Lilian's Tree

No, I haven’t been playing with a Scrabble board but these would be good words to use.  So was is or are a zigarius and a zythepsarist?    According to the book ‘A Dictionary of Old Trades, Titles and Occupations.’   By Colin Waters, a zigarius is a gypsy and a zythepasarist is a brewer.  Dictionaries, like this one, are really useful in explaining old trades etc. that we know by totally different names, today.

Searching through my family tree surnames, for this letter, I found that I don't have any that start with D.  First names, ditto. Place names, ditto and I didn't want to do dog, sooooo...  Old occupations that start with D. This could be fun. Using my copy of ' A Dictionary of Old Trades, Titles and Occupations,' by Colin Waters, I delved into the letter D. Daunsel , interesting but what is it. A male servant of a gentleman. This one sounds fun! A Deplumer , feather worker who stripped of feathers or plucked the feathers. That would tickle your nose. Diker and Discifer catch my attention. Dike r is a ditch or trench digger . Discifer is a steward. This one would have been interesting to watch, a dodderer . Well it was a person employed to lop off the horns of farm animals. This one really got my attention, dragons blood dealer. No, they didn't sell dragons blood but was a dealer in resin and gums. These were just some of the interesting ones I ...