Daily AncestorChambermaid
A chambermaid was a maid who cleaned and made up bedrooms, in a hotel or in a wealthy private house.
Wiktionary defines a chambermaid as a maid who handles the chores in a hotel room or, chiefly in the past, in a bedroom of a wealthy household.
The 1910 and 1920 census instructions told enumerators to return a woman working at housework for wages as housekeeper, servant, cook or chambermaid, and to say in the next column where she worked, such as private family, hotel or boarding house.
As seen in a recordOccupation and industry columns of the 1910 to 1940 census
Bridget Coughlan, 23, Chambermaid, Hotel
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