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- ACATER / ACATTER - supplied food provisions, e.g. a ships chandler
- ACCIPITRARY - falconer and one who trains birds of prey
- ACCOMPTANT - accountant
- ACCOMPTANISS - a woman who acted as chaperone to young ladies
- ACCOUCHEUR / ACCOUCHEUS - an assistant for women in childbirth
- ACCOUTREMENT MAKER / ACCOUTRE - supplier of military accessories, later supplier of fine clothing to the upper class
- ACKERMAN / ACREMAN - a measurer of land and property, a ploughman, an oxherder
- ACTUARY - kept public accounts of business
- ADMINISTRATOR - directed plantation workers, a forman, or directed the another
- ADVERTISEMENT CONVEYANCER - sandwich board man (street vendor)
- ADVOCATE DEPUTE - Scottish law officer who could act a public prosecutor
- ADVOWEE - normally a nobleman, who had the right to present a clergyman to a benefice
- AERONAUT - a wire walker, a trapeze artist in the circus or music halls, a balloonist
- AFFEEROR - official in the manorial courts who assessed the monetary penalty and also collected taxes and dues and were also called Assessor
- AGISTER - official of the Royal Forests or in the New Forest it is the title for the one in charge of the ponies
- ALABASTERER - worked with alabaster
- ALBLASTERE - crossbow man (a soldier) or a huntsman for the gentry
- ALCHEMIST - medieval chemist who claimed to be able to turn base metals into gold
- ALDERMAN - senior councillor one position down from Mayor in the local council
- ALE-CONNER / ALE FOUNDER - official who tests the quality and measure of ale served in public houses
- ALE DRAPER - seller of ale
- ALE TASTER - tested ale and beer for quality first recored in 1377 in London, appointed by the Manor and forerunner of the Inspector for Weights & Measures
- ALE TUNNER - employed by the brewery to fill ale casks (tuns} with ale
- ALEWIFE - woman who keeps an alehouse or tavern
- ALL SPICE - the term for a grocer
- ALMANAC MAN - official appointed by the Court of Sewers who warned the inhabitants of the Trent River (England) area of higher than normal tides
- ALMONER - gave out alms or charity to the poor on behalf of the parish
- ALMSMAN - received alms
- ALNAGER - official who examined the quality of woolen goods and stamped them with the town seal of approval (see Aulnager)
- AMANUENSIS - secretary or stenographer
- AMBER CUTTER - cut ambergris
- AMBER & JET CUTTER - cut and polished amber for jewelry
- AMBLER - officer of the Royal Stable who broke in horses
- AMEN MAN - parish clerk
- ANCHOR SMITH - made anchors
- ANCHORESS - female hermit or religious recluse
- ANCHORITE - male hermit or religious recluse
- ANILEPMAN - smallholder (tenant of the manor)
- ANGLE IRON SMITH - made angle iron ie. flat iron bars bent at right angles lengthways
- ANKLE BEATER - young person who helped to drive the cattle to market
- ANNATTO MAKER - helped in the manufacture of dyes for paint or printing
- ANTIGROPELOS MAKER - made waterproof leggings
- ANVIL SMITH - made anvils and hammers for blacksmiths
- APIARIAN - beekeeper
- APOTHECARY - prepared and sold medicines or drugs; pharmacist
- APPARITOR - official who summoned witnesses in the ecclesiastical courts
- APPRENTICE - was bonded to a skilled worker for a specified time to learn a trade
- APROnéeR - term used in London for a shopkeeper
- APRONMAN - mechanic
- AQUARIUS (EWAR) - waterman
- AQUAVITA SELLER - sold alcohol
- ARCHIATOR - physician
- ARCHIL MAKER - made a violet dye from lichens, used in the textile industry
- ARKWRIGHT - skilled craftsman who produced "arks" (wooden chests or coffers)
- ARMIGER - squire who carried the armour of a knight
- ARMOURER - made suits of armour or plates of armour for buildings or ships etc.
- ARTIFICER - highly respected skilled or artistic worker or craftsman or one that makes or contrives
- ASHMAN - dustman
- ASSAYER - determined the proportions of metal in ore
- ASSAY MASTER - determined the amount of gold or silver to go in coins
- AUGER MAKER - made the carpenters augers (used for boring holes in wood)
- AULNAGER - official who examined the quality of woolen goods and stamped them with the town seal of approval (see Alnager)
- AURIFABER - goldsmith
- AVENATOR (PLANTIFENE) - forage and hay merchant for livestock
- AVOWRY - term for the Lord of the Manor
- AXEL TREE MAKER / AXEL TREE TURNER - made axels for coaches and wagons
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- BACKMAKER - made "backs", vats, tubs, a Cooper
- BACKMANN / BACKSTER / BAXTER / BECK / BECKER - baker
- BACK'US BOY - kitchen servant (from "back of the house")
- BACK WASHER - employed to clean the wool in the worsted manufacturing industry
- BADGER - licensed pauper who wore a badge with the letter P on it and could only work in a defined area (the term "Badgering comes from this"). A corn miller or dealer or an itinerant food trader
- BADGY FIDDLER - boy trumpeter in the military
- BAGMAN - travelling salesman
- BAGNIOKEEPER - n charge of a bath house or brothel
- BAILIFF / BAILIE / BAILLIE / BAILLEE - officer of the sheriff, a land steward acting on behalf of the Landowner or Landlord and in Scotland a magistrate of the burgh, also looked after the fishing rights on certain rivers
- BAIRMAN / BAREMAN - pauper or beggar
- BALER - bales hay and in the mills one who bailed wool or cotton goods
- BALISTER - archer most commonly a crossbowman
- BALLAST HEAVER - loaded ballast into the hold of empty ships
- BALLARD MASTER/MEISTER - in charge of loading the ballast into the hold of empty ships
- BALLER / BALLER UP - assisted the potter by measuring out the balls of clay
- BAL MAIDEN - female mine worker who worked on the surface (also a Pit Brow Lass)
- BAND FILER - metal worker in the gun making industry
- BANDSTER - bound the wheat sheaves after harvest
- BANG BEGGAR (ER) - officer of the parish who controlled the length of stay of any stranger to the parish
- BANKER - dug trenches and ditches to allow drainage of the land, placing the surplus earth in banks around the edge
- BANKSMAN - employed in the mining industry being in charge of the cages at the pit head (sometimes known as a bank manager)
- BARBER / BARBER SURGEON - a barber also also a surgeon (an Act was passed that limited Barbers to hair-cutting, shaving, dentistry and blood letting in the 18th century)
- BARD - poet or minstral
- BAREMAN - beggar or pauper
- BARGEE / BARGEMAN - worked on or owned and operated a barge
- BARGE MATE - Naval officer
- BARILLA MANUFACTURER - made barilla, a substance obtained from burning saltworts, the resulting mixture of sodium salts being used in the glass and ceramics industry
- BARKEEPER - another name for a tollkeeper
- BARKER - tanner
- BAUER - farmer
- BAXTER - baker
- BELHOSTE - tavern keeper.
- BARTONER - in charge of the monastic farm, also known as a barton
- BASIL WORKER - worked with sheep and goat skins also a skinner
- BASKETMAN - made baskets and furniture from wicker, and also employed to empty the basket of coal being offloaded from the colliers into the barges
- BASS / BAST DRESSER - employed in dressing fibre or matting
- BATHING MACHINE PROPRIETOR - owned and hired the changing huts used at the seaside in the by bathers
- BATMAN - officers servant in the army
- BATT MAKER - made the wadding used in quilt and mattress making
- BATTER OUT - sliced a short cylinder of clay (a bat) from a "pug" and threw it onto a mold shaped for the face of a ceramic plate
- BATTLEDORE MAKER - made the beaters used on clothes carpets etc to remove the dust (later made the paddles used in washing machines)
- BAYWEAVER - who wove bay (a fine woollen fabric also known as baize)
- BEADLE / BEDEL / BEDELL - officer of the parish whose principle duty was to keep order, also was the town crier
- BEADMAN / BEADSMAN / BEDESMAN - employed to pray for his employer, inhabitant of an almshouse / poorhouse / hospital or tenant employed by the manor for a specific service
- BEAD PIERCER - employed to drill the holes in beads
- BEAMER - winds the warp on the roller before putting it on the loom in the textile industry
- BEARER - worked undergrpound carrying the coal to the bottom of the pit shaft and placed it in the containers for uplifting to the surface
- BEATER - cleansed and thickened the cloth by treading it underwater with fullers earth (aka Fuller)
- BEAVER - made felt used in trunk linings or hat making
- BEDMAN - sexton
- BEDRAL - in Scotland a minor church official
- BEDWEVERE - made the webbing for bed frames and also a one who wove quilts
- BEESKEPMAKER - made beehives
- BEETLER - operated a beetling machine, used in the textile trade for embossing fabric
- BELLEYETERE - bellfounder
- BELLFOUNDER / BELTER / BILLITER - made bells
- BELL HANGER - installed bells in churches
- BELLMAN - employed as a watchman or town crier or who worked for the post office and collected letters for the mail coach by walking the streets and ringing a bell
- BELLOWFARMER - responsible for the care and maintenance of the church organ
- BELLOWS MAKER - made bellows used for organs or blacksmiths fires
- BELLY BUILDER - built and fitted the interiors of pianoforte
- BENDER - cut leather
- BESSWARDEN - appointed by the parish to look after its animals
- BESOM MAKER - made brooms
- BEVER - beverage maker
- BIDDY - female servant usually of Irish stock
- BILLIER / BILLYMAN - operated a Billy Roller, a machine used in the cotton industry to prepare the cotton for spinning
- BILL POSTER - put up notices, signs and advertisements
- BINDER - bound items, e.g., books, hats etc .
- BIRD BOY - employed to scare away birds from crops
- BIRD CATCHER - caught birds for selling (primarily for food)
- BIRDS NEST SELLER - sold bird nests collected from the wild complete with eggs which were then hatched by domestic birds and sold as pets
- BIRLYMAN - in Scotland a ground officer or parish arbiter (see arbiter)
- BLACK TRAY MAKER - made Japanned trays
- BLACKING MAKER - made polish for boots & shoes
- BLACK BORDERER - made black edged stationery for funeral announcements, etc.
- BLADESMITH - swordmaker or knife maker
- BLAXTER / BLEACHER - bleached cloth or paper pulp
- BLEMMERE - plumber
- BLENTONIST - water diviner
- BLINDSMAN - employed by the Post Office to deal with incorrectly addressed letters and parcels
- BLOCKCUTTER / BLOCKER - made wooden blocks used in the hat trade or laid down the blocks on which a ships keel was laid; a blockcutter was also a person who made and cut the patterns into wooden blocks for textile printing
- BLOCK MAKER - engraved the blocks used in the printin
- BLOCK PRINTER - printer who used wooden blocks for printing
- BLOODMAN / BLOODLETTER - used leeches for letting blood, this was thought to be a cure for many ailments
- BLOOMER - produced iron from ore, a bloom smithy
- BLOWER - glass blower, one who operated a "blowing machine" used to clean and separate fibres in the textile trade, one who operated the bellows at a blacksmiths
- BLOWFEEDER - fed the fibres into a "blowing machine"
- BLUESTOCKING - female writer
- BLUFFER - innkeeper or landlord of a pub
- BOARDING OFFICER - inspected ships before entering port
- BOARDMAN - truant officer who checked school attendance. a tenant of manorial land who paid rent by maintaining the manor's table
- BOARDWRIGHT - made tables and chairs aka carpenter
- BOATMAN - worked on a boat, predominately on rivers and canals also the name given to a boat repairer
- BOATSWAIN - ship's officer in charge of riggings & sails
- BOBBER - who polished metals one who helped to unload fishing boats
- BOBBIN CARRIER - worked in spinning and weaving sections of the mills
- BOBBIN TURNER - made the bobbins used in the spinning and weaving industry
- BOBBY - policeman usually of constable rank
- BODEYS / BODY MAKER - made bodices for womens garments
- BODGER - craftsman who made wooden chair legs and the spars and usually worked in the actual woodland that they cut the timber in
- BOILERMAKER - worked with metal in any industrial setting
- BOILER PLATER - made rolled iron plate used to make boilers for steam engines etc
- BOLL - looked after power looms in the weaving industry
- BOLTER - sifted meal
- BONDAGER - female worker on a farm who was bonded
- BONDMAN - bonded to a master for the purpose of learning a skill or trade
- BONDSMAN - stood bond or surety for another where a bond was required by law
- BONE BUTTON TURNER - made buttons using a lathe
- BONE LACE MAKER - made pillow lace
- BONE MOULD TURNER - made the moulds for button manufacturers
- BONE PICKER - collected rags and bones aka Rag and Bone Man
- BONESETTER - set broken bones
- BONIFACE - keeper of an inn
- BOOK GILDER - decorated books with gold leaf
- BOOKHOLDER - prompter in the theater
- BOOK KEEPER - looked after the accounts for businesses
- BOOKMAN - student
- BOONMASTER - surveyor of roads with the responsibilities of maintaining and repairing the road
- BOOTBINDER - employed to operate the machines which bound footware
- BOOT CATCHER - servant at inn who pulled off traveler's boots
- BOOT CLOSER - worked in the shoe trade stitching together all the parts of a shoe upper
- BOOTHMAN - corn merchant
- BORLER - who made cheap coarse clothing
- BORSHOLDER - regional name (Kent) for a constable
- BOTCHER - tailor or cobbler
- BOTTILER / BOTTLER - made leather containers for holding liquids eg wine flasks or water bottles
- BOTTLE BOY - pharmacists assistant
- BOTTOM MAKER - moulded the bottoms for saggers in the pottery industry
- BOTTOM KNOCKER - sagger makers assistant in the pottery industry
- BOTTOMER - worked down the pits moving the ore etc to the bottom of the shaft for removal
- BOWDLER - worked with iron ore
- BOWKER - bleached yarn. A local term in some parts of Lancashire for a butcher
- BOWLER - made bowls and dishes and also a term used for those who made the rounded part of spoons before casting
- BOWLMAN / BOWLWOMAN - dealer in crockery
- BOWLMINDER - in charge of the vats used for washing raw wool before processing
- BOWYER / BOWER - made bows used in archery
- BOZZLER - parish constable
- BRABENER - weaver
- BRACHYGRAPHER - shorthand writer
- BRAIDER - made cord by twisting threads or strips of leather
- BRAILLER - made girdles
- BRAKEMAN / BRAKESMAN - operated the winch at the pit head or operated the braking mechanism on trains and trams
- BRASILER - dyer
- BRAZIER - worker with brass
- BREWSTER - female brewer or brewer
- BRIGHTSMITH - metal worker
- BROOM-DASHER - dealer in brooms
- BROOM SQUIRE - broom maker
- BROTHERER / BROWDERER / BRODERER / BROIDERER - embroiderer
- BROW GIRL - female employed at the pit head
- BROWNSMITH - works with copper or brass
- BUCKLER / BUCKLESMITH - made buckles
- BUCKLE TONGUE MAKER - made the metal points that go in the holes of a belt
- BUCKRAM MAKER - worked with buckram (used in stiffening materials) e.g. belts, lapels and collars
- BUCK WASHER - laundress
- BUDDLEBOY - employed to use and maintain the vats used in the lead and tin mines for washing the ore
- BUDDLER - women and children who washed the ore at the copper mines in Allihies, Berehaven
- BUFFALO SOLDIER - soldier serving in a black regiment in the US Army in the West
- BULLWHACKER - oxen driver
- BULLOCKY - attended to the daily néeds of cattle and may also have lent a hand with general farm duties, especially during busy periods
- BUMBOAT MAN - met ships at anchor with goods for passengers and crew to purchase
- BUMMER - army deserter
- BUMMAREE - middle man between the wholesaler and the retailer at the fish markets
- BUNTER - female rag & bone collector
- BURGESS - represented a borough at official levels BURELER - made borel, a woollen cloth with a coarse feel
- BURGOMASTER - mayor
- BURLER - quality inspector for clothing
- BURMAIDEN - chambermaid or lady-in-waiting
- BURNEMAN - carrier of barm or water for brewers
- BURYE MAN - grave digger
- BUSHEL MAKER - cooper
- BUSHELER - tailor's helper
- BUSS MAKER - maker of guns
- BUSKER - hair dresser
- BUTNER - button maker
- BUTTER CARVER - made imprints in butter pats
- BUTTON BURNISHER - button polisher
- BUTTY - negotiated mining contracts and supplied the labor
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- CADDY BUTCHER - butcher that butchered and sold horse meat
- CADDIE - messenger or errand boy
- CADGER - beggar
- CAFENDER - carpenter
- CAFFLER - rag and bone collector
- CAINER - made walking sticks
- CAIRD - another term for a tinker
- CALCINER - burnt bones to make powdered lime
- CALENDER - listed documents
- CALENDERER / CALENDERMAN / CALENDER WORKER - operated a machine which pressed using two large rollers (calender) used to press and finish fabrics or paper
- CALICO PRINTER - dyed and colored calico
- CAMBRIC MAKER - made a fine linen or cotton fabric called cambric
- CAMISTER - minister of the cloth
- CANDLE MAKER / CANDLER - who made and sold candles
- CAMBIST - banker
- CAMERIST - lady's maid
- CAMLET MERCHANT - a seller of camlet, or cloth used to make cloaks & petticoats
- CAMPANER - a bell maker
- CANDY MAN - a traveling candy salesman and also slang name for a baliff
- CANCELLARIUS - chancellor
- CANER / CHAIR BOTTOMER - made the seats for chairs out of woven cane
- CANNALLER - canal boat worker
- CANTER - religious speaker who uses cant
- CANTING CALLER - auctionéer
- CANVASER - made canvas
- CAPER - cap maker
- CAPILLAIRE MAKER - made orange flavored syrup
- CAPITALIST - investor (one's own money or after the market formed, of others' money
- CAPPER / CAP MAKER - made caps usually worn by the working class
- CAPTAIN - in charge of a ship or a group of soldiers and also term for an overseer
- CARDROOMER - term for anyone who worked in the carding room of the mills
- CARDER - cards wool
- CARDMAKER - maker of cards or instruments for combing wool
- CARMAN / CHARMAN / CARTER / CARRIER - drove a vehicle used to transport goods
- CARD NAILER / NAILORA - maintained the teeth (nails) on the carding machine used for preparing wool and cotton for weaving
- CARETAKER - one who takes care of another's property or valuables
- CARNER - granary owner or keeper
- CARNIFEX - butcher
- CARPENTARIUS - carpenter
- CARRY-IN-BOY - one who carried finished bottled (products) to the tempering oven
- CARTER - carries or conveys in or as if in a cart
- CART WHEELER - made cart wheels
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CARTOGRAPHER - map maker
- CARTOMANCER - (not exclusive to riverboats) a fortune teller who used cards
- CARTWRIGHT - maker of carts & wagons
- CASHMARIE - sold fish usually at inland markets
- CASTER / CASTORA - made small bottles used for sprinkling salt, pepper, sugar etc
- CASTRATOR - who castrated farm animals aka gelder
- CATAGMAN - cottager
- CATCHPOLE / CATCHPOLLA - sheriff's assistance or bailiff
- CATECHISTA - teacher of religion
- CATTLE JOBBER - buys and sells cattle
- CAULKER - filled up cracks (in ships or windows) or seams to make them watertight
- CEILER - puts up the ceilings in buildings
- CELLARMAN - looked after the beer, wines and spirits in public houses or the warehouse
- CEMMER - hand combed the yarn before weaving
- CHAFF CUTTER - made chaff by cutting straw
- CHAFFERER - dealer in chaff
- CHAIR BODGER - traveling chair repairman
- CHAISE MAKER - made carts from wicker
- CHALONER - dealer in shalloon, a material made in Chlons
- CHAMBERLAIN - steward to either royalty or nobility, in charge of the household
- CHAMBERMAID - female servant attending to bedrooms in houses or inns
- CHAMBER MASTER - shoemaker that worked from home as an outworker or selling direct
- CHAUNTER - street entertainer who sung ballads
- CHEESE FACTOR / CHEESEMAN / CHEESE MONGER - dealer in cheeses
- CHANDLER - candle seller, grocer, provisioner, usually associated with provisioning ships
- CHANTY MAN - sailor that led the singing of shanties on board ship
- CHAPELER- made and sold hats
- CHAPMAN / COPEMAN / PETTY CHAPMAN / CEAPMAN - dealer or peddler of goods usually itinerant going from village to village.
- CHARCOAL BURNER - made charcoal usually in the woods where the trees were cut
- CHARTMASTER - middleman that negotiated mining contracts and suppiled the labour
- CHARWOMAN - cleaning woman
- CHATELAINE - mistress of a castle or house
- CHIFFONIER - wig maker or ragpicker
- CHILDBED LINEN WAREHOUSE KEEPER / DEALER - hired bedlinen for childbirth as most children were born at home
- CHIMNEY SWEEP - chimney cleaner (as early as 1400)
- CHINGLOR - rooftiler who used wooden shingles
- CHIP - shipwright or carpenter
- CHIPPERS LABOURER - assistant to a shipwright or ships carpenter
- CHIROPODIST - treats diseases of the feet & hands
- CHIRUGION or CHIRURGEON - apothecary or surgeon (usually learned by apprenticeship)
- CHOWDER - fish monger
- CHRONOLOGIST - recorded official events of historical importance
- CINDER WENCH - female who collected the cinders from gas works and sold them door to door
- CLAKER - magician/astrologer
- CLAPMAN - town crier
- CLARK - clerk
- CLASSMAN - unemployed laborer
- CLAVIGER - servant
- CLAY CARRIER - assistant to the shot firer in the pits
- CLAYMAN / CLEYMAN - worked in the clay pits usually preparing the clay for making bricks and also one who coated the outside of buildings with clay to make them water proof
- CLERICUS - clerk
- CLERK - clergyman or cleric
- CLICKER - worked in the shoe trade cutting out the uppers made the shoelace holes and one in charge of the final stage of layout before printing in printing industry
- CLIPPER / CLIPPER ON / CLIPPER OFF - attached the coal carts to the wire or rope which was used to drag the carts to and from the coal face
- CLOD HOPPER - plowman
- CLOGGER - maker of wooden shoes
- CLOTH LAPPER - took the cloth from the carding machine readied it for the next process
- CLOTH LINTER / CLOTH PICKER - removed unwanted threads and lint from the finished material
- CLOTHIER / CLOTHESMAN / CLOTHMAN - who made or sold clothes
- CLOUTER / CLOWER - made nails also another term for a shoemaker for the former term
- COACHMAN / COACH DRIVER - drove any coach
- COAL BACKER - carried the sacks of coal from the coal barge to the coal wagons
- COAL BURNER - made charcoal
- COAL DRAWER - worked in the mines pushing or dragging the coal carts to the bottom of the pit
- COAL HEAVER - unloaded coal COALMAN / COAL MERCHANT / COAL HIGGLER - sold coal usually from a horse and cart, house to house.
- COALMETER - measured the coal
- COAL RUNNER - attended (pushed & repaired) the coal carts underground
- COAL WHIPPER - unloaded coal from ships using a simple basket crane
- COAST SURVEYOR / WAITER - customs officer who watched over the ofloading off goods on the coast
- COBBLER - bootmaker or shoemaker
- COBLEMAN - used a flat bottomed boat for fishing
- COCUS - cook
- COD PLACER - put fire proof containers which held the pottery for firing into the kiln
- COHEN - a priest
- COINER - worked at the mint stamping out coins
- COLLAR MAKER - made horse collars and one who made shirt collars
- COLLIER - coal miner, a coal merchant or one who worked on the coal barges
- COLONUS - Latin for farmer or husbandman
- COLPORTEUR - traveling Bible or religious book salesman
- COLOURATOR / COLORATORA - worked with dyes
- COLOUR MAN - a house painter's assistant and mixed the dyes in the textile trade
- COMBER or COMBERE - combs wool
- COMB MAKER - made combs either for the textile industry for combing wool etc. or the maker of hair combs
- COMPOSITOR - set the type ready for printing
- CONDER / CONNER - one who gave steering instructions to the steersman and also gave directions to inshore fisherman of fish movements on shoals (usually from the top of cliffs or rocks)
- CONEY CATCHER - rabbit catcher
- CONFECTIONER - candy maker
- CONNER - inspector or tester
- COOPER or CUPER - maker of barrels
- COPEMAN / COPER - one who deals (dishonestly) in horses, or goods (honestly)
- COPPERBEATER / COPPERBETER - coppersmith
- COPPERSMITH - one who worked with copper
- CORACLE MAKER - one who made coracles, a small round boat used for fishing
- CORDINER / CORDWAINER / CORVINER / CORVISOR - originally term used for one who worked with Cordovan (a special leather from Spain) but later term used for shoemaker
- COSTERMONGER - a seller of fruit (male)
- COSTER WIFE - a seller of fruit (female)
- COTILER - a cutler
- COUPER - one who buys & sells (later, in France, a clothier)
- COURANTEER - a journalist
- COWHERD - a cow tender, a tender of cattle or heardsman, also see goatheard
- COWKEEPER - kept one or more cows (a common source of livelihood in cities) when a cows were kept in the back yard of a house, providing milk which was sold at the front door or window, forerunner of the local dairy (see cowswain)
- COWSWAIN - a cowkeeper's helper
- COXWAIN - a ship or boat helmsman
- CRATCH MAKER - one who made cratches (mangers, cribs, or frames) for hay
- CRIER - a law court officer (a scribe), town announcer or auctionéer
- CRIMPER - member of a navy press gang (not a group of military reporters)
- CROCKER - potter or dealer in crockery
- CROFTER - a tenant of a small piece of land
- CROPPER - a tenant who is paid with a share of the crop (later, a sharecropper)
- CROSIER / CROZIER - bearer of the pastoral staff of a bishop or the bearer of the cross before the archbishop in the church
- CROWNER - a coroner
- CUHREUR (CUNREUR) - a currier
- CURER - one who cures tobacco
- CURRETTER - a broker of goods
- CURRIER - one who cures or tans hides
- CUSTOMER - a customs tax collector
- CUTLER - a knife seller or sharpener (usually a smithy)
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