Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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eldest of the two daughters of Mr. Edward Davison, the butcher^
ill Durham. She was about 30.
1749 [or 1756]. Oct. 16. Jacob Grieve, attoriiey-at-Iaw, uian-ied
t-o Miss Jeiun- Bowes, second dauirhter of Thomas Bowes, esq., of
Bradley. •'1
1741). ( >ct. :?*2. Abiahani Taylor,-^- one of the singing men, who
had many years kept the (^hieen's Head inn at the gaol gates, died
this day.
174'.t. Nov. 0. Christo[)lier Crowds of Kipling. [^ Yorkshire, esq.,
(laughter of Robert Mitford, of Mitford, and dj'ingon the 31st of Januarj-, 1694,
he was buried iu St. Nicholas' Church, Newcastle. His arms, gu/e-i a che}~>-on
or between three cocks anjent, are sculptured on his monument.
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Last Tuesday, was married, Mr. Hendry Hopper, an eminent attorney,
in Durham, to Miss Betty Davison, daughter of Mr. Edward Davison, of that
place, an agreeable young ladj-. Ne>rcastle Couvant, 14 October, 1749.
Mr. Hendry Hoppei', son of Robert Hopper, the representative of an old
family of leaseholders in Shincliffe (by Anne Hendry, his wife, married at St.
Oswald's, Durham, "29 September, 1683), was baptized on the 19th December,
1685. He practised as an attornej' in Durham and purchased Crook-hall, circa
17'-0, and other property in the neighbourhood. His first wife, Margaret
(surname unknown), was buried at St. Oswald's on the 24th May, 1748. Hendry
Hopper died, v.;)., '2 April 1752, and was buried at St. Oswalds, where his
widow was laid beside him on the 20th December, 1793.
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Miss Jane Bowes was baptized at Wolsingham on the 14th April, 1725.
Her husimnd was buried at Lanchester on the 26th May, 1760. Cf. Suttees,
Durham, vol. iv. , p. 111.
' 1749. Oct. 24. Abraham Taj'lor, singing man, buried. Begisters of St.
Osicahl's, Durham.
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Christopher Crow of Kipling may be identified with the person of that
name who was baptized at Botlial on the 22nd of June, 1682, as son of Patrick
Crow, of Ashington. He was consul at Leghorn early in the eighteenth century,
but having married Charlotte, widow of the fourth Lord Baltimore and
daughter of Lord Lichfield, he purchased Kipling, now called Kiplin, from his
step-son, the fifth Lord Baltimore. He had (Avith other) issue two sons
and a daughter, viz. : Christopher Crow , of Kipling, who married Barbara,
daughter of Thomas Duncombe, of Duncombe, and died s.p. ; George ; and
Catherine, wife of Roger Henry Gale, of Scruton. The second son, George Crow,
was described as of Long Ditton, Surrey, when he married at St. George's
Hanover Square, 23rd March, 1754, Ann Swilt of St. Bartholomew, near the
Exchange : be died in October, 1782, leaving issue.
There remains in the church of Woodford a monument bearing the following
inscription to his memory.
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George Crowe and Ann (Swift) his wife had issue two sons and one
daughter, viz., Robert Crowe; (Jeorge Crowe of Laiigton, born 1757, married
Anne Salvin of Durham, and died .. in 1801 ; Barbara, wife first of tieorge
Chrisop and second Thomas Groves. The eldest son, Colonel Robert Crowe of