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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Occupation
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 16:47:09 +0100
In-Reply-To: <015201c02de7$d5954a00$f92437d2@default>

>On the 1881 census one of my relatives is shown as "Appt.To Pianoforte
>Lady".

apprentice to pianoforte...
MAKER would make sense, so maybe this is a female piano manufacturer
(widow inheriting?)
Being apprenticed to a pianoforte TEACHER would be odd. Only after a
student had learnt the skills and progressed through the grades of the
Royal College of Music would he/she be qualified to teach, and this was
not usually an apprenticeship thing. Maybe Mrs piano lady had taken in
an orphan with a view to bringing him/her up as a successor

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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