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Offline Hackstaple

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Re: Chair Woman
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 22 January 05 22:39 GMT (UK) »
By the way - charwoman probably comes from chore woman. 8)
Southern or Southan [Hereford , Monmouthshire & Glos], Jenkins, Meredith and Morgan [Monmouthshire and Glos.], Murrill, Damary, Damry, Ray, Lawrence [all Middx. & London], Nethway from Kenn or Yatton. Also Riley and Lyons in South Africa and Riley from St. Helena.
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« Reply #10 on: Saturday 22 January 05 22:50 GMT (UK) »
What a lovely idea!  I'm going to stick with the fact that she was a Chair Woman.
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Re: Chair Woman
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 23 January 05 02:14 GMT (UK) »
Hackstaple,

Great idea,  thank you.  I am not sure if Cardiff was a spa in 1901,  but suspect not.  ;D  Possibly an indoor spa of some kind though.  I will have to invstigate further.

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Re: Chair Woman
« Reply #12 on: Monday 12 June 17 15:19 BST (UK) »
It's not a transcription error. It's a version of “charwoman”, previously “chare woman” (related to “chore woman”) which was pronounced as “chair woman”. [1]

[1] Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chare), s.v. “Chare”.
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