Weaving and Spinning Mills

[sallyyorks]

A picture from 1862 showing mill workers in Manchester . With descriptions of occupations at bottom of image

[kathyw75]

I came across 2 other words for the occupation I know as fuller.

It seems to have been tucker in the south west. Not actually a family member, but related to some other reseach I was doing, William Hayne was master of the Gild of Weavers, Tuckers and Shearmen of Exeter in 1625, having joined the guild in 1606. And he was a tucker.

According to the National Instirute for Genealogical Studies, the word fuller was used in the south and east of England, and wa(u)lker in the west and north.

[Maiden Stone]

I noticed "tuck mills" on Griffiths' Valuation in mid-19thC Ireland. I looked up the meaning as it was the first time I'd encountered the term. I associated tuck with food and assumed they were mills for grain.
Waulking is a word used in Scotland.  Capercaillie had a hit with "Skye Waulking Song".