Posted on January 1, 2007
Posted UnderFamily Pages |
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Keartons Estate at Barrowally - 1765
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| Stock |
£
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s
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| Eleven mules |
453
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15
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| Eight horses |
96 |
00 |
| Two asses |
18 |
00 |
| Two bulls |
40 |
00 |
| Three cows |
27 |
00 |
| Eight sheep |
8 |
00 |
| Two young bulls |
24 |
00 |
| One cow and one heffer |
16 |
00 |
| Glossary |
| Coppers |
Large pans used for fast boiling |
| Stewart |
Steward: a person entrusted with
management of another person’s
property, especially paid manager
of large house or estate |
| Trash |
The crushed pulp remaining from
the cane after sugar extracted |
Necessary
House |
Lavatory |
| Gudgeon |
Most likely gudgeon pin that holds
piston-rod & connecting rod but
here may be something different |
| Still |
Apparatus for making spirits (in
the West Indies, rum) with boiler
and condensing chamber |
| Butt |
A barrel. Also a wine or ale cask
holding about 120 gallons Imperial |
| Pantiles |
Man-made tiles for roofing |
| Shingles |
Rectangular slip of wood used as
roof-tile |
| Puncheon |
A short post used as roof support |
| Hog |
Hogshead: Large cask. Also liquid
measure of 52 ½ gallons Imperial |
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