A Farm Journal ~ from the 1st to the 15th February 1868

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.]

A Farm Journal continues :~

7 - 1st 2 Mo[nth] - very Stormy wet & windy night & day tremendous wind - Flower cow cast calf at Cales

3 - 4 rather stormy morn[in]g - finish[e]d plough[in]g 

4 - 5 Windy but fair M[onthly] M[eeting] at Matlock bank met at Clara J. Stevens - nice meet[in]g - Tho[ma]s Hartras there & several Irish friends visitors - home with F[ather] & M[other] in their carriage - began to rebuild wall dale side of Lit[tle] Lamb pasture

7 - 8 Stormy morn[in]g N.E. with snow at times

1 - 9 Fine

2 -10 Ditto walling in Lamb Pasture

5 - 13 Fine day thrash[e]d & gr[oun]d mung etc W[illia]m at Cales doing cake breaker

6 - 14 Fine spring like day S[arah] A[nn Armitage] & Baby & I to Ashford J[ohn] A[rmitage] & Maria R.A.B[rayshaw ?] & children there

7 - 15 Rather colder north wind with hail at times get[tin]g stone lamb pasture