Jane had started working as a tailoress to boost her family's income
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In January 1889 she formed the Liverpool Workwomen's Society, comprising bookfolders, tailoresses, and cigarmakers.
But at 15, she was apprenticed to a tailoress Miss Fitzgibbon and there, over five years, she served her time and learned her craft.
The first female union in the Land of Oz was formed when female tailoresses tossed their collective thimbles out the window and created The Victorian Tailoresses Union.
It was during his time at Laverton that David met Margaret, a tailoress in the WRAAF.
She assisted in disputes among female textile workers and took a leading role in the lengthy Leeds tailoresses ' strike of 1889.
Marian's background as a tailoress differed from that of the middle-class, educated women who were prominent in socialist politics.
In September 1926 Joe married Gertrude Shepperd who was working as a tailoress for the Akaroa tailor, Mr Morkcom.
Susan worked as a tailoress, as did her older sister, Florence, while their brother, Benjamin, joined George at the docks.
During the war she became an apprentice tailoress at the shop.
Hoduet neglected his work, but his wife gamely toiled as a tailoress after their child's birth.
Ellen Smith lived with her aunt, and in the census of 1871 is described as a tailoress.
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.
My mother was a tailoress and my father worked for Johnny Walker whisky, so singing was not really in the family.