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DB/27: James Lewis, Plasterer
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Ref: DB/27Reference: [GB 0212] DB/27
Title: Records of James Lewis, Plasterer
Date(s): c.1847-1861
Level: Fonds
Extent: 1 volume
Scope and Content:Account book. Also contains an almanack for 1847. Inscription on fly-leaf: “Mr. James Mathias, Plastrer, Lewis Teres, Aberystwyth”. Identified on the 1851 census as James Lewis aged 60, plasterer of [2] Lewis Terrace, Aberystwyth, or his son, also called James.
The contents include payments to servants, and for servants’ apparel (clogs etc.) and personal purchases, also payments to masons, and for agricultural items. Much of the book appears to deal with the area from Llwyndafydd to Llannarth.
c.1847-1861