Jean Eaton, 87, a former tailoress, was a resident at the Wemyss Lodge Nursing Home in Ermin Street, Swindon, for five years before she died. |
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My mother was a tailoress and my father worked for Johnny Walker whisky, so singing was not really in the family. |
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Marian's background as a tailoress differed from that of the middle-class, educated women who were prominent in socialist politics. |
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In September 1926 Joe married Gertrude Shepperd who was working as a tailoress for the Akaroa tailor, Mr Morkcom. |
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Susan worked as a tailoress, as did her older sister, Florence, while their brother, Benjamin, joined George at the docks. |
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But at 15, she was apprenticed to a tailoress Miss Fitzgibbon and there, over five years, she served her time and learned her craft. |
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Hoduet neglected his work, but his wife gamely toiled as a tailoress after their child's birth. |
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Ellen Smith lived with her aunt, and in the census of 1871 is described as a tailoress. |
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During the war she became an apprentice tailoress at the shop. |
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She was born in Poplar, east London, where her mother was a tailoress and her father worked for the Johnnie Walker whisky company. |
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