Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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Ixis horse. He fell upon his breech, and being corpulent, his whole
frame was shaken. This accident happened on ye 7th of May.i*^^
1762. May 18. About this time Lady Mary Car^^* returned from
London to Cocken with her husband Ra. Carr. The report was, he
wias to allow her oOOI. as a separate maintenance, and to give 1,000/.
to buy furniture for a house.
1762. May 22. Died my worthy friend, Richard Frank, esq., of
•Campsall near Pontefract, recorder of that town of Doncaster. One
of the worthiest men of the age.^^^
1762. June 8. Died at Dalton my sister, Buckton, of a long
illness.
1762. Oct. 11. Died at Dalton, my brother Buckton. ise
1762. Dec. Hylton Castle, with about 800/. a year lying about it,
was sold to Mrs. Bowes of Gibside, relict of George Bowes, esq., for
33,800/. : and sometime before Lord Holdemesse sold Ask Hall in
Yorkshire and the estate belonging to it, together with his borough
houses in Richmond to Laurence Dundass, esq., who soon afterwards
was created a baronet. i*^^
1763. Feb. 13. Died at Richmond Mr. James Close, eldest surviving
son of old James.
1763. May 29. Peace proclaimed at Durham.
""Sunday, died at Snows-green, co. Durham, Cuthbert Smith, esq., an
alderman of the city of Durham. Newcastle Courant, 15th May, 1762.
The Smiths owned property at Snows-green in the parish of Benfieldside,
and at Riding, in the parish of Bywell St. Andrew.
Robert Smith, died at Snows-green [in the parish of Bentieldside], on the
•9th February, 1757 {Neiocastle Courant, 12th February, 1757). Cuthbert Smith
named in the text was mayor of Durham in 1758. On the 13th August, 1765,
Ralph Smith of Snows-green, lieutenant of Clifford's Fort in the parish of
Tynemouth, married Miss Fenwick of Newcastle (JVeircastle Courant, August,
1765). He voted for the Riding at the election of Knights of the Shire in 1774,
and dying on the 25th March, 1786, aged 64, he was buried at Bywell St.
Andrew. He devised his property of Riding, Broomhaugh and Espershields to
Robert Surtees of Milkwell-burn. Cf. new History of Northumhei'land, vol. vi.
pp. 211, 247, 276.
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Mr. Ralph Carr of Cocken, only son of Ralph Carr of the same place (see
p. 190 snpra), married at Staindrop, 17th October, 1752, Lady Mary Vane,
daughter of Henry, first Earl of Darlington, but died s.p.
1781. April 9. Lady Mary Carr, wife of Ralph Carr, esq., buried.
Houghton-le-Spring Begisters.
1788. Sept. 15. Ralph Carr, esq., buried. Ihid.
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Cf. Gent.'s Mag., 1762, p. 294.
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1762. Oct. 10. Will of Thomas Buckton of Dalton, co. York, gen.
To my daughter Jane £800 under my marriage settlement, and £150 under the
will of James Bayles, deceased, my daughter's picture and Mrs. Mary Gill's
picture. Residue to my son Thomas Gyll Buckton, he executor. I make
Thomas Gyll esq., my brother John Buckton, and the Rev. Peter Rumney,
clerk, guardians to my daughter. Proved at York, 24th February, 1763.
Raine, 'Jest. Ehor.
"*'
The bargain was struck when they were at dinner, and the host became
the guest and Mr. Dundas became the owner of even the leg of mutton on which
they were dining. Note by Canon Raine.