Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1777. Sept. :K). Jolm and Mally set of to London. Mr. Robert
Anderson and Miss Ann Grev married in Alnwick church.^''
1777. Oct. 13. William "Weddle of Alnwick died.
1777. Oct. 14. Daniel Craster, esq., died, aged 94, at Craster.^
1777. Nov. Betwixt the 3rd and -Ith, days, tlie stackyard of Mr.
Selby of Foxton-hall was maliciously set on fire, and the whole crop
of corn burnt: a hay stack and a little barley was saved.
1777. Nov. 7. Died, Miss Learmouth, daughter of Mr. Thomas
Learniouth, riding surveyor.
1777. Nov. \i. George Watson, skinner and glover, died.
1777. Nov. 22. Sir Thomas Hairgerstone, bart., of Haggerstone,
died.
1777. Nov. 26. Died, Rev. Mr. Lawson, vicar of Warkworth, at
CaiT's-vill.s Same day died at Tweedmoutli the Rev. Mr. Wrangham,
vicar of Ilderton and Alnham.^
1777. Dec. 18. Thomas Patterson, clerk of Alnwick parish, sent
to gaol for 35/. due to Charles Bedlington for ale.
" Mr. Robert Anderson of Carnwath, N.B., married Anne, daughter and,
at length, heir of John Grey of Alnwick by his wife Anne, daughter of James
Scott of Alnwick and of Thompson Walls in Kirknewton. .She died at Edinburgh,
Dec. 1785. See p. 268, ^^os^
Mr. Daniel Craster was a very aged man when he siicceeded to the family
estates on the death, in 177-, of George Craster, his first cousin twice removed.
His portrait painted when he was 9"2 years of age is at Craster.
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The account given in Richardson's Local HlMorian-t Tahle Booh states that
the tire broke out on November 3 and that twenty stacks of corn, mostlj- wlieat,
were consumed.
^ The NeirraMie Courunt of 15 Nov., 1777, states that
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her mild disposition
and goodness of heart greatly endeared her to all who had the happiness of her
ac(|uaintance.'
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Sir Thomas Haggerston of Haggerston, was baptized 11 Sept., 1722, succeeded
his father as fourth baronet in 1756, and was buried at Holy Island,
27 Nov., 1777, leaving issue.
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The Rev. Wilfred Lawson, the younger, was son of the vicar of Warkworth
of that name. The exact date and place [? (Taltrim, co. Meath] of his
birth are unknown, but he was ordained by Dr. Waugh, bishop of Carlisle,
and succeeded his father as vicar of Warkworth in 1732. Without resigning
his benefice he retired to Carville near .Newcastle, about 1771, and died in
1777, aged 71. By his will dated 2 Jan., 1776, he devised the residue of his
estate to his godson Wilfred, one of the sons of his friend Mr. William Johnson
of Woodliorn, wlioUy passing by the two daughters of his l>rother Alfred (?)
Lawson and their descendants. One of these nieces, Mai'y Lawson, married
Samuel Ward, hy whom she had two sons, Lawson Ward, an idiot, and Gilfred
Ward of Newcastle, linen draper, wliosc son, Thomas Akenside Ward, a captain
in the Northumberland Militia, and in 1828 residing at Alnwick, was found
to be one of the two heirs-at-law of tlie Rev. Wilfrid Lawson who died in
1777. Alfred (?) Lawson's other daughter Sarah married (William) Cockburn,
by whom she had an only son, William Cockburn, in 1828 residing at St.
Anthony's near Newcastle, the other of the two heirs-at-law of his great-uncle
the Rev. Wilfred Lawson.
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Besides the benefices of Ilderton and Alnham, Mr. Thomas Wrangham
held the perpetual curacy of Tweedmoutli and the lectureship of Berwick-ou-
Tweed.