Old Name	New Name or Meaning
Tabernarius	Tavern or innkeeper - from the Latin
Tabler	Boarding House keeper
Tackler	Overlooker of weaving shed workers
Taker Off / In	Unhitched coal tubs from an endless rope system - usually children
Tallow Chandler	Candle maker/seller
Tally Clerk	As today, tallied goods into and out of warehouses, ships etc.
Tallyman / Tally Fellow	1) Sold goods on instalment plan. 2) Local official who tallied the allowed number of persons in a dwelling for health reasons - usually 3 adults and four children
Tambour Worker	Worked with embroidery on a (circular) Tambour Frame
Tan Bark Stripper	Collected tree bark used for tanning leather
Tanner	Tanned (cured) animal hides for leather making. Still used. More Info.
Tanner's Beamsman	Draped part-cured skins over a Tanners Beam, a flat slab of wood or stone, to scrape off the remaining flesh, fat and hair
Taper Weaver	Made candle wicks
Tapiter / Tapicer	Weaver of figured cloth or tapestry
Tapley	Put the taps in ale casks
Tapster	Barman / woman
Tar Boy	Applied tar (antiseptic) to sheep when nicked by shearers
Tasker	Reaper
Tasseler	Made tassels for furnishings
Taverner	Innkeeper
Tawer / Tawyer	Made white leather
Teamster / Teamer / Teamer Man	Driver of a team horses used for hauling
Teemer	1) Emptied grain brought by cart 2) Poured molten steel into moulds
Teerer/Tierer/Tier Boy	Spread a fresh surface of colour on the printer's 'pad' each time he used it to print calico
Teizer	Removed slag from molten glass (18c glass industry)
Tenter / Tenterer	1) Tenterer - Someone who, after cloth was dyed, stretched it on a frame, called a "Tent" for drying . This frame was fitted with hooks known as "Tenterhooks" - about which we all know! Photo (1950) 2) The term was also used for a person who looked after or watched something. .i.e. Tip tenter - person inspecting finished shuttle tips after manufacture. (Tenter - from Tender, to tend)  More Info.
Textor	Weaver
Thacker / Thatcher	Roof thatcher, using straw or, more usually, reeds
Theemaker	Shoemaker
Thirdborough	Under-constable
Thresher	Separated chaff from grain
Throstle Spinner	Attended a spinning machine known as a Throstle, due to the noise it made, which resembled a lark, or throstle. The machine was used for the continuous spinning of cotton (or wool) simultaneously onto long rows of, perhaps 300 or 400, pirns or bobbins.  More Info.  More Info.  Drawing.
Throwster / Thrower	Textile worker attending machine which twisted together strands of fibre into yarn - cotton, silk, wool etc.
Tickneyman / woman	Travelling earthenware seller
Tide Gauger / Surveyor	Monitored the state of the tides
Tide Waiter / Tidesman	Customs inspector who boarded ship on arrival to enforce customs regulations
Tiger	Liveried pageboy / groom
Tiler	Worked with roof and floor tiles
Tiller	Farmer
Tillman	Ploughman
Timekeeper	A person responsible for making sure things happened on time e.g. worker arriving or departing, trains, coaches, omnibuses, etc.
Times Ironer	Servant who literally ironed The Times newspaper!
Timoneer	A ship's helmsman (from French, timonier)
Tinctor	Dyer
Tinker	An itinerant tin pot and pan seller, repairman / knife sharpener - also Iggler
Tinner	1) Tin miner  2) Tinsmith
Tinsmith	Worked with tin
Tinter / Teinter	Artists who tinted photographs before colour was available
Tipper	Tipped arrows etc. with metal
Tippler	Alehouse keeper - It was also the name for an outside "toilet"!! (hole in the ground!)
Tipstaff	1) Court official 2) Policeman
Tirewoman	1) Female dresser - esp. theatrical 2) Milliner 3) Hairdresser
Tixtor	Weaver
Tobacco Spinner	Made cigars
Todhunter	Employed by the parish to hunt foxes
Toe Rag	Worked in the docks as a corn porter
Toilinet Maker / Knotter	Made "toilinet" - a kind of quilting - The knotter made the knots at the edges
Toller / Tollie / Tollman / Tollgate Keeper	Collected road tolls at a Toll Gate/House
Tonsor	Barber - from Latin
Tool Helver	Tool handle maker
Topman	Seaman - worked in the "tops" (aloft) on sailing ships
Top Sawyer	Upper man in a sawpit - using a long two-man saw
Topsman	Head cattle drover
Tosher	Scratched a living by scavenging the Victorian sewers
Touch holer	Worked in gun making
Tow Card Maker	Made "tow cards" used in weaving mills
Town Chamberlain	Looked after a town's affairs
Town Crier	"Cried" public announcements and used a bell to get attention
Town Husband	Collected dues from fathers of illegitimate children of the parish for their upkeep
Townsman	Commercial traveller
Townswaiter	Customs man
Tozer	Worked in the mills "tosing" (teasing) the cloth
Trace Maker/Tracer	Worked in a draughting office, copying engineering diagrams, using tracing paper. In the days before photocopying, plans and diagrams for mining and manufacturing industries were copied by hand. It required accuracy, patience and a knack for using the pen without producing ink blots
Trammer	Young mineworker
Trampler	Lawyer
Tranqueter	Made barrel hoops
Translator	In the shoe trade - a person who translates or remakes old shoe parts into a new shoe. i.e. a cobbler
Tranter	Peddler, often hiring himself out with his horse and cart
Trapper	Opened and shut doors for miners
Traveller	1) A Gypsy   2) Travelling salesman
Travers	Toll bridge collector
Treen Maker	Made wooden domestic goods
Treenail Maker	Made "treenails" - long wooden pins used in shipbuilding
Trencher Maker	Made wooden "trenchers" - platters for serving or cutting food
Trencherman	Cook
Trimmer	1) Ship's crewman who trimmed coal in ship's bunkers 2) Dockworker who trimmed grain or bulk cargo in ship's hold to spread it out evenly
Troacher	Peddler
Troner	Official weigher in markets
Trouchman / Truchman	Interpreter
Trouncer	Drayman's assistant (Brewers)
Trover	Smuggler
Truchman	Interpreter
Trugger / Trug maker	Made "trugs" - shallow baskets
Trusser	Hay baler - made up hay trusses
Tubber	Made tubs and barrels - a cooper
Tubedrawer	Made tubes
Tubman	1) English barrister 2) Court official 3) Filled tubs in a coalmine
Tucker	Cleaned cloth goods
Tucker-in	Chambermaid who tucked in the bed-clothing
Turncock	Worked for the local water company, opening and closing the water supply. He also had to inform householders that their water was being turned off.
Turner	1) Lathe worker 2) Gymnast esp. street performers
Turnkey	Jailer
Turning Boy	Weaver's assistant - turned the loom bar
Turnpike Keeper	Collected road tolls
Turnspit	Boy who turned the spit handle, roasting meat. (Medieval)
Tweeny / Tweenie	Maid employed "between the stairs" assisting cook and housemaids
Twiller	Produced a raised diagonal rib appearance in fabric
Twist Hand	Used a lace-making machine
Twister / Twisterer	Worked a machine twisting the yarns or threads Ring Frame Twister
Tyresmith	Blacksmith who specilised in making the iron bands (tyres) around wooden cart wheels before the introduction of rubber, later pneumatic tyres.