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A husbandman in England in the medieval and early modern period was a free tenant farmer or small landowner. The social status of a husbandman was below that of a yeoman. The meaning of "husband" in this term is "master of house" rather than "married man". It has also been used to mean a practitioner of animal husbandry, or in perhaps more modern language, a rancher. For a farmer or grower in g...
A waterman is a river worker who transfers passengers across and along city centre rivers and estuaries in the United Kingdom and its colonies. Most notable are those on the River Thames and River Medway, but other rivers such as the River Tyne and River Dee, Wales also had their watermen who formed guilds in medieval times.Watermen or wherrymen were an essential part of early London. Using a s...
==Bladesmiths== Please add Geni profiles of those who practiced the craft of Bladesmithing . Profiles must be set to public. Project collaborators, please add resource information. Bladesmithing is the art of making knives, swords, daggers and other blades using a forge, hammer, anvil, and other smithing tools. Bladesmiths employ a variety of metalworking techniques similar to those used by bla...
butler is a domestic worker in a large household. In great houses, the household is sometimes divided into departments with the butler in charge of the dining room, wine cellar, and pantry. Some also have charge of the entire parlour floor, and housekeepers caring for the entire house and its appearance. A butler is usually male, and in charge of male servants, while a housekeeper is usually a ...
People (scientists, technicians, craftsmen, entrepreneurs, manufacturers...) involved in the development of microscopy. The project does not only include light microscopy. It should also include people who have been involved in the development of techniques that are important in microscopy but do not affect the microscopes themselves, such as staining methods for specimens.
=Gamblers= Please add profiles of gamblers to this project, and insert links for "notables" in the lists below. Collaborators, please expand the lists and references. Gambling is to take risky action in the hope of a desired result. Gamblers wager with money or something of value (referred to as "the stakes") on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional mo...
What do meteorologists really do? By Rachelle Oblack Updated on December 22, 2018 While most people know a meteorologist is a person who is trained in the atmospheric or weather sciences, many may not be aware that there is more to a meteorologist's job than simply forecasting the weather. A meteorologist is a person who has received a specialized education to use scientific principles to...
Please add Geni profiles with a known occupation of " domestic worker " to this project. Note that "Servant" redirects to "domestic worker" on Wikipedia. from Wikipedia A domestic worker is a person who works within the employer's household. Domestic workers perform a variety of household services for an individual or a family, from providing care for children and elderly dependents to housekee...
Perfumiers/Perfumers= A perfumer is a term used for an expert on creating perfume compositions, sometimes referred to affectionately as a Nose (French: le nez) due to their fine sense of smell and skill in producing olfactory compositions. The perfumer is effectively an artist who is trained in depth on the concepts of fragrance aesthetics and who is capable of conveying abstract concepts and m...
Crofter Brit. eng One who has the tenure of a croft, usually also the occupant and user. Swedish torpare.
Sugar Boiler - According to Bridgens, the sugar juice "is conveyed in pipes from the mill to the boiling house. . . Here it is converted through a succession of coppers. At each copper a Slave is placed to take off the scum as it rises, and when the temperature of that vessel has had its full effect, to remove it with a ladle into the next." Note the overseer/manager in the center foreground. r...
In the great age of English illustrated-book publishing, 1785–1840, the most important and least identifiable manufacturers of the illustrations were the printers of the copperplates.Printers of typographic materials were often identified in the books they printed, but the printers of the graphic were rarely identified. The two kinds of printing were done on different presses, one for printing ...
