1934 advert

Robert Tusting was living in Moor Road in 1901 and was from Thrapston. Robert is aged 29 and a commercial clerk, and his wife Ellen is a dressmaker born at Horncastle aged 32.

He had married Ellen Mawer at Rushden on 11^th November 1897 at St Mary’s Church, when Ellen’s father was named as Henry (deceased) and she was a tailor’s assistant.

Robert was son of John Tusting and Sarah who had taken a farm at Newton Bromswold in about 1895.

Robert had moved to 28 Church Street where Ellen is listed in the trade directory as a dressmaker by 1903, and in 1910 he is an assessor and collector of taxes at 27 High Street.

Possibly Robert was working for John S Mason as this 1934 advert tells he was successor to John S Mason, who had died in 1932.

Sadly Robert died the following year.