19th Century Occupations or job descriptions from Faber to Fuyster.
Faber | artisan or workman, a smith. |
Fabricator | Someone who makes things |
Factor | An agent employed by merchants to transact business of buying and selling |
Factor Agent | Merchant for commission or factor, one who transacts business for another (usually absent). |
Factory Engine Driver | |
Factory Girl | A girl who works in a factory. |
Factory Hand | |
Factory Labourer | A general labourer who works in a factory. |
Factory Lad | A junior factory worker. |
Fagetter | made up faggots into bundles, seller of firewood |
Faker | Photographic assistant who added colour to photographs by hand before colour film was available. |
Falconer or Falkner | breeds, trains, or hunts with hawks |
Fancy Bag Maker | |
Fancy Basket Liner | |
Fancy Basket Maker | |
Fancy Bonnet Maker | |
Fancy Boot Maker | |
Fancy Box Maker | |
Fancy Box Trimmer | |
Fancy Brush Drawer | |
Fancy Business Assistant | |
Fancy Cabinet Maker | |
Fancy Man | pimp |
Fancy Pearl Worker | worked in mother-of-pearl making buttons or fancy goods |
Fancy Plush Maker | |
Fancy Salesman | |
Fancy Silk Sceiner | |
Fancy Trimmer | |
Fancy Woman | prostitute |
Fanner | A grain winnower. |
Fanwright | A maker and repairer of fans or winnowing baskets. |
Farandman | A stranger or traveller, especially a travelling merchant. |
Farm bailiff | |
Farmaceutical Druggist | Nowadays it’s a real word, however, in the 19th Century, this was probably a miss-spelling. |
Farmer | often descendant of the gentry; usually having servants and farm workers, or a tax-collector or bailiff. |
Farmer, grazier | A farmer who pastures and raises cattle. |
Farrier | A horse doctor, or a blacksmith, one who shoes horses |
Farrier, Smith | |
Farrier’s Assistant | Obvious really/td> |
Faulkner | A Falconer. |
Fawkner | trainer of falcons |
Fear Nothing Maker | A weaver of a 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 | Also Feather Cleaner; cleanser of feathers |
Feather Brush Maker | |
Feather Curler | curled feathers to prepare them for use in hat making etc |
Feather Dresser | cleaned and prepared feathers for sale |
Feather Maker | |
Feather Man | dealer in feathers and plumes |
Feather Trade | |
Feather Wife | woman who prepared feathers for use |
Feather Worker | |
Feed Warehouse | |
Feeder | A herdsman. |
Fell monger | One who removes hair or wool from hides in preparation for leather making, or a dealer in hides & sheepskins. |
Feller | A woodcutter, or a person who laid or felled seams in textiles. |
Fellow of College | |
Felorship Porter | |
Felter | worker in the hatting industry |
Female Clerk | |
Fence Viewer | A person who inspects farmer’s fences. |
Feroner | An ironmonger. |
Ferreter | Dealer in or manufacturer of ferret, or silk tape. |
Ferur or Ferator | A farrier or blacksmith. |
Festitian | Doctor or Physician |
Fettler | cleaned the machinery in woollen mills, removing accumulated fibres, grease, etc, or one who sharpened the fustian cutters knives, or a needlemaker who filed the needle to a point. |
Feuar | A holder of lands granted for services |
Fever | A blacksmith. |
Fewster | A maker of saddletrees. |
Fewterer | The keeper of hounds, for hunting or coursing. A keeper of greyhounds. |
Feydur Beater | A feather beater. |
Field Master | See Hayward |
File Cutter – Maker | a maker of files, involved the cutting of grooves on the file surface |
Filler | A person who filled bobbins in mills. |
Filler in the Stick Trade | |
Fine Art Dealer | |
Fine Drawer | One who is employed in tailoring to repair tears in the cloth. Invisible mending. |
Finger Rug Maker | |
Finisher | operated machine giving final touches to a manufactured article in various trades |
Finisher’s Assistant | assisted – obvious really |
Fire Wood Cutter | Also Firewood Cutter; cuts timber for firewood. |
Fire Wood Dealer | Also Firewood Dealer; Sold firewood. |
Firebeater | A person who tended the boilers that powered the machinery in a cotton mill. |
Fireman | |
First Hand | silk weaver who had his own loom (an outworker) |
First Hand at Whitechapel Baths | |
Fiscere | A fisherman. |
Fish Carrier | |
Fish Cooper | |
Fish Curer | cured fish |
Fish Dealer | |
Fish Fag | female fish monger |
Fish Frier, Coffee | |
Fish Grader | |
Fish Hawker | sold fish on the street |
Fish Merchant | |
Fish Monger | Also Fishmonger; someone who sold fish from a shop |
Fish Packer | |
Fish Porter | carried and delivered boxes of fish in the fish market |
Fisher or Fishdryver | A victualler |
Fisherman/woman | caught fish |
Fishing Rod Maker | |
Fitter | A common term for a person who assembled several portions of machinery together, or a coal broker. |
Flagmaker | |
Flasher | A specialist process worker in the glass industry. |
Flatman | Navigated a broad flat-bottomed boat used for transport, especially in shallow waters. Common in the salt trade. |
Flauner | A confectioner. |
Flaxdresser | prepared flax prior to spinning |
Flesher | A butcher or a person who worked in a tannery, or a nickname for a pimp. |
Fleshewer | A butcher. |
Fleshmonger | butcher or one who worked in a tannery |
Fletcher | One who made bows and arrows; arrowsmith |
Floater | A vagrant. |
Floatman | See Flatman. |
Florist | sold flowers from a shop |
Flour Factor | |
Flower | An archer (Flo-arrow). |
Flower Hawker/Seller/Coster | sold flowers on the street |
Flower Maker | made flowers (artificial) |
Flower Worker | worked in the flower trade; looking after growing flowers |
Flush Binder, Book | |
Flusherman | cleaned out water mains |
Flute Maker | |
Flycoachman or Flyman | 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 passengers, or a theatre stage hand. |
Fogger | Petty chapman, carrying wares from village to village, or a middleman in the nail and chain trade, or an agricultural worker responsible for feeding the cattle, or a low class lawyer (Pettifogger). |
Foister or Foisterer | A joiner. |
Folderist | |
Foot Boy | A servant or attendant in livery. |
Foot Maiden | female servant |
Foot Man | Also Footman; servant who ran errands, or one who opened the doors for passengers |
Foot Pad | thief or robber |
Foot Post | letter carrier or messenger who travelled on foot |
Foot Straightener | In watchmaking, a person who assembled watch and clock dials. |
Football Maker, Toy | |
Foreman | a man in charge in almost any industry |
Forestarius | A forester. |
Forester | A game warden or forest ranger. |
Forewoman | A woman in charge in almost any industry |
Forgeman, Smith or Forger | blacksmith, worker at a forge |
Forkner | A falconer. |
Fossetmaker | who made faucets for ale-casks, etc |
Foundry Delivery Clerk | |
Foundryman | |
Fower | A street cleaner, sweeper. |
Fowler or Fugler | keeper or catcher of birds |
Framar | A farmer |
Frame Maker | Also Framemaker; Someone who made frames. |
Frame Mounter | mounted frames |
Frame Spinner | A worker on a loom. |
Framer | A person who made frames for houses. |
Framework Knitter | An operator of a machine which made hosiery. Originally a hand loom was used. Often abbreviated to FWK. |
Freedman | one released from slavery |
Freeholder | one who holds land by fee simple. In colonial times, a freeholder had the right to vote and hold public office. |
Freeman | one who held the full rights of citizenship, such as voting and engaging in business, and a man who had served his apprenticeship and who could then work at his trade in his own right. |
Freemason | stonecutter |
French Polisher | polished quality wooden furniture using French polish, wax or special lacquer |
Frereman | servant of the Friars. |
Freser | A maker of frieze, a rough plaster. |
Freshwater Man | A sailor who sailed boat on fresh water only or in the coastal trade. |
Fret Cutter | |
Fret Lead Glazer | |
Frieght Porter | |
Frillings Maker | |
Fringe & Tassel Maker | |
Fringemaker | A person who made fringes, ornamental borders of cloth. |
Fripperer | A buyer & seller of old clothes. |
Friseur | A hairdresser. |
Frobisher or Furbisher | remover of rust, a polisher of metal, eg. armour |
Fruit Broker | |
Fruit Hawker | sold fruit on the street |
Fruit Sorter | sorted fruit |
Fruiterer or Fruit Salesman | sold fruit from a shop |
Fruitestere | A female fruit seller. |
Fulker | A pawnbroker |
Fuller | fulls cloth; shrinks and thickens woollen cloth using fullers earth by moistening, heating, and pressing; one who cleans and finishes cloth |
Fullers Earther | |
Funambulist | A tightrope walker. |
Funeral Coachman | Drove a funeral coach or hearse. |
Funeral Wreath Maker | Made wreaths for funerals |
Fur Cap Maker | |
Fur Cape Hand | |
Fur Cape Liner | |
Fur Cape Maker | Made fur capes |
Fur Cutter | Cut fur |
Fur Dealer | Bought and sold fur and articles made from fur. |
Fur Draper | |
Fur Dresser | Dressed fur |
Fur Hand | |
Fur Machinist | Machined fur |
Fur Puller | Someone, usually women working at home, who removed the outer fur from a dur skin, leaving the soft, downy fur which lies close to the skin |
Fur Skin Dresser | |
Fur Sewer | Sewed fur |
Fur Trimmer | Trimmed fur |
Furbisher, Furber or Furbour | armor polisher, see Frobisher |
Furnace Stoker | |
Furner | baker |
Furnisher | Dealt in furniture |
Furniture Broker | |
Furniture Japanner | |
Furniture Labourer | A labourer in the furniture industry |
Furniture Polisher | |
Furniture Upholsterer | |
Furrier | seller, dresser or maker of furs |
Furrier, Laster | |
Fustian Weaver | A maker of corduroy. |
Fuyster | See Foister. |