Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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Melsnnby, related to our family, formerly collector of excise in the
Hartfordshire division near London and part of Middlesex. A very
worthy, honest man.^^^
And before Christmas John Moor, brasier, of Gilling, was shot
dead near Richmond by persons unknown.
1758. Dec. 1. Sir Conyers Darcy died at Aston (sic) s.p.'^^^^
1759. Jan. 4. Died Thomas Place,i59 esq., recorder of York,
aged 70. He had been afflicted some years before his death with a
paralitick disorder which had disabled him from following his profession
in which he was eminent. A man of integTity. (Succeeded
bv Peter Johnson, jun., of York, esq.)
1759. March 26. In the night between the 25th and 26th of
March, died at his house, the upper end of C'rossgate in Durham,
aged 76 or thereabouts, Anthony Wilkinson, i^*^ esq., possessed of a
very large estate, besides Avhat he had given to some of his children in
his life time. He was buried the Wednesday following at the east
end of the south isle of Crosgate church, Durham. His house was
robbed of 60/. since Christmas last.
1759. April 8. Being Sunday, there was no sermon at the Abbey.
Piidef hec ojjprobriaf
1759. May 31. This day, Mr. Ra. Hodgson, attorney at Bishop
Auckland, and agent there for the bishop, left his family and
absconded for debt.
1759. June 6. Mr. Chr. Wardell,!"^! attorney in Durham, was
married to the widow Wilkinson. Lovers of a long standing.
1759. June 9. Dr. Jaques Stern, i'^^ prebendary of one of the
richest prebends of Durham, died at York, on Saturday, June 9th.
1759. June 25. Mr. Jennison Shaftoe^^^ rode 50 miles on the
flat course at Newmarket for 1,000 guineas. He was to have two
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Nov. 3. John Brackenbury, esq., at Upper Holloway. Gent.'.s Mag.
175S, p. 556.
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Sir Conyers Darcy of Aske, K.C.B., died there 1 Dec, 1758, aged 73, .s.j9.
Cf. Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, ed. Clay, vol. ii. p. 84.
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Jan. 4. Thomas Place, esq., barrister-at-law, and recorder of York,
aged 70. Gent.'s Mag., 1759, p. 46.
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Monday, died at his house in Crossgate, Dnrham, Anthony Wilkinson,
esq., etc., etc. NewcastJp Courant, 3lst March, 1759.
1759. March 28. Anthony Wilkinson, esq., buried. Begisters of St. Margaret's,
Dnrham. Cf. pedigree of Wilkinson in Surtees, Durham, vol. i. p. 81.
"" Tuesday, was married at Bow Church in Durham, Mr. Christopher
Wardell, an eminent attorney, and Mrs. Wilkinson, an agreea))le widow lady
with a considerable fortune. Neuxnstlc CoHrant, 9th June, 1759.
.She was the daughter of Christopher Mickleton of Durham, and widow of
Richard Wilkinson of the same city. She was buried at Durham Cathedral on
the 21st April, 1768.
Dr. Stern was presented to the second stall in Durham Cathedral in
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1755 ; with it he held a stall at York, the rector^' of Rise and the vicarage of
Hornsea, (f. Hutchinson, Durham, vol. ii. p. 178.
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Cf. pedigree of Shafto of Benwell, Surtees, Durham, vol. iii. p. 296.