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.]
3 - 16 Ditto sheep shear[in]g
6 - 19 Ditto Ditto Jesse went to W[illia]m mow[in]g with machine
7 - 20 Ditto shear[in]g - very heavy thunder & strong lightning even[in]g & rain
1 - 21 Fine Irish came
2 - 22 Fine shear[in]g
3 - 23 Ditto pull[in]g thistles & Ketlocks* etc showery at times thunder rain spudding thistles etc
6 - 26 Irish began in Watricle thinning turnips at 11/- p[e]r ac[re] very full of Spurry weed** - horse hoeing etc
7 - 27 Very hot cut turnip seed bees swarm - seeds in Flat want cutt[in]g - fair pastures yet - corn very short some just beginning to shoot
3 - 30 Fine dry weather W.N. & N.E. began mow[in]g last night mow[e]d Flat Long & Barn
closes - fair crops
* ketlock is another name for charlock or wild mustard
** There are images of spurry weed here
If the lines are close together I apologise ~ Blogger seems to be letting me down today.
7 - 27 Very hot cut turnip seed bees swarm - seeds in Flat want cutt[in]g - fair pastures yet - corn very short some just beginning to shoot
3 - 30 Fine dry weather W.N. & N.E. began mow[in]g last night mow[e]d Flat Long & Barn
closes - fair crops
* ketlock is another name for charlock or wild mustard
** There are images of spurry weed here
If the lines are close together I apologise ~ Blogger seems to be letting me down today.
