Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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formerly usher of the Grammar School in Durham, and was buried!
the Thursday following.44
About this time Rev. James Worsley, A.M., was presented by
William Wharton, esq., to the vicarage of Gilling, in the room of
Benjamin Crow, deceased.
1750. March (?) 18 [should be June 18]. Matthew White, esq., of
Blagdon in Northumberland, died and was buried in All Saints
church in Newcastle. ^^
And about the 13th of this month died Edward Colvile, esq., at
Whitehouse, aged 105. He had formerly been a butcher and Avas
father of the countess of Tankervill.^^
1750. April 8. Dr. Deering, dean of Rippon, died. He was in
the house at FeA^ersham and in ye room in which King James th&
Second was found and brought thither by the rabble, and perhaps was
the person of all that company who lived the longest. Dr. Deering
was chaplain to Archbishop Sharp and christned the lady (a daughter
of the archbishop's) whom he afterwards married. ^'^
1750. April 10. The bishop's lady died at London near 80.'*^
1750. April 16. George Mowbrav, esq., [died] at Wolsingham,.
near 90.49
" There are two errors in the transcript—his name was not Thomas, but
William, who as son of Humphrey Randolph, of Botwnog, Carnarvonshire, was
admitted to Christ Church, Oxford, 25th March, 1697, aged 19; B.A. 1705,
under master of Durham school 1699.
1749. May 8. The Rev. Mr. Randolph, A.B., rector of this parish for above
44 years, buried. Registers of St. Mary le Boiv, Durham.
"^
Last Monday night, after a tedious indisposition, Matthew White, esq.,
Blagdon, in Northumberland, many years in the commission of the peace for
of
that county, etc. NenxantJe Courant, 23rd June, 1750. He married at All
Saints, Newcastle, 21st July, 1719, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of John
Johnson, of Bebside, by whom he had issue. He built the house at Blagdon,
now the seat of his descendant and representative. Viscount Ridley.
*° On Wednesday last, died in the 105th year of his age, very much
lamented, Edward Colvil of White-house, esq., father to tlie Right Hon. the
Countess of Tankerville. N'eiacastle Coitrant, 16th -Tune, 1750.
With other children, who died in childhood, he had issue five daughters,
viz. : Susanna, wife of Lionel Allan, of Rotterdam ; Anne, wife of William
Hanby, of Newcastle ; Rosamond, wife of Roger Pearson, of Titlington ;
Camilla, wife of the second earl of Tankerville ; and Jane, wife first of Chai'les
Clark, of Newcastle, and secondly of Robert Fenwick. of Lemington ; and also
'
a son, John Colville, of West Boldon, afterwards of White-house : Thiirsday,
at his seat, the White-house, near this town, John Colville, esq., brother to the
late countess of Tankerville.' Newcastle Courant, 3 Nov., 1781. The latter
was married, but left no issue.
^'
Heneage Bering (1665-1750), dean of Ripon, archdeacon of the East Riding
of Yorkshire, prebendary of Fridaythorpe, in the cathedral of York, and rector
of Skyrningham. Geiit.'s Mag., 1750, p. 188. He married 9th June, 1712,
Anne, daughter of Dr. Sharp, archbishop of York. An account of the flight of
James II. may be found in Macaulay's History of England, vol. ii. , p. 564.
'"
This was Barbara, the wife of Dr. Chandler, bishop of Durham, and
daughter of Sir Humphrey Briggs.
'"
1750. April. Mr. George Mowbray, buried. Wolsingham Ilegisters.
Last week, died at Wolsingham, etc., Mr. George Mowbray, aged 89, a