Janet Anderson (milliner)

Janet Anderson
Born	1697 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died	3 March 1761
Occupation	Milliner

Janet Anderson, (1697 – 3 March 1761) was a Scottish milliner and maker of grave-clothes in Edinburgh.[1][2] born to Jean Ellis and James Anderson.[3]

In 1710 the painter and copyist John Alexander wrote to her father, asking him to help a Mrs Kath Shippard or Shepherd, who planned to be a milliner.[4] She was a niece of John Campbell, a Scottish goldsmith based in London,[5] and lived at the top flat in Gray's Close in Edinburgh.[6]

Janet Anderson joined the Merchant Company of Edinburgh in 1718, buying and selling goods in London and at fairs. She continued her work throughout the 1740s and 1750s as shown from her bills and family papers. She made grave-clothes for notable figures such as Sir John Clerk.[1]

References

1. Ewan, Elizabeth, ed. (2018). The new biographical dictionary of Scottish women. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-4744-3629-8. OCLC 1057237368.
2. Sanderson, Elizabeth C. (1996). Women and work in eighteenth-century Edinburgh. Basingstoke. ISBN 978-1-349-24644-1. OCLC 1004674170.
3. Sanderson, Elizabeth C. (2004). "Anderson, Janet (1697–1761), milliner and maker of graveclothes". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65573. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 2021-07-30. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
4. J. M., 'Portraits and James Anderson', Notes & Queries, 2nd Series vol. 118 (3 April 1858), p. 272.
5. James Maidment, Analecta Scotica (Edinburgh, 1834), p. 256.
6. Liber Conventus Senensis (Edinburgh, 1841), p. xxxvii.