Can you read this bizarre occupation?

[avm228]

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

[Keziahemm]

Hi,

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


Susan 

[bekahsgran]

Hi
I'd say...............
Plaiter of P/Sattana Hats. Maybe they were a particular type of straw hat!
Anne

[Sisterjane]

Totally agree with you Susan

Painter of Sultana Hats


Joe

[Sisterjane]

MMMMMmmmmmmmm........Methinks your right Anne

Joe

[bekahsgran]

Hi Joe
OF COURSE I'M RIGHT I'M A WOMAN aren't I?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We usualy are..................
(tongue in cheek...........)
Anne

[avm228]

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

[sillgen]

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

[avm228]

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...