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Old Name
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New Name or Meaning
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Haberdasher
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Seller
of clothing and accoutrements
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Hacker
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1)
Woodcutter 2) Maker or user of hoes or other cutting tools
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Hackler
/ Heckler / Hackman / Hatcheler
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Combed
or carded the coarse flax, using a Hackle - a toothed implement - in linen
making.
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Hackle
Setter
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Set and
maintained the pins in a Hackle
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Hacklemaker/Heckelmaker
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Made the
Hackles (combs) for combing flax
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Hackney
Man
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Horse
drawn Cab/Taxi driver - Taxis were originally called Hackney Cabs
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Haft
Presser
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Employed
in the Sheffield cutlery industry pressing bone/horn into knife handles (hafts).
19c.
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Hairweaver / Hairman
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Weaver
of horsehair cloth
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Halberd
Carrier / Halberdier
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Soldier
who was armed with a halberd - a 20 foot long
combined
spear and axe
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Half
Timer
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Child
who spent half the day at school and half in the mills
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Hammerman
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Smith
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Handseller
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Street
Vendor
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Handwoman
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Midwife
or female attendant
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Happers
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Usually
women and children whose job was to square off the drained lumps of salt with
wooden implements, ready for drying.
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Harmer
Beck
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Constable
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Hatter
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Hat
maker milliner
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Hawker /
Huckster
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Peddler
or street seller.
Itinerant street dealer who carried his wares with him.
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Haymonger
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Dealer
in hay
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Hayrester
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Worker
in horsehair
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Hayard
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1)
Inspected hedges and fences of a parish
and also
impounded stray animals
2)
Tended fields set aside to produce hay
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Headsman
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Executioner
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Headswoman
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Midwife
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Heald
Knitter
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Made
lengths of cord with an eye in the middle through which the warp threads on a
loom ran so that they could alternately be raised and lowered for the shuttle to
pass through with the weft thread.
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Heald/Heddle or Yell maker
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Manufacturer of Healds, used on looms.
The warp
yarns are passed through loops known as Healds,
which
raise and lower the yarns after the shuttle
has
passed the weft across the width of the loom
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Heck
Maker
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Made
spinning machine guides for guiding yarn onto reels
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Hedge
Looker
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Oversaw
maintenance of hedges and enclosures. Also see Field Master & Hayward
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Hedger
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Hedge
Trimmer and maker of grown hedges - a skilled art
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Heelmaker
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Made
shoe heels
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Hellier
/ Hillier
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Roof
tiler or slater
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Hempheckler
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See
Hackler
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Henchman
/ Hensman / Hinxman
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1)
Squire or page of honour
2)
Groom, horseman
3) Chief
attendant to a Highland chief
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Henter
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Thief
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Hewer
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Mine
face worker - hewed or cut the coal
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Higgler
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Itinerant peddler. A lot of the Higglers trade involved barter, rather than
money changing hands and the name derives from the resultant haggling.
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High
Sheriff
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The
highest ranking sheriff
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Highwayman
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Robber,
usually mounted, who preyed on travellers on public highways
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Hillier
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Roof
tiler
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Hillman
/ Hillsman
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A man
who worked at the pithead; a colliery official, late 17th-early 20th century
(Scottish)
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Hind /
Hynd
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1)
Domestic servant 2) A skilled farm labourer (Scotland)
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Hobbler
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1) Towed
river or canal boats 2) Casual dock labourer 3) Unlicensed pilot.
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Hodsman
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Masons
assistant - carried the Hod in which materials were carried
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Hoggard
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Pig
driver
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Holer
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1) Miner
2) Made
the holes in sewing needles.
Also
called an Eyer
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Holder
up
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Rivetters Mate - whilst the red hot rivet head was formed by the rivetter,
he would
hold a heavy hammer or dolly against the other end of the rivet.
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Holloware Turner
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Operated
a lathe to shape & clean up the inside of metal utensils, teapots etc & cooking
pots
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Hoofer
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A dancer
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Hooker
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1) 16c.
Reaper
2)
Textile mill worker operating machinery which laid out fabric in uniform folds
to required length
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Hooper /
Hoop shaver
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Made
hoops for casks and barrels
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Horner
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Made
horn cutlery handles, combs
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Horseman
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Led
working horses on a farm
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Horse
Courser
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Owner of
racing horses
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Horse
Knave
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Groom
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Horse
Leech
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Farrier,
blacksmith
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Horse
Marine
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Towed
canal barges where horses could not be used
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Horse
Capper
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Dealer
in worthless horses
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Horse-hair Curler
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Prepared
horse hair for upholstery stuffing
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Hosier
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Retailer
of hosiery - socks, stockings, gloves etc.
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Hostelier
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Innkeeper
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Hostler
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1)
Stableman, groom 2) repairer of railway engines
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Hotpresser
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Worked
in textile or paper mills, pressing product between hot glazing sheets to smooth
and glaze it
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House
joiner
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Made the
wooden frames of houses
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House
wright
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House
builder
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Howdy
Wife
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Midwife
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Hoyman
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Used a
hoy - a small coastal vessel - to transport passengers and goods
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Huckster
/ Huxter
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1)
Street seller of ale, often a woman
2)
Retailer of small wares in shop or booth
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Huffler
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Worked
on the canals assisting boats and barges through the locks.
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Huissher
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Usher or
door attendant
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Hurdler
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Made
wattle fencing hurdles
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Hurriers
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Usually
girls from the age of 5, employed hauling coal underground
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Husbandman
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1)
Tenant farmer 2) Farmer dealing with animals (14th century From the Anglo-Saxon
husbonda) - a shepherd
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Hush
Shopkeeper
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Unlicensed beer brewer and seller
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