[Jacob-list] Wentworth Woodhouse; a country house

[Frederick Horak]

Dear listers- The local Dallas PBS station carried a program on Chatsworth (it may be a multiple part series on this house) last night and highlighted some of the agricultural facets of the current estate and its flocks (Spring 2012 lambing season had 4500 lambs and they showed an amazing blurb on graffting a lamb) including the Jacob flock and the blessing of the Jacob lambs.  

The reference to Jacobs at Chatsworth goes back to 1760 and was a "source" for Jacobs also being called "Spanish" sheep.  The sheep featured in last nights program was a 4H ewe; the flock was noted in the early 1800s a a two horn. The Duchess of Devonshire ... the lady of Chatsworth ... was the first president of the Jacob Sheep Society and still lives  in Edenson (sp?) one of the villages of the Chatsworth estate.  Chatsworth is a source flock for several UK flocks iincluding Ireland and Scotland. 

If you have a chance to see this or other similar programs on these estates, keep an eye open.  Several of these estates ... but nor Downton Abbey ...  were sites for Jacob flocks

Regards - Fred Horak


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From: Frederick Horak <jacobflock at aol.com>
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PBS has had a series on the English country house here in our local market and did a special on Wentworth Woodhouse.  While much of the program was on the estate and the house, part of the program dealt with the era surrounding the third Earl Fitzwilliam; the lord of the estate that gave the first written account of the name "Jacob sheep" in the wool clip of 1834.  One can understand viewing the expanse of country house and grounds, why sheep were lawn mowers.  Fred Horak
 
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