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Register of the Freemen of the City of York
A History of the County of Oxford
… worked as domestic gloveresses or as dress-makers and seamstresses. 183 In 1881 there were 32 gloveresses in the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in status, while there were also needlewomen, dressmakers, seamstresses, 48 and makers of individual garments: … (71 per cent of them women) and 1,229 shirtmakers and seamstresses; another 2,123 worked in textile fabrics. In …
Survey of London
… was turned into a workshop employing local women as seamstresses. Initially only seven women were employed with …
Broughton Poggs Parish
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… as village tailors until the mid 1890s. 13 Masons, seamstresses, and wheelwrights were mentioned occasionally, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1683
… 1 s. in ten on all drapery, the same proportion on seamstresses' gains, for it goes so low, and 2 d. on every …
A History of the County of Oxford
… employment was available to women as dressmakers, seamstresses, washerwomen, domestic servants, or shopkeepers. …