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HATTER
« on: Monday 12 December 22 16:05 GMT (UK) »
Hi could a Hatter occupation come under anything else

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Re: HATTER
« Reply #1 on: Monday 12 December 22 16:51 GMT (UK) »
A female who makes hats for women is a "Milliner"

I don't know any other name for a man who makes hats for men, other than "Hatter", who worked in a Hattery.

"Mad as a Hatter" is linked to the hat-making industry and mercury poisoning. In the 18th and 19th centuries, industrial workers used a toxic substance, mercury nitrate, as part of the process of turning the fur of small animals, such as rabbits, into felt for hats.

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Re: HATTER
« Reply #2 on: Monday 12 December 22 16:59 GMT (UK) »
The more common word was Feltmaker, certainly in the 17th and early 18th centuries
Bumstead - London, Suffolk
Plant, Woolnough, Wase, Suffolk
Flexney, Godfrey, Burson, Hobby -  Oxfordshire
Street, Mitchell - Gloucestershire
Horwood, Heale Drew - Bristol
Gibbs, Gait, Noyes, Peters, Padfield, Board, York, Rogers, Horler, Heale, Emery, Clavey, Mogg, - Somerset
Fook, Snell - Devon
M(a)cDonald, Yuell, Gollan, McKenzie - Rosshire
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Re: HATTER
« Reply #3 on: Monday 12 December 22 23:54 GMT (UK) »
Hat M, Hat maker, Hat manufacturer, Hat trimmer, Hat liner, Hat furrier, Hat presser, Hat dealer, Hat binder, Hat finisher...etc
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Re: HATTER
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 13 December 22 08:02 GMT (UK) »
There are also Straw Plaiters who prepared material for making Straw Hats.

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Re: HATTER
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 13 December 22 11:01 GMT (UK) »
The person I'm looking for is a William Shakespeare who was a Hatter by trade. The only one I can find in the censuses lives in Salford but the wrong age. Thankyou for all your replies.
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Re: HATTER
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 13 December 22 11:48 GMT (UK) »
There is a William Shakespeare listed under Hat Manufacturers in Devizes in 1830 Pigot's directory.

He's cropped up in a previous thread https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=485344
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Re: HATTER
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 13 December 22 12:16 GMT (UK) »
No that's not him. Thanks
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