| Wabster |
Weaver |
| Wadsetter |
Under Scottish law a creditor to whom a wadset is made; a wadset
is a right, by which lands, or other heritable subjects, are
impignorated by the proprietor to his creditor in security of
his debt |
| Wagoner |
Wagon or cart driver |
| Wailer |
One employed in the mines to remove the impurities from the
coal |
| Wainwright |
Builder or repairer of wagons |
| Wait / Wakeman |
Night watchman |
| Walker / Waulkmiller |
Cloth worker |
| Waller |
One who built walls either brick or dry stone, also a person
who worked making coarse salt |
| Wanter / Wantcatcher |
Mole catcher |
| Warder |
In charge of prisoners |
| Warehouseman |
In charge of or employee in a warehouse |
| Warper |
Set the warp thread on the looms or 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 |
| Washman |
Tin coater |
| 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 |
| Waterman |
Worked with or on boats usually on rivers |
| Wattle Hurdle Maker |
Made a type of fence from wattle to keep the sheep in |
| Way Man |
Surveyor of roads |
| Way-Maker |
Employed to make roads |
| Weatherspy |
Astrologer |
| Wester / Webber |
Weaver (originally a female weaver) |
| Weigher |
Worked on the docks to weigh the cargo as it was unloaded |
| Well Sinker |
Dug wells |
| Well Wright |
Made the winding equipment used to raise the bucket in the
well |
| Wellmaster |
One 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 (common practice
with the rich) |
| Wetter |
Dampened paper during the printing process or in the glass
industry who 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 and one who led the pit ponies that pulled the tubs
underground in the mines |
| Wheelwright / Wright |
Maker or repairer of wagon wheels |
| Wheeryman |
In charge of a wheery (a small light rowing boat) |
| Whig |
Horse driver (Scottish term) |
| Whipcord Maker / Whipmaker |
Made whips |
| Whipperin |
Managed the hounds in a hunt |
| White Limer |
Plastered walls using lime and water plaster |
| Whitear |
Hide cleaner |
| Whitener / Whitester / Whitster |
One who bleached cloth |
| Whitening Roll Maker |
Made the whitening used in whitening walls of cottages |
| Whitesmith |
A maker of tin utensils - sepcially those used in dairying
operations |
| Whitewing |
Streetsweeper |
| Whitster |
Bleacher of cloth |
| Whittawer |
One who made saddles and harness or preparer of white leather |
| Willow Plaiter / Weaver |
One who made baskets etc |
| Windster |
Silk winder |
| Woodbreaker |
One who made wooden water casks |
| Woodranger / Wood Reever |
In charge of the forest or woods |
| Woodward |
Keeper of wood or forest having charge of the growing timber |
| Wool Driver |
One who brought the wool to market |
| Wool Factor |
Wool merchants agent |
| Wool Man / Wool Sorter / Stapler |
One who sorted the wool into different grades |
| Wool Winder |
One who made up balls of wool for selling |
| Woolcomber |
Operated machines that separate the fibres ready for spinning
in woolen industry |
| Woolen Billy Piecer |
Worked in the woolen mills to piece together the broken yarns |
| Woolsted Man |
A seller of woollen cloth (from worsted man) |
| Worsted Manufacturer |
One who made worsted |
| Wright |
Builder or repairer |
| Wyrth |
Labourer |
