Ostler

[stanmapstone]

Hi All - silly question time (this is my first post though!) would an 'Astler' be the same as an 'Ostler'? Or if not, does anybody know what the occupation would have been? The reason I ask is because this is shown as the occupation for an ancestor on the 1871 census and when I saw this thread I though I would ask the question.

Many thanks.

Sue

Hi Sue,
In my opinion it most likely to be Ostler Astler is a square hewn stone for building purposes or for pavement, a variation of Ashlar, and not an occupation.

Stan

[gw0mow]

hello cwm,  my grandfather was an ostler at deep navigation colliery in treharris, he retired abt 1955, he looked after the horses underground, i seem to remember the horses only came up the pit to retire, injured and in the summer holidays,they used to put a blindfold on them as they were not used to daylight. my other grandfather was a shoeing smith there.  pob hwyl     john

[Alienangel]

Hi Anne and Stan.

Thank you for your replies. A quite few of my ancestors worked as grooms at Chapel Brampton but this one is down as living in St Giles, Northampton which threw me a bit - probably because I was thinking it was as built up then as it is now!

Thanks again.

Sue