SFM2/41

Personal Account Book

1847-1863

From: 1847 To: 1863

1847 Of the North Western Railway Company…for Land Agency business…on the Bedford & Bletchley Branch 316.11.6 A subscription in aid of furniture for Communion Table &c Ampthill Church 1.0.0 1849 Millbrook Hand Bells 1.0 1850 Of Eastern Counties Railway Company for a Valuation 100.0.0 Extra expences Christening twins 1.0.0 1851 Expences of journey to London with My Wife to see Exhibition & my Journey on to Dorset & Devonshire 15.0.0 Expences going to Exhibition with my Family… 6.10.0 1852 Sub. To light Ampthill church with Gas 1.10.0 Of South Midland Railway Company for business done in the Year 1847 74.0.0 Of W L Lowndes esq., half years salary 12.10.0 Various purchases & extra expences in London, D of Wellington’s funeral &c. 2.0.0 Of Her Majesty’s Paymaster General for business done at Woolwich in 1851 15.18.6 Ampthill Coursing Club subscription 10.0 1853 Subscription for heating church with Gas 10.0 Mr Maule subscription to Singing Class 7.6 1855 London & Chrystal (sic) Palace 3 days 3.0.0 Royston & Hitchin Railway Company balance of my account for Land sales to them 42.1.9 Fireworks 2.6 1856 Talbot Barnard a Donation towardsthe erection of a Reformatory School for Beds 2.2.0 1857 Expences claring Ben out of Blue Coat School 1.15.0 Sub to Indian Fund self 10s. gave children 3s 6d 1860 W Stearn, Rifle Suit for Henry 3.5.0 Of Mr Wykeham Martin…on management of his Warwickshire estate 40.0.0 1863 Sub. Prince of Wales Wedding 2.2.0 Inside back cover a note of peach trees planted in 1851 and 1852

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Swaffield, Samuel,
North Western Railway Company,
Eastern Counties Railway Company,
Lowndes, W.L.,
Ampthill Coursing Club,
Maule,
Barnard, Talbot,
Stearn, W

family/personal financial affairs, North Western Railway Company, AMPTHILL, MILLBROOK, baptism, Great Exhibition, Dorset, Devon, gas lighting, funerals, Royston & Hitchin Railway, railways, fireworks, specific marriages