Project ID: 675
Description | Warrington U3A family history group have transcribed a 90 page hand written diary of a working class man in 1886, chronicling his daily activities and giving monthly accounts of his personal income and expenditure and of his money lending activities. |
Topics | Social history |
Type | U3A-led research (not an SLP) |
U3A | Warrington U3A |
Year started | 2016 |
Source of reference | Sources 62, Sep 17, p.13 TAM 39 Winter 2019 p52 |
Output | Talk given to Warrington Family History Group. Copy of transcribed diary printed.. Exhibition put on in Warrington Library. Article placed in local newspaper, which led to descendants of the diary's author contacting the group. some from Canada & France. |
Documents | Diary of Working Man |
Notes | The group also researched the family's background through census records, old maps and photographs. |