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Occupation surnames

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B is for Baker

A baker is someone who makes bread and other similar baked products, like cakes and pies. Bakers usually own or work for a bakery.

C is for Chandler

A chandler is someone who makes candles.

C is for Collier

A collier is a coal miner, or someone who works burning coal.

Another word for a coal mine is a colliery.

C is for Cooper

A cooper is someone who makes barrels.

F is for Fletcher

A fletcher is a person who makes arrows.

G is for Gardner

Gardner or Gardener is a surname taken by people who maintained someone else's garden for a living. They usually worked in the grounds of a large estate.

M is for Mason

Mason is a surname taken by someone who works with stone, for example a stonemason.

Mason is the root of the word masonry. The modern version of this profession is a bricklayer.

S is for Sawyer

A sawyer is a timber worker responsible for sawing logs into usable planks.

S is for Smith

Smith is the shortened form of blacksmith. Smiths were once one of the most common professions, as they were the ones who made metal tools and weapons.

T is for Taylor

Taylor is the surname taken by people who worked as a tailor.

T is for Thatcher

A thatcher is someone who makes roofs out of thatch - usually straw, like in the picture.

T is for Turner

Turner is the surname used by people who worked as woodturners, making wooden shapes like bowls and banister spindles on a lathe.

W is for Weaver

A weaver is someone who makes cloth or other textiles like rugs on a loom.

W is for Wright

Wright is the profession and the surname of someone who makes things from wood, particularly parts of vehicles, eg a cartwright makes carts, and a wheelwright makes wheels.