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Dictionary of Old Occupations and Trades |
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| Cabbie or Cab Driver | - Drove a horse drawn cab such as the Hanson Cab. | |||||
| Cad | - Worked at coaching inns to look after horses (supervised by the Ostler). | |||||
| Caddie | - Errand boy/gofer. | |||||
| Caddy Butcher | - Sold horse meat products. | |||||
| Cadger | - A) Peddler B) Beggar. | |||||
| Cafender | - Carpenter. | |||||
| Caffler | - Rag & bone man | |||||
| Cainer | - Made walking sticks. | |||||
| Caird | - Tinker | |||||
| Calciner | - Burnt bones to produce powdered lime. | |||||
| Calender Operator | - Operated a machine with large rollers used to smooth paper for writing or printing. | |||||
| Calico Printer | - Coloured or printed calico. | |||||
| Cambric Maker | - Wove cambric a closely woven white cloth or linen which could be embroidered. |
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| Camerist | - Lady’s Maid. |
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| Camister | - Slag term for Priest. |
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| Camlet Merchant | - Seller of camlet a valuable cloth that may have been originally woven from Goat or Camel hair. |
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| Canal Puddler | - 1) Iron worker 2) Lined newly build canals with a coating of clay to make them watertight, also repaired leaks. |
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| Cannaller | - Canal worker. |
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| Candler | - Used tallow (Animal Fat) to produce candles. |
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| Caner | - Weaver and repairer of cane chairs. | |||||
| Cane sellers | - Sold canes to be used for corporal punishment (to beat naughty children). |
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| Canting Caller | - Auctioneer. | |||||
| Canvaser / Canvasser | - Produced Canvas | |||||
| Caper / Capper | - Maker of Caps. | |||||
| Capillaire Maker | - Made Capillaire a clear syrup flavoured with orange flower water added by confectioners to their products. |
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| Carbonarius | - 1) Coalminer 2) Charcoal maker |
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| Causewaymaker | - Built roads (causeways) using stone setts known as cobblestones. |
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| Cardroomer Worker | - Employed in the carding room of woollen/cotton mills. |
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| Carder | - Carded or combed the wool / cotton between large steel combs known as Cards to align the fibres ready for spinning. |
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| Card Maker | - 1) Made the combs used for carding wool / cotton 2) Made the punched loom-cards used by Jacquard looms. |
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| Card Nailer / Nailorer | - Produced or maintained the teeth (nails) on the carding machines. |
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| Carman | - 1) Driver of a horse-drawn delivery vehicle 2) Horse-drawn tram driver. |
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| Carnifex | - Butcher |
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| Carpentarius | - Carpenter |
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| Carter / Cartman | - Driver of a horse-drawn vehicle used for transporting goods. |
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| Cart Wheeler | - Cart wheel maker. |
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| Cartographer | - Mapmaker. |
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| Cartomancer | - Fortune teller. |
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| Cartwright | - Produced carts and wagons. | |||||
| Case Hardener | - Heat treated steel to harden its surface. |
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| Cashmarie | - Fish seller. |
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| Caster / Castorer | - Maker of small receptacles with pierced covers used for sprinkling sugar, salt, pepper, spices. |
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| Caster | - Person who pours slip into moulds in the pottery industry. |
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| Castrator | - Gelder who castrated farm animals. |
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| Catagman / Cottager | - Tennant who leased a cottage and plot of land from the landowner, where they grew their own produce and often kept a small amount of livestock. |
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| Catchpole / Catchpoller | - Bailiff or Sheriff's assistant. |
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| Cattle Jobber | - Cattle trader. |
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| Caulker | - Used tar together with oakum hemp fibre (from old ropes) to fill cracks in wooden ships, casks, windows or seams to make them watertight. |
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