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Offline StevieSteve

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Oo-er!
« on: Monday 16 January 17 18:38 GMT (UK) »
One of the possibly underused resources on Rootschat is the Reference Library found in the brown panel at the bottom of the page, specifically the Lexicon.

Boy, do I have to have a re-look at my dressmakers, the 12th most common occupation in my database!!
Middlesex: KING,  MUMFORD, COOK, ROUSE, GOODALL, BROWN
Oxford: MATTHEWS, MOSS
Kent: SPOONER, THOMAS, KILLICK, COLLINS
Cambs: PRIGG, LEACH
Hants: FOSTER
Montgomery: BREES
Surrey: REEVE

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Re: Oo-er!
« Reply #1 on: Monday 16 January 17 18:53 GMT (UK) »
 ;D
I watched WDYTYA Alex Kingston over the weekend. One of her widowed ancestors was a boarding house keeper with several dressmakers living at the address, neighbouring properties having a similar pattern of occupation. The researchers confirmed that these houses were brothels of sorts.
I also have a few dressmakers, some are definitely suspicious!
Newson, Steavenson, Walker, Taylor, Dobson, Gardner, Clark, Wilson, Smith, Crossland, Goldfinch, Burnett, Hebdon, Peers, Strother, Askew, Bower, Beckwith, Patton, White, Turner, Nelson, Gilpin, Tomlinson, Thompson, Spedding, Wilkes, Carr, Butterfield, Ormandy, Wilkinson, Cocking, Glover, Pennington, Bowker, Kitching, Langhorn, Haworth, Kirkham.

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« Reply #2 on: Monday 16 January 17 19:28 GMT (UK) »
I just want to cry .......

No wealth, land or inheritances ..... but I do have some dressmakers.

 ;D  ;D  ;D

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Re: Oo-er!
« Reply #3 on: Monday 16 January 17 21:25 GMT (UK) »
Well........I've never looked at the brown panel properly before and now I wish I hadn't, I too saw the WDYTYA programme with 'dressmakers', oh dear lots of dressmakers & seamstresses in my family tree, but they wouldn't be would they? no, just hard working ladies who sewed for a living, I'm sure...please    :o :o :o

But it makes you think doesn't it  ;D ;D ;D

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Briggs - Durham and Sth Wales
Proud, Chapman - Durham and North Yorkshire
Hetherington - Cumberland/Northumberland and Durham
Eeles - Durham
Blair, Herd - Scotland
Murphy, McKenna, Connery - Ireland
also - Corps - Wear - Hutchinson & Fawell .


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Re: Oo-er!
« Reply #4 on: Monday 16 January 17 22:04 GMT (UK) »
I'm sure quite a lot of 'dressmakers' and 'seamstresses' hardly sewed at all    ;)  :D  but someone had to be making all the clothes and adjusting them to fit or adapting worn adult clothes into children's garments! People had far fewer clothes than we do today but there weren't stores full of affordable ready to wear items.

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« Reply #5 on: Monday 16 January 17 23:05 GMT (UK) »
It is well known that dressmaker was often used by ladies of the night  ;D I have a dressmaker over five decades but she was married, her Daughter was a seamstress too....you take things at face value based on the evidence  :D
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« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 17 January 17 16:23 GMT (UK) »
errr... weren't Milliners almost in the same category? I've got dressmakers and milliners, so ....gulp... who am I?
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Re: Oo-er!
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 17 January 17 16:43 GMT (UK) »
Have to say this thread has been very amusing indeed but fascinating  ;D

I suspect there may be a surge in DNA kits from 23andMe   ???

Maybe the reason some people's DNA results don't seem to tally  :-\   ::)

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South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

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Re: Oo-er!
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 17 January 17 16:48 GMT (UK) »
errr... weren't Milliners almost in the same category? I've got dressmakers and milliners, so ....gulp... who am I?

Sooo funny TY, brings the acronym home......WDYTYA  ???  ;D

Annie
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"