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 :~
3 - 1st 6 Mo[nth] Fine day wash[e]d all sheep
4 - 2 Fine morn[in]g showery even[in]g to Chest[er]f[iel]d M[onthly] M[eeting] self too pony & basket
5 - 3rd Fine fin[ished] sow[in]g turnips in Ridge piece
6 - 4th Ditto S.A. Baby & I to Ashford aft[ernoon]
7 - 5 Dull but warmer fin[ishe]d sow[in]g corn turnips & put things away corn late only just about 3 in[ches] high or 4"
1st - 6 Fine & warm W.S.W. & warm
2 - 7 Ditto very close B[akewe]ll Market Eliza Shaw came
3 day - 8 Ditto
4 - 9 Fine day F&M up to Meeting
5 - 10 Fine day cheese cratch fell & crushed a lot of cheese - we crimmed [sic] it over again being new
6 - 11 Walling etc - ditto
7 - 12 D[itt]o
1 - 13 Ditto Jos[eph] & Mary Burtt at Meet[in]g & here to dine - of the visiting committee - to O.A. to tea - Mother with them
2 - 14 Showery began to shear the hogs in aft[ernoo]n
3 - 15 Very showery day
