Sheep

 This writing prompt instantly took me to my father's biological father that he never knowingly had met but had apparently been visited by him when he was very young and living with foster parents.

Frank Grieve Jackson has been mentioned before on my blog here

Born in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire he had been a Romney Sheep breeder since moving to Kent after World War One.  He is in the 1921 census at Wytherling Court, Molash, Kent which is just 6 miles from Ashford.  He died there in 1947.

He entered many local cattle shows and this newspaper clipping from 1927, which I have only just found; he was a tenant farmer and had a winning entry in the Ashford Cattle Show.

He sold the farm and the farm implements and tackling were sold by auction on the farm in September 1944.

He was 71 when the farm was sold and died 3 years later.