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2002/38/1
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
This envelope contains farm receipts for Rayes Farm, near Bridgnorth, Shropshire, for the year 1924. It contains three receipts, one for an advertisement fee, one for a child's oak coffin and church fee, and one for miscellaneous hardware. Rayes Farm was farmed by the donor's grandparents, Evan Evans and Fanny Sophia Evans.
<DIV STYLE="text-align:Justify;font-family:Georgia;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:16;color:#000000;"><P><SPAN><SPAN>Farm receipts and shopping lists, 1913-1935These receipts illustrate the basic accounting techniques used by the farmer Evan Evans at Rays Farm, Bridgnorth, in Shropshire. Together with these spiked examples there are also many loose receipts in the reserve collections. It has not been possible to display all of them here. Together the receipts span much of the interwar period. This tenanted farm produced a mixture of beef cattle and crops. The Evans family moved to another farm in Radnorshire, Powys, in the mid-1930s.MERL 2002/38/1-14</SPAN></SPAN></P></DIV>
[nb-NO]Archival history[nb-NO]
Letter, Mrs B. Bradbury to Mr W. Phillips, 4 August 2003 – ‘… Rays Farm near Bridgnorth was farmed by my grandfather, Evan Evans, and his wife, Fanny Sophia Evans. I believe that they may have been tenant farmers at the time but I am not sure of this. They had six children, as follows:- // Richard Evan Evans – born June 1914 // Jack Evans – born circa 1917… // Thomas Frederick Evans – born 12th June 1920 (my father) // Gwendolin(e?) Evans – born circa 1923, died in infancy/early childhood // Dorothy Evans – born circa 1926… // Joan Evans – born circa 1929… // … The farm was a mixed farm (beef cattle, crops etc) as far as I am aware. The family moved to another farm in Radnorshire (Powys) in the mid-1930s.’, MERL miscellaneous note – ‘Farm Receipts from Rayse Farm near Bridgnorth, Shropshire: Accession Number 2002/38 // Two stacks were donated in October 2002. One was kept on its spike (dated 1913-1923) the other receipts (1924-1935) were separated and kept in a box. These receipts are filed by date in individual envelopes. The contents are as follows: // … Year 1924: envelope 2002/38/1 // … Year 1925: envelope 2002/38/2 … // … Year 1926: envelope 2002/38/3 … // … Year 1927: envelope 2002/38/4 … // … Year 1928: envelope 2002/38/5 … // … Year 1929: envelope 2002/38/6 … // … Year 1930: envelope 2002/38/7 … // … Year 1931: envelope 2002/38/8 … // … Year 1932: envelope 2002/38/9 … // … Year 1933: envelope 2002/38/10 … // … Year 1934: envelope 2002/38/11 … // … Year 1935: envelope 2002/38/12 … //… Shopping lists mostly no dates: envelope 2002/38/13 // Shopping lists for groceries dated but most not. Scrap pieces of paper itemized on the left hand side and prices on the right. Prices probably added by the grocer. Dates are most likely between 1924 and 1935.’
[nb-NO]Date[nb-NO]
1924 - 1924
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