Thomas was 5′ 8” in height, he weight 9st 10 lbs, he wore a hat which was a size 6 5/8, (see photograph below of Thomas’s hat and his details written inside).
His shirt collar was 15 and he wore size 7 shoes. The number of his watch was 2582 and he had 1 season ticket according to his diary. He lived at 1 Station Road Mosbro until 1926 and then moved to 12 Mosbro Moor Mosbro. Nr Sheffield.
His diary started in 1911 with:
Sam Buxton hanged on the 28th day of December Thursday 1911
Peter Grant died on the 20th day of December 1911
1912
William Moorcroft died on 9th day of January 1912 Tuesday.
Two pigs bought of G Price on the 27th day of January Monday £3.11s. 0d,
Horse bought at Beighton Vernom cost £11.0.0d July 10th Wensday 1912
Horse sold on 18th day of July 1912 Thursday for £29.10.0d
Horse got his leg broke in Joh Lee field on 24th day of July Wensday 1912.
Horse bought of J Cowlshaw on 6th day of August Tuesday. Cost £10.0.0d
1913
Edwin Scott got run over down Eckington Hill on Friday the 17th day of January 1913.
Horse farmed out on the 21st day of April Monday 1913 Paid September 1st 1913
Horse bought at Lincoln 21st day of April Monday 1913. Cost £16.0.0d
Mosbro plaid Eckington Athletic at football on Wensday April 23rd 1913 for the Holbrook Cup won 4/2 goals extra time played.
Horse turned out on the 4th of May Sunday 1913 paid 1st September 1913
Gertrude Staton died on the 3rd day of May 1913 Buried on 3rd of June 1913.
3 years old young horse bought at Ripley fair October 23rd 1913, cost £15.10.0d
Paid for horse grazing on the 28th day of September 1913 to Joseph Bramall
Young horse turned out on the Wensday 29th day of October 1913. Uncle Joe field
Stores pig bought at Worksop on the 3rd day of December 1913
Young horse turned out on the 9th Day of December 1913 John Lee field. Paid April 2nd 1914 18s. 0d. Sold to Lenard Rhodes Hackenthorpe for £8.5s.0d.
1914
Young horse turned out in Lees field on the 20 of April 1914 at 2/6 per week paid September 28th 1914
Horse turned out on the 26th day of April Sunday 1914 paid September 28th 1914
Two horses turned out on the 26th day of April Sunday. Paid March 2 1914
2 young pigs bought of Arnold Moor speedily on Monday the 17th day of September 1914 Cost £2.6.6d.
Young horse turned out on the 9th Day of December 1913 John Lee field paid April 2nd 1914. 18s. 0d Sold to Lenard Rhodes Hackenthorpe for £8.5.0d.
1915
James Staton drowned himself in well in garden on the 15th day of November Monday evening 1915.
February 20th1915 Saturday horse sold for £32.0.0d
1916
Hugh Staton dog Smutt run Joe Jackson dog on the 19th day of August 1916 Saturday. Smut killed.
1917
Sheffield Corporation Motor Buss run over wall at Moorhole and turned over on the 7th day of May 1917.
Young effer bought of Richard Oats on the 13th day of June Wensday 1917.
Cost 26.0.0d
Thursday July 5th1917 Mary Buckley of Althorp got her foot nearly cut of in John Rowbottoms field with machine mowing grass.
Cow went to Bull on 2nd of August Thursday 1917.
Hugh Staton dog Smutt run Joe Jackson dog on the 19th day of August 1916 Saturday. Smut killed 10 Jackson 11.
1918
Red and White cow bought of Richard Oats on 3rd September 1918.
1919
W E Chivers & Sons Govent Contractors run into J Statons Shop and knock it down on the 15 January 1919 Wensday. Shop end nocked in with chivers Engine on Wensday 15 January 1919 about half past nine in the morning.
Mrs Holmes drowned herself in the Canal at Killamarsh on Sunday the 19th of January 1919.
1920
House end painted by the Independent paper to finished Monday April 14th 1920.
Steven Anall died on the 23rd day of July 1920 and was burried on 26th day of July.
Advertisement on the house end, finished on the Thursday 14th day of October 1920.
John Woodward died on the Sunday 12th day December 1920 Burried on Thursday 16th.
Hugh Staton went to hospital on Sat February 20th 1926.
September 13th Monday 1926 sold to Len Brunt one mare and one set of harness 5 years old for the sum of £29.0.0d. Len Brunt horse turned out to grayze of the 13th September Monday 1926. Paid two weeks September 27th Monday paid up October 11th 1926.
1926
Hugh Staton went to hospital on Sat February 20th 1926.
Len Brunt horse turned out to grayze of the 13th September Monday 1926.
September 13th Monday 1926 sold to Len Brunt one mare and one set of harness 5 years old for the sum of £29.0.0d. Paid two weeks September 27th Monday paid up October 11th 1926.
1927
Bought of James Frith Beighton one young mare 3 years old on Friday the 14th day of October 1927 Cost 15.0.0d.
Mrs W Carding died suddenly in the Electra Palace on Wensday night October 19/1927 and was burried on Sunday 23 residing at Eckington Cemetery.
1928
May 28th Monday 1928 Gilt pig 9 pigs Cow calfed on the April 28th 1928 Saturday.
1930
Mosbrough Harry Freemen hanged himself on Thursday January 16th1930 in harmly Goal with twine for making male bags.
June 16th 1930 Coal sold to olethorp maian Friday June 16th.
1932
Sunday 22nd May 1932 burst in wood and partly washed Robinson Mill down also road fell inn down Knowle Hill against the planting house flooded same day all killamarsh medowes were flooded and houses all over Derbyshire.
Thursday October 13th 1932 thacking ½ day men wages seven at three and nine Corn carries ½ day 4s 9d. Snap money 4s.6d. Coal 6s.0d total £2.1.6d.
1933
Esther Nutcher died on Thursday the 19th day of January 1933, Burried on Monday 23rd day January 1933.
Mathew Scot hanged himself on the 5th day of May 1934.
1935
Mosbro streets was lighted up on Monday the 2nd day of September 1935.
1936
August 25th Wensday 1936 received 1 load H Procter.
1937
Black cow event to bull A Marsh on March 1st 1937.
1938
John Nutcher Bound over for 3 years on the 1st day of April 1938.
Thomas Staton Hay Stack caught fire on the 6th day November 1938 Sunday morning early.
1939
Mrs Anney Watford died on Good Friday April 7th, 1939 Buried on Easter Tuesday April 11th.
1940
German Bomb Sheffield on the 12th day of December 1940 Thursday.
1941
Thomas Lee died on February 6th Thursday 1941.
John Tag Binney got knock down with a dispatch rider on Thursday night 4th day of December 1941 and killed.
1942
Thomas Bird died on Thursday the 1st day of October 1942 Burried Monday October 5th 1942.
1943
William Drury died on Friday May 28th, 1943 Sudden Burried June 2nd Wensday.
Issac Tagg Died on Sat June 5th 1943.
1944
John Nutcher Caravan arrived in croft on Friday May 12th 1944.
John Nutcher came to live in caravan of Saturday June 10th 1944.
James Robinson hanged himself on Wensday December 6th 1944.
Nabeth Kirby fell down dead on sat December 9th, 1944 at Frechville.
Flying Bomb over Mosbro on the 24th day of December 1944 Sunday morning.
1945
Hugh Staton died on the 3 day of Jan 1945 Wensday.
We had pup Rough on the 4th day of Feb 1945.
1947
By Mr H Freeman Farm House repaired on Monday the 20th day of October Tuesday 21 Wensday 22 Thursday 23 Mon 27 Wensday 29 Thursday 30 Monday November 3 1947.
John Willey Wilson died on the 13th day of September 1947.
William Turner died on the 13th day of November 1947.
1949
March 31st, 1949
Milk sold for month March £178
April 6 feeding meal £1.11.6 29.13.4
Friday April 8 horse collar and saddle £1.2.6
Four field Gates Expenditure E2.0.0
Carriage paid 5.0
April 20 Expenditure feed meal £3.8.2
Thomas Turner knock down in High Street on Friday the third day of June 1949 Mosbro.
House plastered by Alwin Drabble on the 12th day of September – 3 days in 1949.
1951
1951 Wensday November 14th pig Brimmed pig on Satay March 8th 1952.
1952
Thursday 22nd November 1951 Johnnie Nutcher left Caravan to go in Hospital.
May 19th, 1952 sold 3 pigs to ford 76 Longstone Cres Frenchville.
Mr Harvey/Harry left old Fitwilliam Arms on Saturday May 17th 1952.
1952 – Hay stack bailed on the 9th day of September Tuesday by Earnshaw.
Sunday May 11th, 1952 John Nutcher left carrevan to go to Blackpool.
Saturday May 17th 1952 Black and Wite cow went to Warlow.
Mr Bernard Brunt started to pull down Number 74 and 76 High Street on the 19 day of June 1952 the two cottages.
1955
William Axtill died on the 22nd day of March Tuesday 1955.
1956
Mr Froggatt at Bungalow Up Bridal Burried January 7th, 1956.
Jack Booth Queen Street Buried January 25th 1956.
Thomas Staton Died on Thursday 8th March 1956 Buried March 12th, 1956.
From this point on Mary Staton (Thomas’s daughter-in-Law) continued to enter information into the Diary, with her daughter Maureen’s help until she died in 1992.
Mrs Croft Lutten – Trent died October 27th1956. Mr W Crofts died January 29th1966 aged 90.
Uncle Johnny Nutcher died November 25th, 1956 burried Tues November 27th.
1958
May 31st 1958 Flood put van in yard.
Lid Newton’s wife died on Sun December 21st, 1958.
Ruff got killed December 22nd Monday 1958.
1960
C Woolley run over on December 18th, 1960 and died December 28th Buried on January 1st, 1960.
Hazel Froggatt set sail for Canada Friday January 8th, 1960.
William Staton Died 1st June 1960 Buried Eckington Cemetery June 4th.
Hazel Froggatt came back from Canada June 20th.1960. She was married.
Tom Waller died June 21st 1960.
John James Clayton Died 1st July 1960.
Mark Booth’s wife buried 1 July 1960.
Benny Earnshaw Freshing Machine poor. Died suddenly June 30th, 1960.
Cis Waller Died July 4th 1960.
Fanny had pups on July 13th, 1960.
Billie Carnell Died October 10th Buried on 4th October 1960.
New Stove in Kitchen Tommy and John put it in.
Dan Wheeldon died sudden 132 High St Mosbro Cremation City Road age 55 on Saturday December 31st at 9.45 am.
1961
William Turner High St Mosboro buried January 4th, 1961 Age 87.
Fanny had pups Friday February 24th, 1961.
John Wade Chapel St Mosbro died February 19th 1961.
Harold Woodhead died Sunday July 30th, 1961 Bridal Stile.
Tom Shaw Hackenthorpe 31st July 1961 Black Smith died.
Ernest Bramall wife died September 26th, 1961 Buried at Eckington Cemetery September 30th 1961.
Aunt Lizzi Turner died December 18th, 1961 Buried December 22nd, 1961 Eckington Cemetery.
1962
Colin Hibbert Eckington Cemetery died March 2nd, 1962 Buried March 6th.
Mrs West Cremated March 27th 1962.
Fanny go run over June 20th, 1962. Died Buried outside garden gate.
Dr Lipp Killamarsh Died 22 June 1962.
Mrs Riley Cadman St Mosbro buried Fri June 29 1962.
Eliza Bramall Died August 1962 Buried Eckington Cemetery.
Tom Ancell Died October 1962 Buried Eckington Cemetery.
Sink unit in October 1962, Chimney Swept October 21st 1962.
Mrs White of Beighton Auntie Ada’s Dad Died November 2nd Buried Monday 6th 1962.
1963
Jim Dorain Moorhole Farm Died July 24th, 1963 Age 71.
George Dawes Died August 23rd, 1963 Cremated Age 68 Lthyam St Anns August 27th 1963.
Bill Bramall Died November 9th, 1963 Age 82. Buried December 3rd Eckington Cemetery.
1964
10 Mosbro Moor sold March 23rd, 1964 £1500.
Mosbro Hill sold for £13000 May 1964.
Frank Burgin Died 8th June 1964. Buried Eckington Cemetery Friday June 12th.
Dr Sinclair died December 1964 Eckington.
Ivor Milnes died December 1964.
1965
David Dixon accidently killed at Renishaw Park Colliery on July 13th Aged 29 1965 Cremated Brimington Sat July 17th 1965.
Mrs N Woodhead died November 3rd, 1965. Cremation Mon 8 November at 2.30 Service at St Mark’s.
1966
Mr W Crofts died 29th January 1966. Aged 90 years.
Jim Davison died March 3rd, 1966 found died in bed.
John Brunt of Frechville Cremated Fri March 3rd, 1966 died Sudden.
Mrs Woodhead died April 19th, 1966.
Templeton Mosboro May 2nd, 1966 found died in Bed.
Mrs K Bird late of Fitzwilliam Arms died May 10th 1966.
Evelyn Wheldon wife of Reg Maleham died June 29th Age 64 years 1966.
Mrs F Large died October 5th, 1966 buried Monday October 10th.
1967
Jack Bacon Mosboro died May 1967.
George Waller died Troway Hall Farm June 1967.
1969
Mr A Godard died May 17th Buried 21st 1969.
1971
Mr J Redfern Mosboro Moor Buried March 31st, 1971.
Tessa put down Wed May 12th 1971.
Keith Lavender died December 12th, 1971 Cremation City Rd December 17th Age 40 years.
1975
Gertrude Dawes Cremated Wed September 3rd, 1975 Lytham St Anns.
Jim Drury Buried September 29th 1975.
1977
George Parkin died February 9th, 1977. Cremated City Rd Feb 14th Aged 85.
Auntie Susie died 15th August 92 Aged 93yrs. Buried at Eckington.
1992
Mary Harriet Staton nee Cartledge died at home 22nd November 1992 buried with dad at Eckington Cemetery 1st December 92.
RECIPE FOR SWELLED LEGS IN HORSES
1oz of Birdeye tobacco
1oz of Y(G)ention root
1oz of Aloes put all into a pail of chamberley give ½ a pint 3 times a week mixed with food.
EMBROCATION
½ pint of White wine Vinegar
½ pint of Turpentine
¼ pint of Hartshorn 2 new laid eggs
1oz of salt petre
Stir the eggs well before mixing them, mix all together in a Bason before bottling.
RECIPE FOR PAIN IN BACK
1 Friars Balsam
1 Balsam Privet
1 Sweet Nitre
1 Oil of Juniper
RHUMOTISM RECIPE
1 oz of Perumon Bark,
1 dram of Iodide Potasum.
1 dram of Sal Volatile
Boil bark three gills of water down to a pint.
Credit to Maureen Esther Ellis (nee Staton) for lending me Thomas Staton’s Diary
Typed as written by Thomas in his Diary – by Linda Taylor (nee Staton) February 2018
