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Faye
Police Constable
Username: Faye
Post Number: 7
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 2:17 pm: |       |
hey everyone
While reading trough mr Rumbelow's complete Jack the Ripper, a question came up. In the chapter describing the murder or Annie Chapman he says that one of the people that lived on 29 Hanbury street owned a 'cat's meat shop'. Eventhough I have studied history, I have never even heard of such a term.
I doubt it would be a shop dedicated to selling meat for cats, especially since we are talking about a neighbourhood where a large part of the population even had food for their own families, let alone for pets. Can someone clarify this? Is it just a name for something, or is it a shop where they literally sold cat meat?
I feel pretty silly for asking, but it is worth a shot 
Faye |
Wolf Vanderlinden
Sergeant
Username: Wolf
Post Number: 22
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 3:41 pm: | |
Faye, a cat's meat shop sold meat, usually horse meat, to cat owners to feed their pets. Some sources describe the meat cut into small cubes and sold on a stick.
Wolf. |
Christopher T George
Inspector
Username: Chrisg
Post Number: 169
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 10:03 pm: | |
Hi, Faye:
Actually this question is one of those pesky questions about the case, and it came up before on the old boards. I am glad Wolf was able to provide an answer for you.
All the best
Chris |
Faye
Police Constable
Username: Faye
Post Number: 8
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 10:21 pm: | |
Hello Wolf and Chris
Thanks for clearing it up. I was kind of suprised to find out that there was such a thing in a neighbourhood like whitechapel! I expected that it would be considered a luxury since a lot of people had so much troubles providing for their own food.
Maybe it is a good idea for me to finally order the cd so I can look trough that for information
thanks
Faye |
Andy and Sue Parlour
Sergeant
Username: Tenbells
Post Number: 20
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Monday, June 02, 2003 - 6:52 am: | |
Hi All,
Re the cat's meat tale.
I remember my grandmother saying that nearby to where her father lived in Bethnal Green there was a 'Cat's Meat Man'.
Her father was William/Walter Henry Weston (my Greatgrandfather).
We researched the census and found him living at Pleasant Place Bethnal Green in 1881.
Living a few doors away at No 16 Pleasant Place was Henry Ritchie aged 56 occupation cats meat hawker, wife Matilda aged 50 occupation cats meat hawker and Henry Ritchie (son) aged 21 occupation cats meat hawker.
Three other children are listed as match box makers and a fourth as a scholar.
'Oh for the Good Old Days'!
A&S. |
Norma Rundle
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 8:13 am: | |
Hi Faye, interesting site this, researching this area re possible family connection discovered 1846 directory of this area, there was a butcher shop at at No. 17 Browns Lane, later renamed Hanbury Street. I have read that police initially
suspected a butcher to be J.t R.
Norma
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