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His wife supplemented their income by working as a seamstress.
Specific occupations reserved for women included those of seamstress, laundress, weaver, spinner and the like.
There were a couple of domestic servants who had households of their own and one woman was registered as a seamstress.
The women among them found work as marketers and laundry women, domestics, seamstresses, teachers and artisans.
This was the most common profession of childless elderly women, although one woman was a seamstress and another was an owner of a restaurant.
Others worked as seamstresses, in the entertainment industry and hotels.
She had learnt to sew by herself and somehow had bought a second-hand, foot-powered sewing machine to work as a seamstress.
Three seamstresses and a few women lacking occupational data were also found.
What about looking at the actual products those seamstresses sewed - oddly absent from this book - as part of changing ideas about aesthetics, textiles, or fashion?
In 1880, there were some female shopkeepers, seamstresses, owners of restaurants, cooks, and workers, but women with occupations other than that of servant were very rare.
These gain fairly comparable prices, and the input to the household economy by male woodcarvers and female seamstresses is much the same (and fairly low-level income).
Acquiring domestic skills also would enable pupils of the lower stratum to earn their own livelihoods as seamstresses, laundrywomen, or cooks.
Through anthropological research and use of secondary sources, the authors place the persona of the seamstress centre stage, viewing the transformations of clothing production and demand through her eyes.
Porter's study considers together seamstresses, cigarette workers and street vendors and explicitly excludes both paid and unpaid domestic labour - the most common forms of women's work.
For example, men do not become seamstresses, and there are other such professions.