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A History of the County of Middlesex
… people. 43 More than 500 girls had been identified as seamstresses in 1869, when there were thought to be many more …
A History of the County of Oxford
… grocers, butchers, and bakers, 4 shoemakers and tailors, 6 seamstresses and laundresses, 29 lacemakers, 3 chair-turners, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… there were 41 dressmakers, 16 tailors, 6 wool-sorters, 7 seamstresses, 5 handloom weavers, 3 staymakers, 2 …
Rural Parishes: Rotherfield Peppard
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… wood, stone, and brick. Women worked as dressmakers and seamstresses and in various other capacities, while …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… a house; and all the workmen besides and a great many seamstresses; their own saw-house too, where as many blocks …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the century a few worked as laundresses, dressmakers, or seamstresses. 58 In the late 19th century and early 20th …