This is an on-going piece of work and is far from finished: it’s intended to produce better transcriptions in future. The main aim at the moment is to identify the people and places mentioned.
In October 2018 the George Borrow Society held a very enjoyable weekend in Shrewsbury, where George, his wife Mary and step-daughter Henrietta stayed between July and November 1857 (George going off on long walks of course!) In researching the weekend reference was made to Mary Borrow’s account book and this page comes out of that.
George didn’t write about this period so our main source of information is Mary’s household account book, which detailed what they purchased on a day to day basis. The entire book is in Mary’s writing, which is sometime difficult to read, she often abbreviates words and is mainly concerned with watching where the money is going.
Whilst Mary presumably made a number of such books, only one extant copy is known: it’s held at Norfolk Record Office (catalogue reference MS 11328) and covers 1854 (when the Borrow’s were at Llangollen etc.) upto 1859 (just before they moved to London).
Mary used a pre-printed, ruled account book and so the pounds, shillings and pence are clearly written in the right hand columns, the day in the left (multiple lines come under one day usually), and between them Mary fits a brief description (usually including costs) of the items. You can click on the image below to get a larger version to see the detail:
Mary has a convention that above an amount in shillings she writes an inverted v, and over an amount in pence a half circle, so:
So on the whole line you have Loin Mutton 2s. 1d. Gooseberries 3d. Lettuces 1d. and you can confirm this because they add up to the 2s. 5d. shown in the right hand column.
Mary sometimes wrote a line in pencil, and then inked it in pen afterwards, creating a shadow and making it harder to read. E.g. the entry for the 24nd August 1857:
Below is a very rough transcription of the Shrewsbury period. The first page transcribed is headed July 20th 1857, which was a Monday. Where something is difficult to read and known to be wrong it is in italics. Any comments within the transcription are in square brackets, with the final column being used for notes explaining what’s going on.
£ |
s. |
d. |
Comments |
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July 1857 Note: the page is very hard to read and a lot of guessing is involved! |
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20th |
Phoebe |
2 |
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Mrs Wales 1st week |
3 |
7 |
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Eliza the servant 5 Plument life |
6 |
6 |
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Phoebe for cleaning cottage |
1 |
10 |
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21st |
Train from Yarmouth to Peterborough 3 fares |
3 |
4 |
10 |
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Do from Petboro to Shrewsbury 3 fares |
4 |
3 |
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Bill at Peterbro |
1 |
4 |
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Do at Crown at Shrewsbury |
1 |
10 |
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Flys Gerards Oliver basser, cakes |
5 |
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[Unreadable] + some home expenses |
19 |
2 |
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Mr. Borrow into Pocket |
1 |
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27th |
Stanfer 1 fock [unreadable] 5 6 |
6 |
6 |
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28th |
Grocery |
1 |
3½ |
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Goods Mrs. Tom delivery 26th |
7 |
3 |
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29th |
Heavy feafer 4 soda water 1– Raof 5 |
2 |
3 |
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30th |
Cabman to Pear 4 for best pack |
1 |
3½ |
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Bread and beer 9 buscuits & back 4 |
1 |
1 |
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31th |
Jily to B. Field 3 6 prescent to woman |
4 |
6 |
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August 1857 |
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1st |
Butcer Beef 1 2 lamb 3 4 |
4 |
6 |
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Flowers 2 [unreadable] 8 |
10 |
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Bread candlev cakes |
1 |
9½ |
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3rd |
Washing woman |
2 |
3 |
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24 July |
Morley 15 6 meat 2 5 grocery 2 11 |
1 |
10 |
Mary writes a total of £15 at the bottom of page, so probably realised she’d missed this out and put it at the bottom |
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30th [July?] |
1st week Mrs. T. + goods |
1 |
4 |
11½ |
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3rd |
To Morley wine merchant by bill |
10 |
10½ |
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By prescription |
2 |
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Mutton Pie |
11 |
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4th |
2 lbs sasauges at 10 for [unreadable] |
2 |
3½ |
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Cakes 5 fruit 10 |
11 |
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5th |
Mutton pie 1 2 eggs co |
1 |
8 |
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6th |
Suzat of Gough [unreadable] |
2 |
10 |
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6 botl soda water |
2 |
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[5] |
Bottle stout porter |
7 |
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Bunns ea |
6 |
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6th |
Grocery Bagnalls by bill |
4 |
3 |
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2nd week Thomas lodging + goods |
1 |
11 |
3 |
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Present to Sarah |
2 |
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7th |
1 lb Salmon |
1 |
3 |
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8th |
Pocket book |
4 |
3 |
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Veal |
1 |
5 |
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Salmon |
1 |
6 |
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Bacon |
7 |
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Grocery + sister |
10 |
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10th |
½ lb buscuits 4 bread [unreadable] |
10 |
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Sunday sermon 1 meeting |
2 |
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1 beabe in Porter both [unreadable] |
7 |
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11th |
Pickle 1 2 [unreadable] 1 |
2 |
2 |
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½ dozen soda water [unreadable] |
2 |
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Morley by bill |
10 |
4½ |
This is at the top of a new page and is much more readable than the previous page |
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12th |
Mutton pie 1 0 cotton 1 |
11 |
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Goosberries + beans |
4½ |
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1 lbe loaf sugar |
8½ |
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Biscuits 4 glen 6 umbrella mend 6 |
1 |
4 |
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13th |
Mutton chops 10 news paper 1 |
11 |
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3rd week Thomas + goods |
1 |
9 |
3 |
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14th |
Meat 8 Gussi /1/2 |
9½ |
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Meeting London visiting Society |
1 |
6 |
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15th |
Loin mutton 2 1 goosberries 3 lettuces 1 |
2 |
5 |
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Porter 4 botl. [unreadable] |
3 |
6 |
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½ lb tea Bagnall [unreadable] |
2 |
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Vevit 1 3½ cakes 6 |
1 |
9½ |
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17th |
Lettes stauihs 1 mutton 4 |
1 |
4 |
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wash woman for past week |
2 |
5 |
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card paper 4 cambrie 5 |
9 |
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18th |
soda water 2 20 cross book soap 3 |
2 |
3 |
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Riles tract 1½ grocery 1 9½ |
1 |
11 |
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Morley by bill |
10 |
4½ |
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19th |
Butcher 4 lbs mutton 2 10 goosbery 3 |
3 |
1 |
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20th |
charity 2 veal pie 3 |
5 |
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4th week Thomas Ladry goods |
1 |
7 |
9 |
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Present to Sarah |
2 |
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21st |
Blond [unreadable] 1 0 cake 2½ ribbon 2½ |
1 |
9 |
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Broach 3 6 carisihor 2 |
3 |
8 |
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22 |
Ginger wine 1 4 cakes 9 |
2 |
1 |
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Pears 8 meat 2 3 |
2 |
11 |
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½ doz soda water 2 pd same time |
2 |
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eggs 7 apples 1 charity |
9 |
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24th |
washwoman pd same time |
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Morley by bill |
10 |
4½ |
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Rusks |
6½ |
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25th |
Grocery |
4 |
3 |
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mutton chops |
1 |
6 |
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sugar moist |
6½ |
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26th |
chicken 1 10 flowers 1 |
1 |
11 |
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buns 3 rusks 2 pd order |
11 |
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sent hubd to Cardigan by PO order |
5 |
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27th |
eggs 6 biscuits 4 |
10 |
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5th week + goods 6 2 |
1 |
6 |
2 |
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28 |
Ink 1 meat pies 6 biscuits 4 |
11 |
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porter 2 4 pale ale 2 botl 1 4 |
3 |
8 |
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29th |
pears ¼ silk 8 |
8 |
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admeston back 4 6 refresht 1 |
5 |
6 |
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paper 2½ charity 1 |
3½ |
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[unreadable] morley by bill |
6 |
9 |
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chicken |
1 |
10 |
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30th |
Holy sacrament |
2 |
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31st |
[unreadable] |
2 |
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September 1857 |
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1st |
½ lb biscuits 4 [unreadable] 9 |
1 |
1 |
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Band petticoat 1 cakes 7½ |
1 |
7½ |
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2nd |
Meat 1 5 1 pt ale 2½ |
1 |
7½ |
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Soda water 1 doz pd |
3 |
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3rd |
Leg mutton 28 beef 2 |
2 |
10 |
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Brace Partridge |
2 |
6 |
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Grocery to same time Bagnall |
4 |
9 |
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Present to Sarah |
2 |
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4th |
Cakes 4 Sept Moses ½ bread 1 |
6½ |
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5th |
Apples + [unreadable] 4½ |
4½ |
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Bread 4 cakes 2 |
6 |
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Bill to Morley Beer 2½ |
13 |
2½ |
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7th |
wash woman pd |
2 |
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Brace Partridges |
2 |
6 |
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Tape & cotton 4½ paper 4 |
8½ |
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Mish meeting 1 gift to Serot 1 |
2 |
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8th |
Charity 1 cakes 6 biscuits 4 |
11 |
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Meat 1 6 |
1 |
6 |
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9th |
1 lb ½ salmon 2 spa water |
2 |
6 |
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Lavender water 1 |
1 |
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Porter 5 bottled soda water 4 to Sarah |
5 |
4 |
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Shrewsbury cakes 10 glae 10 |
1 |
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Cream cheese 6 |
6 |
There’s a word after this which looks crossed out, possibly aphlar 3½ |
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Tracts 1 by Ryle |
1 |
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10th |
Hoose 3 salmon 1 6 |
4 |
6 |
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Candles 1 lb sugar 8 Bagnall |
1 |
8 |
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Pork salt |
10½ |
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Goldbetzer skin to czaeca heed |
7½ |
Cannot make this out at all |
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11th |
Thomas 7th week + goods |
1 |
8 |
1 |
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12 |
Biscuits 4 jelly + cakes 1 |
1 |
4 |
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Tailor by bill |
6 |
6 |
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Braid 4 apples 3½ |
7½ |
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Chick 1 9 sausages 5 |
2 |
2 |
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13 + 14 |
Train 3 tickets 8 3 fly to Wrekin 3 |
11 |
3 |
George, Mary and Henrietta visited the Wrekin, and took train part way |
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Luncheon for 3 4s |
4 |
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1lb loaf sugar 8. ½ lb sausages 6 |
1 |
2 |
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1 Box night lights 7 |
7 |
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15th |
wash woman |
1 |
5 |
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meat 1 4 callicos 7½ |
1 |
11½ |
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1 Brace Partridges |
2 |
6 |
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16 |
Biscuits 4 shoes mending by bill 4 10 |
5 |
2 |
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Letter stampes 1 paper 3 |
1 |
3 |
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Callico 7½ bacon 1 7½ |
2 |
3 |
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Buns 4 sugar 6 |
10 |
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Morley by bill |
13 |
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Soda water 1 doz |
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17th |
Meat to Sarah |
1 |
7 |
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Haze 3 |
3 |
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Shrewsbury cakes 6 biscuits 4 |
10 |
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18th |
Thomas 8th week+ goods |
1 |
9 |
3 |
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Present to Sarah |
2 |
6 |
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Red currant jelly 6 paper 1 |
7 |
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Grocery |
3 |
9½ |
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Mutton for broth |
9½ |
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19th |
Chicken 1 9 apples 3 charity 1 |
2 |
1 |
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Brace of Partridges 2 6 whisky 2 6 |
5 |
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Honey 1 Bacon 2 2 |
3 |
2 |
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21st |
wash woman last week |
3 |
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Library book |
8 |
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22nd |
Biscuits 4 trip to Haughmond Hill 2 6 |
2 |
10 |
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½ dozen of Porter |
3 |
6 |
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23rd |
Chick 1 8 mustard 1 |
1 |
9 |
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Brace of Partridges |
2 |
3 |
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Max for Hen 1 cakes 1½ |
2 |
1½ |
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Cafe Crown 4 Border 1 |
1 |
4 |
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1lb Composite Candles pd same time |
1 |
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Meat to Sarah 22nd chops |
1 |
4 |
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24th |
Jozaines to specticles |
3 |
6 |
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Grocery 3 3 sugar 1lb 6 |
3 |
9 |
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Thomas 9th week + goods |
1 |
13 |
4 |
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Pd for Pelisse + shawl [unreadable] |
6 |
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25th |
Chops to Sarah 2lbs 1 8 |
1 |
8 |
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Towel wash 1 cheese 9 |
10 |
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Almanac maps tracts |
8 |
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Medicine 3 6 |
3 |
6 |
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Cake 3 Biscuits 4 Pears 2½ |
9½ |
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Morley by bill |
17 |
6 |
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26th |
Chick 1 9 sausages 1 mutton 1 2 |
3 |
11 |
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1 brace birds 2 3 paper 1 |
2 |
4 |
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Husband into Pocket |
2 |
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27th |
Missionary sermon 1 meetings 2 |
2 |
3 |
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28th |
Beef to Sarah 25 pears 2 |
2 |
7 |
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wash woman |
2 |
7 |
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Cam Sh loiue 6 soap 6 G. drops |
1 |
3 |
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Candles 6 Shrewsy cakes 6 |
1 |
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29th |
Chick 1 9 partriges 2 |
3 |
9 |
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Hall by bill |
7 |
8 |
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Grocery |
2 |
3 |
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Soda water 1 doz Blout |
3 |
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½ doz Barclays Porter |
3 |
6 |
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Cotton 1½ Biscuits 4 |
5½ |
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30th |
1 Bott Plae ale 8 Ginger essence 1 |
1 |
8 |
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October 1857 |
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1st |
Mr. B... Journey to Donington |
2 |
6 |
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Partridge 1 pears 2 |
1 |
2 |
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Brown loaf 3 pears 2 |
5 |
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Thomas 10th week + goods |
1 |
10 |
4 |
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Present to Sarah our Housemaid |
2 |
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Sugar 8 tea 1 charity ½ envelope ½ |
1 |
9 |
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3rd |
Hare 3 Pefelinints 1½ |
3 |
1½ |
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Chick 1 9 sausages 1 mushrooms 1 6 |
3 |
3 |
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Red Curt Jelly |
6 |
Presumably red currant jelly |
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Seed cake 6 roll 1½ |
7½ |
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Mutton omitted in weeks account 10½ |
10½ |
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5th |
Quilting Petticoat |
6 |
4 |
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Wash woman |
2 |
2 |
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Part leg Mutton |
2 |
4 |
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Brace of Partridges |
2 |
6 |
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Grocery at Bagnalls |
4 |
10½ |
This is John Bagnall, tea dealer & grocer, Pride hill [Post Office Directory 1856]. He also appears to have had another shop in High Street: Bagnall & Gittins, grocers & dealers [Post Office Directory 1856] |
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2 Tickets Vincent |
2 |
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Hus. for walk in search of Gronway Owen |
5 |
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6th |
Plumb cake 8 buns 4 wallnuts Pe |
1 |
6 |
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Pocket book Hus 26 paper 1 fund |
2 |
7 |
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7th |
Indian Sculpture eadersa |
4 |
6 |
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8th |
Morley by bill |
13 |
Probably Henry Morley, wine and spirit merchant, of Castle Street |
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Beef to Sarah 2 lbs. & 3 |
1 |
3 |
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Veal 2 l candid peal /1/2 |
2 |
2½ |
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Sugar 8 biscuits /1/2 |
9½ |
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9th |
Thomas 11th week & goods |
1 |
11½ |
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Cakes & at Crumpets |
1 |
3 |
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10th |
Chick 1s 9d Bacon 1s 6d |
3 |
3 |
Noticed that Mary writes marks above double figure numbers and in this case they must mean shillings and pence as they add to the total. The shilling mark is a bit like a “w” and the pence a bit like a “p” |
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Hare 2s 6d Candles 1s |
3 |
6 |
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Celery & Blond 4 Ribbon 6 |
11 |
The & looks like a 7 and is a pure guess, I think it cost a penny though! |
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Whisky |
2 |
6 |
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11th |
Pew opener at St Giles |
6 |
This would be St. Giles’ church, around a mile east of Shrewsbury, near Lord Hill’s column |
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12th |
Wash woman |
2 |
7 |
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Red Jelly to Buns 3 |
9 |
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Bagnall 3s 4½d new shawl |
3 |
5½ |
Prob. John Bagnell, although he’s down as a grocer |
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Porter ½ doz |
3 |
6 |
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13th |
Pd 1 doz soda water Mr Blout |
3 |
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13th |
Biscuits 4 |
4 |
This is the top of the next page and is headed Octr 1857 |
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14th |
Coach to Welsh pool coach & Guard 8 |
1 |
8 |
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15th |
Bill & Servants |
1 |
10 |
6 |
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Tluv into Pocket 3 |
2 |
6 |
This line is written in pencil and almost rubbed out at end |
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Pictures |
1 |
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16th |
Leg mutton |
3 |
7½ |
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Paper 1 shoes mending Mr T 2s 6d |
2 |
7 |
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Thomas 12 week goods & coals |
1 |
11 |
10 |
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Present to Hand Maid Sarah |
2 |
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17th |
Chick 1s 10d Celery 1d |
1 |
11 |
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Cakes & at Crmpts |
1 |
3½ |
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Wine & Brandy by bill |
13 |
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Grocery at Bagnalls |
4 |
3 |
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2 Herrings 3d |
Mary hasn’t carried the amount into the money columns |
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19th |
Veal |
2 |
6 |
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Pd wash woman 23 pleeces |
1 |
11 |
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20th |
Dinner bills |
1 |
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Bacon 1s 10½ cakes & hearv 5 |
2 |
3½ |
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21st |
Herrings 2½ Chick 1s 10d |
2 |
½ |
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Mutton |
3 |
6 |
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22nd |
Lavender water 1 camphor /1/2 |
1 |
1½ |
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Ginger drops 3d 1 lb candles 1s |
1 |
3 |
Not sure about lb which is superscript and clearly a unit |
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Partridges & 2 Herrring |
This has no money amount and is crossed out, there’s also a cross in the margin next to it |
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23rd |
Thomas 13 week coal & goods |
1 |
14 |
11½ |
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½ doz Porter 3 lb Candls 9 |
3 |
7 |
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Cakes 1s 1d Mr Star 9 |
1 |
2 |
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22nd |
Brace of Birds & Herrings |
2 |
6 |
This is top of page and is clearly dated 22nd Octr 1857: quite why this duplicates I don’t know |
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Cheese 1s 7d Post Office order 3 |
1 |
10 |
Don’t see it can be order but cannot make it much else: what cost 3d? |
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Charity Poor Girl |
1 |
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Grocery Bagnal |
2 |
9½ |
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24th |
New Purse |
1 |
6 |
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Fly to concert 3s prospectus 6 |
3 |
6 |
Would be a Saturday. There was a Grand Miscellanous Concert on the 21st at Music Hall, lots of patrons, major performers etc. |
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26th |
Chicken Her 1s 10d Brace Birds 2s 3d |
4 |
1 |
Mary had written 24th and crossed it out writing 26th instead. Presumably she didn’t always write things down on the day they occurred. Also presumably 2 chickens? |
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Mutton 3s 1d |
3 |
1 |
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25th |
Blessed sacrament |
2 |
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26th |
Soda water 10 oz f2d |
3 |
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Flaze Privishall |
2 |
3 |
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Bists 2 Pears 2 Pork pie 2 Herngs 2 Power bey 1/2 |
8½ |
Abbreviation for Biscuits? |
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1 lb Candles 1s 1 pattern of work 8 |
1 |
8 |
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27th |
Chick 1s 9d Mutton 1s 6 Biscuit 4 |
3 |
7 |
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28th |
Cakes 1s 1d news paper 1 |
1 |
2 |
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Fly to Jacob |
This is crossed out in book |
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2 fels Sherry 4s 6d Brandy 8s 6d |
13 |
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½ doz Porter |
This is crossed out in book |
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Dinner Pills |
1 |
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29th |
Library Book 2 Prints 3 Biscuits 1 |
6 |
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Sub Bible Society Isle of Man |
1 |
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Partridges 3s 4½d news paper 1 |
3 |
5½ |
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30th |
Sausages 5 Herrings 4 |
9 |
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Thomas 14 week & goods |
1 |
10 |
8 |
Goods looks more like Gaods |
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½ doz Porter hd to Sarah |
3 |
6 |
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Present to Sarah |
2 |
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British & Bible, Shroupsby Whilem |
1 |
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Octr 1857 Mutton |
1 |
1 |
This is the top of the page and Mary has written this as a single line |
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Commission to BankeorS |
5 |
Not sure about the bit after Bank |
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Bagnall grocery by bill |
2 |
8½ |
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31st |
Fly to Dr Kennedys fid |
2 |
6 |
Is this the Rev. Benjamin Hall Kennedy, D.D., headmaster of Shrewsbury School? Cannot find a medical Dr. Kennedy in Shrewsbury in Slater’s. |
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Cake 8 Jelly 6 |
1 |
2 |
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Leaaes for Pocket book 10 Sausages & Herring 11 |
1 |
9 |
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Tea Bagnold ¼ lb |
1 |
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Chick 1s 9d Pears 5d |
2 |
2 |
Not sure about pears, and other two cases they were only 2d |
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November 1857 |
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2th |
Essence of Ginger 6 news paper 1 |
7 |
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Hus into Pocket St Asaph |
3 |
4 |
2 |
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Wash woman |
2 |
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4th |
Mutton 10 Buttons 1 |
11 |
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1 lb corn fe candles |
1 |
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5th |
Cakes & bread |
1 |
¼ |
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6th |
Thomas 15th week & goods |
1 |
9 |
4½ |
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Watch cleaning 3s 6d chain 1s |
4 |
6 |
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Last piece of mutton 8 |
8 |
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Soda water sausages 5 |
3 |
5 |
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Bagnall Grocery 3s 3d |
3 |
4½ |
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½ doz hooler came on the 5th |
3 |
6 |
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Mr B boots healed |
1 |
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7th |
Brace of Partridges |
3 |
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Mutton 1s 4d Chick 1s 9d Herrings 2½ |
3 |
3½ |
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Wool leggins |
10½ |
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Toueard drawing lessons |
4 |
6 |
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9th |
Morley by bill |
13 |
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Cakes 11 & Baker 1 |
1 |
2 |
This is the top line of the page |
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½ lb sausages 5d shoe 1d |
6 |
Haven’t really noted it but Mary puts a halve curve above pence figures, like the top half of the letter O but more curving in. It’s actually a deformed letter d! |
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Hickman by bill |
6 |
10½ |
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Mutton 3s 5d |
3 |
5 |
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11th |
Portugal Onions 3½d Cotton 1d |
4½ |
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Chick 1s 7d whisky 1s 3d |
2 |
10 |
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Grocery Bagnall by bill |
3 |
7½ |
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Oakly by bill 11 news paper 1 |
1 |
1 |
The 1 in the shillings column looks more like a 9 |
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12th |
Repair watches |
3 |
6 |
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Cakes & Crumpets |
1 |
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Pencil sharper to Blond m 1s 9d |
2 |
3 |
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Paper 1 warrir shoes 1s 6d |
1 |
7 |
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Satin stock |
3 |
6 |
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Wash woman |
2 |
10 |
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13th |
Thomas close + 16th week & goods |
1 |
9 |
10½ |
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Mutton to Sarah 3¼ lbs 2mye |
2 |
11 |
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Hire of matrass by bill |
10 |
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Note case te.... 9 + 6 |
6 |
6 |
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Luaorin sleaes 2s Blake 2d |
2 |
2 |
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Gauntlets 3s 6d |
3 |
6 |
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Small tooth comb |
8 |
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14th |
For Boots stfo Mr Thomas |
8 |
6 |
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Charity 2s 6d Teppet 4d |
2 |
10 |
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Shrewsbury cakes 4s & 10 |
4 |
10 |
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Deves old books |
2 |
6 |
Possibly this is George Deaves, bookseller of Pride Hill [Slater’s 1856 Directory] |
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B2acon 2 lbs ¾ at 2s 1de pollo |
6 |
6 |
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3 sheets tinted paper |
1 |
6 |
This is the top line of the page |
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Washing & eggs Chick & finesrjacct ggs
|
1 |
The chick line is cross out |
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17th |
Present to Sarah 2s do 6d Elizab |
3 |
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Thomas 17 week + goods |
1 |
12 |
2½ |
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16th |
Hand f— 4s 6d wool liphed 4d |
4 |
10 |
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17th |
To Train at Shrewsbury |
3 |
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3 Fares to Peterboro |
4 |
1 |
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Bill at Peterboro |
1 |
9 |
9 |
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18th |
3 Fares from P... to Yarmouth |
3 |
4 |
6 |
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Ely Porter to from Train 1s 6d |
2 |
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19th |
Husb into Pocket 3s 3d |
3 |
3 |
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20th |
Sharman Buns Bisc Gingerbread |
1 |
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21st |
Bellamy by bill |
5 |
8 |
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Pheasant |
3 |
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Bill at Royal |
2 |
5 |
6 |
Presumably The Royal Hotel, Great Yarmouth, built 1840 as The Victoria, then renamed |
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½ ton of coal |
10 |
2 |
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Goods to Mrs Dineg |
8 |
8 |
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Boxes from Jepson + bank |
1 |
2 |
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22nd |
Presnt to Mrs Ding’s daughter 1 Lighting serv to |
1 |
6 |
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24th |
Poor man 2d gingerbread 3d |
5 |
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Writing paper 7d Ponions 5d |
1 |
||||
25th |
Cake 8½d Goosebry Tarts 6d |
1 |
2½ |
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Chick 2s Bzaid 2½d paper 1d |
2 |
3½ |
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26th |
Cafilet 1s 1d sugar cakes 1d |
1 |
2 |
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Swanborow Remoong books & laudry |
10 |
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Husbands Hair cut |
1 |