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Title: Can you read this bizarre occupation?
Post by: avm228 on Monday 06 March 06 17:41 GMT (UK)
Can anybody help me read the occupation of my gg-g'mother Annie L. Rose (13) in Wandsworth in 1871?  It looks to me like "painter" or "plaiter" "of Sultana Hali", but surely that can't be right (sounds remarkably exotic for Wandsworth!)  I can find no similar occupation on surrounding pages (RG10/711 folio 40 page 40).

Many thanks in advance

Anna
Title: Re: Can you read this bizarre occupation?
Post by: Keziahemm on Monday 06 March 06 17:44 GMT (UK)
Hi,

Looks like Painter of Sultana Hats to me  ::)  Perhaps she made hats for the Sultanas  ;)


Susan 
Title: Re: Can you read this bizarre occupation?
Post by: bekahsgran on Monday 06 March 06 17:50 GMT (UK)
Hi
I'd say...............
Plaiter of P/Sattana Hats. Maybe they were a particular type of straw hat!
Anne
Title: Re: Can you read this bizarre occupation?
Post by: Sisterjane on Monday 06 March 06 17:50 GMT (UK)
Totally agree with you Susan

Painter of Sultana Hats


Joe
Title: Re: Can you read this bizarre occupation?
Post by: Sisterjane on Monday 06 March 06 17:52 GMT (UK)
MMMMMmmmmmmmm........Methinks your right Anne

Joe
Title: Re: Can you read this bizarre occupation?
Post by: bekahsgran on Monday 06 March 06 17:54 GMT (UK)
Hi Joe
OF COURSE I'M RIGHT I'M A WOMAN aren't I?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We usualy are..................
(tongue in cheek...........)
Anne
Title: Re: Can you read this bizarre occupation?
Post by: avm228 on Monday 06 March 06 18:14 GMT (UK)
Thanks, everyone.  It does look as though she was plaiting straw hats of some kind ...but the more I look at it, the more it looks to me as though the first letter of the Sultana??? word could be P rather than S (as, indeed,  Anne suggested). Puttana is of course Italian for prostitute.  Surely there could not have been a hat in fashion in the 1870s called a Puttana Hat - has anyone heard of such a thing?

Anna
Title: Re: Can you read this bizarre occupation?
Post by: sillgen on Monday 06 March 06 18:21 GMT (UK)
I am not going to be very helpful but the S of Sultana is nothing like the S of Scholar and of Son.   Not sure what else it could be though.
Andrea
Title: Re: Can you read this bizarre occupation?
Post by: avm228 on Monday 06 March 06 18:34 GMT (UK)
Quote from: sillgen on Monday 06 March 06 18:21 GMT (UK)
the S of Sultana is nothing like the S of Scholar and of Son.

I agree - it's also nothing like the S of Suffolk and Surrey respectively in the birthplace column. But it is quite similar to the P in the deleted word Painter (or whatever). Hmmm...
Title: Re: Can you read this bizarre occupation?
Post by: sillgen on Monday 06 March 06 19:23 GMT (UK)
I have now looked at the whole page.  If you look at the top All Souls and St Annes do have an S like that!
Andrea
Title: Re: Can you read this bizarre occupation?
Post by: lizdb on Tuesday 07 March 06 10:29 GMT (UK)
I'd say Plaiter of Sultana Hats

I would guess they are a type of straw hat
Title: Re: Can you read this bizarre occupation?
Post by: Rebecca Steele on Tuesday 07 March 06 21:56 GMT (UK)
I agree .... its definately Plaiter

Chui
Title: Re: Can you read this bizarre occupation?
Post by: trish251 on Wednesday 08 March 06 10:56 GMT (UK)
If you google Puttana it often appears as a name. Could this be the name of the person who makes the hats?

or was it a brand name in 1871?

Trish
Title: Re: Can you read this bizarre occupation?
Post by: Clare Fowler on Wednesday 08 March 06 14:29 GMT (UK)
Hi Anna,

Maybe you could get in touch with the local council or archives to see what hat-makers were around at the time.  Maybe then you can work out the 'nature' of the hat involved.  Surely there will be some records.

Cheers,
Clare
Title: Re: Can you read this bizarre occupation?
Post by: Carra on Wednesday 08 March 06 22:21 GMT (UK)
Hi Anna,

You could try this link
http://www.hatworks.org.uk/
Its a hat museum and they may be able to help you.

Carra