| In September 1926 Joe married Gertrude Shepperd who was working as a tailoress for the Akaroa tailor, Mr Morkcom. |
| But at 15, she was apprenticed to a tailoress Miss Fitzgibbon and there, over five years, she served her time and learned her craft. |
| Hoduet neglected his work, but his wife gamely toiled as a tailoress after their child's birth. |
| Susan worked as a tailoress, as did her older sister, Florence, while their brother, Benjamin, joined George at the docks. |
| Marian's background as a tailoress differed from that of the middle-class, educated women who were prominent in socialist politics. |
| Ellen Smith lived with her aunt, and in the census of 1871 is described as a tailoress. |
