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 :~
12 Mo[nth] Cold raw day Co[u]s[in] H[enr]y Bowman here sold him 5 barren cows for £55 - got a truck of grains in at 6 1/2 p[e]r bush[e]l from Ind Coope & Co* 3 - 1
4 - 2 Fine day but dull self to Chest[er]f[iel]d M[onthly] M[eeting] & back - small meeting - Eliz Hopkins Jos Bottomley
5 - 3 -
6 - 4 Very wet day took l[oa]d of Swedes down to Pheasey Bakewell at 1/6
[No entries for two days]
2 - 7 Fine day B[akewe]ll Market took 35 fat sheep down sold to Septm** Press @ 35/- 15/- less for 1 - to Station to meet L.A.Fisher from Deptford who comes as our head nurse
3 - 8 Showery Sold J.Critchlow 6 fat pigs £21 - 10/- sold Etches Cales Cheese 72/- H[enr]y's beasts to Middleton to go in morn[in]g by rail fr[om] Rowsley - sold W[illia]m 5 Heifers & bo[ugh]t 2 cows of [sic] him
4 - 9 Fine day S.A. & I nurse & family to Middleton to dine met Meggy from B[akewe]ll
5 - 10 Fine fair Windy day (Killed ewe for selves) finish[e]d cut[tin]g Head[in]g Swedes to Cales began pitting all that were worth of the corn turnips in Watricle plough[in]g ley in Over Intake - sheep have cotton cake - showery time
[No entries for three days]
2 - 14 Very wet day to Millers dale with milk & on to Litton Rob[er]t Bramwell*** about some sturks & cow he sent here - home & weighed cheese at Cales for Etches 19 cwt 72/-
3 - 15 Cheese to Station Fine day at Cales got cake breaker ready for work & had Little Stones up etc.
* In 1868 Ind Coope was a brewery based in Burton-upon-Trent some 30 miles south of Monyash
** I can't quite decipher the 'Septm' written to JBB. It's more of a 'Sept' with a smaller 'm', 'n' or 'r' behind and slightly above.
*** This would presumably have been the Robert Bramwell who was 55 years of age in the 1871. At that time he was a farmer of 20 acres. His wife was 35 year old Hannah. They had both been born in Litton. In 1871 five children are listed ~ Thomas [13], James [9], Ann [6], Hannah [4] and George [1].
*** This would presumably have been the Robert Bramwell who was 55 years of age in the 1871. At that time he was a farmer of 20 acres. His wife was 35 year old Hannah. They had both been born in Litton. In 1871 five children are listed ~ Thomas [13], James [9], Ann [6], Hannah [4] and George [1].
Sorry about the fact that some of the lines are crunched together. They should have been spaced properly ! I blame Blogger.
ReplyDeleteSeptimus Press?
ReplyDeleteI wondered about that ... I think you could be right.
DeleteSeems to be lots going on at the farm,Pheasey was the name of our milk lorry company so a good local name.Anonymous is probable right as there was a Septimus Press at Tideswell.Ann
ReplyDeleteIt does seem a busy time doesn't it ... and all without telephones and the Internet. Yes,Pheasey is a local name ... as for Septimus Press [what a marvellous name] and I dare say you're right Ann. I did a Search in the Census Returns but didn't find anything for some reason.
DeleteAre Ind Coope still around today? I know they were in my younger days, I distinctly remember their brand.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Ind Coope are still around Mitch. I think they were swallowed up [sorry !] by one of the other breweries. I certainly remember seeing Ind Coope around a lot in my younger days.
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