Item MFP/1/1/6 - Housekeeping account book of John Forth and Elizabeth Forth, 1798

1 volume

Includes notes on servants engaged, their conditions and wages.

Contents:

Folio 1: Casual Payments
Folio 50: The Butcher’s Account
Folio 65: The Corn Account
Folio 70: The Coal Account
Folio 75: Casual Remarks

Extracts:
Folio 9b 13th Mar. 1798.
“Ann Kirby left our service, she lived 4 years & a half with us, she came to be our dear Mary’s Wet Nurse”. Does this imply the birth of a daughter to the Forth’s? Hire and pay for Jane Miller as Upper Servant.

Folio 10b 17th Mar. 1798
Ann Potter as under Servant.

Folio 31b.

“Thomas Wales of Terrington Aged 10 years & a half, came to live with us, Mr Forth agreed with his Father to take him for 5 years if he behaves well, & to find him with all his cloaths, he came on the 18th of Nov. 1798. he is to have no wages all the five years but if he behaves in such a manner as to please Mr Forth, at the end of the five years he is, if he thinks proper to make him a Present of something but it is left to Mr Forth to give him what he thinks proper.” (See Acc. 54.6, Folio 28)

Folio 54. 1st June 1798.
“This Month’s Bill not settled, Mr Forth having sold Mr Masterman two Scotch oxen, the Price to be paid by this & the following Monthly Bills. The Price of the two oxen is twenty four Pounds, one ox to be taken away on Wednesday next, the other on the Wednesday following.”

[Extracts provided by a volunteer.]

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