Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1754. April 13. My cousin Martin died at Newcastle, and on the
same day, i.e., April 15 (stc), I went to Berwick to attend the election
of nienilwrs of Parliament for John Wilkes, esq., of Ailsbuiy, com.
Bucks, and returned to Durham on the 24th.
1754. April 20. The front of the Tolbooth was taken down and
the wall is intended to be raised higher with a parapet.
1754. May 15. Great jjart of the south wall of the castle above
the long galleiy was finished and handsom Gothic sash windows
put in.
1754. June 11. Died at St. Hellen's, Auckland, James Carr,i2i
esq., after he had eaten his supper. His estate comes to Ralph
Carr of Cocken. He was formerly collector of Deal and brother of
William Carre, esq., who married Mrs. Ellison, the sister and devisee
of Robert Carre, esq., by whom Mr. William Carre had a large
fortune.
1754. June 29. This day Mr. Richard Wharton asked pardon of
Sir Robert Eden in the Toll-both for a challenge he sent Sir Robert,
and for which the Court of King's Bench had granted an information ;
and Mr. AVharton to pay Sir Robert all his expences.
1754. Sept. 10. The clock in the Aljhey church new painted and
adoraed.
1754. Sept. 24. The fanes or weathercocks were put up ; one on
each side of the pinnacles at the east end of the Al)by church of
Durham.
1754. Oct. 1. Tlie front of the Moot-hall in Durham was finished
about this time, with new sash windows and a new cupola at ye top
with a new fane tliereon, having the letters, G. B., i.e. George Bowes,
and 1754 on it.
1755. Jan. 27. Thomas Richardson, A.M., formerly of Peterhouse
in Cambridge, and vicar of Aicliffe, died thereof (sic) of a
jaundice and dropsy. i--
1755. March G. Dr. Thomas Mangey died this evening at his
prebendal house in the College, having been for some time in a
childless {^ic) state from a palsy or paraletick illness. ^^3
On Tuesday niglit died at St. Ellen Auckland, of an apople.xy. James
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Carr, es(j., of tliat place, greatly lamented. By liis death an estate of about
£2,000 a year devolves upon Ralph Carr of Cocken. XtwcaMie Courant,
loth June, 1754. He was buried at St. Helen's on the I4th June, 1754.
Jiegifltr-i of' St. Helen's Aurhhinil.
Mr. Francis Carr, who died in 1727, gave his estate to his nephew, Robert
Ellison, who assumed the nam*; of Carr. IH'ing unmarried he gave liis pr