APPENDIX: OCCUPATIONS OF MARRIED COUPLES APPEARING AS WITNESSES IN THE CHURCH COURTS, 1567-1726

bgcolor=white>London

Year	Jurisdiction	Husband's occupation	Wife's occupation	Husband's worth
Related Occupations
1641	Chester	sells ale	sells ale with her husband
1687	London	fruiterer	sells fruit and chandlery
			ware
1687	London	glover	makes gloves
1687	London	porter	she and her husband carry tubs and other such hard labour	very little
1705	London	keeps a victualling house and chandlers shop	keeps a victualling house and chandlers shop
1713	London	drover	sometimes droving, some­times nurse keeping
1714	London	victualler	victualling
1716	London	staymaker	assists her husband as a staymaker
1719	London	velvet cap maker	cap making
1720	baker	�she is a baker by trade'
1723	London	watchmaker / keeps a wax chandlers shop	keeps a wax chandlers shop with her husband
1724	London	victualler (formerly a	keeps a public house

clothworker)

Unrelated Occupations

1567	Canterbury	tailor / featherbed maker	spinning and carding	more than 20s, less than 40s
1588	London	poulterer	dry nurse
1595	Canterbury	labourer	knits	3s 4d
1607	Canterbury	butcher	victualling and selling beer
1611	London	labourer	milk wife
1614	London	bricklayer	keeps women in childbed
1616	Canterbury	farrier	spinster
1617	Chichester	clerk	teaches children to sew
1621	London	chandler / chops marrow bones (described by his	sells fish and other things as the season affords	worth little

wife as a yeoman)

Year	Jurisdiction	Husband's Occupation	Wife's occupation	Husband's worth
1621	London	chandler	nurses children and â€?other work'	£10
1623	London	harness maker	servant
1623	York	gentleman	household servant	£20
1624	London	gentleman	starches bands to shops
1625	Canterbury	blacksmith / labourer	labourer
1625	London	shoemaker	midwife
1628	Canterbury	shoemaker	helps to wash for other folks
1629	Canterbury	wheelwright	midwife
1631	Salisbury	day labourer	servant
1633	Canterbury	husbandman	nurse
1637	London	needle maker	keeps women in childbed	£6 or £7
1637	London	marking stone / whetstone seller	carries water	nothing besides household stuff
1641	Chester	labourer	nurse	is poor
1666	Chester	soldier	baking and selling pies and puddings	is poor
1669	London	sailor (in prison for debt)	silk winding
1671	London	butcher	attends women who lie in
1676	London	labourer	carries milk
1680	London	mariner	nurse keeping / silk winding
1688	London	carpenter	washing / scouring
1688	London	dyer	servant
1688	London	horner	midwife
1688	London	fringe weaver	keeps a herb stall
1688	London	shoemaker	embroidery
1688	London	painter	embroidery
1697	London	husbandman	sells milk
1697	London	drover	buying and selling old clothes
1700	London	house carpenter	keeps a victualling house
1702	London	sailor	silk winding
1703	London	cowkeeper	nurses children / winds silk
1703	London	mariner	journeywoman carrying tobacco pipes
1704	London	labourer	milk woman
1704	London	porter	sells butter, eggs and other

things

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Year	Jurisdiction	Husband's occupation	Husband's worth
1705	London	vintner	makes mantuas and children's coats
1705	London	haberdasher	servant
1708	London	gardener	keeps a public house		£100
1708	London	gardener / lets houses	sometimes takes in chil­dren to nurse		£40
1709	London	seaman	innkeeping / threadwork
1709	London	tailor	washer woman
1710	London	shoemaker	any employment of wash­ing / scouring or the like		not worth 5s his debts paid
1710	London	shoemaker	sometimes spins
1710	London	staymaker	nurse keeping
1710	London	gentleman	mantuamaker
1710	London	broadsilk weaver	petty chapwoman
1712	London	gentleman / pensioner to Chelsea / formerly stage door keeper to Drury Lane playhouse	nurse keeping and taking in clothes to wash
1713	London	tinman	keeps a public house
1713	London	mariner	silk winding
1713	London	mason	servant
1713	London	joiner	servant
1713	London	mariner	servant
1714	London	baker / works on board ship at the Customs House	makes scarves and mantuas
1715	London	mariner	sells fruit
1716	London	broker	nurse keeping and taking in children to nurse
1716	London	shoemaker	starcher
1716	London	hostler	washes gentlewomen's linen and plain work
1716	London	grocer	plainwork / starching
1719	London	gentleman/horseguards- man	cap making
1720	London	carpenter	sells fruit and greens
1720	London	mathematical instrument maker	nurse keeping
1720	London	glass grinder	mantuamaker		£200
1720	London	coachman	keeps a chandlers shop
1724	London	shoemaker / leather cutter	looks after a child
1724	London	butcher	nurse keeping / sells fruit
Year	Jurisdiction	Husband's occupation	Wife's occupation	Husband's worth
1724	London	porter	keeps a chandlers shop/ washes clothes
1726	London	silversmith	mantuamaker
1726	London	yeoman	book selling

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