Dictionary of Old Occupations

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Definitions of jobs Spooner - Steersman

Spooner: manufactured spoons. If you have the name Spooner in your family tree, it probably relates to the older occupation of manufacturing or selling curved wooden roof shingles (spons).

Sprig Maker: more formal name for a Sprigger, who embroidered lace.

Sprigger: embroidered lace. Also slang for a young person.

Spring Maker: produced metal springs, used in the manufacture of coaches.

Spuller: a textile industry worker, checking the quality of spun yarn.

Spurrer: alternate spelling of Spurrier; manufactured or sold metal spurs for horse riding.

Spurrier: manufactured or sold metal spurs for horse riding.

Squarewright: made fine furniture, e.g. wooden cabinets.

Squire: any man of higher gentry or status.

Stabler: looked after horses; a stableman or groom.

Stab-rag: slang term for a tailor.

Stainer: made stained (coloured) glass for windows and glass ornaments.

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Stall Keeper: a market stall trader.

Stall Man: a market stall trader.

Stamp Man: a machine operator who crushed ore.

Stampmaster: an official who detected counterfeit goods being traded.

Stationary Engine Driver: operated a steam driven engine in a factory.

Stationary Engineer: maintained steam driven machinery in a factory.

Stationer: manufactured or sold paper, envelopes etc.

Statist: a statesman or politician.

Staymaker: made corsets. Prior to the mid 19th century, corsets were called 'stays'.

Steam Hammer Driver: operated a steam hammer, which was a machine with a hammer-like piston inside a cylinder. It can deliver variable strength blows in a controlled fashion, and was used to shape forged metals.

Steeplejack: a craftsman who repaired and maintained buildings, church steeples and chimneys.

Steersman: a helmsman, who steered a ship.

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Who were the servants who kept the great houses and the middle class homes of Georgian England running? What kinds of work did they do? How were they treated? What did they think of their masters and mistresses upstairs?

Pamela Horn has mined the archives of stately homes, Poor Law institutions, churches, charities, courts, contemporary newspapers and journals, as well as diaries and letters of the period to present a richly detailed, entertaining and often moving account of these essential, if usually invisible people. She brings to life the personal lives of these serving men and women.

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