Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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he had a bolt to shoot, which he thought would hitt, he generally
did, etc. In the Bishop of Durham's gift—worth 200/. per annum.
1717. Oct. 21st. Cousin Jos, being told that the sermon he
showed uncle was printed, said he did not know that, Mr. Townsend
gave him it, and had preached it in the cathedral at Carlisle. Uncle
liked mother's butter very well.
1717. Oct. 22nd. Went to Alnwick—large castle kept in good
repair, an abbey near the town, a good handsome church—but a
very dirty town. Uncle told the public company at dinner, that he
would and my father give me 10,000/. ; must marry, but he declared
to them all he would not confine me, but he should take it ill not to
be consulted. He had a finer lad at Newcastle, if he lived twenty
years he would be richer than I should be. Saw B. Potts^o at
window, etc.
1717. Oct. 23rd. Christopher Little^^ gone for licence, most people
wonder she should consent, etc., 12/. per annum joynture settled on
her, she might have had 50/.—or she might have had the curate of
Elsden. For every hundred pound a woman brings, they used to
have 10/. per annum joynture, but now the interest of money is fallen,
9/. is the rule of setling.
vicar of Brignal, and had issue. He is said to have married, secondly, a Miss
Aynsley of Highlaws in the parish of Hartburn ; his widow was Margaret
Dove of Highlaws, whom he married at Hartburn, on the 27th Nov., 1709;
she was buried at St. Andrew's, Newcastle, on the 21st December, 1773.
^ Miss Elizabeth Potts, mentioned in the text as B(essy) and on p. 69 as
'her of Alnwick,' was the daughter and sole heir of George Potts of Alnwick,
by his wife Anne, sister and heir of Mark Forster of the same place. She was
married 29th August, 1718, to Ford Grey of Alnwick, attorney-at-law, and
lived a wealthy widow until 12th March, 1763. Cf. pedigree of Potts of Alnwick,
Arch. AeL, 3rd series, vol. iv. p. 124.
^'
On the 14th of February, 1654, George Little of Rothbury, took a conveyance
of a burgage tenement in that village, in which he was succeeded by
Christopher Little, presumably his son. The latter married, 11th June, 1678,
Eleanor Carr of Whitton, and was buried 15th May, 1695, his will being dated
the 7th May of that year. He had issue three sons, viz., George, baptized II
Nov., 1688, buried, 19 July, 1697 ;
Christopher, of whom presently; Henry,
baptized 21 Dec, 1696, buried, 10 Feb., 1714/5; and foiu- daughters, Esther,
married 23 July, 1696, Robert Snowden, of Rothbury ;
Elizabeth, married 11
July, 1704, .Jolin Green of Thropton ; Anne, married 6 Nov., 1701, John Davison
of Tosson ; and Alargaret, married 22 June, 1722, Thomas Gibson of Wingates
in Long Horsley. Christopher Little, the second and only surviving son,
baptized 18 June, 1693, married, first, at Elsdon, 21 November, 1717, Isabel
(daughter of the Rev. William Mitford, rector of Elsdon : see p. 92, post), who
apparentlv had no issue, and dying at Whitton was buried at Rothbury, 3
October, 1718. He married, secondly, 23 Dec, 1735, Mary, daughter of Edward
Ogle of Rothlmry, and was buried 20 May, 1746. By his second wife he had
issue, two sons, Christopher baptized 12 August, 1740, and Edward baptized 17
April, 1745, who l)oth died in infancy, and also five daughters, viz., Sarah,
Eleanor, Mary, Sarah and Mary, who all died young. Sarah, the second of the
name, who was baptized 24 Oct., 1743, being the last survivor. On her death,
the freehold passed to her heirs-at-law, the heirs of her father's four sisters.
Mary, widow of Christopher Little, was married, secondly, 19 July, 1750, to
Thomas Stagg, then excise officer at Rothbury, afterwards of Gray's Inn Road,
London.