Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1749. Dec. 22. Richard Shuttleworth, esq. ,4" of Fnrcet, died at
London and his corps was brought down and buried at Farcet about
the 3rd or 4th January.
1749. Dec. 27. Chilton Wilson, A.M., formerly of Peter-house
in Cambridge, vicar of St. Giles's in Durham, and of Heighington,
died and was buried at Houghton.'*^
17r»0. Feb. 2. George Parkinson died at Blackwell.42
nno. Thursday, Fel). 22. Mr. William Wilkinson, eldest son of
Anthony Wilkinson, married at Gateshead to Miss Clennell.^^
1750. March. In the night between Sunday, the 4th, and Monday,
the uth of March, 1749-50, died of a cold of three days' continuance
Thomas (sic) Randolph, one of the minor canons, and
Ralpli Middleton, clerk, vicar of Bossall, by his marriage with Frances, daughter
of Sir (Teorge Wheler, prebemlary of the second stall in Durham Cathedral.
He was of W illington, and dying, -t.jj. , was buried at Durham Cathedral on the
1st August, 1771.
Miss Grace Smith was the eldest daughter of Posthumous Smith, commissary
general and Official of the Archdeacon of Durham, of the family of
Smith of Burnhall : she was buried at Durham Cathedral on the '22nd March,
1772.
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1749. Dec. 22. Richard Shuttleworth, of Gawthorp hall, esq., member
for Lancashire, which count v he represented in eleven Parliaments. Genf.'s
May., 1749, p. 571.
Peiligrees of the influential familj' of Shuttleworth of Gawthorp, Lancashire,
and of Foi'cett, North Riding of Yorkshire, maybe found in Whitaker's History
of' Whallty, and Harrison's Uistori/ of Yorlc