Notes
on Sutherland of Rearchar papers
NAS
GD347
GD347/49
Rental
of Litle Torbol, Riarquhar, Evliks, Brea, gardens
occupied by Riarquhar servants . . .
Brea 1796 £6
3s 8d + 8½d fox money
1798
£7 7s 11d + 10d fox money
GD347/48
1787
August ‘This month built a Byer & Barn in Brea . . . got timber from Achinduich 15 new couples . . . Bot
Shioberscorse sheep & built a fold of rails bot of Andrew Davidson for them.’
24th
August Began to cut hay and ended cutting Septr 1st . . . full of the barn in Brea.
1788
May
19th & 20th The cattle went
all to Brea in fine order
July
29th The cows went to the Brea
Sept
1st The cows came that day from Brea
I
was free of Evliks Whitsy
1788 & this year got a liferent of ? of Riarchar
and Brea of Dalnamain.
Made
Baxter’s house of the east barn in Brea up quite new by Livalle
Nov
27th Donald Mchutcheon went to the Brea to
fetch the 12 wedders killed this season.
Dec 1st 6 wedders and 6 old Shiberscross sheep sold to John, Munro, Cromarty.
1789
May
19th Milk cows went to Brea. Cold wet weather.
May
28th The oxen went to Brea.
June
1st Sheep in Brea clipped & had 3½ stones wool. Oxen to the Gruids and yell cattle to Dalmore.
June
2nd The sheep lassy
came home late and had 43 sheep, 27 wedders & 10
lambs delivered her
June
24th The cows came first time from Brea
where one of my milk cows died.
July
22nd The milk cows went a second time to
Brea.
Aug
17th Livelle, John Ross & Donald Mchutcheon began to cut hay in the Brea, finished 19th
Sept
7th The cattle for sale came to Brea, the
milk cows came to Rearchar
Sept
14th Stacked my hay and cut the Brea bear with 13 hired hooks, 5
Brea folk and my own two lads
Sept
16th Clipt 27 lambs in Brea
Sept 30th All my shearers cutting oats in Brea.
1790
March
23rd Had 16 ploughs ploughing in the Brea
May
28th Clipd in Brea sheep 36 & wedders 34 & lug marked lambs there. Only 2¼ stones
wool and only 11 lambs.
Aug
24th 4 new scythes for cutting hay in Brea
Sept
24th Milk cows went a third time to Brea
[from The Last of the Tacksmen: Bell had to see to the
prosperity of the garden, but she also had the responsibility of the dairy-the
‘deye’ or ‘deyey’. There was a complaint that neither William
Taylor nor his wife mentioned how many milk cows the dairy had. “John Mathewson when he delivered me your letter
could not inform me, any more than a child, of any of those matters. I hope you have taken care, as you have
little cash, that the deye will have sixteen milk
cows. Be sure to keep the deye and boys in mind of a strict keeping of the grass in
Brea and assure them I will not forgive them if they neglect taking the stirks in early and all the heifers fit for bulling that
are not bulled, in time in the hill to be with the milk cows for bulling.” ]
GD347/48
|
1776
|
Aultanrivach GD347/48 |
£ |
s |
d |
|
James
Grant |
Rent |
1 |
5 |
|
|
|
Boll
salt |
|
11 |
4 |
|
|
|
1 |
16 |
4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Promise
to help at dykes |
|
2 |
10 |
|
|
Balance
due |
1 |
14 |
6 |
GD347/48
1790
Settled James Munro at Aultenrivach at rent of £1 5s
and a choice wedder. To take Biggings
& Dykes & straw at an appreciation, pay proportion of the expense of
appreciators & also expenses of removing Hugh McLeod.
He
is to grass & hird my Stirks
without any expense to me & also the Brea horses; assist at winning &
gathering all the hay, at cutting & leading all the corn, casting divad, repairing bigings, casting
peat. 3 days in riarchar, 1 day in
Brea; going errands back & forth with cattle to & from the Gruids.
|
1790 |
Appreciation
of Aultenrivach GD347/48 |
£ |
s |
d |
|
|
House
of 10couples mostly birch |
|
8 |
6 |
|
|
Door
checks 4d; 2 windows with brods 3s 2d |
|
3 |
6 |
|
|
Barn
of 2 couples 2/2d checks 6d |
|
2 |
8 |
|
|
Sheep
cott of 3 couples |
|
1 |
8 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
16 |
4 |
|
|
Dykes
appreciated as if new (tho but patched at the rate
of what a man could build of them in a day new at 6d per day |
1 |
11 |
0 |
|
|
Deduce
value Hugh McLeod had of them |
|
11 |
0 |
|
|
Balance |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Straw
£1 13s – wintered 6 head of cattle at 3s & 6 more at half a crown |
1 |
13 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1774 |
Brea
GD347/48 |
£ |
s |
d |
|
Hugh
Mathewson |
Rent
& fox money |
3 |
3 |
6 |
|
|
Arrears |
1 |
12 |
6 |
|
|
2
bolls black oats |
|
14 |
0 |
|
|
Half
boll bear |
|
7 |
0 |
|
|
|
5 |
17 |
0 |
|
|
1775 |
|
|
|
|
|
Timber
for barn |
|
7 |
0 |
|
|
Winterings at 16d per head |
|
12 |
0 |
|
|
Cash |
3 |
13 |
0 |
|
|
Balance
due |
1 |
5 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1775 |
Rent
& fox money |
3 |
3 |
6 |
|
|
Half
boll ferry bear |
|
7 |
6 |
|
|
Paid
doctor for you |
|
5 |
0 |
|
|
|
3 |
16 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1783 |
Brea
of Dalnamain GD347/48 |
£ |
s |
d |
|
Mrs
Gilchrist |
Yearly
rent |
4 |
6 |
8 |
|
|
Yearly
grassum |
1 |
17 |
½ |
|
|
Fox
money |
|
|
8 |
|
|
|
6 |