Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1751. Sept. i. Mr. Pearson, the bishop's secretaiy, offered me
tlie half of a lease of Sunderland town-moor, to be made by the bishop
if I would goe half with him in contesting it at law. But I desired
to be excused.
1751. Sept. 5. The first stone of the infirmary at Newcastle was
laid by the bishop of Durham.
About this time died Mr. Thomas Watson, attorney at Newcastle,^^
and, not long after, died at Hexham Mr. John Aynsley, an attorney,
aged about 92.93
1751. Sept. 22. Died at Bishop Auckland the Rev. Mr. Chaloner,
minister of South Church and vicar of Conscliff:^^ and about the
same time died at Newcastle of a feaver Mr. Robert Wren, brother of
Mr. Wren of Binchester.
1751. Sept. 28. I took the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy
in order to qualihe me for the degree of master of arts which the
archbishop of Canterbuiy is to grant me as a qualification to hold the
place of surrogate under Mi-. Chandler, ^s ye Chancellor of Durham.
1751. Sept. 29. Mr. Thomas Norris,^^ ^y^o kept the Red Lion
inn in Durham, died suddenly of an epoplectick fit after dining with
the dean at his residence. He was formerly gentleman to the duke
of Cleveland.
1751. Oct. 7. Timothy Whittingham, 9' esq., died : a descendant
of dean WTiittingham, r[eign] Elizabeth.
1751. Oct. 29. Received mv appointment of surrogate from Mr.
Chandler, dated Oct. 25.
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1751. Sept. 14. Thomas Watson, buried. Jle(jUter-< of St. John's, Netrcastle.
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Died very much regretted, aged 92 years, John Aynsle^' of Hexham,
esq. yeinastle Conrnnt, r2th September, 1751.
1751. Sept. 15. Mr. .lohn Aynsley, gentleman, burled. Hexham llegisters.
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Mr. William Clialoner of Queen's College, CamViridge, ^^•as third son of
William Clialoner of (iuisborough, and was vicar of Conisclift'e from 17"22 to his
death. By his marriage with Anne, daugiiter of John Hodgson of Bishop
Auckland, he had issue four sons. Cf. Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, ed.
Clay, vol. ii., p. 236.
" Richard Chandler, eldest son of Dr. Edward Chandler, Bisliop of Durham,
succeeded liis brother Wadliam Cliandler as spiritual chancellor in 1737. He
assumed the name of Cavendish, and hehl the appointment until his death
in 17(59. Cf. p. 222, post.
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On Sunday niglit last, died suddenh' Mr. Norris, master of the Red Lion
tavern in the Bailey, Durham. Xeircu-stte C'ouraul, 6th October, 1751.
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Mr. Timothy Whittingham of Holmside in the parish of Lanchester was
the descendant in the tiftli degree of William Whittingliam, Dean of Durham,
(1563-1579), by his marriage with Catherine, sister of John Calvin the Reformer.
Ho married Elizabetli, daughter of W'iiil field, by whom lie liad surviving
issue two daughters, Elizabeth, wife first of Mark Hudson and secondly of John
Hunter of Medomsley, and Sarah, married at Kirk Merrington on the 24th of
June, 1751, to Isaac Cookson of South SInelds.
Timothy Whittingham, who was buried at Lanchester on the 10th of
October, 1751, was succeeded by his brother (ieorge, wlio was buried at tlie
same chinch on the 27tli June, 1758. On the death of the latter the male line
of the family was extinguished. Cf. Hutchinson, Durham, vol. ii. p. 378.