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domino
31-Mar-11, 12:28
Looking through the 1881 Census for Wick I came across a couple of women, their occupation was entered as Female Industry. Anyone have any ideas of what this may have been?
Beat Bug
31-Mar-11, 15:41
Just a suggestion: could it relate to 'ladies of the night'?
quality
31-Mar-11, 16:02
Here you go

http://books.google.com/books?id=lDobAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA293#v=onepage&q&f=false
Beat Bug
31-Mar-11, 16:22
Interesting reading. Makes us realise just how lucky we in the 21sst century are