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 :~
5 - 1 4 Mo[nth] Fine day bad luck - had to kill cow bo[ugh]t of Jon[atha]n Blore £17 - Inf[lammatio]n owing to drinking too much water - also sheep died Inf[lammatio]n before lamb[in]g - sold both to Biggin men
6 - 2 Ditto Very stormy night Thunder & lightning with snow
7 - 3 Fine day Truck of grains in - another sheep poorly pig dead at Cales £2 10 -
1 - 4 to 6 - 9 Showery weather mild & dull very dirty lost another ewe makes 2 sow[e]d manure on Seed Piece SH & harrow[e]d too wet to work well - lambs doing pretty well - very showery time no sowing
15th began drilling oats in Far piece S.H. harrow[e]d & sow[e]d finished
There are no more entries for the rest of April
He is having a bad time,I wonder if it carried on the same way through April.Hope you are keeping well Charlie. Ann.
ReplyDeleteIt seems odd he didn't post during the second half of April ~ I wonder what happened. I don't suppose we will ever know. Yes, he did have a bad start to the month though.
DeleteSeems he was losing a lot of livestock at this time. Perhaps it distracted him from making journal entries.
ReplyDeleteYou could be right Mitch.
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