tom's occupation please

[ladybird]

Can anyone read this Scottish occupation please
I read Thomas Conoway Gatherer of.....hares skins(really ??) deceased 
He used to be an ag lab in his younger days and would have been in his 50s when he died ( this is taken from his widow's death cert) I can't find his death on SP.
Many thanks Sylvia

[conahy calling]

Yes that is what I think it is too.

Added
http://www.victorianlondon.org/publications5/londoners-03.htm

Hare skins get a mention about half way down on this link.

[Rosinish]

Yes that is what I think it is too.

A 2nd opinion..............agreed 

I am curious where he lived whilst doing that 

Annie

[GR2]

In the late 1920s and early 1930s my parents lived on farms with plenty of wild rabbits. When these were caught for the pot, they were carefully skinned. Travellers used to come round and pay 6d per clean skin.

[youngtug]

Yes that is what I think it is too.

A 2nd opinion..............agreed 

I am curious where he lived whilst doing that 

Annie

Lots of uses for hare skins, from clothes to making  fishing lures.

and if you lived in the north of the Americas or Lapland ; http://nature.ca/ukaliq/023art/020_trd01_e.cfm

[youngtug]

And there is this legal case, although it doe's not say what the end product would have been it may be of interest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartog_v_Colin_%26_Shields

[Rosinish]

I really just wanted to know where in Scotland this occupation was as I'd never come across it here before 

Annie

[ladybird]

Well you learn something every day 
Sorry for the delay folks, the day and a rather important game of world cup cricket here in NZ got in the way ....man, our guys were on fire!!!
Annie, the 1851 census puts Tom and his family in Gallowgate, Aberdeen. Seems to have been there for a while as all his kids were born there
Thank you all for looking, it's not something I's heard of before