Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1750. May o. Mr. Huiuiihrey Hutchinson of Cornforth [died] of a
suppression of urine and letliargy.^"
1750. May 15. Miss Molly Hendiy of York married at York to
Captain Arnot, a Scotch gentleman. He had a former wife then
living.
1750. May 29. John Smith, a young phisition, eldest son of
John Smith of Burn-hall, editor of Bede, married at Elvet church to
the eldest daughter of Nicholas Shuttleworth, esq.^^ (Who in her
widowhood elojjed with Captain Ferguson, 1757).
1750. June 4. Mr. William Davison, the youngest son of the late
Thomas Davison of Blakiston by Mrs. Turner, was married to Miss
Kitty Vane, eldest daughter of George Vane, esq., of Long Newton.
(Aftenvards vicar of Scruton, Yorkshire.)^-
The wooden screen set up last winter at the inside of the north
door of the cathedral was removed for the summer.
The great octangular tower new pointed on all sides, with what
was done to it last summer.
The organ in the cathedral was new painted this summer.
1750. June 13. Jack Challoner died at Gisborough.ss*.
1750. July 2. Mrs. Crowl, daughter of John Middleton, formerly
of Barforth, com. Ebor, and wife of George Crowle of Hull, a
commander in the Navy, died of a feaver caught in a new house at
Leatlierhead in Surry. ^^
gentleman of a very fair character, who never had the headache, nor complained
of sickness till about four daj^s before his death. Xewcantle Journal, 21st
April, 17r)0.
He was father to Teasdale Mowbray, mentioned p. 219 posf. Cf. new
Hift. of Xorthiimhe.rland, vol. vi. p. 364.
^" 1750. May 6. Mr. Humphrey Hutchinson, of Cornforth, buried. Bishop
Middltham lti'(fi>tters.
*' 1750. May 29. Dr. John Smith and Miss Ann Shuttleworth married.
Betjixtfr of Si. Osira/tr", l)iirham.
The daughter of Xicliolas Shuttleworth by his marriage with Elizabeth
March ; she was born 10th August, and baptized at St. Oswald's on the 8th
September, 1730. A pedigree of Smith, of Burniiall, may be found in Surtees'
Durlinm, vol. iv. p. 98.
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1750. June 3. The rev. Mr. Davison and Miss Catherine Vane married.
Lonq Xeii-tou Registers. She had been baptized at the same church on the 2nd
Nov., 17-25.
Mr. Thomas Davison, of Blakiston, for his second wife, married Theophila,
daughter of Charles Turner, of Kirkleatham. Their son William, baptized
7th Feb., 1722 3, was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford ; matriculated
18th July, 1741; B.A. 1745; M.A. 1748; took orders, and became rector of
Scruton, in Yorkshire, 1750.
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At this part of the diary there is some uncertainty whether the year is
1749 or 1750. Ed. Jack Challoner was probably the eighth son of William
Challoner of Guisborough. if. Dugdale's Visitation of' Yorkshire, ed. Clay,
vol. ii. p. 233.
"' 1706. July 18. Mary, daughter of Jolm Middleton, of Barford, baptized.
Forcttt Beijlttera.
1728 9. Jan. 27. George Crowle, of Kingston-upon-HuU, and Mary