| Pattenmakers |
Makers of wooden shoes wit high heels (of wood or metal)
designed to raise the feet above the level of mud on the streets
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| Pack
Thread Spinner |
Operator
of the machine which made thread or twine |
| Packer |
Packs
goods such as pickles or herring |
| Packman |
Travelled
around carrying goods for sale in a pack |
| Pad
Maker |
Made
small baskets used for measuring |
| Page |
Youth
being trained for the medieval rank of knight and in the personal
service of a knight or attendant upon someone of rank in the
medieval period |
| Paintree |
Woman
employed in the pottery industry to hand paint the finished
articles |
| Paling
Man |
Seller
of eels |
| Palister |
One
who ensured the parks were safe and well kept |
| Palmer |
One
who had been, or pretended to have been, to the Holy Land |
| Pannier
Man |
Fish
monger |
| Pannifex |
Somebody
who worked in the cloth trade |
| Panter |
Keeper
of the pantry |
| Pantler |
Butler |
| Paperer |
Inserted
the needles into the paper ready for sale in the needlemaking
trade |
| Paper-Stainer |
One
who made wallpaper |
| Pardoner |
Seller
of indulgences |
| Parfumier
/ Perfumer |
Manufacturer
and purveyor of scents such as perfumes, colognes and even
incense |
| Pargeter |
Applied
ornamental plaster to buildings |
| Paritor |
Church
officer who attended the magistrates and justices at court
for the pupose of executing their orders |
| Parker |
Park
caretaker |
| Passage
Keeper |
Kept
passages and alleys clean |
| Pasteler |
Pastry
chef |
| Pastor |
Shepherd |
| Paver
/ Paviour |
Laid
paving stones |
| Pavyler |
Put
up pavilions or tents etc |
| Pedascule |
Schoolmaster |
| Peeler |
Policeman,
constable, bobby (from Sir Robert Peel founder of the police
force) |
| Pelterer |
One
who worked with animal skins |
| Perambulator |
Surveyor |
| Perchemear |
One
who made parchment |
| Peregrinator |
Itinerant
wanderer |
| Peruker |
Wigmaker |
| Pessoner |
Fish
monger |
| Peterman |
Fisherman |
| Pettifogger |
Shyster
lawyer |
| Petty
Chapman |
Itinerant
dealer in small goods, a pedlar |
| Pewterer |
Made
pewter utensils (using any of various alloys having tin as
chief component especially a dull alloy with lead) |
| Philosophical
Instrument Maker |
One
who made scientific instruments |
| Phrenologist |
Diviner
of a person's character based on the bumps on a person's head |
| Picker |
One
who cast the shuttle on a loom |
| Piecener
/ Piecer |
One
who worked in a spinning mill, employed to piece together any
threads which broke (usually a child or woman) |
| Pigman |
One
who sold crockery or bred or looked after pigs on the farm |
| Pikelet
Maker |
Baker
who specialised in making pikelets (a small pancake or crumpet) |
| Pikeman |
Miller's
assistant |
| Piker |
Tramp
or vagrant |
| Piller |
Robber |
| Pilot |
Ship
steersman |
| Pinder |
Dog
catcher |
| Piner |
Laborer |
| Pinner |
Pin
make |
| Pinner
Up |
Dressmakers
assistant or one who sold broadsheets or ballards in the streets |
| Pinsetter |
One
who manually set up bowling pins before the advent of automated
pinsetting machines |
| Piper |
Innkeeper |
| Pirn
Winder |
Wound
the yarn onto large wheel like bobbins which were then ready
to feed the looms in a cotton mill |
| Pistor |
Baker |
| Pit
Brow Lass |
Female
worker who worked on the surface of the mines |
| Pitman |
Coal
miner |
| Plain
Worker |
Performed
plain sewing or needlework as opposed to an embroiderer |
| Plaiter |
Maker
of straw plaits used in making hats etc |
| Planker |
One
who planks or kneads the body of the hat during felting |
| Platelayer |
Men
who laid and maintained the railway tracks in Britain and the
word actually predates railways being derived from the very
old "plateways" which existed hundireds of years
ago, mainly for moving coal |
| Playderer |
One
who made plaid |
| Pleacher
/ Plaicher / Platcher / Plasher |
Hedge
layer |
| Plowman |
Farmer |
| Plowwright |
Maker
or repairer of plows |
| Plumassier
/ Plumer |
Made
or sold plumes, ornamental feathers |
| Plumbum
Worker |
Plumber |
| Pointer |
Sharpened
needles or pins or lace maker |
| Pointmaker
/ Pointman |
Made
the tips of laces |
| Pointsman |
Railway
worker who operated the points, used to change the line on
which the train was travelling |
| Poldave
Worker |
Made
poldave, a coarse fabric |
| Poleman |
Surveyor's
assistant |
| Polentier |
Poulterer |
| Poller
/ Powler |
Barber |
| Ponderator |
Inspector
of weights and measures |
| Portable
Soup Maker |
Converted
soup into a dry form for transporting from place to place |
| Porter |
Door
or gatekeeper |
| Post
Boy |
Carried
mail from town to town, guard who travelled on the mail coach
or outrider who travelled with the stagecoach as a postillion |
| Poster |
One
who worked in the quarries breaking rocks |
| Postillion |
Attacher
of extra horses to wagons & coaches to help them up hills |
| Pot
Man / Boy |
One
who worked in public houses washing and removing dirty pots
also did other menial tasks |
| Potato
Badger |
Seller
of potatoes |
| Potter |
Maker
or seller of pottery |
| Potter
Carrier |
Chemist
or pharmacist |
| Potter
Thrower |
Potter
who used a wheel and therefore had to throw the clay |
| Poulter |
A
dealer in poultry and game |
| Power
Loom Tuner |
One
who maintained the loom in mills |
| Preceptress |
School
mistress |
| Prentis |
Apprentice |
| Prick
Louise |
Tailor |
| Pricker |
Used
a type of wire brush to make small holes inside ceramic sewer
pipe to prevent spalling during firing |
| Pricker |
Witch
hunter, pattern maker or a horseman |
| Prig
Napper |
Horse
thief |
| Proctor |
Official
of a university |
| Prop
Bobby |
Worked
in mines checking the pit props |
| Prothonary |
Law
clerk |
| Publican |
Innkeeper |
| Puddler |
Worked
clay into puddle, worked with puddle to make things water tight
eg canal walls or worked in puddling iron |
| Pug
Mill Operator |
Operated
a machine for mixing clay and water, which then exuded a "pug" (a
cylinder of clay of any diameter and indefinate length) |
| Puggard |
Thief |
| Pugger |
Produce
clay paste by treading like grapes, usually women and children
in brick manufacturing |
| Punky |
Chimney
sweep |
| Purefinder |
Old
women and young girls who went about the streets gathering
dog droppings which were used for tanning leather |
| Purset |
Ship's
officer in charge of provisions & accounts |
| Putter
In |
Put
things in to some form of mechanised process |
