Occupations
      Of Our Colonial Ancestors

Occupations Beginning With The Letter   ~   Q

Quack According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a vendor of nostrums.
Quack-salver According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a mountebank, a seller of salves.
Quarrel-picker A glazier; one engaged in the manufacture of glass, a glass-maker; one whose trade it is to glaze windows. According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this name came about as a result of the small squares in casements being named: carreux, which were vulgarly called quarrels.
Quarrier One who quarries stone; a quarryman.
Quarriour A variation in the spelling of the name: quarrier.
Quarryer A variation in the spelling of the name: quarrier.
Quarryman One employed in quarrying; onw who works in a quarry.
Quarterman According to The Sailor's Word-Book, published in 1867 by William Henry Smyth, this was a name for a "dockyard officer employed to superintend a certain number of workmen."
Quarter-master According to The Sailor's Word-Book, published in 1867 by William Henry Smyth, this was a name for a "petty officer appointed to assist the master and mates in their several duties, as stowing the hold, coiling cables, attending the binnacle and steerage, keeping time by the watch-glasses, assisting in hoisting the signals, and keeping his eye on general quarter-deck movements."
Quarter-master General According to The Sailor's Word-Book, published in 1867 by William Henry Smyth, this was a name for the "head of that department of the army which has charge of the quartering, encamping, embarking, and moving of troops, and of the supply of stores connected therewith."
Quaryere A variation in the spelling of the name: quarrier.
Queen A (king's) wife or consort; a lady who is wife to a king. Also, a woman who is the chief ruler of a state, having the same rank and position as a king.
Queene A variation in the spelling of the name: queen.
Queer bit-maker According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a coiner (a maker of money).
Queer cole-maker According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a maker of bad money.
Queer-cuffin According to the 1811 Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose, this was a name for a justice of the peace or a churl.
Quein A variation in the spelling of the name: queen.
Queine A variation in the spelling of the name: queen.
Quen A variation in the spelling of the name: queen.
Quene A variation in the spelling of the name: queen.
Quereour A variation in the spelling of the name: quarrier.
Querrour A variation in the spelling of the name: quarrier.
Queyn A variation in the spelling of the name: queen.
Queyne A variation in the spelling of the name: queen.
Quiene A variation in the spelling of the name: queen.
Quill-driver One who works with a quill or pen; a clerk or author.
Quiller One who quills material, esp. into the form of a ruff. In this case the word quills refers to: to form into small cylindrical plaits or folds resembling a quill.
Quilter A person who quilts.
Quuen A variation in the spelling of the name: queen.
Quyene A variation in the spelling of the name: queen.
Quyltemaker One who made quilted padding which was used underneath a knight's armour. This name comes from Cock Lorel's Bote, a book of anonymous satirical verse published in 1510.
Qvene A variation in the spelling of the name: queen.
Qwen A variation in the spelling of the name: queen.
Qwene A variation in the spelling of the name: queen.
Qwhene A variation in the spelling of the name: queen.