Tuesday 13 August 2013

A Farm Journal ~ 1st to the 20th October 1869 ...

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.]

John Bayliff Bowman is fourth from the left in the photo below ...
 
The Bowman family

 A Farm Journal continues :~
 
6 - 1st 10 Month] Fine day heavy rain last night shower at noon chain harrow[e]d manure at S.H. plough[in]g & working at Mill - we have had very heavy rain with a great deal of thunder & lightning corn out looks weather & some sprouting
 
to 7 day 9 Showery & close muddling weather - finer
 
4, 5 & 6 lead Watricle & fin[ishe]d top field lead Far piece S.H. Thrash[e]d etc thatching cows at S.H. have tick from some sows bo[ugh]t at B[akewe]ll 
 
to 4 - 20 Showery dried oats & gr[oun]d into pig meal thatch[e]d filled pudding pie in Willow-field & lighted [sic] & began Moss field pie - cows at S.H. about well again very severe frosts last night & one before very cold N. winds give cows at S.H. turnips & feed of grains & hay night & morn[in]g - Uncle & Aunt Wilson here - been to Middleton today - sold J.Harrison 7 fat pigs & 2 lame theaves 

10 comments:

  1. This talk of pies has me a little confused. Can you decipher this sentence:

    "dried oats & gr[oun]d into pig meal thatch[e]d filled pudding pie in Willow-field & lighted [sic] & began Moss field pie"

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    1. I think the punctuation should have been as follows Mitch :~ "dried oats & gr[oun]d into pig meal. Thatch[e]d. Filled pudding pie in Willow-field & lighted [sic] ... & began Moss field pie"

      Hopefully that makes it a little clearer.

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  2. Now, what is "pudding-pie"? I feel as though I should know - and "a lane surfaced with hardcore-like material" comes to mind, but whether that's it, I couldn't tell you!

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    1. As JKG has mentioned below we're pretty sure that a 'pudding pie' is a small lime kiln. We have the remains of quite a lot of the large stone lime kilns up here in Derbyshire but we think that a pudding pie could be more of a temporary feature. There's a Pudding Pie Hill less than 15 miles away ...

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  3. Could a "pudding pie" be a small lime kiln with limestone and wood or coal? It would explain the lighting of it and thatching to keep it dry.
    JKG

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    1. I think some of us had a 'conversation' some time ago as to what a pudding pie is/was and we decided it was a small [temporary ?] lime kiln.

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  4. I love the comment (thatching cows) I know they didn't really but it made me smile.Ann

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    1. I read it like that initially Ann ... then I realised that cows were unlkely to be thatched :-)

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  5. Happy Birthday, Charlie. I hope that you see this ... I don't really have any place else to say it!

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    1. Thank you Pet ~ I've just seen this today, 2.30pm on the 16th ... Thank you for remembering my birthday, it's very kind of you.

      I can be contacted on my Facebook page ~ http://www.facebook.com/charlie.wildgoose ~ and on Twitter ! The latter at https://twitter.com/propercharlie :-)

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