Dictionary of Old Occupations and Trades |
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| Bobber | - Used a rotating Bob which was covered with felt or leather to polish metal. | ||||
| Bobbin Carrier | - Carried bobbins to the looms in the textile industry. | ||||
| Bobbin Ligger | - Worked on a machine which filled bobbins with thread for weaving their task was to replace the full bobbins with empty ones. | ||||
| Bobbin Turner | - Cut wooden bobbins on a lathe for use in the weaving industry. | ||||
| Bobby | - Slang for Police officer which arose because the founder of the British police force was Robert Peel. | ||||
| Bodeys or Body Maker | - Made stiffened women’s undergarments called bodices. | ||||
| Bodger | - Chair maker. | ||||
| Bog Iron Hunter | - Searched for iron ore in peat bogs. | ||||
| Boilermaker | - Metalworker who fabricated boilers. | ||||
| Boiler Plater | - Produced iron plate used to make boilers. | ||||
| Bolter | - Sifter of meal or flour prior to bagging. | ||||
| Bondager | - Female field worker or farmhand. | ||||
| Bondman | - Unpaid servant. | ||||
| Bondsman | - Person who acts as surety and vouches for someone else. | ||||
| Bone Button Maker | - Produced buttons made from bones on a lathe. | ||||
| Bone Lace Maker | - Produces lace using bobbins made from bone. | ||||
| Bone Mould Turner | - Produced the moulds used in Button manufacture. | ||||
| Bone Picker | - Collected bones for glue manufacture. | ||||
| Bonesetter | - Person who set broken bones. | ||||
| Boniface | - Publican/Innkeeper ether employed or on their own account. | ||||
| Book Gilder | - Gilded book covers with gold leaf as decoration. | ||||
| Bookholder | - Worked in the theatre as a prompter holding a complete copy of the script to enable them to prompt where necessary. | ||||
| Bookman | - Scholar. | ||||
| Boonmaster | - Responsible for surveying the roads in his parish and organising their repair using labour provided by local landowners. | ||||
| Bootbinder | - Used a machine to stitch/bind boot uppers to soles. | ||||
| Boot Catcher | - Employed at an Inn to remove and clean visitor’s boots. | ||||
| Boot Clicker | - A) Worked a machine that made lace holes in boot uppers B) Cut the leather for the different parts that made up the shoe this job made a distinctive noise from which the name Clicker was derived. | ||||
| Boot Closer | - Stitched together the parts which makeup the shoe upper. | ||||
| Boot Laster | - Produced leather uppers using a wooden shoe shaped last. | ||||
| Boot Sprigger | - Boot maker/mender who was employed to nail soles onto boots using tiny nails known as sprigs. | ||||
| Boothman | - Corn dealer. | ||||
| Borer | - Employed to cut holes by hand in pottery for example to connect the tea pot to the spout. | ||||
| Borler or Boreler | Produced borel a rough woollen cloth. | ||||
| Borsholder | - Parish constable. | ||||
| Botcher | - Tailor or cobbler specialising in repairs. | ||||
| Bottle Boy | - Assistant to a pharmacist. | ||||
| Bottler | - A) Maker of leather water bottles or flasks B) Worker in a Bottling Factory or distillery. | ||||
| Bottom Knocker | - Assistant to the Sagger Maker in the pottery industry. | ||||
| Bottom Maker | - Moulded the bottoms for Sagger's in the pottery industry. | ||||
| Bottom-Sawyer | - Worked in a saw mill the bottom sawyer stood in the sawing pit and the top sawyer stood above, they used a long two man saw to saw up tree trunks. | ||||
| Bowdler | - Worker in iron. | ||||
| Bowker | - A) Butcher B) Yarn Bleacher. | ||||
| Bowler | - A) Shaped the concave part of the spoon B) Made Bowls/Dishes. | ||||
| Bowlman or woman | - Dealt in crockery/tableware. | ||||
| Bowlminder | - Looked after the raw wool washing vats in a woollen mill. | ||||
| Bowlturner | - Maker of traditional wooden plates and bowls. | ||||
| Bowman | - Cattleman “Scottish”. | ||||
| Bowyer | - Bow maker “Archery”. | ||||
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| © J Hewitt Family Researcher | |||||