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Hairdresser!

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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?

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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
 

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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.
 

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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?? >:D
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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:)
 
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