OCCUPATIONS :P
| PACKER | packs goods such as pickles or herring |
| PACKMAN | travelled around carrying goods for sale in a pack |
| PACK THREAD SPINNER | operator of the machine which made thread or twine |
| PAD MAKER | made small baskets used for measuring |
| PAGE | youth being trained for the medieval rank of knight and in the personal service of a knight or attendant upon someone of rank in the medieval period |
| PAINTRESS | woman employed in the pottery industry to hand paint the finished articles |
| PALING MAN | seller of eels |
| PALISTER | one who ensured the parks were safe and well kept |
| PALMER | one who had been, or pretended to have been, to the Holy Land |
| PANNIER MAN | fish monger |
| PANNIFEX | somebody who worked in the cloth trade |
| PANTER | keeper of the pantry |
| PANTLER | butler |
| PAPERER | inserted the needles into the paper ready for sale in the needle-making trade |
| PAPER-STAINER | one who made wallpaper |
| PARDONER | seller of indulgences |
| PARFUMIER | manufacturer and purveyor of scents such as perfumes, colognes and even incense |
| PARGETER | applied ornamental plaster to buildings |
| PARITOR | church officer who attended the magistrates and justices at court for the purpose of executing their orders |
| PARKER | park caretaker |
| PASSAGE KEEPER | kept passages and alleys clean |
| PASTELER | pastry chef |
| PASTOR | shepherd |
| PATTEN MAKER | clog maker or the person who made wooden soles (pattens) to fit under normal shoes to protect from wet and muddy ground |
| PAVER / PAVIOUR | laid paving stones |
| PAVYLER | put up pavilions or tents etc |
| PEDASCULE | schoolmaster |
| PEELER | policeman, constable, bobby (from Sir Robert Peel founder of the police force) |
| PELTERER | one who worked with animal skins |
| PERAMBULATOR | surveyor |
| PERCHEMEAR | one who made parchment |
| PEREGRINATOR | itinerant wanderer |
| PERFUMER | manufacturer and purveyor of scents such as perfumes, colognes and even incense |
| PERUKER | wigmaker |
| PESSONER | fish monger |
| PETERMAN | fisherman |
| PETTIFOGGER | shyster lawyer |
| PETTY CHAPMAN | itinerant dealer in small goods, a pedlar |
| PEWTERER | made pewter utensils (using any of various alloys having tin as chief component especially a dull alloy with lead) |
| PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENT MAKER | one who made scientific instruments |
| PHRENOLOGIST | diviner of a person's character based on the bumps on a person's head |
| PICKER | one who cast the shuttle on a loom |
| PIECENER | one who worked in a spinning mill, employed to piece together any threads which broke (usually a child or woman) |
| PIECER | one who worked in a spinning mill, employed to piece together any threads which broke (usually a child or woman) |
| PIGMAN | one who sold crockery or bred or looked after pigs on the farm |
| PIKELET MAKER | baker who specialised in making pikelets (a small pancake or crumpet) |
| PIKEMAN | miller's assistant |
| PIKER | tramp or vagrant |
| PILLER | robber |
| PILOT | ship steersman |
| PINDER | dog catcher |
| PINER | labourer |
| PINNER | pin make |
| PINNER UP | dressmakers assistant or one who sold broadsheets or ballards in the streets |
| PINSETTER | one who manually set up bowling pins before the advent of automated pinsetting machines |
| PIPER | innkeeper |
| PIRN WINDER | wound the yarn onto large wheel like bobbins which were then ready to feed the looms in a cotton mill |
| PISTOR | baker |
| PIT BROW LASS | female worker who worked on the surface of the mines |
| PITMAN | coal miner |
| PLAICHER | hedge layer |
| PLAIN WORKER | performed plain sewing or needlework as opposed to an embroiderer |
| PLAITER | maker of straw plaits used in making hats etc |
| PLANKER | one who planks or kneads the body of the hat during felting |
| PLANTIFENE | hay and forage merchant |
| PLASHER | hedge layer |
| PLATCHER | hedge layer |
| PLATELAYER | men who laid and maintained the railway tracks in Britain and the word actually predates railways being derived from the very old "plateways" which existed hundreds of years ago, mainly for moving coal |
| PLAYDERER | one who made plaid |
| PLEACHER | hedge layer |
| PLOUGHMAN | farmer |
| PLOUGHWRIGHT | maker or repairer of ploughs |
| PLUMASSIER | made or sold plumes, ornamental feathers |
| PLUMBUM WORKER | plumber |
| PLUMER | made or sold plumes, ornamental feathers |
| POINTER | sharpened needles or pins or lace maker |
| POINTMAKER | made the tips of laces |
| POINTMAN | made the tips of laces |
| POINTSMAN | railway worker who operated the points, used to change the line on which the train was travelling |
| POLDAVE WORKER | made poldave, a coarse fabric |
| POLEMAN | surveyor's assistant |
| POLENTIER | poulterer |
| POLLER | barber |
| PONDERATOR | inspector of weights and measures |
| PORTABLE SOUP MAKER | converted soup into a dry form for transporting from place to place |
| PORTER | door or gatekeeper |
| POST BOY | carried mail from town to town, guard who travelled on the mail coach or outrider who travelled with the stagecoach as a postillion |
| POSTER | one who worked in the quarries breaking rocks |
| POSTILLION | attacher of extra horses to wagons & coaches to help them up hills |
| POTATO BADGER | seller of potatoes |
| POT MAN | one who worked in public houses washing and removing dirty pots also did other menial tasks |
| POTTER | maker or seller of pottery |
| POTTER CARRIER | chemist or pharmacist |
| POTTER THROWER | potter who used a wheel and therefore had to throw the clay |
| POULTER | seller of poultry |
| POWER LOOM TUNER | one who maintained the loom in mills |
| POWLER | barber |
| PRECEPTRESS | school mistress |
| PRENTIS | apprentice |
| PRICKER | used a type of wire brush to make small holes inside ceramic sewer pipe to prevent spalling during firing |
| PRICKER | witch hunter, pattern maker or a horseman |
| PRICK LOUISE | tailor |
| PRIG NAPPER | horse thief |
| PROCTOR | official of a university |
| PROP BOBBY | worked in mines checking the pit props |
| PROTHONARY | law clerk |
| PUBLICAN | innkeeper |
| PUDDLER | worked clay into puddle, worked with puddle to make things water tight eg canal walls or worked in puddling iron |
| PUGGARD | thief |
| PUGGER | produce clay paste by treading like grapes, usually women and children in brick manufacturing |
| PUG MILL OPERATOR | operated a machine for mixing clay and water, which then exuded a "pug" (a cylinder of clay of any diameter and indefinite length) |
| PUNKY | chimney sweep |
| PUREFINDER | old women and young girls who went about the streets gathering dog droppings which were used for tanning leather |
| PURSER | ship's officer in charge of provisions & accounts |
| PUTTER IN | put things in to some form of mechanised process |
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