Dictionary of Old Occupations and Trades |
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| Backmaker | - Maker of vats, tubs or "Backs" also another name for a cooper “barrel maker”. | |||||
| Back Tenter | - Often a small child who cleared away loose fibre/rubbish from behind the working weaving looms, this was noisy and dangerous job. | |||||
| Back Washer | - Cleaned wool as part of worsted manufacture. | |||||
| Badger | - A hawker or seller of food. | |||||
| Badgy Fiddler | - Boy trumpeter. | |||||
| Bagman | - Travelling salesman. | |||||
| Bagniokeeper | - Brothel or bathhouse keeper. | |||||
| Bag Room Boy | - Odd job boy in the pottery industry who helps sort the bags for the press which was used to remove moisture from the slip to make clay. | |||||
| Bailiff | - A) Officer of the court B) Overseer of the manor. | |||||
| Bairman or Bareman | - Pauper or beggar | |||||
| Baker Maker Shapes | - In the pottery industry he hand pressed the clay to produce oval dishes called Baker. | |||||
| Bal Maiden | - Female surface worker at a mine. | |||||
| Balancer | - Worked in coal mines operating a coal hauling system involving tubs called a balance. | |||||
| Baler | - A) Baled hay B) Mill worker who baled wool or cotton. | |||||
| Bailiff | - An under-officer employed to make arrests and executing writs. | |||||
| Ballad Monger | - A) A maker of ballads B) A seller of ballads. | |||||
| Ballast Master | - In charge of ballasting vessels. | |||||
| Ballast Heaver | - Loaded empty ships with ballast. | |||||
| Baller or Baller Up | - Measured out balls of clay for the thrower, this is from the pottery industry. | |||||
| Ballista Archer | - Used an early form of the crossbow. | |||||
| Bandsman | - Coal mine labourer working in a group or band. | |||||
| Bandster | - Seasonal worker (Harvest time) who binds the wheat sheaves ready for stacking after the reapers have cut them. | |||||
| Bang Beggar | - A) Constable who carried a large stick (slang) B) Officer of the parish who set a limit to the amount of time strangers could stay. | |||||
| Banker | - A) Surface worker in the coal mining industry B) Drainage ditch digger. | |||||
| Bank Manager | - Supervisor at a Coal Mine. | |||||
| Bank odd man | - Odd job man (Labourer) in the pottery industry. | |||||
| Banksman or Browman | - Unloaded cages when they reached the surface of a coalmine and signalled the descent of the workmen/cage. | |||||
| Barber-Surgeon | - Hairdresser who was also a surgeon. | |||||
| Bard | - Poet and / or singer. | |||||
| Bareman | - Beggar / Pauper. | |||||
| Bargeman or Bargee | - The owner, skipper of a barge or member of the crew. | |||||
| Barilla Manufacturer | - Produced Barilla by burning saltwort this was then used in the production of glass, soda and soap. | |||||
| Barkeeper | - Another name for a tollkeeper (Person who collected money from people using toll roads). | |||||
| Barker or Barkman | - A) Person who used colourful talk to entice potential customers into a show B) Used tree bark in the leather tanning process. | |||||
| Barm Brewer | - Yeast grower and supplier. | |||||
| Barmaster | - Holder of the lead mineral rights who granted titles to new mines and noted their names in his book he also measured out the land in meers. | |||||
| Barrel Filer | - Filed and polished gun barrels. | |||||
| Barrow Man | - A) Seller of fruit and vegetables from a barrow B) Collected baskets or barrows of coal from the coal face and loaded the coal ready to be taken to the surface. | |||||
| Bartoner | - Person in charge of a Barton (Monastic farm or demesne). | |||||
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| © J Hewitt Family Researcher | ||||||