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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
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