Year 1894

Jan 2 Daughter (Maggie) went to Wellington (to Mrs Llaneys.

Jan 6 Attended 3 Committee Meetings

Jan 13 Sold barley at 4/6 per B

Jan 19 In Birmingham

Jan 27 At Quarterly Council meeting

Feb 15 My neighbour Mr John Jones, had a bad horse fall, on the road & crushed him

Feb 22 Mr J Jones died this day aged 51

Feb 23 I was foreman at the inquest

Mar 7 At sale, Mr Howell’s. Clungunford

Mar 14 In Oswestry buying Shorthorn Bull

Mar 17 Mr T Craig (Hungerford. Killed, accident

Mar 20 At sale, Guilts? Of Whitton

Mar 23 In bed with a bad cold & chill

Mar 24 My son Thomas, thrown out of trap near Newport, going to Mr Vaughans of Caynton. Concussion of the brain, had a hospital nurse there attending to him a long time. came home June 15

Mar 26 Margaret & Jeffrey went to Caynton Tom unconscious for many days

Mar 28 Margaret came home. Emma went there

Mar 31 Went to Caynton. Tom too ill to be seen

Apr 1 Mr Richard Beddoes dies (at Rowton)

Apr 2 Had steam roller rolling the yard

Apr 21 Made my will. (Mr Hedlecott? Solicitor)

Apr 28 At Quarterly Council Meeting

June 12 My cousin John Parry came he had not been at Aston before

June 14 Mr & Mrs Lewis (Trefnanney here)

June 15 Wool sold at /10 per lb made 60..0..0

June 18 At visitiation at Ludlow

June 28 Began hay harvest. Finished hay August 4th

July 11 Killed the bull. His spine was diseased

July 14 Margaret ill. Hemorrage of the liver

July 26 Margaret, able to sit up on bed room

Aug 3 Began grain harvest