Følgende er fundet på internettet fra Holstebro museum Danish Cattle dealers in England in the last Half of the 19th Century
By Esben Graugaard , cand. mag., curator
To a certain extent the cattle trade circles represented a common social background to the Danish cattle dealers in Newcastle. Laurits Lauritzen - the father of Hans Lauritzen - had himself driven cattle to Hamburg, which Jacob Bjerre, the father of Niels Bjerre, had done too. Jens Breinholt's father, Niels Breinholt, was one of the most famous bullock breeders, and Soeren Revsgaard Joergensen was the son of Hagen Joergensen, who was one of the most prominent cattle dealers in the last century. Peder Kjeldsen belonged to the Kjeldsen-family, which was a famous cattle dealer family in Himmerland. In the case of all these people we know, that they used to drive the cattle to the fairs in Slesvig-Holsten on foot. Literally, tradition had got into their feet.
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The Danish export of cattle to England had come to an end, and in mid-February the DFDS suspended the service between Esbjerg and Newcastle - "for the moment" it said in the advertisements - but there was never to be any further use for the Danish cattle dealers and their services in England. To put it in a modern term they had become unemployed. How did they solve that problem?
To Germany or home to Denmark
Only a very few stayed in England. Still, there is a big company in Newcastle called Troldahl Limited, which was started in the beginning of this century by cattle dealer Soeren Troldahl and his son. Most famous of those who stayed in England was Laust Ladefoged in London. After the turn of the century he switched to the import of Danish bacon, and his sons Niels and Esper Ladefoged became merchants in London and Manchester respectively. Until the 1980's the firm has been run by descendants, but then it was taken over by Vestjyske Slagterier (West Jutland Bacon Factories), which at the same time took over what was left of the business empire of Ivar Lundgaard, the most important Danish cattle dealer i this century.
After 1892 several of the Danish cattle dealers in England moved on to Germany and established firms there. Thus, Soeren Kattenhoej from Manchester settled first in Berlin and later in Altona and Lübeck, where his brother Anders Christian Kattenhoej, who came from Newcastle, was in a charge of an office. In 1899 Kattenhoej had moved to Esbjerg, from where he was running a slaughter-house and carrying on an export trade, while his brother had become a farmer in the parish of Vejrum north of Holstebro. Other cattle dealers from Newcastle moved to northern Germany too: Jens Stokholm Breinholt, Christen Ladefoged and Peder Kjeldsen to Hamburg and Altona.
1858 - 1914 (55 år)
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