Differing Responses to an Industrialising Economy - eTheses ...

Transport:
Male: railway worker, toll-collector, tollgate-keeper, turnpike-gatekeeper, roadman,
carrier, letter-carrier, postman, postboy, messenger, warehouseman, boatman, canal
employee, coach-keeper,
Female: (letter-) carrier, tollgate-keeper.
The terms ‘wagoner’ or ‘coachman’ can imply a farm worker or a domestic servant
respectively, but sometimes indicates an independent carrier or coach-driver.
Marketing, dealing, retailing, food and drink:
Male: innkeeper, innholder, victualler, beerhousekeeper, shopkeeper, hawker, higgler,
pedlar, dealer, factor, coal dealer, milkman, butcher, fishmonger, greengrocer, fruiterer,
wine and spirit merchant, vintner, grocer, tobacconist, miller, corn-dealer, flour-dealer,
baker, confectioner, maltster, brewer, draper, mercer, haberdasher, haberdasher of hats,
salter, earthenware dealer, glass-dealer, provision dealer.
Female: innkeeper, shopkeeper, grocer, charwoman, laundress.
The term ‘loader’ is used to mean an assistant in a corn-mill. From the 1780s the
term ‘mealman’ comes in as an alternative description for a miller, perhaps implying a
dealer in meal. The nineteenth century ‘outrider’ appears to mean a commercial traveller,
while ‘tradesman’ may sometimes be used with this same meaning or to mean ‘dealer’.
‘Waterman’ in Redditch in the 1770s perhaps means a supplier of water rather than a
boatman.
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