| Faber |
Artisan or workman |
| Fabricator |
Maker |
| Factor |
An agent employed by merchants to transact business of buying
and selling and a Scottish term for the steward of an estate responsible
for collection of land rents |
| 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 |
| Fancy Man |
Pimp |
| Fancy Woman |
Prostitute |
| Fancy-Pearl Worker |
Worked in mother-of-pearl making buttons or fancy goods |
| Fanner |
Grain winnower |
| Fanwrighter |
Maker and repairer of fans or winnowing baskets |
| Farandman |
Traveling merchant |
| Farmer |
Often descendant of the gentry and, ultimately, noble classes;
usually having servants and farm workers, e.g., husbandmen, groomsmen,
etc |
| Farrier / Ferrour |
Was a shoeing smith (of horses) |
| Fawkner |
Trainer of falcons |
| Fear-Nothing Maker |
Weaver of special kind of thick woollen cloth known as fear-nought,
used for protective clothing and lining portholes, walls, and doors
of powder magazines on board ships. |
| Feather Beater / Feather Driver |
Cleanser of feathers |
| Feather-Dresser |
Who cleaned and prepared feathers for sale
|
| Featherman |
Dealer in feathers and plumes |
Feather-Wife
|
Woman who prepared feathers for use |
| Feeder |
Herdsman |
| Feller |
Woodcutter
|
| Fell Monger |
A dealer in hides, especially sheepskins. Sometimes written as
one word. Remover of hair or wool from hides in leather making. |
| Felter |
Worker in the hatting industry |
| Feroner |
Ironmonger |
| Ferreter |
Dealer in or manufacturer of ferret, ie. silk tape |
| Fettler |
Cleaned the machinery in woollen mills, removing accumulated
fibres, grease, etc., sharpened the fustian cutters knives or needlemaker
who filed the needle to a point |
| 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 such as bowl, creamers, cups or pitchers |
| File Cutter |
A maker of files, involved the cutting of grooves on the file
surface |
| Filibuster |
American mercenaries in South America, gun runners |
| Filler |
Who filled bobbins in mills |
| Fine Drawer |
Employed in tailoring to repair tears in the cloth (invisible
mending) |
| 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
or 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 |
| Fisher / Fishdryver |
Victualler |
| Fitter |
Coal broker |
| Flasher |
Specialist process worker in the glass industry |
| Flatman / Floatman |
Navigated a flat, a broad flat-bottomed boat used for transport,
especially in shallow waters |
| Flauner |
Confectioner |
| Flaxdresser |
Prepared flax prior to spinning |
| Fleshewer |
Butcher |
| Fleshmonger / Flesher |
Butcher or one who worked in a tannery
|
| Fletcher |
A maker of, or dealer in, bows and arrows |
| Floater |
Vagrant or one who regulated the year-round workings of the
watermeadows in winter by adjusting the hatches on the channels
to flood or float the meadows with a shallow covering of water
to protect them from frost and encourage the early growth of
new grass mainly for early feed for sheep and other animals.
The sheep were pastured on the new grass by day and driven up
on to the downs to be folded by night to provide the manure needed
for the coming season's grain crops |
| Flucherman |
Who 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
or Theatre stage hand |
| Fogger |
He was a pedlar but the term is also used to mean a headman
at a farm, a groom or a manservant or a low class lawyer |
| Foister / Foisterer |
Joiner |
| Foot Maiden |
Female servant |
| Foot Man |
Servant who ran errands |
| Poot Pad |
Robber |
| Foot Straightener |
One who assembled watch and clock dials in watchmaking |
| Foot-Post |
Letter carrier or messenger who travelled on foot |
| Forester |
Game warden or forest ranger |
| Forgeman |
Blacksmith or assistant (coachsmith 18th century Derbyshire) |
| Forger |
Blacksmith, worker at a forge |
| Fossetmaker |
Who made faucets for ale-casks, etc |
| Fower |
Street cleaner, sweeper |
| Fowler / Fogler / Fulger |
Keeper or catcher of birds |
| Frame Spinner |
Worker on a loom |
| Framer |
One who frames houses |
| Frameworker Knitter |
Operator of machine which made hosiery |
| Freedman |
One released from slavery |
| Freemason |
Stonecutter |
| 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 / Furbisher / Furber / Furbour |
Remover of rust, a polisher of metal, eg. armour |
| Fruiterer |
Fruit seller |
| Fruitestere |
Female fruit seller |
| Fulker |
Pawnbroker |
| Fuller |
Cloth worker who shrinks, beats and presses the cloth |
| Funambulist |
Tightrope walker |
| Furbisher |
Armor polisher |
| Furner |
Baker |
| Furrier |
Seller or maker of furs |
| Fustian Weaver |
Maker of corduroy |
