OCCUPATIONS :T
| TABLER | boarding house operator |
| TACKLER | an over-looker of power loom weavers |
| TACKSMAN | middleman who leased a large piece of land from the owner and sublet it in small lots |
| TAILOR | one who made or repaired clothes |
| TALLOW CHANDLER | made or sold candles |
| TALLY CLERK | kept count of goods arriving or departing from warehouses, docks etc |
| TALLYFELLOW | one who sold goods that were paid for in instalments |
| TALLYMAN | one who sold goods that were paid for in instalments |
| TAN BARK STRIPPER | collected the bark that was used in the tanning process |
| TANNER | leather maker |
| TAPER WEAVER | one who made the wicks for candles |
| TAPICER | one who wove worsted cloth |
| TAPITER | one who wove worsted cloth |
| TAPLEY | One who puts the tap in an ale cask |
| TAPPIOLOGIST | someone who taps the wheels of trains to check for cracks and flaws |
| TAPSTER | bartender or barmaid |
| TAR BOY | applied tar (as antiseptic) to sheep when they were nicked by shearers |
| TASKER | reaper |
| TASSELER | one who made tassels used in furnishings or nobleman |
| TAVERNER | innkeeper |
| TAWER | white leather maker |
| TAWYER | white leather maker |
| TEAMER | person in charge of a team of horses |
| TEAMER MAN | person in charge of a team of horses |
| TEAMSTER | person in charge of a team of horses |
| TEASER | one who opens up matted wool for carding |
| TEEMER | person who emptied grain from the cart or who poured the molten steel into the moulds |
| TEINTER | artists who performs tinting |
| TENTER | one who stretched the cloth on a machine while it was drying or looked after and maintained the machine used in the process |
| TENTERER | one who stretched the cloth on a machine while it was drying or looked after and maintained the machine used in the process |
| TEXTOR | weaver |
| THACKER | thatcher |
| THATCHER | one who covered roofs with straw or reeds |
| THIRDBOROUGH | an under-constable |
| THRESHER | one who separated the grain from the husks and straw |
| THROWSTER | one in the textile trade who twisted the strands of fibre together into yarn |
| TICKET WRITER | person (usually female) who hand wrote or painted the price tickets on goods displayed for sale and painted the signs that go up to make a window display |
| TICKNEY MAN | sold earthenware from town to town |
| TICKNEY WOMAN | sold earthenware from town to town |
| TIDE GAUGER | monitored the state of the tide |
| TIDESMAN | customs official |
| TIDE SURVEYOR | monitored the state of the tide |
| TIDE WAITER | customs official |
| TIEMAKER | one who made wooden railway ties |
| TIGER | small groom or pageboy in livery |
| TILER | one who put tiles in place either on the roof or floor |
| TILLER | farmer |
| TILLMAN | ploughman |
| TIMES IRONER | servant responsible for ironing the daily newspaper |
| TINCTOR | dyer |
| TINKER | travelling repairman |
| TINNER | tin miner, tinsmith |
| TINTER | artists who performs tinting |
| TIPPER | one who put the metal tips on arrows etc |
| TIPPLER | kept an ale house |
| TIPSTAFF | policeman |
| TIREWOMAN | female dresser, especially in the theatre |
| TIXTOR | weaver |
| TOBACCO SPINNER | maker of cigars |
| TODHUNTER | employed by the parish to hunt foxes |
| TOE RAG | who worked at the docks as a corn porter |
| TOILINET MANUFACTURER | made toilinet (a kind of quilting) |
| TOLLER | worked at the toll gate to collect fees for use of the road |
| TOLLGATE KEEPER | worked at the toll gate to collect fees for use of the road |
| TOLLIE | worked at the toll gate to collect fees for use of the road |
| TOLMAN | worked at the toll gate to collect fees for use of the road |
| TONSOR | Latin for barber |
| TOOL HELVER | made tool handles |
| TOPMAN | sailor who works in the ship's rigging |
| TOP SAWYER | upper man in a saw pit |
| TOPSMAN | head cattle drover |
| TOUCH HOLER | one who worked in the gun manufacturing industry |
| TOW CARD MAKER | one who made tow cards, used in the textile industry |
| TOWN CHABERLAIN | one who looked after the towns affairs |
| TOWN CRIER | one who made public announcements in the streets |
| TOWN HUSBAND | employed by the parish to collect the money from the fathers of illegitimate children for their upkeep |
| TOWNSWAITER | customs man |
| TOZER | worked in the wool mills employed to tose or tease the cloth |
| TRAMMER | young person who worked in the mines |
| TRAMPLER | lawyer |
| TRANQUETER | person who made hoops |
| TRANTER | peddler |
| TRAPPER | employed in the mines to open and shut the doors for the miners |
| TRAVERS | toll bridge collection |
| TREENAIL MAKER | one who made the long wooden pins used in shipbuilding |
| TREEN MAKER | made domestic articles from wood |
| TRENCHERMAKER | made wooden boards or platters for serving food from or cutting and slicing food on |
| TRENCHERMAN | cook |
| TREPANGER | one who used a circular saw to cut timber |
| TRIMMER | trims a ship by re-arranging its cargo |
| TROACHER | pedlar |
| TRONER | weighing official at the markets |
| TROTMAN | messenger |
| TROTT | messenger |
| TROTTER | messenger |
| TROUCHMAN | interpreter |
| TROVER | smuggler |
| TRUCHMAN | interpreter |
| TRUGGER | one who made long shallow baskets |
| TUBBER | one who made tubs and barrels ie a cooper |
| TUBMAN | English barrister |
| TUCKER | cleaner of cloth goods |
| TUCKER IN | maid who attended the bedroom and "tucked in the bedclothes" |
| TURNER | gymnast, lathe worker |
| TURNKEY | prison warder or jail keeper |
| TURNPIKE KEEPER | worked at the toll gate to collect fees for use of the road |
| TURNSPIT | one who operated the spit handle |
| TWEENIE | maid who worked "between the stairs" she assisted the cooks and the housemaids |
| TWEENY | maid who worked "between the stairs" she assisted the cooks and the housemaids |
| TWISTER | one who operated the machine used for twisting yarns and threads together |
| TWISTERER | one who operated the machine used for twisting yarns and threads together |
| TWIST HAND | one who operated a lace machine |
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