My Birth day [sic] 85 years, not a very
pleasant day had three Ducks for dinner,
Stanley & Rachel here for dinner, myself
not very well, a girl here sewing,
for Carrie.____
12m 8th Nathaniel & Isabela here for dinner
o
Levi Mary Lydia & Merton went down to
see Rachel. _
_9th Washing two weeks wash, myself
fixing up an Old Sampler for Lydia
marked in the year 1873,____
[pg 15a]
12/ 20th 1889 Carrie & Lydia went
to Picton, had to borrow a lantern
to get home, A very dark day & night

22nd First day a heavy wind, no one
person went to meeting, raining _
25th Christmas day Stanley & Rachel
here for dinner, A large goose for dinner
26th Andrew Whycott died about ten in
the morning.__ Aged 83 years.
28th Levi & Mary went to the funeral
to the house over night. _
1890, l m 1st _ Walter & Mary Levens here
o
for dinner, no sleiging [sic] raining hard
most of the day. ____

[pg 15b]
1890 l m 14th Lydia married to John
o
Williams in Picton at the age of fifty one
years, started for Whitby next morning