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.
