I am looking at a family which seems to match my great-great grandfathers; his occupation on the Ancestry.co.uk web site is given as Buttes. He was later a butler in a biggish house, but at this point is listed as head of household.
Any ideas what he did?
Or where to look? (I have tried
http://www.scotsfamily.com/occupations.htm
with no joy)
ID:2677
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Are you sure the Buttes isn't also Butler (its easy to interpret an l as a t and an r at the end of a word as an s)? Maybe he was butler in a house at that time but didn't live there hence was still head of his own household?
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Many thanks to Nick Walker and to Brian Thomson of http://www.scotsfamily.com; he was a butler, ancestry.co.uk had mistranscribed.
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Arrick