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Brothers shed light on dales cheese

by Teesdale Mercury
February 22, 2020
in News
Brothers shed light on dales cheese

FAMILY HISTORY: Kevin and Gary Tallentire with their ancestor's account book.

TWO brothers from Teesdale have added to the story behind one of the treasures of a Swaledale museum.

Kevin and Gary Tallentire, from Middleton-in-Teesdale, came across a blog about their great, great grandmother Jane Elizabeth Thwaite’s 1890s account book, which had been put on display at the Dales Countryside Museum, in Hawes.

In the book, Mrs Thwaite had recorded in detail her sales of cheese and butter, made on her farm at the head of Walden, near Wensleydale.

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The museum had only scanty information on Mrs Thwaite until the brothers

visited the museum carrying photographs of their ancestor.

Kevin, an office worker, took hold of the account book and said: “It’s a strange feeling to know that she held this. It’s just amazing that it has survived – to think that it was written before the Titanic had sunk.

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“All I can say is that her handwriting is a lot better than mine, and that my job today is a bit different to making butter and cheese. That side of the family is still in farming.

“My uncle’s farming in Teesdale. It’s good to know where you come from and what your ancestors did.”

Museum manager Fiona Rosher added: “How brilliant that Kevin and Gary came across the blog and made the trip to the museum.

“I loved seeing the photographs of Jane Elizabeth – I had no idea that any

existed.

“The account book is a special object, a relatively rare survivor, illustrating a time when farmhouse cheese and butter making was a really big part of the local economy.”

The brothers went on from the museum to find Jane Elizabeth’s final resting place in the graveyard of St Andrew’s Church, in Aysgarth.

The Diary Days exhibition runs until February 23.

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