Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1757. Fel). lU. Mr. Jon. JJaiiiL-.^. who uianied luy iiiucc, Alice
Hobsoii, died at Hichniond of a leaver. (Married Nov. 30, ante.)
1757. Ai)ril 2. Mrs. Jenny Lanibton'-*'^ died at her mother's
house at Harraton. She had indulged herselfe the use of strong
liquors which, it's i)resunied, ha.stened her end. She was the only
surviving sister of Henry Lanibton, esq.
1757. May 9. My niece Buckton came to the boarding-school
at Durham.
1757. May 13. Dr. Hunter, liis wife and son left Durham and
went to live at Unthank, an estate belonging to Mrs. Hunter. ^^^
1757. May 29. Christopher Fawcet,^^^ esq., of Newcastle, married
to Miss Lambert, daughter of Dr. Lambert, of the same place.
Pulchra sed indotata.
1757. July 10. Died at Durham Mr. Robert Brass, commonly
called Major Brass. i^*' He was of the family of Flass near Durham.
1757. July 12. Died at Unthank my uncle. Dr. Christopher
Hunter, i-^' in ye 82nd year of his age, in the night between the 12th
and 13th: and was buried on the 15th in Shotley church, com.
Northmnberland. He left Elizalieth, his widow, and Thomas, his
only surviving child, and a grand-daughter, the only child of his son
John, deceased.
1757. July 1-t. John York,!^^ esq., member of Parliament for
'^' Cf'. pedii^ree of Lamliton. Surtees, Durham, vol. ii. p. 175.
"' Doctor Christopher Hunter's wife was Elizabeth, daughter and (with her
sister, Isabella, wife of Gabriel K'eed of 'I'roughend) coheir of John Elrington
of Espershields, and of Unthank in the township of Shotley Low Quarter.
'" Mr. Christopher Faweett, son of John Fawcett of the citj- of Durham (cf.
p. 20S, )>o->t), was entered to Gray's Inn, '27th N(>veml)er, 17"28, and matriculated
at Exeter College, Oxford, •2nd May, 17"29. He was Recorder of Newcastle
from 1746 to 1753, and again from 176!) to 1794. He died 10th Ma\-, 1795
(Xeiccwtle C'oiirant, 16th May, 179.">). His wife was Winifred, daughter of
Cuthhert Lambert, M. 0., and she was married at St. Andrew's, Newcastle.
"' 1757. July 14. Robert Brass, buried. lieijisterf of St. Mary in the South
Bailey, Durham.
He maj- be identified with Robert, son of Mr. Thomas Brass by his wife
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Leyton of East Leyton (Harrison. Yorkshire,
p. 329), baptized at St. Oswald's, Durham, 13th March, 1682 3, and with the
person of that name who was married in that church, 25th June, 1707, to Mrs.
Elizabeth Burton. She died 1st March, 1761, see p. 209, post. Cf. Surtees,
J)iirhaiii, vol. i. p. 82.
Christopher Hunter, son of Tiiomas Hunter of Mudomsley, was educated
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at Houghton-le-Spring school, and also at St. John's College, Cambridge, to
which he was admitted on the 11th April, 1693, being then 18 years of age. In
1701 he took out a licence to practise as physician and established himself at
Stockton, where his eldest son Thomas is said to have V)een born. He atterwanls
resided at Durham, and became a distinguished archaeoloijist. Some of
his MSS. collections are preserved in the Cathedral library at Durham. Dr.
Hunter's son, Thomas Hunter, who died at Unthank, was imried at Shotley
on the 16th October, 1770, leaving issue. For a pedigree of Hunter, see Surtees,
iJnrham, vol. ii. p. 289.
Mr. John York, .son of Thomas York of (ioullhwaite and of Richmond,
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in Yorkshire, was born rirra 1685, and represented the borough of Richmond