Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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born at or near Eaton, had his academical education in Corpus
Christi College, Oxford, and was many years usher to Mr. Richard
Dongworth at Durhaan. (He bequeathed to me Bayle's Dictionary,
5 volumes folio, and Willis' Cathedrals, 3 volumes).
1775. Nov. 20. Died in Furnival's Inn, London, my cousin,
John Thompson, of an astmatiok complaint inclined to dropsy.
1776. May 13. Died at her house in York, in the 79th year
of her age, Mrs. Mary Wharton,253 a daughter of Anthony Wharton,
formerly of Gilling-wood and sister of the late William Wharton, esq.
1776. Nov. 15. Died at her house in Old Elvet, Mrs. Barbara
Forcer, spinster, the last of an ancient family^s* of that name, and
was buried at the chappel at Harbour House, in the parish of
St. Margaret Crosgate. A Roman Catholick.
1777. May 9. Died at Durham, in the 21st year of her age,
Miss Mary Spearman, second daughter of the late Robert Spearman,
esq., and was buried the 14th at Sedgefield. Was thought handsome
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1777. Dec. 14. Died at hisi house in Durham, Mr. William
Hutchinson, attoraey-at-law.256
1778. April 7. Died at Croft, Francis Milbank,257 rector, after
Randall, vicar of that place, and on Monday his corpse passed through here for
Durham for interment. Newcastle Courant, 4th November, 1775.
1775. Oct. 30. Rev. Thomas Randall buried. Registers of St. Mary te Boiv,
Durham.
He was educated at Eton and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford ;
matriculated
21st July 1731 ; B.A. 1735 ; headmaster of Durham School and vicar of
Whitworth in 1760; vicar of Ellingham, 1768. Mr. Randal's State of the
Chiirches under the Archdeaconry of Northumberland is generally, but not
always bound up with Hutchinson's Northumberland. His archfeological
manuscripts and collections are preserved in the Cathedral Library at Durham.
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t' Her house" was in Micklegate (in 1876 occupied by Messrs. Baynes
and DufEll). She was survived by her sister Margaret and the house is said to
have been haunted by Peg (sic) Wharton's ghost.' Note by the late Canon
Raine. Cf. Harrison, Yorkshire, p. 94.
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Some notices of the history of the Forcers may be found under Thockrington,
where the family was settled as early as the thirteenth century, in the
new History of NortMimherland, vol. iv. p. 399. Cf. Surtees, Durham, vol.
iv. p. 148.
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She was daughter of Robert Spearman of Old Acres in the parisli of
Sedgefield. If 'innocence of life and a truly benevolent disposition could have
prolonged her existence upon earth, many had been her days ! ' Monumental
inscription, Sedgefield.
"" 1777. Dec. 16. Mr. William Hutchinson, attorney-at-law, buried.
Registers of St. Mary le Bou\ D^irham.
He was father of William Hutchinson, F.S.A., the Durham historian.
Died Tuesday se'nnight, after a lingering illness, the Rev. Francis
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Milbanke, rector of Croft in the North Riding of Yorkshire, brother to Sir
Ralph Milbanke, bart. NewcaMle Coxtrant, 18th April, 1778.
1776. Dec. 9. Will of Francis Milbank of Croft, clerk. My nephew Ralph
Milbank, esq., in the Navy Service, executor. To my nephew Edward Milbank,