OCCUPATIONS :W
| WABSTER | weaver |
| WADSETTER | under Scottish law a creditor to whom a wadset is made; a wadset is a right, by which lands, or other heritable subjects, are impignorated by the proprietor to his creditor in security of his debt |
| WAGONER | wagon or cart driver |
| WAILER | one employed in the mines to remove the impurities from the coal |
| WAINWRIGHT | builder or repairer of wagons |
| WAIT | night watchman |
| WAKEMAN | night watchman |
| WALKER | cloth worker |
| WALLER | one who built walls either brick or dry stone, also a person who worked making coarse salt |
| WANTCATCHER | mole catcher |
| WANTER | mole catcher |
| WARDER |
in charge of prisoners |
| WAREHOUSEMAN | in charge of or employee in a warehouse |
| WARPER | set the warp thread on the looms or employed to move boats by hauling on the warps (the ropes attached to the boats) |
| WARRENER | in charge of a portion of land used for breeding rabbits and other small game |
| WASHMAN | tin coater |
| WASTEMAN | checked the old workings for gas and maintaining them in the mines or employed to remove waste |
| WATCH FINISHER | assembled watches and clocks |
| WATCHMAN | town official who guarded the streets at night |
| WATER BAILIFF | official in charge of the fishing rights on a stretch of water |
| WATER CARRIER | carted and sold fresh water |
| WATER GILDER | trapped water fowl |
| WATER LEADER | transported and sold fresh drinking water |
| WATER LEDER | transported and sold fresh drinking water |
| WATER LODER | transported and sold fresh drinking water |
| WATERMAN | worked with or on boats usually on rivers |
| WATTLE HURDLE MAKER | made a type of fence from wattle to keep the sheep in |
| WAULKMILLER | cloth worker |
| WAY-MAKER | employed to make roads |
| WAY MAN | surveyor of roads |
| WEATHERSPY | astrologer |
| WEBBER | weaver (originally a female weaver) |
| WEBSTER | weaver (originally a female weaver) |
| WEIGHER | worked on the docks to weigh the cargo as it was unloaded |
| WELLMASTER | one in charge of the local well with the responsibility of ensuring clean water for the village |
| WELL SINKER | dug wells |
| WELL WRIGHT | made the winding equipment used to raise the bucket in the well |
| WET GLOVER | made leather gloves |
| WET NURSE | woman employed to suckle the child of another (common practice with the rich) |
| WETTER | dampened paper during the printing process or in the glass industry who detached the glass by wetting |
| WHACKER | horse or oxen team driver |
| WHARFINGER | owner of a wharf |
| WHEELER | wheel maker, attended to the spinning wheel in the textile industry and one who led the pit ponies that pulled the tubs underground in the mines |
| WHEEL TAPPER | railway worker who checked for cracked wheels by striking them with a long handled hammer and listening for a clear ring |
| WHEELWRIGHT | maker or repairer of wagon wheels |
| WHEERYMAN | in charge of a wheery (a small light rowing boat) |
| WHIG | horse driver (Scottish term) |
| WHIPCORD MAKER | made whips |
| WHIPMAKER | made whips |
| WHIPPERIN | managed the hounds in a hunt |
| WHITEAR | hide cleaner |
| WHITE LIMER | plastered walls using lime and water plaster |
| WHITENER | one who bleached cloth |
| WHITENING ROLL MAKER | made the whitening used in whitening walls of cottages |
| WHITE SMITH | tin smith |
| WHITESTER | one who bleached cloth |
| WHITEWING | Street sweeper |
| WHITSTER | one who bleached cloth |
| WHITTAWER | preparer of white leather |
| WHITTAWER | one who made saddles and harness |
| WILLOW PLAITER | one who made baskets etc |
| WILLOW WEAVER | one who made baskets etc |
| WINDSTER | silk winder |
| WOODBREAKER | one who made wooden water casks |
| WOODRANGER | in charge of the forest or woods |
| WOOD REEVE | in charge of the forest or woods |
| WOODWARD | in charge of the forest or woods |
| WOOLCOMBER | operated machines that separate the fibres ready for spinning in woollen industry |
| WOOL DRIVER | one who brought the wool to market |
| WOOLLEN BILLY PIECER | worked in the woollen mills to piece together the broken yarns |
| WOOL FACTOR | wool merchants agent |
| WOOL MAN | one who sorted the wool into different grades |
| WOOL SORTER | one who sorted the wool into different grades |
| WOOL STAPLER | one who sorted the wool into different grades |
| WOOLSTED MAN | a seller of woollen cloth (from worsted man) |
| WOOL WINDER | one who made up balls of wool for selling |
| WORSTED MANUFACTURER | one who made worsted |
| WORSTED SHEARMAN | one who made worsted |
| WRIGHT | maker or repairer of wagon wheels |
| WYRTH | labourer |
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