Employment As Trusser Man

[padstow]

Looking at the 1911 Census there is a job listed as mole catcher and trusser man. What type of work did a trusser man do?

[ABerrant]

https://www.familyresearcher.co.uk/glossary/Dictionary-of-Old-Occupations-jobs-beginning-T6.html#Trusser: may be short for a Hay-Trusser who baled hay, or may refer to a person who made building trusses.

[douglas9401]

He was an assistant to an utterly incompetent female politician.

[naomi24]

Padstow, you’ve posted this question in two separate sections. Since you have a couple of answers here I’ll leave this one and remove the other.

[naomi24]

According to Google he was someone who trussed poultry with string or skewers ready for cooking.

[andy-hughes]

You'll never beat being A Sagger-Maker's Bottom Knocker as a cool job title.

People from The Potteries will know what it is.

[bhg481]

As well as anybody who watched "What's my Line" in Eamonn Andrew's day.

[andy-hughes]

Indeed bhg, but my parents got it instantly, from the mime.

[Milvus]

He was an assistant to an utterly incompetent female politician.

What, like Sturgeon?