From: John Griffiths Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:33 PM To: berkshire-requests@rootsweb.com Subject: Assistance with occupation Hi Listers, Can some assist me with an occupation please. In the 1891 English Census lists my Great Uncles occupation as what appears to be Horse Haughterer Cat ?. The original document is a bit hard to read: Source Citation: Class: RG12; Piece: 992; Folio 109; Pg 4; GSU Roll: 6096102 Happy Days, John from Newcastle NSW

Very probably he was a horse slaughterer, who presumeably converted the beasts into cat meat - http://www.victorianlondon.org/publications6/horse-15.htm has a short account. 2009/11/1 John Griffiths <johnjgriffiths@bigpond.com>: > > > > From: John Griffiths > Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:33 PM > To: berkshire-requests@rootsweb.com > Subject: Assistance with occupation > > > Hi Listers, > > Can some assist me with an occupation please. > > In the 1891 English Census lists my Great Uncles occupation as what appears to be Horse Haughterer Cat ?. The original document is a bit hard to read: Source Citation: Class: RG12; Piece: 992; Folio 109; Pg 4; GSU Roll: 6096102 > > Happy Days, > John from > Newcastle NSW > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BERKSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >