather; made saddles and harness
Willow Plaiter	made baskets etc
Willow Weaver	made baskets etc
Windster	silk winder
Wonkey-Scoop	driver who operates a one horse scoop
Wood Reeve	in charge of the forest or woods
Woodbreaker	made wooden water casks
Woodranger	in charge of the forest or woods
Woodward	in charge of the forest or woods
Wool Comber	operated machines that separate the fibers ready for spinning in woolen industry
Wool Driver	brought the wool to market
Wool Factor	wool merchants agent
Wool Man	sorted the wool into different grades
Wool Sorter	sorted the wool into different grades
Wool Stapler	sorted the wool into different grades
Wool Winder	made up balls of wool for selling
Woolen Billy Piecer	worked in the woolen mills to piece together the broken yarns
Woolsted Man	seller of woolen cloth (from worsted man)
Worsted Manufacturer	made worsted
Wright	made or repaired wheels; wheeled carriages, etc
Wright	builder or repairer
Wyrth	laborer
Xlographer	used and made wooden blocks used in printing illustrations
Yardman	rail road yard worker
Yatman	gate keeper
Yearman	contracted to work for a year
Yeoman	farmer who owns his own land
Zincographer	designer who etched in relief a pattern on zinc plates used for printing
Zitherist	player of a simple, flat many-stringed instrument
Zoetrope Maker	craftsman who made zoetropes, an optical toy in the form of a cylinder with a series of pictures painted on the inner surface which gave the impression of continuous motion when viewed through slits in the rotating cylinder
Zoographer	described and classified animals