Bundle of Farming Steward's Accounts

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 EGR7/12/1
  • Former Reference
      GB 133 parcel 135.
  • Dates of Creation
      Jan-Mar 1822
  • Physical Description
      53 pieces, /2-53 enclosed within /1.

Scope and Content

The bundle contains a statement of the account of John Davenport [farming steward], with the Earl of Stamford, for the period January to March 1822 (/1), with 52 supporting vouchers and bills enclosed for disbursements as follows:

Monthly bills:

Account for 29 named labourers employed on the estate in January (/2) £63 14s

Account for 29 named labourers employed on the estate in February (/3) £58 8s

Account for 29 named labourers employed on the estate in March (/4) £64 7s

Account for gardens for January (voucher not present) £42 10s

Account for gardens for February (voucher not present) £32 5s 6d

Account for gardens for March (voucher not present) £132 13s 6d

Account of Timothy Brownell, estate carpenter, for January (/5) £18 8d

Account of Timothy Brownell, estate carpenter, for February (/6) £24 10s 11d

Account of Timothy Brownell, estate carpenter, for March (/7) £9 11s 7d

Account of John Leigh, wheelwright (/8) £10 4s

Account of Daniel Parsons, blacksmith, for January (/9) £2 10s 11d

Account of Daniel Parsons, blacksmith, for February (/10) £15 6s 9d

Account of Daniel Parsons, blacksmith, for March (/11) £3 6s 9d

Total monthly bills: £477 9s 7d

Quarterly bills:

John Warmisham, saddler (/12) £19 15s

Thomas Lilley, for 2 sets of horse tackle (/13) £6 6s 6d

Total quarterly bills: £26 1s 6d

Livestock bills:

Thomas Lilley, for 2 cart horses (/14) £50

Thomas Bower, for 50 wether sheep (/15) £46 5s

William Robertson, for 30 ewes in lamb (/16) £20 5s

Samuel Walker and others, for 13 feeding cows (/17) £109

William Berry, for 2 feeding cows (/18) £18 18s

Thomas Warburton, for 10 ewes with lambs (/19) £10

Total livestock bills: £254 8s

Grain bills:

John Dawson, for 80 measures of oats (/20) £13 6s 8d

William Warburton, for 55 measures of oats (/21) £9 12s 8d

Thomas Parrs, for 40 measures of oats (/22) £6 10s

Joseph Bebbington, for 6 loads of meal (/23) £9

Philip Clarke, for 45 measures of oats (/24) £6 15s

J. Mainwaring & Son, for 260 measures of potato oats (/25) £43 14s 2d

John Pownall, for beans, oats and wheat (/26) £49 18s 4d

John Pownall, for pig meal, oats and wheat (/27) £109 16s 11d

William Warburton, for 3 measures of beans for game (/28) 16s 6d

Joseph Bebbington, for 60 measures of barley (/29) £12

John Barratt [maltster, grocer and brandy merchant of Altrincham], for 6 loads of fine malt for the farmhouse (/30) £16 4s

Total grain bills: £277 14s 1d

Other payments:

William Warburton, for 19.5 cwt of straw (/31) £1 19s

Samuel Timperley, for carrying 960 alder poles out of the Redmers Nursery [Redmoor Covert] (/32) £4

Joseph Dawson, for sinking and laying a platt [?ditch] to carry the brook into the canal drain at Bollington (/33) £1 6s 3d

John Simcock, for 51 thraves of straw (/34) £5 2s

M[ary] & S[arah] Dean, for clothing a gardener who joined the cavalry (/35) £1 9s 10d

Robert Leather, for sand from Bollington used at the Hall (/36) £2

John Burford of Stourbridge [co. Worcs], for putting up iron spouts at the Farm (/37) £18 15s 1d

Thomas Grime, for sinking the main drain on Cockridge Moss [to. Dunham Massey] (/38) £ 4 11s

James Evans, for binding 3800 kids [faggots] of wood (/39) £6 13s

John Perrin, for 58 cwt of straw (/40) £4 16s 8d

John Johnson, for 2 tons of straw (/41) £4

George Chorlton, for 110 tons of gravel and stones (/42) £6 13s

James Priestner, for 199 loads of carrots for the deer (/43) £38 19s 5d

Henry Ackerley, for 36 cwt of straw (/44) £3 12s

Account for pulling up and fashing [cutting the tops off] turnips by 7 named women (/45) £3 14s

John Bancroft, for cutting a new road to the Castle Hill [to. Bowdon] (/46) £4 5s

John Noden, for 80 cwt of straw (/47) £8

Paid Elizabeth Podmore for 13 weeks [?] (voucher not present) £1 6s

John Davenport's travelling and other expenses (/48) £3 9s 10d

Nathaniel Timperley, for 144 thraves of straw (/49) £10 16s

John Partington, for paving at Dunham Farm (/50) £4 4s 6d

William Warburton, for 91 cwt of straw (/51) £9 2s

Thomas Lea, for besoms [brooms] (voucher not present) £1 10s

For 3 quires of paper (voucher not present) 5s

Paid for groceries for the farmhouse (voucher not present) £2 7s 6d

Joseph Hesketh, for ropes (/52) £6 9s 9d

Account of plough-driving (/53) £2 6d

Total other payments: £161 7s 4d

Total disbursements: £1197 0s 7d