| Tabler |
Boarding house operator |
| Tackler |
An overlooker of power loom weavers |
| Tasksman |
Middleman who leased a large piece of land from the owner
and sublet it in small lots |
| Tailor |
One who made or repaired clothes |
| Tallow Chandler |
Made or sold candles |
| Tally Clerk |
Kept count of goods arriving or departing from warehouses,
docks etc |
| Tallyman / Tallyfellow |
One who sold goods that were paid for in installments |
| Tan Bark Stripper |
Collected the bark that was used in the tanning process |
| Tanner |
Leather maker |
| Taper Weaver |
One who made the wicks for candles |
| Tapiter / Tapicer |
One who wove worsted cloth |
| Tapley |
One who puts the tap in an ale cask |
| Tappiologist |
Someone who 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 |
One who made tassels used in furnishings or nobleman |
| Taverner |
Innkeeper |
| Tawer / Tawyer |
White leather maker |
| Teamer / Teamer Man / Teamster |
Person in charge of a team of horses |
| Teaser |
One who opens up matted wool for carding |
| Teemer |
Person who emptied grain from the cart or who poured the molten
steel into the moulds |
| Tenter / Tenterer |
One who 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 |
| Thatcher |
One who covered roofs with straw or reeds |
| Thirdborough |
An underconstable |
| Thresher |
One who separated the grain from the husks and straw |
| Throwster |
One in the textile trade who twisted the strands of fibre together
into yarn |
| Ticket Writer |
Person (usually female) who 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 / Surveyor |
Monitored the state of the tide |
| Tidesman / Tide Waiter |
Customs official |
| Tiemaker |
One who made wooden railway ties |
| Tiger |
Small groom or pageboy in livery |
| Tiler |
One
who 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 |
| Tinker |
Traveling
repairman |
| Tinman |
A
tinsmith or tinker |
| Tinner |
Tin
miner, tinsmith |
| Tinter
or Teinter |
Artists
who performs tinting |
| Tipper |
One
who 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 |
| Todhunter |
Employed
by the parish to hunt foxes |
| Toe
Rag |
Who
worked at the docks as a corn porter |
| Toilinet
Manufacturer |
Made
toilinet (a kind of quilting) |
| Toller
/ Tollgate Keeper / Tollie / Tolman / Turnpike Keeper |
Worked
at the toll gate to collect fees for use of the road |
| Tonsor |
Latin
for 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 |
| Touch
Holer |
One
who worked in the gun manufacturing industry |
| Tow
Card Maker |
One
who made tow cards, used in the textile industry |
| Town
Chaberlain |
One
who looked after the towns affairs |
| Town
Crier |
One
who made public announcments in the streets |
| Town
Husband |
Employed
by the parish to collect the money from the fathers of illegitimate
children for their up keep |
| Townswaiter |
Customs
man |
| Tozer |
Worked
in the wool mills employed to tose or tease the cloth |
| Trammer |
Young
person who worked in the mines |
| Trampler |
Lawyer |
| Tranqueter |
Person
who 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 |
One
who 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 |
| Trapanger |
One
who used a circular saw to cut timber |
| Trimmer |
Trims
a ship by re-arranging its cargo |
| Troacher |
Pedlar |
| Troner |
Weighing
official at the markets |
| Trotter
/ Trotman / Trott |
Messenger |
| Trouchman
/ Truchman |
Interpreter |
| Trover
|
Smuggler |
| Trugger |
One
who made long shallow baskets |
| Tubber |
One
who made tubs and barrels ie a cooper |
| Tubman |
English
barrister |
| Tucker |
Cleaner
of cloth goods |
| Tucker
In |
Maid
who attended the bedroom and "tucked in the bedclothes" |
| Turner |
Gymnast,
lathe worker |
| Turnkey |
Prison
warder or jail keeper |
| Turnspit |
One
who operated the spit handle |
| Tweenie |
Maid
who worked "between the stairs" she assisted the
cooks and the housemaids |
| Twist
Hand |
One
who operated a lace machine |
| Twister
/ Twisterer |
One
who operated the machine used for twisting yarns and threads
together |
