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Name Term description
NameH.L.W. Term description

Handloom weaver

NameHaberdasher Term description

A person who sells small sewing goods, threads, buttons etc.

NameHackler/heckler Term description

A person who carries out the early stages of preparing raw fibre (for example Jute and flax) for spinning. Hackle-pins and fluted rollers were used to comb and soften the fibre and, in the case of jute, an emulsion of oil and water (whale oil until the late 19th century) was applied to assist the process.

NameHackney-coachman Term description

One who drives a hackney coach or coach for hire

NameHair merchant Term description

One who deals in hair

NameHair-dresser Term description

One who arranges hair

NameHalf-timer/ht scholar Term description

A child who spends half the day in factory school and the other half working in the factory. Dundee was the last city in Scotland to abolish half-time working, in 1918.

NameHammerman Term description

A person who operates a hammer for example In a blacksmith's, or shipyard, or a steam hammer in a foundry

NameHarnessmaker Term description

One who makes leather harness for horses, oxen, etc.

NameHat maker Term description

One who makes hats and other headgear

NameHat manufacturer Term description

One who makes hats and other headgear

NameHatmaker Term description

One who makes hats and other headgear

NameHatter Term description

One who makes hats and other headgear

NameHawker Term description

A person who goes round houses or streets selling their wares

NameHead miller Term description

One who works at a mill

NameHeckilmaker/hecklemaker Term description

Flax-comb maker

NameHeelmaker Term description

One who makes separate heels for fitting to shoes

NameHeilmaker Term description

One who makes separate heels for fitting to shoes

NameHerald Term description

Royal messenger, later member of Lyon Court

NameHerald-painter Term description

One who paints heraldic shields, scrivener

NameHerd Term description

One who tends to herd of animals

NameHeritor Term description

Landowner/property owner with liability for financial contributions to parish burdens, for example the upkeep of the parish church, school, the poor and the wages of the schoolteacher and stipend of the minister

NameHind Term description

A married farm servant, for example a skilled ploughman with his own cottage, who worked on the land with his wife and family

NameHird Term description

One who tends to herd of animals

NameHirer Term description

One who arranges the provision of servants, animals, vehicles, etc., in return for money