Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1750. July 8. Bend. Rain's house in Durham robbed of near
300/. (as was suspected) by a maid servant and one Ashton, a barber,
her sweetheart, quaere. ^^
1750. July 9. Mrs. Bland, of Hurworth, brought to bed of a
1750. July 20. This morning, about four o'clock, died at his
seat at Long Newton, George Vane, esq., a Avorthy man, and was
buried there on Tuesday, 25th. ^^
1750. Jul}^ 24. This day the news came by the post of ye death
of Dr. Edward Chandler, lord bishop of Durham, on Friday, 20th
instant, at his house in Grosvenor square, London, aged . . . Very
rich. (140,000Z.)57
1750. July 24. The stonework of the spire of Darlington church,
which was about six yards in length, at the very summit Avas greatly
shattered by lightning, and several stones fell down, and ye rest of ye
spire below ye stonework was split and chasms made in it, that 'tis
thought, it must be taken diown. The whole of the spire above the
Middleton, spinster, of the Bedern, York, married at York Minster. Yorkshire
Arch, and Top. Journal, vol. ii. p. 358.
1750. July 2. Wife of George Crowle, esq., of the Navy Office. Gent.'s
Mag., 1750, p. 332.
George Crowle represented Kingston-upon-Hull in fonr Parliaments, 1722,
1727, 1734 and 1741 ; successively filled the offices of Commissioner to the
Victualling Office, Commissioner of the Navy, Commissioner of the Excise, and
was consul at Lisbon, where he died in 1754. Gent.'s Mag., 1754, pp. 340, 484.
Cf. Walbran's Gainforcl, pp. 37, 109.
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1720. May 1. Bend[lowes], the posthumous son of Bend Rain, of
Houghwell, yeoman, baptized. Negisters of St. Oswahrs. JJvrham.
He married Elizabeth, daughter of Cuthl)ert Heron, of Durham, and sister
of Sir Thomas Heron, fifth and last baronet, of the Chipchase family. She was
buried in the chancel of Houghton-le-Spring, under a stone witla the following
'
inscription : Here lies interred the body of Elizabetli Raine, widow, daughter
of Cuthbert Heron, of* Chipchase, in Northumberland, esq., by his wife,
Katlierine, daughter of Ricliai'd Myddleton, of Offerton, esq. : she died on the
31st day of March, 1789, in the 89th j'ear of her age.'
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Mrs. Bland was daughter and co-heir of Cuthbert Routh (p. 173 supra).
Her son, James Bland, died on tlie 4th July, 1769. Cf. Hutchinson, JJnrham,
vol. iii. , p. 154.
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Last Saturday, aged 67, George Vane, of Longnewton, Co. Pal. He is
succeeded on his estate by his eldest son, Lionel, etc. XenH'astle Courant, 28th
July, 1750.
1750. July 25. George Vane, esq. , buried. 'Mem.: John Wetherell came
from Lionel Vane to ask leave of me yt his father might be buried within the
rails of the communion table, .lames Douglas.' Long Ntu-ton Registers. His
monument in the church of Long Newton states that he married Ann Machon,
'
of Durham, by whom he had 4 sons and 4 davighters. He died July 21st, 1750,
in the 65th year of his age.'
" Dr. Chandler, Bisliop of Lichfield, an Irishman, was translated to the see
of Durham on the death of Bishop Talbot and was confirmed on the 21st
November, 1730. He was author of a work on the Defence of Christianity from
the Prophecies of the Old Testament, drc. He was buried at Farnham Royal,
Bucks. Cf. Gent.'s Mag. 1750, p. 332.