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Travel to any town in any decade and you may find several or many dressmakers.
The year was 1851 in the village of Melcome Regis, Dorset
and the one called Jane PERRY was but one of many dressmakers. As time marches on into the 1890's in nearby Weymouth some of the important dressmakers threading a needle or two were Ellen JOLLIFFE, Eliza CHICK, Selina BARTLETT, Sarah HOUNSELL and Emma TIZARD. Some
such as Elizabeth Bellamy Zelley would move to London town.
Elizabeth would become Mrs. WYATT, but I don't know if she would remain a dressmaker in the early 1900's after marrying
Mr.WYATT in the Stepney region.
In the early 1900's there were plenty of other dressmakers to go around from the likes of Ellie & Laura EMERY in Essex
to Catherine & Gwen LEWIS in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales.
So, to the many hard working women and girls that toiled with needle and thread, hats off and glasses held high for
a toast to the dressmakers.
Zelley, Lovell, Godbold, Woods, Phillips, Lewis, Emery,
Magee, Baker, White. Flisher, Kyne, Tilston, Valence/Vallens,
Mabb/Mabbe, Bellamy, Selley, Martha Smith, Arno (of Dartmouth, Devon}.
Dorset, London, Warwick, East Anglia, Kent, Devon
North Wales
The ancestors lived here and there, in many scattered
places, with various occupations
