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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: david64 on Friday 25 February 11 19:11 GMT (UK)
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Evening,
I have the below inventory with an undecipherable word. My transcription is:
Impr[im]is two oxen - 06:00:00
Three {unreadable} - 06:00:00
One other cow - 01:10x:00
As usual thanks to anyone who can spare a few seconds.
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I think the word is "kine", meaning cows. I don't understand why there should be another cow which is not included in "kine", though.
Roger
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Hired Bullocks ?
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I have just thought that perhaps the 3 kine were each more valuable than the other cow and the barren cow, so listed separately.
Is the "other cow" valued at less than a third of the value of the 3 kine? I would expect the barren cow also to be less valuable.
Roger
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Before I saw Roger's reply, I read the missing word as kine.
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My interpretation, as a former cow keeper, for what it's worth ::)
two Oxen (draught cattle for pulling ploughs, carts, etc)
three Kine (any type of cattle but in this context I suspect it may mean milking cows)
one other Cow (possibly an older cow, hence lower value)
one barren Cow (neither producing milk nor carrying a calf)
three Bullocks (castrated male cattle for beef)
Mike
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Thanks Roger, Jacqui, Bridget & Mike, I have gone with Kine. Thanks also Mike for a bit of background info on farming.
The full transcript is as follows:
Impr[im]is two oxen - 06:00:00
Three kine - 06:00:00
One other cow - 01:10x:00
One barren cow - 01:05:00
Three bullocks - 04:10x:00
Three calves - 01:00:00
Two mares - 04:00:00
Two swyne - 01:00:00
Five & twenty shep - 02:00:00
Corne & graine in the barnes & house & ground - 08:10:00
Implements of husbandry - 03:10x:00
In ye parlour one feather bed & bedstead, one curtaine, bolster & other i[m]pp[lemen]ts thereto belonging - 01:00:00
One cupboard - 00:02:06
One chest - 00:05:00
One brass kettle - 00:03:00
3 small pewter dishes - 00:02:00
In ye kitchen - One long table & forme & {unreadable} & one stoole - 00:06:08
One dripping pan - 00:02x:00
One iron pott & frying pan - 00:03:00
Severall sorts of linnens - 01:00:00
In ye brewhouse two stands 5 chese tub & {unreadable} 36 - 00:08:00
Three barrells - 00:06:00
Weaving apparrell & money in his pockett - 00:15:00
Debts due by spescialties - 37:00:00
Old lumber & things forgett - 00:05:00