Farm Diaries of Hendrefeinws by Fourcrosses, Caernarvonshire

This material is held atArchifdy Prifysgol Bangor / Bangor University Archives

  • Reference
    • GB 222 BMSS/2453-2480
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1867 - 1923

Scope and Content

In the main they deal with the usual routine work of a large farm - the daily duties, sale of produce, prices of stock, all of which deepen in interest during the First World War [WWI], 1914-1918 [the diary for 1918 itself is unaccountably absent]. There are at least two hands, one, that of Uncle John, whose last entry is under 20 August, 1912 [he died on the 25th September], and that of Mis M.C. Hughes, his niece, who died in 1937. Her reputation on the countryside was that of an original independent-minded lady, somewhat irascible, but capable of great kindnesses (her family does not seem to have any connection with the old Hendrefeinws family which appears in Pedigrees, 366).

Other Finding Aids

Another catalogue description can be found here https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb222-bmsshen