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.]
6 Mo[nth] 2 day 1st Very fine hot day B[akewe]ll Fair but slender show of all sorts bo[ugh]t 20 store pigs of Ward of Derby 27/6 & 36/- but they have the tick - we have been careful & dusted the places with McDougalls disinfectant & the cows have escaped so far the pigs are hearty but very lame
3 - 2 Ditto weather tho cloudy at times home hoeing swedes
4 - 3 ditto ditto club feast men all off
5 - 4 Ditto to Ashford to tea doing gaps up etc
6 - 5 Ditto to Middleton oldest reared calf dead at Cales
7 - 6 Ditto Fine 7 hogs & lambs cut & put in Fern dale - 4 more hogs to lamb & 4 lambed & lambs died from want of assistance or not foundering they should be sat up with as the lambs if small & weak or the hog will will not get to the pap - Middleton cow calved - the last calver except a sturk
1 - 7 Fine
2 - 8 Ditto B[akewe]ll market bo[ugh]t 9 more pigs finish[e]d doing gaps up began thinning the swedes
3 - 9 Ditto Ditto work all week sheared a few sheep & sold 2 fat ones 42/- each - hog with maggots sheared
2 - 15 Beautiful fine day tho' looked like thunder & rain at times - Mary Blackwell never came home last night & we hear that she is going off with Jim Green to be married wash day too so we are left in the lurch again - sold 2 fat sheep 38/- Irishman thinning turnips in Farpiece @ 10/- p[e]r ac[re]
