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Marriage certificate for Jessie Marjorie Knight and Robert Howsoney. Date of marriage: 17th October 1931. Date of certificate: 17th April 1941.

Jessie Knight was the first prominent female tattooist in the UK. She took over her father's tattoo shop in Barry aged 18 in 1927 and went on to prominence whilst working in Chatham, Portsmouth and Aldershot. She returned to Barry in 1968, and continued to work there as a tattoo artist into the 1980s.