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Penwigg Maker?
« on: Sunday 04 May 25 13:59 BST (UK) »
I came across this occupation on a PR marriage entry on FindMyPast. The image link is

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBPRS%2FSHROP%2FP214-A-1-3%2F69794&parentid=GBPRS%2FSHROP%2FMAR%2F10185%2F2

Edward Ricketts Penwigg maker ... the writing is quite clear

I've never come across this occupation before, and Google is of no help, so, please, any ideas?
Anderson - Leics., Yorks.; Attwood - Worcs., Staffs.,  Salop; Baylis - Worcs.; Beach/Bache - Worcs., Staffs., Salop; Bills - Devon, Worcs.<br />Dovey - Worcs., Staff., Salop; Gill - Worcs.; Hampton - Worcs., Staffs.; Hancox/Hancocks - Worcs., Staffs.<br />Hill - Worcs., Staffs., Salop; Sherwood - Worcs., Staffs.; Stonyer - Worcs., Staff., Salop, Essex<br />Woodall - Worcs., Staffs.; Potter - Essex.

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Re: Penwigg Maker?
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 04 May 25 14:03 BST (UK) »
I don’t see the double ‘g’ and I believe that it is ‘periwig maker’.

Added: see reply #8, I was looking at the wrong man, hence my comment about the double g.
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Re: Penwigg Maker?
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 04 May 25 14:04 BST (UK) »
I'd agree with AlanBoyd - periwig maker.
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Re: Penwigg Maker?
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 04 May 25 14:06 BST (UK) »
I also say it would be Periwig maker.
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Penwigg Maker?
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 04 May 25 14:07 BST (UK) »
A Dictionary of Old Trades etc. by Colin Waters has:

periwig maker same as peruker
[peruker,, strangely there is no entry]
peruke maker Manufacturer of periwigs and caps designed as hairpieces.
Boyd, Dove, Blakey, Burdon

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Re: Penwigg Maker?
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 04 May 25 14:31 BST (UK) »
And a wig in French is "une perruque", pronounced peruke
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Re: Penwigg Maker?
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 04 May 25 14:46 BST (UK) »
Thanks for the replies. I too thought periwig maker, but the writing is quite clear when compared to the other writing on the same page, so  I can only assume it's a mistake by whomever wrote the register in the first place.
Anderson - Leics., Yorks.; Attwood - Worcs., Staffs.,  Salop; Baylis - Worcs.; Beach/Bache - Worcs., Staffs., Salop; Bills - Devon, Worcs.<br />Dovey - Worcs., Staff., Salop; Gill - Worcs.; Hampton - Worcs., Staffs.; Hancox/Hancocks - Worcs., Staffs.<br />Hill - Worcs., Staffs., Salop; Sherwood - Worcs., Staffs.; Stonyer - Worcs., Staff., Salop, Essex<br />Woodall - Worcs., Staffs.; Potter - Essex.

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Re: Penwigg Maker?
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 04 May 25 22:56 BST (UK) »
Scroll down this web page to see the extravagant  periwig style these fashionable men were wearing:-

https://thisisversaillesmadame.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-periwig.html
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie:  Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke

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Re: Penwigg Maker?
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 04 May 25 23:18 BST (UK) »
If you look at John Bennett also a periwig maker (on the facing page) Jan 1746, other than having only 1 ‘g’ it looks very similar to Edward’s entry.
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