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, 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 ...
A Farm Journal continues :~
[There is no entry for the 1st of January 1869]
7 - 2 1st Mo[nth] 1869 Fine day snow most gone - stack in at Cales thrash[e]d & chopped by steam
1 - 3 Stormy
2 - 4 Very fine day B[akewe]ll Farmers club dinner - rec[eive]d 1st Prize £2 for swede turnips - W[illia]m Hadfield £1.10.6 for long servitude -
3 - 5 Stormy day
4 - 6 Fine Self to M[onthly] M[eeting] B[akewe]ll home to dine [2 pigs killed]
5 - 7 Fine but mainly misty - Tups away - three dead
5 - 7 to 3 - 19 Very wet or misty but mild weather - no servant have charwomen to help - plough[in]g etc sheep are not looking 1st rate too wet & grass frim* takes them off their dry food rather
- to 7 - 23 Mostly Fair today frosty with a little snow - plough[in]g ley began Seed Piece SH - sheep have chop malt combs oats & cake doing mid -
1 - 24 Very fine mild week for time of year thunder rain frequently
[There were no more entries for the rest of the month. I can't recall him missing so many days. I wonder what happened ?]
* The word is 'frim' not 'firm'. Grass is described as frim [usually] in Springtime when it is young and tender.
