ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the daily lives and routines within the urban and rural homes of a manufacturer, Samuel Greg and his family. The urban and rural homes of the Gregs, located in and around Manchester, are used as comparison case studies to offer insights into the daily lives and routines of the family. Their homes are used as microhistories to explore the private domestic lives of mercantile and manufacturing family of late-eighteen and early-nineteenth centuries. Addressing this gap in both the history of the Greg family and the wider studies on the personal lives of merchants and manufacturers, this chapter explores the domesticity of this class within both the urban and rural context.
