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Hallelujia!!!!!!

Hallelujia!!!!!!

Hi all,
glad this was sorted,had weird dreams about it last night! to do with morticians.
So he was a Hair dresser/wig maker of some sort.
Plus i haven't laughed so much in ages either
Blue

Well i would like to thank you all for your help, havn't laughed so much for ages:)

you saying yoiu think he's got the ump!!!!!

I think this bloke is messing around...........lol

have to laugh Von - I thought Fanny Tanner was an occupation!!! presume it isn't?

Dresser 1) A surgeon's assistant in a hospital 2) Operator who assembled the yarns or threads prior to weaving of cloth 3) Assistant to a noble person, preparing clothes etc. 4) In an Iron Foundry, the person who removed the flash and unwanted bits from castings

1891 census doesn't help with his occupation - porter. have you found him in 1911?

He was an errand boy for his dad when he was a nipper. Dad was a hatter.

Ozi.

What other type of hairdresser would you get other than human?

Human Hair Dresser - yes I think he could be a wig maker. The scrawled word at the end is Hair. These are not written by the enumerator but by the boffins back at head office when collating the information into statistics.

And wigs made from non-human hair were available in the 19th century. Some were made from plant fibres. I'd hate to see what they looked like! And what they were used for. As far as I know barrister's wigs have always been made of horse hair.

Human hair was the most common.


Ozi.

If it is hair surely in 1901 all wigs were made from human hair and therefore there would be no need to put 'human hair dresser' they would of just put hairdresser. Then again the extra word written does not begin with an H.

The enumerist obviously had his own idea of what people's occupation was . If you look at some others he writes (printer) next to compositor and (sawyer) next to saw mills.

Do you think it could be to do with making wigs or toupees??

I think it says 'Hair'.

Beginning to think I'd had too much red wine tonight!
Hope we can sort this out.

Just had another look at the census and agree that the 'tailor' is for his wife as she is a mantle makers machinist so that fits but if you look where it says 'Human Skin Dresser' there is another word written which I can't make out. Has anyone got any ideas as to what it says? It looks like Mair to me but I havn't a clue what it means.

Hi every one,
please excuse me for butting in,but i'v been following this thread from the beginning and trying to find out what a Human Skin Dresser was as well,but no luck
I can't wait to find out what it is though.
I thought it was maybe something to do with embalming!
Good luck
Blue

A Tatooist maybe! The mind runs riot!

Annx

I think the H of hair is so looped it does look like Sk...and that the word following is actually 'hair' where the enumerator has tried to clarify it... definitely 'tailor' underneath, but I take that to be for his wife...mantle maker mantle as in 'cloak' I assumed

Just taken a look and it does look like human skin dresser to me - or shin, but that doesn't make sense!
Linda