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Daily life on a Patagonian sheep ranch (1902)
The private diary of Mary Jane Rudd [in English]

 1902:–    April :  May :  June :  July :  August :  September

October :  November :  December    1903:–    January


APRIL 1902

30 Wednesday  

The carpenter put the mouldings around the window in the conservatory; the one next to the dining room - Uncle Will came down to Gallegos for to register his baby boy birth

MAY 1902

1 Thursday  

Father and Guss and Johnie and Valenteen took the ewes away to the 3 Lagoons - Agnes, Nell and Will went to Uncle Willie's limit fence with them - Father left us at 2 o'clock - Peter came home again from Gallegos - Bilbow missed the steamer - Uncle Will is in Gallegos

2 Friday  

Will went up to the beach with 2 letters and a parcel of locks - He also went up to Aunt Mary's - Peter left to go to Coyle - The carpenter finished cutting the mouldings around the doors and floor

3 Saturday  

Uncle Will came down here and went away again - Agnes and Nell went up to Aunt Mary's with him for to see Mrs- Smith - She was away when they got up there - Will and Andie and Ted went down to the whale - Joseph Rivera came over here and took away 25 panes of glass - We heard of Mother's baby

4 Sunday  

Nell, Annie, Dood and Maudie and I went down to the water to see the whale - Will went up to the beach for some lock but they were not over - John Halliday came down here - Uncle Will left Aunt Mary to go to Coyle - Uncle Willie and Aunt Mary went with him

5 Monday  

John Halliday went away - He took a horse from Rivera's - Will and Andie went down to the whale and got asthma - I am dying with the cold - Freezing very hard

6 Tuesday  

Will and Andie dug up mother's early potatoes - The carpenter finished putting the moulding on front of the house, also around the South end windows

7 Wednesday  

Will and Andie dug some potatoes up in Observation Garden - Andie shot an ostrich - A foggy morning - A nice day

8 Thursday  

Will and Andie went down Observation - Andie shot a grey duck - I started to make a pair of gloves for Johnie - Nell and I made a hen drunk

9 Friday  

Mr Lewis and Mr Bertrand and John Halliday came down here - Will and Andie went down to Observation - My cold a lot better

10 Saturday  

Agnes and Nell took Mr Lewis and Mr Bertrand and John H. down to the whale - I was left at home - The carpenter started to put moulding around the passage doors

11 Sunday  

Mr Lewis and Mr B and John went away - Mr B turned back and stayed all night - John Halliday came back and took away the horse - We had a great hunt

12 Monday  

Will and Andie finished digging up the potatoes in Observation Garden - Mr Bertrand still here - We had a game of cards at night

13 Tuesday  

Mr Lewis came back down here with his horses - Mr Bertrand went up to Aunt Mary for his gear - He took Mr L half way - He went after him - Archie and C. Ferndas came down here

14 Wednesday  

Archie went away again - Mr L and Mr Ber[trand] went a walk over to the tur[nip] garden - Pigs that Was

15 Thursday  

Jose Rivera nephew came over here for the iron last - Will left the cob out all night

16 Friday  

Mr. L and Mr. B writing letters - A bitter cold day - Snowed a little

17 Saturday  

Mr Lewis and Mr Bertrand went away to Mo[ntevideo?] - Will went down to Conile? pallow beach with them - He shot? a rabbit - The carpenter went away in the morning

18 Sunday  

Agnes and Will away out to the wether camp for some white sheep - Father and Mother and Rick came from Coyle - Nell and [...] went a walk on to Sugarloaf

19 Monday  

Will and Agnes brought in the scabs out of the horse paddock - Father and Rick dipped them - He also went over to Rivera's - Guss and Valenteen came from Coyle - I got a letter from Frank L. - Budge and McKay came down to Gallegos

20 Tuesday  

I wrote a letter to Ann Fell - Nell and the others brought the Colts in - Mother picking potatoes

21 Wednesday  

Father killed Lemon the ox - Rick helped him - Valenteen and Will brought some potatoes - Andie digging Observation Garden over again - Agnes and Nell brought in Dick and Lemon

22 Thursday  

The German Steamer came in - Father went over to Gallegos - Rick left to go to the Falklands - Guss brought some sheep from Monties - Agnes, Nell and I got some salt? from ... Will brought the horses from the beach - He was up at Aunt M

23 Friday  

The carpenter came back home - The Steamer left to go to Punta Arenas - Andie and Valenteen digging in Observation garden - Agnes washed in the new house kitchen

24 Saturday  

Guss and Andie brought 2 carts loads of stick home - The carpenter fixed the hinges on the wash-stands - Valenteen fixing putty - A good lot of snow fell

25 Sunday  

Agnes and Nell and I went up to Aunt Mary's - A cold day - Will fixing his gear - Father came from Gall[egos]

26 Monday  

Uncle Will came down to - Aunt Mary and Harry J- went away home - We stayed all day at Aunt M - Guss took 2 cart horses up to Savalatos cart - McLeod? came here

27 Tuesday  

Guss and Will and Valenteen took the horses away to 3 Lagoons - McLeod went with them - We came from Aunt M. - Andie brought 2 cartloads of sticks - The carp[enter] started to make bedstead

28 Wednesday  

Father brou[ght] in some mutton - Andie brought some more sticks home - I am dreadfully sick ... sickly

29 Thursday  

Valenteen came back from Coyle and brought pastor with him - Father fixed the henhouse - He hit Bidge - I mended some clothes - Agnes finished Maud's dress - Father and Mother fixed the potatoes?

30 Friday  

Mr Bartola came down here - Uncle Will and McKay came over to Aunt Mary's - Valenteen left here for good and all - The first egg laid today - Father put the little stove up in the Shanty

31 Saturday  

Mr Bartola went away - Andie brought 1 load of sticks home - Father put a partition up in the shanty - Rivera brought sheep in for to dip

JUNE 1902

1 Sunday

Father went over to Rivera's and seen Mr- Rivera - He and Mother went up to Rivera's point - Agnes, Nell and I went down to the beach for to slide - A man came - He from Montez lost his way - Andie got 2 guanaco skins for to send to Denmark

2 Monday

Archie Halliday came down to Rivera's - He came over here - Father went over to Rivera's - The carpenter still fixing bedsteads - Andie brought some turnips over in the cart

3 Tuesday

Andie went over to Gallegos - Agnes and Nell brought in the scabby sheep out of the horse paddock - Father and Andie dipped them - A boy came here from Montez's to tell about the sheep - The carp[enter] started to put the bedsteads together

4 Wednesday

Father went over to Montez's and brought home his sheep and put them in the wether camp - Agnes got the toothache - Mr V Rivera came over here

5 Thursday

Father went over to Rivera's for half hour - Andie came from Gallegos - He brought the bacon up and Father put it behind the stove

6 Friday

Father went over to Rivera's - Andie walked up to the beach - I cut a jacket out for myself - A little snow fell in the evening - Freezing very hard

7 Saturday

A little snow fell in the afternoon - Andie brought some sticks home - The carpenter put a bedstead together - Archie finished picking his sheep out at Rivera's

8 Sunday

Archie left here with his sheep - Andie made s[ome] fox traps --He also brought the mail from Rivera's

9 Monday

Father writing letters - Andie left here for good and all - Agnes and I washed down at the shed - The carpenter finished putting the bedsteads together and started to make the dresser

10 Tuesday

Father went over to Gallegos - Andie came back from the beach for his clothes - Agnes and I washed the 4 blankets and 5 fleeces of wool - Bidge got a cold - A nasty snowy day

11 Wednesday

The carpenter finished making the 3 bedsteads - A lot of snow fell early in the morning - Freezing very hard - The carpenter started to put the dresser together

12 Thursday

A very cold day - The old hen died - The carpenter still fixing the dresser - We had a bath - Still freezing

13 Friday

The carpenter still making the dresser - A cold day - "Triste"

14 Saturday

Andie came back for the rest of his things - The thaw started about 5 in the afternoon - I finished making my jacket - Nell and I milked the cows late

15 Sunday

All the snow melted away - Raining from East - The carpenter did a little work in the morning - Us without meat

16 Monday

Agnes and I went over to Rivera's for some meat - Father came home from Gallegos - A nasty rainy day

17 Tuesday

Mr Lethaby came down here for an hour or two - 1 day school - Still raining - I started to make Edgar a waistcoat

18 Wednesday

Still raining and fogging - I finished Dood's waistcoat - Mother swept the new house out

19 Thursday

Father and Mother and Nell and Agnes pulled up the turnips - I? done the cooking - Mr- V Rivera came over here for a visit

20 Friday

Father went up to the beach for some wood - Agnes and Nell gathered up the scabby sheep out of the horse paddock - The carpenter put the shelves of the dresser together - I had a walk up on to the hill

21 Saturday

Mr Rivera came over here - Father dipped the scabby sheep and Nell helped him - Agnes took some away and put them in the point camp - the carpenter put the top on the dresser - A nice day - I milked the cows

22 Sunday

Father pulled the boat out of the sanko? (zanja?) on the beach in the morning - He and Mother took a walk up on to the hill - We went a walk down to the beach - A nice day

23 Monday

Father and Mother went up to Aunt Mary's and brought the baggon down - Agnes and I washed some clothes down at the shed - Uncle Willie started to dip - Thawing all day - The carpenter put some moulding around the windows + 5 bags + 3 boards of cedar wood

24 Tuesday

Father and Mother went down to the whale - The carpenter finished putting the mouldings around Mother's room

25 Wednesday

Guss, Johny and Will came from the 3 Lagoons - Father went up to Killy Aiky to baggon the South end front room - The carpenter put mouldings around this end back room and the middle room S T

26 Thursday

Father came back home and brought the Hamiltons' horse back with him - V Rivera came over here - The 2 boys and Nell could not find the calves - Foggy weather - Mother, Agnes and Nell finished baggoning the room

27 Friday

Father and Guss and the 2 boys dug the manure out of the pens at the shed - Mother and Nell put the baggon on the North front room - I finished making the black serge skirt and put it on

28 Saturday

Father started to dig the drain around the back of the house - Johny and Will and Guss helped him - Mother finished baggoning the North bay window - I scrubbed the kitchen out - The carpenter started to put mouldings around the S bay window?

29 Sunday

Father went over to Rivera's - He and Agnes, Nell, Johny and Will went out ostrich hunting - Father got a letter from J. Robertson saying Grandmother had passed away

30 Monday

Mr Rivera came over here for an hour - Nell and I washed down at the shed - Andie brought the mail - The carpenter finished putting mouldings on the bow window - Mother started to put the baggon on the dining room - Johny and Guss and Will finished digging the drain behind the new house

JULY 1902

1 Tuesday

Father put the posts down for the house at the back of the new house - Archie Halliday came down here - He killed Jack the cart oxen on the beach - Will got a letter from Mr Lewis - Nellen and I washed nearly all the clothes - Will puttied the dining room windows - Blowing very hard at 9 p.m.

2 Wednesday

Nell and I finished washing - The carpenter started to line upstairs - The boys and Guss still fixing the house behind the new one

3 Thursday

Johnie and Guss digging stones out for to make the cement around the house - Mother finished baggoning the dining room - Father wrote some letters - The carpenter finished fixing the upstairs rooms

4 Friday

Father and Guss and the 2 boys tried out the grease - The carpenter putting moulding on the dining room - I wrote a letter to Aunt Louisa

5 Saturday

Still trying out grease - Will went around the Point and brought horses home with him - I fixed my brown skirt

6 Sunday

Father and Mother went over to Gallegos - Guss and Johny took some turnips up to the beach for to be taken to Gallegos

7 Monday

Johny and Guss digging stones out - Will went up the beach for the 2 horses - He could not find them - I washed the clothes - A boat came down to Rivera's Point

8 Tuesday

Will went up the beach for the 2 horses and could not get them over the sand - The carpenter started to make the kitchen table - The sick mare nearly dead

9 Wednesday

Johny and Will went up to the beach for Father and Mother, and they were not over - Will went up to Aunt Mary's - John Halliday sent Nell a pair of reins - Wrote a letter to ??? - the sick mare died

10 Thursday

Johny went up to the beach - Father and Mother not over - A very cold day, snowing from the South - Agnes gave the men leave? the afternoon

11 Friday

Johny and Guss took the dead mare to the beach - Will shot a goose - The carpenter finished the kitchen table

12 Saturday

Guss and Johny digging stones out - The carpenter started to make the chest of drawers - Father and Mother and Jack Smith came down - Aunt Mary and Uncle and the girls and John and James Halliday went over to Gallegos to a Ball given at the English ???

13 Sunday

Johny, Guss and Will went up to the ??? with the cart and some sheep - Mr Han… - We went down to the beach - ... Rivera and hula? brought some cattle up to one of their ...

14 Monday

Nell and I washed - Johny and Guss brought some sheep in out of the wether camp - Old Clementy came down here for to tell us about the 16 wethers that came down the beach, that got out of the boat - Jack Smith still here

15 Tuesday

Father, Johnie, Will and Guss took some more wethers up to the beach - Johnie took the 16 up off the beach - They could not put the sheep on the boat - A cold day

16 Wednesday

Old Juan the boatman came down here for his boat - He could not get out to her, and came back here and stayed all night - Father and Mother went down to the vago to skate - The coldest day this year

17 Thursday

The old boatman went up to his boat and could not get her afloat - Father killed dents heifer - Guss took a horse up to beach for the old boat man, and he was not there - Agnes went skating - Will shot 2 geese

18 Friday

Guss, Johny and Will and the 3 children went up to the pond - Father went over to Rivera's for to tell them about the wethers on the beach - The German Steamer Chubut came in - The carpenter finished the chest of drawers - Rivera's boy came over for 24 ½ gallons of paraffin

19 Saturday

A heavy fall of snow fell. It started to snow about 11 p.m. - The Chubut went out for Santa C. [scored out - Ann White and them all left for Gallegos] - The carpenter started to make a desk - I started to make my jacket

20 Sunday

Will went up the beach for to see if the wethers were all right - He met Juan with his boat - The boys sleighing

21 Monday

Guss, Johny and Will went down to the Point for some wood - Agnes and I washed in the shed - The Lovart went out for Santa Cruz - Mr and Mrs White and Miss Cary and Jose Maria came over here - The snow started to thaw

22 Tuesday

Budge came down here - Charly Roberts came from Gallegos - Joseph Rivera's boy (nephew) brought the mail over - Johny and Will got a letter from Percy Brown - Jose Maria brought some more letters over

23 Wednesday

Guss, Johny and Will went up to the beach for to put the wethers on the boat - They couldn't find them - Mixed with Rivera's sheep - They seen Charly - Mr Rivera came over here - The men got some more wethers in - Heard that Bill Davis was dead

24 Thursday

Johny brought 4 size O bags of flour and some iron - Guss and Will took some more wethers up to the beach and put them on the boat; all safe but one - He got away in Uncle Willie's paddock - Jose Rivera's nephew came over for 2 packets of candles - Charly went from A.M. to Coyle

25 Friday

Johny, Guss and Will brought some cueros ?? up to the house - A very frosty day - Mother made Will and Johny a pair of pants each and sent back 2 too small

26 Saturday

Snow in the afternoon - Freezing very hard - Father and Jack Smith went over to Rivera's - Will calling geese all day but did not catch any - The carpenter polished some little doors in the shanty

27 Sunday

Father caught a goose in a snare - I cut 6 pairs of drawers for the 2 little boys - Ma…?? freezing very hard

28 Monday

Johny and Guss and Will went down to the point for 3 sleighs of wood - Nell and I washed - Mr Smith called a goose - Freezing very hard, coldest day yet

29 Tuesday

Mr Smith went away with Jose Maria Rivera - The boys and Guss brought shingle off the beach - Mr Rivera's son was over here in the morning - Johny killed a fox in the calf house - They put the milk cows out into the horse paddock and the horses also

30 Wednesday

Father went over to Gallegos - Mr Budge also - Guss took some turnips up to the beach for old Juan to take over to Gallegos - Mother and the boys picked some potatoes - A nice day after the snow nearly all thawed away

31 Thursday

Agnes and I washed clothes - Mother started to pick up potatoes - Mr Archie McPhail came down here and brought the 3 cart oxen down and left them on the beach

AUGUST 1902

1 Friday

Johny and Archie McPhail went up to the beach - Johny went up to Aunt Mary's and he brought the 3 oxen home with him - I helped to pick some potatoes

2 Saturday

Annie, Archie and Mabel Halliday came down to Rivera's for Charly's horses - They called here for a few hours - Archie raffled the reins and Mabel got them - Nearly all the snow thawed away

3 Sunday

Agnes and Nell went up to Aunt Mary's with a horse for Father and he was not over - Archie came nearly down here with the girls - Mr Scott came down here

4 Monday

I put the children in school again - The boys finished picking the potatoes - Agnes took the baggoning down in the boys' room - Snowed to 11 o'clock p.m. - Mother started to cut the edge of the wall paper

5 Tuesday

Father came down to the Point from Gallegos - He and Mr Scott went over to Rivera's - I cut a jacket out - I also got a pair of boots and Agnes too

6 Wednesday

The German steamer Rivadavia came in - Mother started to paper the North end bay window - Johny and Guss and Will cleaned out the dipping stage - Froze a little

7 Thursday

The Rivadavia went out - Father shot a goose - Mr Scott made up the accounts of the wool - Snowed in the afternoon - The boys finished cleaning out the dipping stage

8 Friday

Mother finished papering this end front room - The carpenter made the drawers for the desk - The biggest flood met

9 Saturday

Father put the grease in barrels - Mr Scott gave me a Turkish stamp - Guss brought the baggoning down from the beach

10 Sunday

Father, Agnes and Nell went over to Gallegos - Johny went up to Aunt Mary's - Mr Scott went up to Archie McPhail's ...

11 Monday

Mother washed clothes - Johny and Guss and Will trying out grease - The carpenter made a frame for Father's plan and polished the desk

12 Tuesday

The boys shaving hide - The Rivadavia came in from Punta Arenas - Bob bit Bidge's arm - Mother finished washing - The carpenter put the little mouldings around the drawers for the desk

13 Wednesday

The carpenter finished the desk - The Rivadavia went out - A cold stormy day - The boys still shaving hide

14 Thursday

Father, Agnes and Nell and Rick come home from the other side - The boys took some more cueros?? out - The carpenter mended 2 new chairs - Agnes and Nell got their photographs taken

15 Friday

Guss and the boys brought up the dip and a case of matches - The carpenter left for Gallegos - Rick gave me a pair of slippers - Mother baggoned nearly all the room of this end little room

16 Saturday

Mother and Agnes started to paper this end back room - The boys painted around the window and door - Rick gave me a piece of soap - Guss brought all the dip up

17 Sunday

Rick left to go to Coyle and he gave me some sweets - John, Maggy, Annie, Archie and Mabel Halliday and Mr Hunziker came down here for a few hours - The boys brought in the horses

18 Monday

Agnes and Nell and Guss, Johny and Will gathered the wethers, and Father also - Enrique came down here - The gatherers saw 2 little lambs - Father went out to Montez's

19 Tuesday

Agnes and Nell gathered a forint of sheep out of the middle camp - Father finished dipping the wethers - Rained in the morning, early

20 Wednesday

Agnes and Nell took the wethers away and they, with the help of Father and the boys, gathered all the middle camp sheep - A bitter cold day, blowing torrents all day - Mother got a cold

21 Thursday

Father finished dipping the middle camp sheep - Agnes and Nell gathered a few hundred sheep out of the point camp - Snowed a little - Will helped the girls in with the sheep in the afternoon

22 Friday

Father and Agnes and Nell and the boys and Guss gathered all the Point sheep and dipped and let some go in the Point - I and all got a cold - A blowy day

23 Saturday

Father finished dipping the Point sheep - Agnes and Nell throwing sheep in the dip all day - I did not scrub out the house - Enrique went away, and that's all

24 Sunday

Aunt Mary and John came down - Mrs Rivera's two little girls came over here with a boy - Father went over to Rivera's - He dipped some sheep out of the hay paddock

25 Monday

Aunt Mary and John went away - Father and Will oiled the front of the house - Johny and Guss brought some turnips from the garden - I scrubbed out my room

26 Tuesday

Father and Guss went over to Gallegos - Mother and Nell finished papering the roof of this end back room - The boys fixing nails in the roof of the dining room - A little better with the cold

27 Wednesday

The boys painted the roof of the dining room - Agnes and Nell papered a little more - I am cook - Rained a little - Still got the cold

28 Thursday

Guss came from Gallegos and he gave Johny a knife and Will some gear rings and Ted some sweets - The girls finished this end little room - Some of the paper came off the roof - The girls started to baggon Mother's room

29 Friday

Guss and the 2 boys brought 10 white sheep our of the point camp - Enrique and his cousin came down here for their horses and went away again - Agnes and Nell finished baggoning Mother's room and painted the roof

30 Saturday

The boys and Guss went to the middle camp for some white sheep - We scrubbed out - Jose Rivera brought some wethers over

31 Sunday

Archie Halliday came down here - Agnes, Johny and Will went out to the wether camp

SEPTEMBER 1902

1 Monday

Johny went up to the beach for a horse - Archie took his sheep away from Rivera's - Agnes and Nell started to paper the middle back bedroom - I put the children in school - A nice day

2 Tuesday

Father came from Gallegos and brought some battens and W… and scantling down to the Point and a basket of onions - Agnes and Nell finished papering the back bed room - We got the photos of the girls and Father and Rick

3 Wednesday

Johny and Will brought the colts in - Guss brought all the cargo up from the beach - Mr Figuro took two horses away from here to go to Punta Arenas - Jose Rivera came over here - Mrs Rivera had a baby boy on the 2 S... 190[2]

4 Thursday

The boys and Guss left to go to Coyle - Agnes and Nell started to paper our room and some of the boy' room also - Started to rain in the evening - Father is sick with a bad arm? - The Santa Cruz came in

5 Friday

Domingo B came here to work - Agnes and Nell started to paper the dining room and finished papering our room - Father still sick - A damp day - The Chubut came in in the morning, and the Santa Cruz went out

6 Saturday

Father cut the bordering for the dining room to suit - Domingo B started work - A nasty rainy day, raining from the East

7 Sunday

Agnes and I went over to Rivera's - We also went down to the beach and over to the grave - A damp day - The mutton wether got out of the hay paddock into Rivera's park

8 Monday

Mrs McGeorge and Annie Halliday came down here for a few hours - We heard that the Feltons were back - Agnes and Nell finished papering the dining room - Domingo painted Mother's room

9 Tuesday

Father started to paint the skirting around the upstairs rooms, and also one of the front rooms - Agnes and Nell papered the boys' room - Domingo painting the dining room roof - Annie burnt her leg

10 Wednesday

Father and Agnes and Nell dipped the scabs and put some clean ones into the point camp - The Chubut came in from Punta Arenas - My cold is a little better

11 Thursday

Rivera's nephew came over here for to see if Father [had] any letters to send away - Agnes and Nell finished papering Mother's room and started to put the bordering on in the North front room

12 Friday

Agnes and Nell started to put bordering around in the dining room and upstairs - A nice morning and a cold, damp afternoon and northerly wind

13 Saturday

We scrubbed out - A cold day - The Elena came in - Jose Rivera came from Gallegos - The girls putting bordering around in the dining room

14 Sunday

Father painted the washstand for Mother's room - He went over to Gallegos - Ted and Dood brought 3 sheep from Rivera's - Agnes and Nell finished putting the bordering around the dining room and also Mother's room

15 Monday

Agnes and Nell put all the bordering on upstairs - Domingo painted the kitchen, some of the passage - A nice morning

16 Tuesday

Blowing from the North - Agnes and Nell finished putting the bordering on the 2 back rooms - Mother washed - Everything miserable - Anny brought in 10 eggs - The girls started to paper the sea side room

17 Wednesday

Agnes and Nell still papering the front room - The pigs upset the lentsoil??? - Rained in the evening - A nice afternoon - Domingo finished painting the long passage with the white paint and started to paint it with brown

18 Thursday

A cold, blowy day - Agnes and Nell finished painting and scrubbing out the 2 front rooms - The men started to paint the roof of the kitchen again - Annie and Ted took our horses out of Rivera's paddock

19 Friday

Mother made Edgar a coat - The girls papered the middle room upstairs with papers - Blowing very hard from NorWest

20 Saturday

The girls and I scrubbed out - I milked Black-and-Whitey - Mother finished 2 for Maudy - Domingo killed, or rather choked, a sheep and Agnes skinned it

21 Sunday

Agnes and I went up to Aunt Mary's - Johny, Will and Guss came from 3 Lagoons - We brought a letter down for father from Walter - We heard of Harry started to get [himself a house ??]

22 Monday

Dreadful cold day, blowing and snowing and freezing very hard - Guss and Will fixed rhubarb - Johny and Mother oiled conservatory - Domingo sick

23 Tuesday

Johny puttying the windows - Will took a horse up for Father - Agnes and Nell papered the middle upstairs room - Nearly all the snow melted away - Guss and Domingo wheeling manure into Father's garden

24 Wednesday

Johny and Guss puttying windows - Father painted the 2 washstands and dresser - Will put a post in for the clothes line - Agnes and Nell papering upstairs - Domingo cleaned out the pigsty - A medium day

25 Thursday

Johny painted passage - Guss brought 4 bags of flour size O and a bag of sugar and 4 foxes - Father painted the washstands and dresser again - Agnes and Nell finished papering the stairs - A very cold day

26 Friday

A very stormy day, snowing and blowing - Father put the panes of glass in the doors - Johny painted? some more in the passages - Guss and Will planed the dining room floor and the little passage a lot? - Agnes fixed the 2 front rooms and the cupboard in the dining - The Santa Cruz came in from Punta

27 Saturday

A cold, blowy day and snowing - Father painted the 2 cane bottomed armchairs - Johny finished painting the passages - Guss puttied the glass in the doors

28 Sunday

John and Archie came down for an hour or 2 and brought some potatoes down - The Rivadavia came in - Mother and Nell? painted 2 bedsteads

29 Monday

Still cold and the mutton frozen - Agnes and Nell started to paint the windows - Guss and Johny painted doors - Will fixing salt meat - He went over to Rivera's rochesio? and he could not be found - The Rivadavia went out

30 Tuesday

Guss went over to Gallegos with a letter from Father, and to get some men - Father started to get the ground dug up for the garden around the house and he made a flower pot - The Santa Cruz went [out?] - Mother washed clothes

OCTOBER 1902

1 Wednesday

Manuel came down here from McKay's - Father finished making the 2 flower pots - Johnie painting the doors - Will started to make smoked salt meat - A nice spring day

2 Thursday

Ellen Elsie Rudd's birthday - Father went over to Gallegos - Guss came home from Gallegos and brought 2 men with him - Father dipped the scab.. - A very nice day

3 Friday

Rivadavia went out - Agnes and Nell went out to the middle camp - Agnes found the first ostrich nest with 23 eggs in it - John and Guss and Will went out to the wether camp - The 2 men started to work to dig up the ground in front of the house - A lovely day - I took a walk to blow h...

4 Saturday

Johny went to the point camp - Guss and Will went to the middle camp - The 2 men carting manure into the garden - A very nice day

5 Sunday

Father came over from Gallegos - We girls went over to Rivera's - Nell and Johny brought sone guanaco manure from the flat beach - Agnes got a letter from Feb?

6 Monday

Father and Agnes went over to Gallegos to go to Aunt Agnes and John Halliday - Roy Watson came down here for a few hours - Guss and the men planted the jib-and-mainsail garden - Johny and Will went to the middle camp - A nice day

7 Tuesday

Johny and Will went to point camp - Guss and the men planted some of Father's garden - Mother and Nell planted all the onions and some seed cabbage - Out of school

8 Wednesday

Finished planting Father's garden and also the sod wall garden - A foggy day - Mother painting doors - I am sick with the cold - A damp day

9 Thursday

Johny and Will went out to the middle camp - Guss and the men planted Observation garden - Mother and Nell planted the seed in the conservatory and some in the garden - I am sick with the cold

10 Friday

Guss and the 3 men shifted the fence in further to the dripping paddock - Johny and Will went to the point camp - I have a cold and everything else - Blowing

11 Saturday

Johny and Will went out to the point camp - Guss and the men picked potatoes - I started to make Annie a dress - Guss fixed the fence on the beach - Blowing

12 Sunday

Nell and Johny went up to Aunt Mary's - Aunt Mary's girls and John went up to Killeky - A nice day - Guss rode Kruger

13 Monday

Rick came down here from Coyle - Nell got a letter from Mary Ann - Annie and Ted got a letter each from Wasel - Nell scrubbed out the kitchen - Johnie and Will went to the wether camp

14 Tuesday

Johnie and Will went to the middle camp - Guss and the men mended some fence - I milked the cows - Nell cooked ces... - Blowing - Father and Agnes came from Gallegos

15 Wednesday

Father and Agnes came from Aunt Mary's - Blowing very hard - A medium day in goodness

16 Thursday

Rick left to go to Aguada - Johnie went up to the beach for some things - I got a brooch from Aggie - Will went to the point camp - Johnie planted willows in front of the house

17 Friday

Johnie still planting trees - Mother planted over at the grave and Will helped her - Will went to the point camp - Domingo left - Blowing - Alfred cut some batten

18 Saturday

Father started to make the fence around the house - Will went to the middle - We scrubbed out the house

19 Sunday

Johnie and Will and Agnes, Nell and I went up to Aunt Mary's - We all went out into Aunt Mary's camp for a ride - McPhail came down here for a letter at Rivera's

20 Monday

Mother and Nell planted some seed at the grave - Father making the fence around the house - Alfred planing post - A blowy day - Will went to the point camp and started to go to school - Will saw a young calf

21 Tuesday

Nell and Will went to the wether camp - They looked some of the middle camp - Nell killed 6 young foxes - Johnie brought in a horse for Julio, a Spanish man, and he took the horse away - Mother scrubbed out the 2 front rooms - Rained a little in - Father still fixing the fence

22 Wednesday

Nell and Will went to the point camp - Father finished putting the fence around the house - Harry and Alfred dug a well in each corner of the new garden - Mother cleaned the South bay windows, nearly all

23 Thursday

Father fixed the sides of the wells with barrels - Agnes and Will went to the middle camp and they found an ostrich nest each - Blowing - Nell cook - Will brought home a scabby sheep that Nell tied down and dipped one also

24 Friday

Father and Johnny made the stove pipe - Domingo came over here for his things and brought the mail - A bitter cold day - The carpenter came over here from Rivera's for some tools from Father - Agnes and Will went to the point camp and Agnes got a scabby sheep

25 Saturday

Father planed the wood for the back of the dresser - Agnes and Will went to the middle camp - A cold frosty day - Harry sick - The carpenter came over here for some sandpaper and glue - The Rivadavia came in

26 Sunday

Uncle Will and Mr Smith came down here from Gallegos - Father finished the dresser and started to put the oil cloth down on the 2 front rooms and dining room - I got a photograph from A?? - Nell and Johnie brought in a cow ... of the point camp

27 Monday

Mary J Birthday age 19 born year ... - Guss came from the 3 Lagoons - Harry Spenser left here - Agnes and Will went to the middle camp - Manuel came over here with a letter - Father got a letter from Walter - I and Nell wrote to Rick and Nell ... wrote to Mary

28 Tuesday

Uncle Will and Mr Smith went away - Father killed the boar pig - He also fixed the new wire fence and took down the old garden fence - Agnes and Will went to the point camp - Nell and Will went in the afternoon to dip 2 scabby sheep and they could not find one - Agnes painted my neck with yoda

29 Wednesday

Father cut up the pig and salted him - The men sewed some wool bales - Alfred dug up some ground above the well - Agnes and Johnie went to the wether camp and brought in some wethers - Will dipped a scabby sheep in the point camp

30 Thursday

A nice day ... a rainy - blowing from the north - Nell and Will went to the middle camp - Nell got a scabby sheep - Agnes took the wethers out to the middle camp and brought home a little motherless lamb - Father made a gate - Johny and Guss planted the strawberries, the apple trees and raspberries in front of the house

31 Friday

Father made a gate at the South end of the house - Nell and Will went to the point camp - Nell brought home a little lamb and a ewe in the afternoon for to take the lamb - Mother and I planted the East side in front of the house - a lovely day till about 2 o'clock - Rain? and thundered

NOVEMBER 1902

1 [Saturday]

Father went over to Gallegos - Guss took 40 odd sheep up to the beach - Johnie took the cart up full of potatoes - Will went out to the middle camp - Johnie and Guss and Alfred planted some willows - Mother finished ... in front of the house

2 [Sunday]

John, Maggie, Annie and Mabel Halliday came down here for a few hours - We girls and Johnie went up the beach w[ith] them - The 2 girls and boys went to the point and ... of the point camp

3 Monday

Nell and Will went to the middle camp - Guss brought some shingle up from the beach - Agnes went up to Aunt Mary's - Uncle Willie started to lamb-mark - A nice day

4 Tuesday

Raining in the morning - The men sewed wool bags - Johnie brought in the black cow off the pampa again - We went a walk over to the grave - A beautiful afternoon

5 Wednesday

The men dug up some ground below the big hole - I planted the children's garden - Nell and Will went to the point camp - Rained in the afternoon - Agnes milked the cows

6 Thursday

Johny and Will went out to middle camp - I finished planting the garden in front of the house - The Gurd [Uarda?] came in - A rainy day

7 Friday

Agnes and Will went to the point camp - She brought home a lamb - Johnie and Guss dug up some ground in the garden and fixed the nets and made tent pegs - Father came from Gallegos - Agnes and I finished planting the flower seed

8 Saturday

Father and Johnie went up to the beach with the cart and to bring down a bull - Uncle Willie finished marking the lambs - Guss and Alfred mended the middle camp lamb marking pens - They took the cart out in the morning with the nets - Johny brought it in again - Mother and I washed clothes

9 Sunday

Archie Halliday came down here for to go to Rivera's lamb marking - Father took the cart out to the middle camp - Agnes, Nell and the 2 boys and Guss gathered some middle camp sheep - Ted and Edgar went out on my horse - Riveras also gathered sheep for marking

10 Monday

Father marked all the first lot of lambs out of the middle camp - Agnes and Nell gathered all the middle camp sheep - Will got thrown off his pony - The others helped to gather also - Archie came down here from Rivera's lamb-marking pens

11 Tuesday

Father finished marking in the middle camp lambs - He shifted the tent - The girls and boy and Father gathered the top lot of point sheep - Archie came here from Rivera's lamb-marking pens - The little boy came in from the middle camp lamb-marking pens

12 Wednesday

Agnes and Nell and Will gathered the point sheep - Father finished marking the first lot of point sheep - Archie came down from the marking pens - I got up first about ½ past four pm? - A very cold day - Annie and Ted went out to the marking pens

13 Thursday

Father finished lamb marking and brought in all the things - Archie went away home - Johnie brought our sheep over here - A very blowy day - Agnes brought in some horses - The men shore some scabs

14 Friday

The men finished shearing the scabby sheep and dipped them - Agnes finished putting the linoleum down in the 2 front rooms - A very blowy day - The men took manure over to Uncle Will's garden

15 Saturday

Father went over to Gallegos - The boy got in the scabs - Agnes and Nell brought in the colts - The men? got a holiday - Mother washed some clothes

16 Sunday

Father came from Gallegos - A fisherman came up here from the beach for some bread and meat - He gave us some fish - Nell and I brought 2 cows in - Spot with a calf and the red one - Mrs Ferra came over her Rivera 2 children

17 Monday

Father and Johnie and Guss and Alfred left for the 3 Lagoons - Agnes and Nell brought in some wethers for to go to Gallegos - Rained in the morning - One most wretched miserable

18 Tuesday

Blowing a gale of wind - Nell milked the cows - Agnes put some oil cloth down - Aunt Mary's girls and Bob White came down from Jameson's

19 Wednesday

Aunt Mary and John and Jimmy came down here - Nell and Will took the wethers - Will could not get them over - He stayed up there all night - A beautiful day

20 Thursday

Aunt Mary and John went away again - Will put the sheep on board the boat - The Rivadavia came in from Punta Arenas - A very hot day - Nell and I watered the 2 gardens at the shed S.T

21 Friday

Agnes and Will went to the middle camp - Mother and Nell washed clothes and some blankets - A nice growing day

22 Saturday

Agnes and Will went to the point camp - Will saw another little calf - Nell and Will fixed some of the sod wall in front of the house - Agnes got 2 scabby sheep - Mr and Mrs Smith came from Gallegos and went to Coyle - Mother made my serge skirt

23 Sunday

Agnes, Will and I went up to Aunt Mary's - John and Archie came down here for a bull - We went a walk up to the beach at Hill Station

24 Monday

The carpenter came over here in the morning - He put the stove in the new house and put the handles on the washstands and desk and cupboard - Agnes finished laying the linoleum in the dining room - Rained in the morning

25 Tuesday

Agnes, Nell and Will dug up the ground for us to set the turnips - I scrubbed the 2 bed rooms upstairs - A nasty blowy day - Agnes pulled up the oilcloth in Will's room

26 Wednesday

Agnes and Will went to the middle camp - They brought in some wethers for a man that came for them from the butcher - They took them up to the beach - Nell went to the point camp - I planted some turnips - We shifted the beds into the new house

27 Thursday

Will came from Aunt Mary's - Agnes got asthma - Mother got a letter from Father - I got one from Rick and Rockie - Will got one from Wasle? - I cleaned nearly all the upstairs windows - A rainy afternoon

28 Friday

A rainy morning and afternoon - Mother put the curtains up in the South front room - Agnes and Mother planted the cabbage plants - Will fixed the sod wall

29 Saturday

Agnes and Nell and Will went to the middle and point camp - I scrubbed out the kitchen - Mother washed some clothes - The girls planted some turnips

30 Sunday

I finished planting the turnips - Will started to paint the roof of the house - Agnes and Nell went to the wether camp - Mother put the curtains up in the other front room

DECEMBER 1902

1 Monday

Agnes looked some of the point camp and the middle also - Will fixed the fence at the far end of the wether camp - I put the children in school - Nell painted the two pinnacles in front - Rained in the afternoon

2 Tuesday

Agnes and Mother washed clothes - Nell painted some more of the roof of the house - Will looked some of the point camp

3 Wednesday

Father, Johnie and Guss came from Coyle - Agnes looked some of the point camp and middle also - Will looked the middle camp - Nell painted a little more

4 Thursday

Father went over to Gallegos - The butcher's man came for 50 more wethers - Guss went up to the beach with Father - Agnes and Nell brought in the wethers - Will went to the point camp

5 Friday

Johnie helped the man to take the wethers - Guss took up the cart and brought home 60 odd sheep skins - Agnes and Will went to the middle camp - Charley and Mr Scott came down here - A medium day - The 2 boys painted some of the roof of the house

6 Saturday

Blowing a gale - Guss painted nearly all the front of the house - Nell and Will went to the point camp - I scrubbed out the kitchen and pantry and cooked

7 Sunday

Johny took the cart up to the beach - Guss went up also - Father came from Gallegos - Johnie brought 5 bags of flour down - Will and Agnes went to the middle camp - Will? shot tweed?

8 Monday

Father left for the Tres Lagunas - The 2 boys and Guss and they took some colts with them - I finished making Bridge's dress - Agnes got the toothache

9 Tuesday

John and Maggie Halliday came down here - Mother sent away a Blackie? - Nell fixed the bacon and brought the salt meat up to the house

10 Wednesday

Agnes and Nell went to the point and middle camp - The carpenter fixed 3 chairs - I cut a blouse out for my self - The 2 little calves got out - Annie and Teddie cleaned up around the door

11 Thursday

Agnes cleaned out the dark room - Mother finished Dood's suit of clothes - A squally day - The little red calf got out - Rivera's nephew came over here for studs for the bale hooks

12 Friday

Agnes and Ellen hung the pictures in the 2 front rooms - Mother made a mattress tick - I made Annie a chemise - A cold day - The little red calf got out again - The Chubut came in

13 Saturday

Nell and Agnes went to the point and middle camp - The butcher's man came for more wethers - We did not give him any - Annie and Mabel Halliday went up to Killike - The black cow had a calf

14 Sunday

Nell, Annie and I went up to Aunt Mary's - We met Archie McPhaill and McGeorges - 1 of the bank men and John and Archie came half way down with us

15 Monday

John and Archie came down here to kill a mutton and went way at 12 p.m. - Agnes and Ellen went to the two camps - I cooked - Started to shear at the 3 Lagoons

16 Tuesday

Maggie and Mabel came down here for some condi fluid for John's leg - He cut it when skinning a sheep - Agnes and Ellen washed - Mother made a dress for Bidge - I cut my jacket out for Xmas

17 Wednesday

Agnes and Nell went to the point camp and middle camp - Agnes dipped a scabby sheep and saw a lot more - Worst Luck - The black cow would not take her calf ST

18 Thursday

Agnes and Ellen washed clothes - I cleaned some glass - Mother made a dress for Biddy and Maudie

19 Friday

Jose Maria Rivera brought the mail over - Agnes and Nell went to the camps - I cleaned 2 doors - Mother finished Maudie's dress and started to make my tweed skirt - I went over to the grave

20 Saturday

I cleaned out the kitchen and black-leaded the stove - Nell put the clock up in the dining room - Agnes fixed the back bedroom - I put a table in the pantry - Carlos Nap got a bar of soap

21 Sunday

Agnes and I brought our boxes down here - Nell making herself a jacket - Mother finished my grey tweed skirt

22 Monday

I scrubbed out the upstairs rooms - Nell and Agnes went to the camp - Mother making Ted a coat - The girls brought in the old milk cows - A man came from Rivera's for salt and the 3 little children came with him

23 Tuesday

Nell scrubbed out the dark room and I scrubbed out the pantry - Agnes cleaned some windows - Mother made the boys' clothes

24 Wednesday

Mother finished the boys' suits - I scrubbed out the kitchen - Nell scrubbed out the conservatory - Agnes scrubbed the passages - Agnes got a ½ a sheep from Riveras

25 Thursday

Christmas Day - Agnes and Nell and Annie, Ted and Dood and I went up to Aunt Mary's - We ... Felton's nephew and Archie McPhail and Willie - Archie came down with us and went back up again - Bilbow brought a letter from the butcher asking for 50 wethers

26 Friday

Agnes and Ellen went to the point and middle camps - I cooked - A blowy day

27 Saturday

Nell and Agnes went to the wether camp and got 4 sheep on their backs - I scrubbed out the kitchen - The Rivadavia came in

28 Sunday

The butcher's an came again for sheep - Mr and Mrs and Miss Feltons came down to Hill Station - The Rivadavia went to P. T. Arenas

29 Monday

Father, Johnie, Will and Guss came from Tres Lagunas - Agnes and Ellen went to the camps - Mr Walter Felton came down here and stayed over at Riveras - Agnes and I went over to Riveras for a mutton - The blackie came over here - I and Agnes went over to the grave

30 Tuesday

Father went over to Gallegos and Guss also - Will took 50 wethers up to the beach and Nell helped Will to bring them in - Agnes washed clothes and I scrubbed out the pantry - The blackie weeded some of the jibsmainsail garden - W.R and the Rivadavia came in from Punta Arenas and the ... came in from Buenos Aires

31 Wednesday

John, Maggie, Ann, Mabel and James Halliday came down here - Will took the cart up to the beach - We all went for a walk down to the beach - 2 men came here from the beach

JANUARY 1903

1 Thursday

Agnes, Nell, Johnie and Will went down to the point with Aunt Mary's boys and girls - Agnes went a bit up the track with them when they went home - Johnie and Will took the cart up to the beach and brought down 16 bags of dip and 1 box of ginger ale - Agnes and Nell brought some fish off the beach - Uncle Will came down to Gallegos and Guss came from Gallegos

2 Friday

John and Aunt Mary came down here and brought the news of Jim Fell's death - Father went up to Aunt Agnes - John helped Johnie? in the shed - Agnes went to the camp and Nell also - Archie and Maggie went up to Aunt Agnes - Rogerio started to work till Father came home - The men pressed and bale[d]

3 Saturday

The boys finished cleaning up the shed and pressed the skins - Will took the cart up to the beach and brought down all the cargo brought over - Andie came down here and did a little work in the afternoon

4 Sunday

... went back home and Johnie went with him - I am dying with the cold

5 Monday

Nell went up to Hill Station for Aunt Mary at ... a.m ... started to cook - Father engaged Rogerio to work - 2 men ... a hole above the spuds at the big hole - Will went up to the beach [for] some rope - Rick also went up to see Uncle Will - Guss went up to the beach

6 Tuesday

Nell and Johnie and Will and Guss gathered the wethers - Will went up to the beach for a box of things - I have the cold - Mrs Terra come over here and Rivera's two girls

7 Wednesday

Rick and 3 other shearers started to shear - Andie and Blackie rolling up the wool - Nell sick with the cold - Agnes washed clothes

8 Thursday

Father went over to Gallegos to register the baby - Aunt Mary went home - Will brought the cart back - Johnie brought in all the wethers out of the horse paddock

9 Friday

I wrote a note to John telling him Rogerio and Blackie were to help them - Will went up to Aunt mary's for a letter - Rained very hard in the morning - The men shore a few sheep - Will put Jean's? calf in for the first time

10 Saturday

Archie Bierd? and Charlie Small came here - The men shore nearly all the wethers - Got the ear ache - I scrubbed out the pantry S.T

11 Sunday

Agnes, Nell and Rick gathered the first lot of middle camp ewes - Johnie and Will dipped the wethers and took them away - Mrs Rivera and 2 children came over here - Father and Mr Shroda? came down here - I milked the 2 cows at 4 p.m.

12 Monday

Rained in the morning and squally the rest of the day - Andie took the cart up to the beach - Mr Shroda went up to Kileke - Mr Rivera came over - The two new shearers started to shear - John brought spot? in - The cook came down from the beach

13 Tuesday

Will took 50 wethers up to the beach - Father went up to the beach with Sheroda - The cook started to cook - I scrubbed out the kitchen and Nell cook[ed]

14 Wednesday

Father dipped the wethers and let them go in the horse paddock - John Blackely came down here - 2 men came here looking for work - Ellen still cook - Started to write out the store list - Blackeley son brought Pastor home

15 Thursday

Father dipped the first lot of shorn ewes - Roder[ick?] came down here - Agnes, Nell and Will gathered all the middle camp sheep and brought one lot of ewes in and put the other in the point camp - Blackely's son took old sina? away with him

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