In the 1500's what jobs did they have?

Answer 1

The vast majority of people would have been peasants/serfs so they would have got very little pay, and as such had very little disposable income. In towns you would have got some free-men who were able to work for their own money.

There wasn't that much difference in the jobs people did since pre-roman times right until the beginnings of the agricultural revolution. Most people would have been involved in to gathering /production of raw materials (like food) although there was a surprising amount of labour intensive industries, the major one probably being the textile trade, so growing flax (for linen) or keeping sheep was very important.

To help support people/industries there would have been potteries, and foundries (purify/process ores to make metals. the metal for swords and horseshoes came from somewhere!). It was found recently that Saxon metalworking was about the same quality/quantity as that of 16 C England. Many of the metal extraction/processing sites would have been in fairly inhospitable places like the Pennines/Wales/Lake District. MOST of these sites would have been small, and today there's usually very little physical evidence of them being there.

Stone would also have been extracted by quarry men. Stone masons would have been needed to dress/finish the stone.

In areas where there were thatched cottages (majority of places, stone simply being too costly for the common man) you would have got thatchers.

Most jobs were highly specialised, and covered a tiny part of what there modern equivalents are. There would have been "jobs" only for highly skilled people - such as bakers, leatherworkers, blacksmiths, carpenters, armorers, bowyers, fletchers, swordsmiths, shieldwrights, wainwrights, cobblers, weavers, millers, priests, tax collectors, and probably some manner of fortune tellers/sages. We can also include the minstrels or trubadours who got paid by telling stories with the use of music. Very few jack of all trades.

The exceptions would have been the growing of food (most people would have had a strip of land for growing the majority of their food, with little surplus), and blacksmiths or farriers(a blacksmith who concentrates on "stuff" for horses)

Carters or porters would have been the lorry drivers of the time.

Coastal regions might have had some fishing boats, and in larger ports, merchants..

A few people would be able to work as tutors to the children of the rich and powerful.

Answer 2

there are loads of women's job that you can find by just googling it, but I'm still can't find ANYTHING about male jobs in the 16th century.

Answer 3

CAPTAIN, CHEF, LOOKOUT, PHYSICAN, AND SAILOR

Answer 4

A clothes Maker

Answer 5

Farmers