Janet Anderson, (1697 – 3 March 1761) was a Scottish milliner and maker of grave-clothes in

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. born to Jean Ellis and James Anderson. 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. She was a niece of John Campbell, a Scottish goldsmith based in London, and lived at the top flat in Gray's Close in Edinburgh.''Liber Conventus Senensis'' (Edinburgh, 1841), p. xxxvii. Janet Anderson joined the

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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.

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British milliners 1697 births 1761 deaths {{Fashion-designer-stub