Chief Dairy Maid

Enid Samuel is often to be found busying herself around the Manor…

Enid Samuel is the Chief Dairy Maid, and very skilled at her work. She makes cheeses, butter and cream, not only for use in the household, but to sell in the cheese-market in Caerphilly, so adding to the Colonel’s profits.

But of course, in these days of war she finds that she, like others, has to lend a hand at all sorts of work about the Manor.

She is the widow of Ianto Samuel, who was a farmer and she lives in Nant-y-Fedw Farm, Bedlinog, with her son Edward and his wife and baby. Edward lost an arm in the bloody battle for Gloucester, fighting for the unsuccessful Royalist forces.

Enid has to walk the five-mile journey every day too and from her home to work. How she wishes that she could have a horse like Mistress Prichard has!

She often helps the cow-man during calving as she seems to have a very calming effect on the beasts in their travail’s, and of course the cow’s welfare is of great concern to her.
She has become very friendly with this years’ parish constable Mostyn Jones… could this be cause for gossip among her fellow servants?

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