Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1749. August 13. Lady Williamson, wife of Sir Hedworth
Williamson, high sheriff of the county of Durham, delivered of a son
at Whitburn, being her first child. ^3
And the latter end of July, John Tempest, esq. ,2^ one of the
representatives of the city, was universally chosen an alderman in
the room of Mr. Aisley.
1749. August 12. Died at the house of G-eorge Baker, esq., at
Chester, where he was upon a visit, in the flower of his age, of an
inflammatory fever, James Davison, the youngest son of the late
Dr. Davison. 25
1749. August 17. Mr. Bland of Hurworth, married Miss Betty
Routh, second daughter of Cuthbert Routh, esq., of Dinsdale.26
1749. August 30. Died at Kirk Merrington, Timothy Wrangham,
one of the proctors in the Spiritual Court of Durham. He was a tall,
lathy person and remarkable for that he never wore a waistcoat. ^^
i749. Between 22 and 23 September, died at Gilling, near
Richmond, the Rev. Benjamin Crow, vicar of Gilling, unmarried, of a
lingering illness, brother of Christopher Crow of Kipling, of the
[line] of Ashington in Northumberland. He Avent as tutor to Sir
Hugh Smithson and Mr. Ttirner's son on their travells. Sir Hugh
Smithson allowed him 50/. a year after he returned. ^8
1749. Oct. 10. Mr. Hendry Hopper, attorney-at-law,^^ aged
about 64, was married at Croxdale to Miss Elizabeth Davison, the
great hall of my house at Egleston ; and a decent marble monument to be placed
in the said chancel! by my trustees ... I give my manor of Egleston, my
lease of Ricknall grange, my lands at Ingleton and Staindrop, Ryton, Brough
and Hill-beck, to my nephew, William Hutchinson, eldest son of my dear
brother. George Hutchinson, late of London, merchant, deceased, when 21. To
Timothy Hutchinson, second son of my said brother, my lands at Barnard
Castle, Startfortli, Bowes and Lartington. George Hutchinson, third, and Peter
Morley Hutchinson, fourth son of my said brother, etc., etc. Proved at York,
6th September, 1749. Raine, Test. Ehor.
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1749. September 20. William Huddleston Williamson, son of sir
Hedworth Williamson and Dame Elizabeth, born August the thirteenth,
baptized Sept. the 20, 1749. Whitburn Register-^i.
2^
Mr. John Tempest, of Sherburn and of Old Durham ;
M.P. for the city
of Durham, 1741, 1747, 1754, 1761 ; died 12th May, 1776, aged 66. Cf.
Surtees, Durham, vol. iv. p. 93.
' '" 1722. May 5. James, son of Dr. Thomas Davison, born and baptized
privately and received "in church 29th May. Hegisters of St. Oswald's, Durham.
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1749. August 17. James Bland, esq., and Miss Betty Routh married.
Dinsdale Registers.
'
Broken with the loss of a beloved son, and labouring under a like disease,'
James Bland died on the 28th March, 1770, aged 45. M. I. Hurworth.
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1736. March 27. Eleanor, wife of Mr. Timothy Wrangham, of
Merrington, was buried. Kirk Merrington Itegisters.
1749. Sept. 1. Mr. Tim Wrangham, a proctor in tlie court at Durham,
buried. Ibid.
-* Benjamin Crow, son of Patrick Crow, of Ashington, Northumberland,
gent., of Queen's College, Oxford; matriculated 10th March, 1706/7, aged 18;
B.A. 1712 ; M.A. 1713. His father, Patrick, or Patricius Crow, married Anne,