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 :~
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
This talk of pies has me a little confused. Can you decipher this sentence:
ReplyDelete"dried oats & gr[oun]d into pig meal thatch[e]d filled pudding pie in Willow-field & lighted [sic] & began Moss field pie"
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"
DeleteHopefully that makes it a little clearer.
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!
ReplyDeleteAs 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 ...
DeleteCould 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.
ReplyDeleteJKG
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.
DeleteI love the comment (thatching cows) I know they didn't really but it made me smile.Ann
ReplyDeleteI read it like that initially Ann ... then I realised that cows were unlkely to be thatched :-)
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