Hairdresser!

[pennywinks]

One of my gt gt grandfathers is listed as a hairdresser in 1853. This is also the occupation listed for the bride's father, and I also find that one of his brothers was also a hairdesser. This seems to be an unusual occupation for men at this time. I can only think that it was horse-hair they were dressing. Anyone else got any idea?

Penny

 

[joyceawood17]

you think so? barber and hairdresser aren't they the same thing, most occupations were kinda started by men.

 

[pennywinks]

I always thought, back then, that all men hairdressers were called barbers. I've never heard of men being hairdressers, as we know them, at that time. Wig dressers/makers perhaps. The rest of the family worked in the flax industry, which leads me down the other route. Penny

 

[duckweed]

One of my ancestors started as a salesman in Cattle food and then became a hairdresser and perfumier. Quite a change. I would imagine hair dresser would be a womens hairdresser especially in my ancestors case as I don't think perfumier fits in with a mens hairdresser. But I could be wrong.

 

[pennywinks]

Well, perhaps he was a ladies' hairdresser after all! It seems to have run in the family then. Thanks for that! I wonder if he walked with a mince lol??

 

[duckweed]

Well I'm sure mine didn't. He was father to 8 children and worked in a part of Sheffield where he was liable to get his head caved in if he minced.

 

[pennywinks]

Well I'm sure mine didn't. He was father to 8 children and worked in a part of Sheffield where he was liable to get his head caved in if he minced.

:2fun: Well mine had eight children and his father, who was also a hairdresser, had seven! They lived and worked in Leeds so I don't suppose they minced either! tI could have been a 'closet' thing perhaps?? >

 

[duckweed]

They obviously didn't have the same hangups. I'm trying to imagine my ancestor, a small man with a broad Lincolnshire accent, with the strange first name of Brown, coming from a family of Butchers and Steel Workers. His family must have thought him a bit unusual. He seemed to be quite successful. Before he changed career he had lost 2 daughters in infancy and lived in very poor accomodation in Attercliffe. So if I'd been him and had a talent I'd have gone for it whatever the family thought.

 

[pennywinks]

This is true! I like the idea that our ancestors did their 'own thing' all those years back!

 

[familyman]

have you a jackson/jomes marrage link in your tree?

 

[duckweed]

Who are you asking? I have Jacksons in Middlesbro but no Jomes as far as I know though as they only are an offshoot of my tree I haven't investigated much further. Enid Bullivant married a Albert P Jackson who came from Glanford Brigg Lincolnshire 1894 and married in Hartlepool in 1920.

 

[familyman]

Who are you asking? I have Jacksons in Middlesbro but no Jomes as far as I know though as they only are an offshoot of my tree I haven't investigated much further. Enid Bullivant married a Albert P Jackson who came from Glanford Brigg Lincolnshire 1894 and married in Hartlepool in 1920.

i think it was whoever it was i saw researching the jacksons & jones lines. i can't remember who it was now. but in a nut shell i am seeking jacksons in flintshire & a marrage link here with jackson. if your jacksons are in middlesbrough then at the moment i see no link with jacksons there. but i joined this is site in the hope i might find some information,so i will persever with this & see what happens. but thank you anyway

 

[pennywinks]

Not that I knw of, Familyman, but you never can tell what might turn up do you??>