A continuation of writing by dice; Servants and tradesmen and naming extraneous characters.

I was asked about extending the personality traits from the table for main characters to those who are more 'throwaway' characters, so here they are.

And underneath, a quick table for first names by social class. 

Servants personality traits

Can also be used for labourers and innkeepers

	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	loyal	top-lofty	dirty	skilful	vulgar	plain
2	venal	sporting	efficient	inept	pugnacious	attractive
3	snivelling	flirtatious	clever	curious	quiet	reader
4	resentful	helpful	dim	incurious	inoffensive	religious
5	radical	unhelpful	pleasant	nosy	shy	gambler
6	conservative	fastidious	Surly	sly	bold	nervous

Honesty level

Note; someone with the trait ‘loyal’ would be less likely to betray whoever they are loyal to, whatever their level of honesty

2. thief
3. pathological liar
4. tells lies to escape trouble
5. would keep incorrect change if too much and would take vail to undertake even underhand measures

6. would only take a vail to do something not likely to harm anyone
7. as honest as most people, would not cheat a tradesman but would buy smuggled goods
8. As 7
9. personally truthful and honest but would not betray a fellow servant who was less scrupulous.
10. personally honest, and truthful except in the matter of being tactful. 
11.  honest and sanctimonious about it and likely to rat up others
12. as honest as the day is long and incorruptible, and likely to tell on anyone who tries corrupting him or her

Tradesmen

	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Greedy	cheerful	miserable	religious	reader	radical
2	nipcheese	surly	skilful	resentful	quiet	conservative
3	honest	pugnacious	inept	satisfied	stroppy	xenophobic
4	generous	ingratiating	pleasant	oleaginous	educated	Open minded
5	kindly	Well-spoken	friendly	Self-satisfied	ignorant	egalitarian
6	unkind	vulgar	unfriendly	Self-made	prejudiced	Flawed

Much is in reading a combination; someone both radical and religious is likely to be a non-conformist, a Methodist or Quaker, both keen reformists and very much religions of the middle class.

Flawed:  see main table for suggestions

Honesty

1. will engage in sharp practises like adulteration of goods, tax avoidance, and selling short weight
2. would cheat the government and would not tell a customer that he had overpaid
3. would probably refund overpayment unless the customer has been rude
4. honest enough but will use nepotism
5. honest
6. blindingly honest and likely to rat up anyone who is not.

Names by social class

Fun as it is to find a name which fits a character like a glove, sometimes a name is needed for a character who is neither important enough to be well defined, or who is waiting to be defined, in which case the name might change.  And not every character deserves to have their shortcomings on display with a name like Meleager Scrimp,  Bessy Filch [a bessy is an instrument for picking locks], Basil Overtop or Scholastica Readmore

This is by no stretch of the imagination a universal list.  I have included in each table the 10 most popular names across social boundaries, as  80% of people named would have been named from those names.  The lower class versions will have children named by pet versions of those names as well, since the better educated would know that, say, Molly was a pet form of Mary, and might call a child by a pet name, but would christen them by the root of it.

Aristocracy/gentry/educated

Male

	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Lionel	Walter	Guy	Miles	Frederick	Stephen
2	Lucius	Julius	Gregory	Virgil	Peregrine	Theodore
3	William	John	Thomas	James	George	Joseph
4	Richard	Henry	Robert	Charles	Peter	Francis
5	Christopher	Ralph	Nicholas	Anthony	Luke	Martin
6	Nathaniel	Arthur	Philip	Laurence	Roger	Jeremy

Female

	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Barbara	Marjorie	Bridget	Grace	Deborah	Cecilia
2	Phyllida	Cassandra	Chloe	Alice	Letitia	Priscilla
3	Mary	Ann[e]	Elizabeth	Sarah	Jane	Hannah
4	Susan	Elinor	Marjorie	Charlotte	Harriet	Helen
5	Sophy	Lucy	Isabel[la]	Emma	Catherine	Amelia
6	Frances	Lydia	Caroline	Phoebe	Esther	Amy

 Surnames: Names the Norman lords used were Baskerville, Darcy, Mandeville, Montgomery, Percy, Neville, Punchard, Talbot.    Place names from an atlas are always in order, including corruptions of French placenames like Bagpuss [Bacquepuiss].

Middle Class, pretentious

[names seen to be higher class which they might well be]

Male

	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Alexander	Hector	Frederick	Augustus	Horatio	Lionel
2	Nathan	Theophilus	Scipio	Hadrian	Maximilien	Ulysses
3	William	John	Thomas	James	George	Joseph
4	Richard	Henry	Robert	Charles	Michael	Julius
5	Cassius	Earle	Percy*	Neville*	Montgomery*	Darcy*
6	Talbot*	Gabriel	Jasper	Jonathon	David	Roger

*some of the more prestigious surnames introduced by the Normans.

Female

	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Priscilla	Fanny	Frances	Cecilia	Jacintha	Camilla
2	Araminta	Leonora	Augusta	Wilhelmina	Charlotte	Caroline
3	Mary	Ann[e]	Elizabeth	Sarah	Jane	Hannah
4	Susan	Martha	Margaret	Charlotte	Harriet	Amelia
5	Henrietta	Cressida	Audrey	Annabella	Marianne	Euphemia
6	Emma	Celia	Sylvia	Everina	Philadelphia	Anastasia

Middle Class, ordinary

Male

	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Samuel	Daniel	Josiah	Amos	Joshua	Adam
2	Nathaniel	Nathan	Jacob	Benjamin	Edward	Isaac
3	William	John	Thomas	James	George	Joseph
4	Richard	Henry	Robert	Charles	David	Stephen
5	Aaron	Moses	Luke	Mark	Matthew	Christopher
6	Simon	Timothy	Gedeliah	Philip	Hugh	Abraham

Female

	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Fanny	Fancy	Frances	Alice	Amy	Emma
2	Rachel	Judith	Dinah	Agnes	Elinor	Ellen
3	Mary	Ann[e]	Elizabeth	Sarah	Jane	Hannah
4	Susan	Martha	Margaret	Charlotte	Harriet	Lucy
5	Isabel	Dorothy	Jenny	Ruth	Rebecca	Jemima
6	Joan	Bridget	Dinah	Joanna	Nancy	Sophy

 Surnames:  artisan surnames like Fletcher,  Gildersleeves, Orbater, Coltard, Angove

or place names [use an atlas], or names from old given names like Baldwin, Anketel, Elmer, Hancock, Jenkins.

Lower Class

Male

	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Jacob	Adam	Joshua	Andrew	Matthew	Matty
2	Edward	Edmund	Ned	Daniel	Benjamin	Abel
3	William	John	Thomas	James	George	Joseph
4	Richard	Henry	Robert	Charles	Jack	Harry
5	Samuel	Amos	Jedediah	Josiah	Billy	Benny
6	Dick	Jake	Tom	Joe	Johnny	Jimmy

Female

	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Betty	Eliza	Nancy	Sukey	Sally	Kitty
2	Molly	Polly	Peggy	Agnes	Mary-ann	Betsy
3	Mary	Ann[e]	Elizabeth	Sarah	Jane	Hannah
4	Susan	Martha	Margaret	Charlotte	Harriet	Catherine
5	Beth	Minney	Kate	Etta	Fanny	Frances
6	Rebecca	Alice	Ellen	Hesther	Dorothy	Joan

 Surnames: likely to be more common occupation names like Smith,  or names from given names like Jones, Johnson, Williamson, Rodgers, Hancock, or place names from an atlas. 

On Surnames generally see also my post on the development of surnames HERE