| AdminHistory | Very careful and comprehensive accounts. The record of wages and prices as important as ever, the later ones especially illustrative of the economic reactions of the Great War and the difficult years that followed the Peace. Gwredog rent have moved up from £217 to £250. The diary for 1899 full of interesting asides of information - supply of tobacco for men sitting up with the mare (12 April); lambs sheared at 1½ each (31 July); 8/6 paid to a boy for frightening crows away from the turnips (3 Aug.). In 1906 there is a record kept of the preachers who came to Amlwch; early in 1908 no less than 121 moles were destroyed at Gwredog. On 12 June 1908, died the old servant John Roberts, which led to long-continued acts of generosity to his widow. |