Saturday 30 March 2013

A Farm Journal ~ from the 1st to the 15th August 1868

My great great great uncle John Bayliff Bowman lived at Summer Hill, near Monyash in the County of Derby.
 
The Bowman family, who were Quakers, had three farms, One Ash Grange [which John Bayliff Bowman often referred to as O.A.], Cales and Summer Hill [which he usually referred to as S.Hill or S.H.]

JBB's Farm Journal

A Farm Journal continues :~
 
7 - 1st of 8th Mo[nth] Very hot indeed cut about 14 ac[res] of corn up to this, clear blue sky no rain or signs meers getting very low etc many dry on Cales land make 1 cheese a day at S.H. good 16in[ches] & 1 one day & 2 the other at Cales
 
2 day 3 Very hot B[akewe]ll market bo[ugh]t 6 pigs 35/- to Union as Guardian 1st time - cut[tin]g corn
 
3 - 4 Ditto
 
4 - 5 Ditto M[onthly] M[eetin]g Mary Shipley & Lydia, SJWright Uncle & Aunt Howitt & Mary John Crit[chlo]w [?] & Sam[ue]l Bradbourne to dine
 
5 - 5  S. Fox died 6 PM Nice showery aft[ernoo]n & night very refresh[in]g but fine & hot next day
 
7 - 8 Windy & like rain at times but none - cut[tin]g Ridge piece corn fair crop - sold cheese at Cales to Etches 65/6 120 ch- 7 pigs to J.C. & Tom B. 1 cheese per day at each place Very dry pastures shall to lead water to S.H. again soon - drawing at the wharf mine now
 
1 - 9 Fine
 
2 - 10 Fine day very sultry finish[e]d cut[tin]g corn
 
3 - 11 Showery day Thunder storm morn[in]g & even[in]g - Self to Nott[ingha]m to attend S. Fox's Funeral - in the Friends Cemetery - aged 86 - large funeral 14 carriages of relatives & very large assembly of people to witness - several friends spoke at the grave side & had a long meet[in]g in Friar lane after when several spoke - dined at the shop & to tea at Houndsgate off home in even[in]g 
 
4 - 12 Fine day sow[in]g turnips broad cast in Watricle again - lead[in]g coal etc
 
5 - 13 Very showery lead part of corn out Crags
 
6 - 14 scuffling Winkerley etc
 
7 - 15 Fine day lead Crags & some at S.H. 
 
 
There is more about Samuel Fox here 

9 comments:

  1. Samuel Fox was quite a man,we could do with some like him now.Ann

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    1. Hopefully he wouldn't be revealed to be as bad as some of our 'heroes' nowadays.

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  2. I agree. I also wonder what propels one man to do so many helpful works when others around him did nothing but look after themselves if they could? He didn't seem to be especially rich. Now what is a scuffling winkerly....it makes me want to compose a children's nursery rhyme.

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    1. They put other people before themselves ... or at the very least tried to treat them fairly. Nowadays so many seem to be hell bent [appropriate phrase ?] on making as much as they can for themselves.

      As for 'scuffling Winkerley' as I recall Winkerley was one of the fields. So 'scuffling Winkerley' to me suggests that they were roughing up the ground ~ perhaps it had become hard packed after all the hot weather ?

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  3. It must make you feel sort of neat, having an account that is dates 15 August ...

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    1. I do tend to mark it more than any other day ... not surprisingly perhaps. It was some 80 years before I came along of course :-)

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  4. Looks like the drought finally broke. I was wondering about 'scuffling Winkerley' too

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    1. Yes, there was rain ... will there be more ? You will have to wait and see ... :-)

      As for 'suffling Winkerley' as I mentioned above in my reply to Karyn as I recall Winkerley was one of the fields. So 'scuffling Winkerley' to me suggests that they were perhaps roughing up the ground ~ perhaps it had become hard packed after all the hot weather ?

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