1891 continued

June 15 Miss Gardner died at Aston Hall

June 18 Miss G buried at Hopesay age 72

June 19 Sold store wethers at 47/- each 50 of them

June 24 Sold wool /11 per lb made 69..5..0

July 3 Heard my son Bernard selling for the first time at Bishops Castle

July 3 Began hay harvest. Finished August 15th

July 11 Mrs Jeffrey James Poole died in London

July 13 Mr Fergusson died in Shrewsbury. He married Miss Partridge (governess here 4 years)

June 21 Quarterly Council Meeting

Aug 19 Began grain harvest. Finished Oct 5th A long tiresome harvest

Oct 2 At a meeting at Deythur Grammar School

Oct 15 At Committee Meeting at C Arms

Oct 20 Foreman of Grand Jury at Shrewsbury Sessions

Nov 3 Finished carrying field of beans

Nov 10 J Jones, Blacksmith & Lawrence Wheelwright buried same day Hopesay

Dec 4 Planted a lot of apple trees. Jacks’s Orchard

Dec 30 Maggie & Kate at a dance at Chirbury.

This year one of my best cows broke the haunch bone, near the hip? Had to be killed

 

Year 1892

Jan 6 A Mr Lawrence (from Kent) came here to board (as lay reader to help Rector

Jan 6 Wrote to Mr Salway (re Deythur School

Jan 9 Attended 3 Council Meetings (Committees

Jan 21 Tom Vaughan ill Prescott, Maggie went there

Feb 8 With Jeffrey (Chilton) over Hanwood Barytes grinding mills (note: barytes is a form of concrete)

Feb 20 Undertook to act as Honarary Secraytary for this part for the Royal A B Society

Feb 23 Mrs Felix Ward died at Crows Moor

Mar 10 At sale (Mr Nevills?) of Laver?

Mar 12 Attended first meeting of Council after being re elected for Lydbury North

Mar 16 At Mr Baileys sale at Cheney Longville

Mar 18 Sale at Mr Myddletons at Beckjay

Mar 22 Our first grandson. Henry Cyril Davies

Apr 16 John Miles (my workman) he was on the farm when I came to it, worked 25 years for me

Apr 19 Attended John Miles’s funeral (Hopesay)

Apr 24 30 years as today since I married & now a grandfather, (how time goes on)

Sold barley at 4/6 per B

May 10 At visitation at Ludlow

May 18 Mr Gerrard married this day. At a supper at the Kangaroo Inn.