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 :~
2 - 8 Very windy indeed B[akewe]ll merket - 6 cows down for Jos[eph] Lee - sold him 7 heifers £10 10/-& 2 calving cows £37 - Ashford to tea & home - beasts selling well & sheep & pigs
3 - 9 to 2 -15 Wet & windy weather sharp frost mid last week & snow gone on 6th day 15 B[akewe]ll Fair took beasts down for Jos[eph] Lee - sold cheese to Etches 71/- pigs 8/- very brisk fair for all classes
to 7 - 27 Pitted corn turnips in Ridge piece & cut swedes except a few at S.H. good crops plough[e]d & sow[e]d swede gr[oun]d at Cales with Rye
to 7th - 4th 12 Mo[nth] very stormy week 6 in[ches] of snow[e]d [sic] to Chesterf[iel]d on 4th day M[onthly] M[eeting] very heavy travelling W & E* with me Self to Nott[ingha]m & Norm[an]t[o]n & home on 6th day
7 -4th thaw[in]g very sloppy 11 pigs sold to J. Skidmore of Sheffield took to B[akewe]ll to truck one tippled over in lane & had to Kill - dress[e]d & sent by coach in even[in]g
* I assume W & E are his brothers, William and Ebenezer
