Occupations upon Enlisting in the 41st Regiment
From a list of 519 rank and file of the 1st Battalion Casualty Returns - January 25th 1810 to April 24th 1815 (WO 25 1768)
The occupation descriptions come from a variety of internet sites. The number in parentheses represents the number of individuals out of the 519 with that occupation
Accountant (1) | A person involved in maintenance and auditing of accounts and financial matters |
Baker (5) | One who bakes bread and pastries |
Barber (2) | A men's hairdresser |
Basketmaker (2) | One who makes baskets |
Blacksmith (6) | One who shoes horses |
Brassfounder (2) | A person who cast brass |
Bricklayer (1) | One who laid bricks |
Brushmaker (2) | Someone who made brushes |
Butcher (6) | One who prepared and sold meat for cooking |
Buttermaker (1) | One who made butter |
Calico Printer (1) | One who dyed and colored calico |
Carpenter (4) | A skilled woodworker |
Carpet Weaver (1) | A person who wove carpets |
Chandler (1) | A grocer, dealer or trader; one who makes or sells candles |
Clerk (2) | A general clerical work, also can mean clergyman, cleric |
Cloth Draper (1) | A dealer in cloth or clothing and dry goods |
Clothdresser (1) | Workers in the woollen industry who had the task of cutting the cloth after it had been in the fulling mill |
Clothier (8) | A person who made or sold clothes |
Coachmaker (1) | One who made coaches |
Combmaker (1) | A person who made combs either for the textile industry for combing wool etc. or the maker of hair combs |
Cooper (2) | Someone who makes or repairs barrels or other vessels made of staves & hoops, such as casks, tubs, vats, etc. |
Coppersmith (1) | Someone who worked with copper or brass |
Cordwainer (27) | A shoemaker. Also a person who worked with Cordovan, a special soft leather from Spain |
Corkcutter (1) | A person who worked with cork |
Cottonprinter (1) | One who dyed and coloured cotton |
Cottonspinner (2) | One who worked at spinning cotton yarn |
Cutter (1) | One who cuts things |
Flintcutter (1) | One who shaped and cut flints |
Gardener (2) | Someone who looked after gardens |
Gunsmith (1) | One who made or repaired guns |
Hairdresser (2) | One who cut and styled hair |
Hosier (9) | A retailer of stockings, socks, gloves, nightcaps |
Labourer (290) | Someone who did general work, usually lifting and carrying etc. |
Mason (9) | A stone dresser or cutter |
Miller (2) | One who operated a mill; grain, cloth, timber etc. |
Miner (9) | Someone who works in a mine, digging for coal, iron, lead, tin ore, etc. |
Muslin Weaver (1) | Someone who made muslin |
Nailer (3) | One whose occupation is to make nails; a nail maker |
Papermaker (1) | Someone who worked in the paper making industry |
Plaisterer (2) | Someone who plasters walls and ceilings, or someone who worked with roman cement used in stuccoing |
Plater (1) | A skilled worker who coats articles with a film of metal (usually silver or gold), alternately a blacksmith who works with racehorses |
Plumber (1) | Someone who worked with lead, for gas and water pipes etc. One who applied sheet lead for roofing and set lead frames for plain or stained glass windows |
Potter (3) | Someone who made or sold pottery |
Printer (1) | Someone who works at or owns a printing press |
Ringcaster (1) | One who made rings |
Ropemaker (3) | Someone who makes rope |
Sawyer (2) | A carpenter, one who saws timber to boards |
Shearman (3) | Someone who sheared cloth or metal, or skilled worker who sheared the nap from cloth |
Shipwright (2) | A constructor or repairer or ships; a shipbuilder |
Shopman (1) | A person engaged in retail sale |
Silkweaver (1) | Someone who wove silk |
Sizer (1) | Someone who applies size to textiles |
Slater (1) | A roofer or roof tiler who used slate tiles |
Smith (4) | A metal worker |
Swordhiltmaker (1) | Someone who made sword hilts |
Tailor (10) | Someone who made or repaired clothes |
Tallow Chandler (1) | Someone who made or sold candles |
Tinman (1) | A tinsmith or tinker |
Turner (2) | A person who turns wood on a lathe into spindles |
Watch Chain Maker (1) | A maker of watch chains |
Weaver (50) | Someone who weaves |
Wheelwright (3) | A maker or repairer of wagon wheels, carriages |
Whitesmith (6) | A tinsmith; worker of iron who finishes or polishes the work |
Woolcomber (4) | Someone employed in the woollen mills to operate the machines that separate the fibres ready for spinning |