Regency Household: Account Ledgers

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JANUARY Butcher Baker Butterman Grocer 1st Week 2nd 3rd Greengrocer Milk Washing and Mangling 4th One Month From JANUARY the 1st to the 7th From JANUARY the 8th to the 14th Directions for filling up the Pages of Accounts This first Double Page is given as an Example how to fill up the others by writing be in the first week the Accounts of 7 days up to the following Saturday to which the Weekly Bills are made up The following to Saturday although the hem on a Monday ACCOUNT OF HOUSE KEEPING
Sundries Beer Wine and Spirits Soap and Starch Oilman Candles Coals and Wood TOTAL of each Week From JANUARY the 15th to the 21st From JANUARY the 22d to the 27th in the Months on the Top Line of the First Column and the Weeks under The Year 1826 commencing on a Sunday there will Weeks Accounts of Sundries & c date from Saturday to Saturday as it is customary for Tradesmen to make out their Bills up FROM 182 ON THE TOOK THE
Kitchiner, W. (1825). The Housekeeper’s Ledger: A Plain and Easy Plan of Keeping Accurate Accounts of the Expenses of Housekeeping, &c. United Kingdom: G.B. Whittaker.

I found this book on the hunt for some primary sources on household accounts, and thought it was a good insight into domestic economy and the type of accounts housekeepers, and often ladies of the home, were charged with keeping.

Because I know one of you clever Regency Readers will ask, mangling in this context refers to part of the washing process whereby you would run fabric through two rollers set against each other for the purposes of squeezing out the water from the fabric.

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