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  • Thumbnail for Blue bonnet
    parish: in 1790 few bonnets are worn; the bonnet-maker trade in the next parish is given up". An 1825 dictionary described the bonnet as "formerly worn...
    9 KB (1,167 words) - 22:44, 15 April 2024
  • Automobiles René Bonnet was a French automobile maker. The firm was the continuation of Deutsch et Bonnet (DB) by René Bonnet when Charles Deutsch, the...
    6 KB (585 words) - 03:15, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tam o' shanter (cap)
    Tam o' shanter (cap) (category Bonnets (headgear))
    caps, known as a blue bonnet from their typical colour, were made by bonnet-makers in Scotland. By the year 1599 five bonnet-makers' guilds had formed in...
    8 KB (970 words) - 21:10, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
    1818 he married for the second time. His bride was a former apprentice bonnet-maker, Sarah Buck, with whom he had already had four children. The couple travelled...
    31 KB (3,905 words) - 15:48, 4 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Easter bonnet
    An Easter bonnet is any new or fancy hat worn by women as a Christian headcovering on Easter. It represents the tail end of a tradition of wearing new...
    7 KB (819 words) - 00:47, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Fair Maid of Perth
    Dominican friar Father Clement, a Carthusian monk Oliver Proudfute, a bonnet-maker Bailie Craigdallie Henbane Dwining, an apothecary Sir Patrick Charteris...
    26 KB (3,840 words) - 08:13, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peter Rannald
    relation of Patrick Rannald, who appears in contemporary records as a bonnet-maker in Edinburgh's Canongate and as a Deacon of the Edinburgh craft of bonnetmakers...
    6 KB (787 words) - 21:27, 18 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maurice Marinot
    Les Fauves, and then a major artist in glass. Marinot's father was a bonnet maker. Maurice did poorly in school, but convinced his parents to send him...
    3 KB (413 words) - 18:22, 7 October 2022
  • cotton, silk and safes, real estate dealer, pianoforte maker, friction match, shuttle maker, bonnet maker, tanner, ship builder, tailor, mechanic, ship chandler...
    6 KB (456 words) - 00:13, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lizzie Lloyd King
    stand, and identified herself as Lizzie Lloyd King, and that she was a bonnet maker. She declined further comment regarding Goodrich, on advice from her...
    47 KB (6,035 words) - 20:11, 2 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Georges Bonnet
    Georges-Étienne Bonnet (23 July 1889 – 18 June 1973) was a French politician who served as foreign minister in 1938 and 1939 and was a leading figure in...
    124 KB (18,291 words) - 02:31, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mechanics National Bank (Philadelphia)
    House" was a three-story brick building formerly occupied by a hat and bonnet maker (the vault was an addition in the back yard) and by 1833, it had become...
    22 KB (3,303 words) - 12:42, 3 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles Deutsch
    was a French aerodynamics engineer and automobile maker, founder of the brand "DB" with René Bonnet, and later of the "CD". Deutsch was born at Champigny-sur-Marne...
    6 KB (574 words) - 19:47, 29 April 2024
  • Stowell Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. His father was a cabinet-maker, his mother a bonnet-maker. He enjoyed singing from an early age and had a fine treble...
    7 KB (830 words) - 19:52, 19 March 2023
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    period, work diversified to include four silk glove makers, four shoemakers, and a straw bonnet maker. In more recent times, extensive new housing developments...
    19 KB (1,846 words) - 11:11, 20 April 2024
  • surname include: Anne Bonnet, née Thonet (1908–1960), Belgian painter Michael Thonet (1796–1871), German–Austrian cabinet maker Gebrüder Thonet, furniture...
    285 bytes (75 words) - 23:53, 8 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Bircle
    as Spain. In the 1881 census a 64-year-old named Susannah Allport, a Bonnet Maker (Milliner) from Salamanca was in residence. Today it is the site of Fairfield...
    10 KB (1,098 words) - 14:14, 8 September 2023
  • clay, a rough packing case maker, a silversmith, a carman,[clarification needed] a lighterman, an upholsterer, a bonnet maker, a milk dairyman, a cheesemonger...
    7 KB (787 words) - 16:00, 18 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tudor House and Garden
    also had a number of business uses, including a dyeworks, bookbinders, bonnet-makers and architect's office. By the end of the 19th century the area around...
    11 KB (1,140 words) - 17:32, 1 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Harrow Green
    at Harrow Green. Elizabeth Bainbridge, a 31-year-old dress and straw bonnet maker, was visiting her brother's public house, the Harrow Inn, where she spent...
    12 KB (1,643 words) - 19:35, 18 March 2024
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