List of 8-Letter Occupations - Fancestor
Working on my own fancestors, I put together a little list of eight-letter occupations~! A lot of these are probably more suited for peasants and lowbloods, but here you go!
Working on my own fancestors, I put together a little list of eight-letter occupations~! A lot of these are probably more suited for peasants and lowbloods, but here you go!
AERONAUT - balloonist or a trapeze artist in the circus or music halls
ALDERMAN - senior councillor one position down from Mayor in the local council
APIARIAN - beekeeper
APRONMAN - mechanic
ARMOURER - made suits of armour or plates of armour for buildings or ships etc.
AVENATOR - hay and forage merchant
BACKMANN - baker
BALISTER - archer most commonly a crossbowman
BANDSTER - bound the wheat sheaves after harvest
BANKSMAN - employed in the mining industry being in charge of the cages at the pit head
BARTONER - in charge of the monastic farm, also known as a barton
BELHOSTE - tavern keeper
BIRLYMAN - in Scotland a ground officer or parish arbiter
BLEMMERE - plumber
BLOODMAN - used leeches for letting blood, this was thought to be a cure for many ailments
BOARDMAN - truant officer who checked school attendance.
BONDAGER - female worker on a farm who was bonded
BONDSMAN - stood bond or surety for another where a bond was required by law
BONIFACE - keeper of an inn
BOOTHMAN - corn merchant
BOTTILER - made leather containers for holding liquids eg wine flasks or water bottles
BOTTOMER - worked down the pits moving the ore etc to the bottom of the shaft for removal
BRABENER - weaver
BRAILLER - made girdles
BRAKEMAN - operated the braking mechanism on trains and trams
BRASILER - dyer
BREWSTER - female brewer or brewer
BROWGIRL - female employed at the pit head
BULLOCKY - attended to the daily needs of cattle
BUMMAREE - middle man between the wholesaler and the retailer at the fish markets
BURNEMAN - carrier of barm or water for brewers
BURYEMAN - grave digger
BUSHELER - tailor’s helper
CAFENDER - carpenter
CALCINER - burnt bones to make powdered lime
CALENDER - listed documents
CAMISTER - minister of the cloth
CAMPANER - bell maker
CANDYMAN - traveling candy salesman and also slang name for a baliff
CANVASER - made canvas
CARNIFEX - butcher
CATAGMAN - cottager
CHALONER - dealer in shalloon, a material
CHAUNTER - street entertainer who sung ballads
CHANDLER - candle seller, grocer, provisioner, usually associated with provisioning ships
CHAPELER - made and sold hats
CHINGLOR - rooftiler who used wooden shingles
CLASSMAN - unemployed laborer
CLAVIGER - servant
CLERICUS - clerk
CLOTHIER - who made or sold clothes
COACHMAN - drove any coach
COBLEMAN - used a flat bottomed boat for fishing
CORDINER - originally term used for one who worked with Cordovan
CORPORAL - man in charge of underground haulage hands
CUSTOMER - customs tax collector
DAIRYMAN - worker or owner of a dairy farm or seller of dairy products
DECOYMAN - employed to decoy the wild fowl, animals etc into a trap or within shooting range
DEVILLER - operated the devil, a machine that tore rags used in the textile industry
DOMESMAN - judge
DOMESTIC - household servant
DRAGOMAN - acted as interpreter or guide in Turkish or Arabic
DRAGSMAN - driver of a small stage coach or carriage used for public transport or private hire
ELLERMAN - who sold oil used for lamps and known as an oilman
ELYMAKER - oilmaker
EMBOSSER - who moulded or carved designs that were raised above the surface of the material
FAGETTER - made up faggots into bundles, seller of firewood
FALCONER - breeds, trains, or hunts with hawks
FANCYMAN - pimp
FERRETER - dealer in or manufacturer of ferret, ie. silk tape
FEWTERER - keeper of hounds, for hunting or coursing
FINISHER - operated machine giving final touches to a manufactured article in various trades
FLETCHER - arrowsmith (from French fleche).
FOOTPOST - letter carrier or messenger who travelled on foot
FORESTER - game warden or forest ranger
FORGEMAN - blacksmith or assistant (coachsmith 18th century Derbyshire)
FREEDMAN - one released from slavery
GAMESTER - gambler or prostitute
GANGSMAN - foreman
GANNEKER - tavern keeper
GARTHMAN - owner or worker of a fish trap
GATHERER - glassworker who inserted the blow iron into the molten glass ready for the blower
GAVELLER - an officer fo the Crown who granted the right to work a mine, usually female
GEOMETER - skilled in geometry
GORZEMAN - seller of gorse or broom
HANKYMAN - a travelling magician in Victorian/Edwardian England
HATCHLER - combed out or carded flax
HEADSMAN - executioner
HENCHMAN - horseman or groom
HUCKSTER - sells small wares
HUISSHER - usher or door attendant
HURRIERS - term applied to the girls who were employed as coal-drawers in the coal industry
JAPANNER - one who covers with a hard brilliant coat of any of several varnishes
JONGLEUR - traveling minstrel
KEMPSTER - wool comber
LATTENER - brass worker
LAVENDER - washer woman
LOADSMAN - ship’s pilot
MALENDER - farmer
MANCIPLE - steward
MARSHALL - horse doctor of shoesmith
MARSHMAN - paid to look after marshlands and tend the animals put to graze there for the season
MERCATOR - merchant
MERETRIX - a whore
MILESMAN - railway worker who had a length of railway track to keep in good order
MILLPECK - sharpener of mill stones
MULETEER - mule driver
MULTURER - miller
MUSICKER - musician
NEATHERD - cowherder
NEDELLER - needle maker
NIGHTMAN - one who emptied cesspits, ashpits and backyard toilets
OCCUPIER - tradesman
OUTCRIER - auctioneer
PADMAKER - made small baskets used for measuring
PALISTER - one who ensured the parks were safe and well kept
PANNIFEX - somebody who worked in the cloth trade
PARDONER - seller of indulgences
PARGETER - applied ornamental plaster to buildings
PASTELER - pastry chef
PELTERER - one who worked with animal skins
PESSONER - fish monger
PETERMAN - fisherman
PEWTERER - made pewter utensils
PIECENER - one who worked in a spinning mill, employed to piece together any threads which broke
PLEACHER - hedge layer
PREDIGER - preacher
PUBLICAN - innkeeper
QUARRIER - quarry worker
REDESMAN - was employed in maintaining mine haulage ways
REDSMITH - goldsmith
REVENUER - taxman who enforces tax laws on liquor
RIVERMAN - worker on a river boat
SCAPPLER - one who roughly shaped the stone prior to being finished by the stonemason
SCREENER - screened the ore at the mines surface
SCRIBLER - a minor or worthless author
SCUTCHER - beat the flax to soften the straw in the bundles
SCULLION - male servant who performed all the menial tasks
SEARCHER - customs man
SEEDSMAN - sower of seeds
SEDGEMAN - skilled workman who applied a type of grass which was used as an early roofing material
SEMPSTER - seamstress
SHEEPMAN - sheep herder
SHEPSTER - dressmaker
SHINGLER - A roof tiler who used wooden tiles (shingles)
SHUFFLER - yardman on the farms
SIDESMAN - one who assisted the churchwarden
SMACKMAN - worked on a sailing ship (as a sloop or cutter) used chiefly in coasting and fishing
SNOBSCAT - one who repair shoes
SPALLIER - tin worker who performs chiefly menial tasks
SPLITTER - operated a splitting machine or one who split things by hand, e.g. stone, timber etc
SPURRIER - maker of spurs
STALLMAN - keeper of a market stall
STAMPMAN - worker of an ore crushing machine
STOREMAN - one responsible for stored goods
STREAKER - one who prepared the body for burial
STRIPPER - employed in the woollen trade to remove the rubbish from the carding machines
STRINGER - made the strings for bows
SWINGLER - one who beats flax to remove woody parts



