Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1750. Sept. About the beginning of this month Jacob Grieve,
attorney-at-law, dismissed Jane, his wife, the youngest of the two
daughters of Tho. Bowes of Bradley, esq. He had detected her of
tijDpling and of backsliding with her cousin Benjamin Gray, son of
the old alderman John Gray.
1750. Sept. 7. Dr. Joseph Butler, bishop of Bristol, elected
Ijishop of Durham in the room of Bishop Chandler (confirmed at St.
James' by Dr." Pa[ul], Wednesday, Oct. 16). The dean, bishop of
Gloucester, Dr. Man gey. Dr. Sharp, Dr. Knatchliull, Sir John Dolloen,
Dr. Bland, Dr. Stillingfleet, Dr. Eden, Dr. Lesley, present ; bishop
of Oxford, Dr. Johnson, and Mr. Gisburn, prebendarys, absent at the
bishop's election.
My old friend and acquaintance, Dr. Braithewaite, died at York,
about the middle of August last.^^
1750. Sept. 12. Died Mrs. Whitfield, wife of Matthew Whitfield,
esq., at Wolsingham. She was daughter of Sir Robert Eden.^^
1750. Sept. 14. Died Alderman John Grey^^ of Durham, at an
advanced age.
1750. Sept. 23. Died Mrs. Ann Norton, daughter of Christopher
Norton, esq., by Mrs. Darc}-, sister to James Darcy of Sedbuiy, after-
Avards Lord Darcy, aged 78 or thereabouts. "^^^
1750. Sept. 26. Mr. Richard Whart.on, son of Alderman
Wliarton, was married at Weatherby in Yorkshire to Miss Lloyd, sister
to Mr. Lloyd, rector of Ryton, gi-anddaughter of Bishop Lloyd of
Worcester, a lady of 5,000/. fortune. They went from hence to
London. 65i>
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1750. May 11. Will of Mark Braithwait. The subdeanery to be sold to
pay James Barnard, esq., the money I borrowed to purchase it, viz., £4-40,
having laid out since the purchase about £300 and also renewed the lease. If
my wife desire to live in my new house at Deighton, I leave it to her, etc., for
life ; if not, I give it to my daughter Frances. My wife and daughter
executors. I give mj' estate to my daughter, and at her death to the eldest son
of Walter Hawksworth, esq., and his heirs male. I give a gold ring to Walter
Hawksworth, esq., and another to my friend and kinsman, Mr. George Lumley
of Leeds Pr. at York, 25th March, 1751. Raine, 7'ev^ Ehor.
"^ 1675. Oct. 28. Elizabeth Eden, daughter of Sir Robert Eden, baptized.
Hegisters of St. Helens Auckland.
1698. M ay 8. Mr. Matthew Whitfield and Mrs. Elizabeth Eden married. Ibid.
1750 Sept. 14. Mrs. Elizabeth Whitfield buried. Wolsingham ItegiMers.
Mr. Matthew Whitfield was the head of the ancient house of Whitfield,
whicli estate he sold with the consent of his son Hobert in the year 1750 to
Mr. William Ord, of Newcastle and Fenham : dying at the age of 84, he was
buried at Wolsingham on the 9th June, 1761.
*' 1750. Sept. 17. Mr. John Grey, alderman, buried. llegisters of St.
Nichohis, JJurham.
John Grey, of Durham, married Mary, daughter of George Bowes, of Bradley,
who was l)uried, s.jj., on the 1st December, 1721 ;
he married secondly her first
cousin, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Bowes, of Quarry Hill, by whom he had
issue. Cf. Siirtees, Durham, vol. iv., p. 111.
""1750. Sept. 25. Mrs. Ann Norton, buried. Registers of St. Mnnjle Bow.
Cf. pedigree of Darcj'. Flarrison, Yorkshire, -p. 119.
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Mr. Richard Wharton, subsequently an alderman, and in 1760 mayor, of