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From: Elizabeth Ellicott <>
Subject: Re: [BDF] Bonnet Sewers and Straw Plaiters
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:50:43 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <c529b155dd2ce167556b4497da6a23e8@rogers.com>


Just an additional point which may interest researchers: my grandmother came from a long line of straw plaiters, and her mother married a block-maker, another section of the Bedfordshire hat industry. My mother remembers that well into the 1920s she was still making hats for the family. One which my mother remembers most clearly is a straw hat made for her when she was about 10 years old - plaited and 'blocked' by my grandmother.

Chris Roberts <> wrote: I may be inadvertently going over some old territory for long time
listers, but can anyone enlighten me to the occupations of "Bonnet
Sewers" and "Straw Plaiters" in Dunstable. Since, I have been
searching my family members I have noted these job descriptions for
female family members several times and I am puzzled as to what they
relate to.

Thank you,
Chris in Ontario


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