Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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ford, a daughter of Sir Jnhn Dollicn, died at her mother's house in
the Bailey, next Lady Eden's, on Tuesday, April 16, liaving been
inocuhited for the sniall-pox ; and was buried at the Nine Altars on
the 19th.
About this time the only son of Sir R. Milbank was inoculated
at Hilton Castle along with Miss Hilton ; so was Miss Fawcet, young
Shipardson and Dr. Wharton's daughter at Durham.
1751. A])ril 1.'?. My cousin, Hetty Wass, was married at Medom-
-vley to Mr. Wil)l)ersley,^"''^' the under schoolmaster at Newcastle.
1751. May 7. Lady Graham died at York.
1751. May 18. Miss Salvin, only sun-iving daughter of the late
lirian Salvin, was married at Croxdale to Markham, esq., of
Lincolnshire.^''
1751. May 19. This day I heard the bad news that cousin
Hunter of Medomsley had lost the use of his right side by a palsy fit.
1751. June 2. Sally Bowes married at Durham to Mr. Nugent,
an Irish officer in St. George's Dragoons, who became acquainted
with her in the year 1745, the year of the Rebellion. ^'^
1751. June 5. Last year the battlements of the new bridge was
raised and the battlement of the west side of the great tower of the
Abbey was taken down and rebuilt about this time. Towards the
end tlie last year George Baker, esq., finished the building of his house
at Ellimer-hall.
1751. June 28. Dr. Butler, bishop of Durham, was met at
Fairwell-hall on his first coming into the countiy, by many of the
gentr}" and clergy- in about 18 or 19 coaches. He came out of his
coach and was complimented in very few words by Dr. Eden on the
behalfe of the Chapter, and in about four or five minnits (sic) he got
into his coach and drove to the church, went into the Galilee and there
put on his robes, and at the pillar facing the north door of the Al)l>ey,
Sir John Dolben, then sub-dean, complemented the bishop in the name
of the body, to which he retm-ned an answer : then went up into the
quire and proceeded to the communion table where he made a short
prayer, and from thence went up into the throne and heard evening
was the only child of Mr. John N. Raynsford of Brixworth, Northamptonshire,
bj' his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Dolben, bart. There is a
monumental inscription to the child's memory in the Nine Altars at Durhcim.
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Mr. John \\ibbcrsley, the son of Isaac Wiblu-rsley, was born in the parish
of Bakfwell in Derby.shire, and matriculated in St. Johns College, Cambridge,
26th .May, 1735, being then 17 years of age ; 15.A. 17^8; M.A. 1749. He was
appointed under-uslier of, the Grannnar school of Newcastle 12th July, 174'J,
and usher Bth June, 1749, jjerpetual curate of Lamesley 17ol, vicar of Wuodhorn
1766, rector of Wliickham 176S. He died at the last named place ISth
April. 17cS2, aged 6.S. C/. H. M. Wood, .Notes on the Rectors of Wliickiiam,
Proceedings of the Xeirrn.st/e Soculy o/ Aiitifjii'iries, '2nd .series, vol. viii. p. '264.
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Miss Mary Salvin was married to (leorge Markham of Claxby in Lincolnshire,
and she died in 1766 and was buried at Old St. Pancras.
"*
1751. June 2. Mr. William Nugent and Mrs. Sarah Bowes married.
JlegiMers of St. Xirho/ai, Diirh'itu.