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Diaries [textual record (some microform)]

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Series

Date:

1821-1840, 1846, 1854.

Reference:

MG24-I14

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

113777

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Hamnett Kirkes Pinhey and family collection

Diaries
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Date(s):

1821-1840, 1846, 1854.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

40 cm of textual records.
1 microfilm reel.

Language of material:

English

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Series consists of notebooks of daily records, 19 September 1821 - 31 December 1828 in the hand of Hamnett Kirkes Pinhey, and 2 January - 31 December 1837, mainly in the hand of his elder daughter Constance. The entries regularly record the weather, events, tasks assigned to house servants, farm labourers, workmen, etc., as well as occasional comments on health, meals eaten, letters received and written, inventories and accounts of various sorts, diagrams of land and building projects. There are also indexed accounts, 1821-1829, of individuals and families in March Township, of the Pinhey farm, household, tolls, etc., and of such firms as Forsyth, Richardson & Co. of Montreal, and Philemon Wright & Sons.

Also included are 23 additional leaves containing rough notes and other miscellaneous items, n.d., 1824-1829, 1846, and 1854, file 6. The originals have been placed in security storage and a photocopy is available for research purposes. Received in 1980 from C. Dyson Pinhey of Ottawa, Ont., a great-grandson of Horace Pinhey, the son of Hamnett Kirkes Pinhey, through the courtesy of Philip E. Gerrard. Similar notebooks of daily records, 1 January 1829 to 31 December 1836 and 1 January 1838 - 28 January 1840, with accounts, 1828-1840, and 12 additional pages of rough notes, microfilm. Received in 1982 through an exchange arrangement; originals held in the Archives of Ontario, Toronto.

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Available on Reel H-924

Source:

Private

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MG24-I14
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Textual records

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Volume [MG24 I 14] 1--2

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Microfilm reel

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H-924;

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M-5567;

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