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WOLVERLEY LODGE FARM : WEM : CO. SALOP

Catalogue reference: SAL 8

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This record is about the WOLVERLEY LODGE FARM : WEM : CO. SALOP dating from 1868-c1970.

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Reference
SAL 8
Title
WOLVERLEY LODGE FARM : WEM : CO. SALOP
Date
1868-c1970
Description

Farm account book, family history notes, Sundry papers

Arrangement

Summary of classes

1 BOOKS OF ACCOUNT

2 NOTES

3 SUNDRY PAPERS

Held by
Museum of English Rural Life
Language
English
Creator(s)
<famname>Harper family of Wem, Shropshire</famname>
Physical description
3 series
Immediate source of acquisition

Presented on photocopy loan 1972 January 20 by Mrs. H.A. Winnington

(Acc no 1051)

Administrative / biographical background

The donor's great grandfather was a Berkshire carrier. One of his sons, Joseph Harper, (1803 - 1887) who was a blacksmith, took possession of Wolverley Lodge Farm after his marriage in 1835. His son, Samuel (1845 - 1935) became the tenant in 1876 and remained in possession until the early thirties. The farm was a dairy farm

Farm size, etc.

71 acres; clay soil; tenant-farmed

Record URL
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WOLVERLEY LODGE FARM : WEM : CO. SALOP