OCCUPATIONS :R
| RACK MAIDEN | girl employed in the tin mines of Cornwall to dress the ore |
| RAFFMAN | one who dealt in raff (saleable rubbish) |
| RAFF MERCHANT | seller of fibre used to make raffia bags etc |
| RAG AND BONE MAN | one who went from street to street with a cart and collected any old rubbish, usually in exchange for a small item, e.g. a block of soapstone |
| RAG CUTTER | one who cut up rags into small pieces to be used for making paper etc |
| RAG GATHERERS | employed to clear the rags from the machinery in the mills (usually children) |
| RAG MAN | one who went from street to street collecting and selling old clothes and rags |
| RAG PICKER | sorted through the left over rags to find re usable ones |
| RAKER | street sanitation worker |
| RATONER | rat catcher |
| RATTLEWATCH | town watchman |
| RECTIFIER | one who distilled alcoholic spirits |
| REDAR | interpreter of dreams |
| REDSMITH | goldsmith |
| REEDER | worked with reeds for hedging or thatching |
| REEDMAKER | made the pipe for a musical instrument or made a weavers implement (a reed) or reed cloth or the comb used in tapestry |
| REELER | operated the machine that wound the yarn onto the bobbin |
| REEVE | church warden |
| REEVER | shriever |
| REGISTRAR | official who registers events such as land purchases or births |
| RENOVATOR | one who repaired clothing |
| REVENUER | taxman who enforces tax laws on liquor |
| RICKMASTER | Captain of Horse |
| RIDDLER | wool stapler |
| RIFTERE | reaper |
| RIGGER | hoist tackle worker; works on a ship's rigging |
| RIPPER | one who sold fresh water fish at the markets or maker and seller of baskets |
| RIPPIER | one who sold fresh water fish at the markets or maker and seller of baskets |
| RIVERMAN | worker on a river boat |
| ROCKGETTER | Rock salt miner |
| ROCKMAN | worked in a quarry usually placing the charges on the rock face |
| RODMAN | surveyor's assistant |
| ROLLER COVERER | one who covered the rollers for the spinning process |
| ROLLEYWAY MAN | maintained the underground road in the mines |
| ROLL TURNER | carder of wool, cotton etc into rolls prior to spinning |
| ROMAN CEMENTER | one who worked with roman cement used in stuccoing |
| ROMAN PLASTERER | one who worked with roman cement used in stuccoing |
| ROPER | maker of rope or nets |
| ROVER | archer or operator of a machine used in cotton mills which prepared the carded fibre into rolls |
| RUBBISHER | sorted the small stones in the quarries |
| RUBBLER | sorted the small stones in the quarries |
| RUGMAN | dealer in rugs |
| RUNNER | smuggler, messenger and ironically one who worked for the magistrate best remembered as Bow Street Runners |
| RUSTLER | cattle thief |
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