Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1782. April 10. Morpeth Sessions. Colonel Bell, wife, and company
came to Alnwick Castle.
1782. April 11. Archdeacon Sharp's visitation.
1782. April. Sir Jennison William Gordon, bart.,* and William
Charleton, esq.,^ appointed joint Port-customers of Newcastle-upon-
Tyne.
1782. April 20. A prospect of peace with the Dutch and Americans
from the several speeches in the House.
1782. April 25. Ten young freemen went 'through the well';
amongst the number Mr. Geoi-ge Forster of High Buston^ and two
sons of Mrs. Lindsay's.
Died, Catherine Hunter, wife of Eobert Hunter, blacksmith, aged
82 years.''
Died at Newcastle, in Westgate Street, Sir Lancelot Allgood,
knight, a worthy man, aged 72 years.
Died, Mr. Thomas Pallister of Hezleridge.^
1782. May 7. Died at Alnwick, Rev. Mr. William Stoddart, vicar
of Chatton and curate of the parish of Alnwick, aged 65. i*^
Died, Lord Talbot, Lord Steward of His Majestie's household,
.aged 72.
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Mr. Matthew Bell, of Woolsington, colonel of the Northumberland MiUtia.
* Sir Jenison William Gordon, second baronet, of Newark-on-Trent (1747-
1831).
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Query, Rear Admiral William Charlton, who died 26 January, 1815, aged
55. Cf. Welford, Monuments in St. Nicholas's, Newcastle, p. 106. Cf. pedigree
of Charlton, new History of Northumberland, vol. ix. p. 346.
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A vivid description of the ceremony of leaping the ' well,' which initiated
those who claimed by patrimony or servitude to be admitted to the freedom of
Alnwick, may be found in Tate, Alnivick, vol. ii., pp. 241-250.
Mr. George Forster named above, a younger son of Joseph Forster of High
Buston and Newton-by-the-Sea, was baptized at Embleton, 6 May, 1729. How
he qualified for the freelage of Alnwick does not appear, but he farmed first
at Shilbottle Woodhouse, and afterwards at High Buston. He died, aged 80,
at Blyth, apparently at the house of his son, Mr. George Forster, H.M. Customs,
and was buried 15 April, 1809 {Earsdon Begister).
Hunter, the widower, died on the 2nd July, 1783, aged 81. M.I.
Alnwick.
* Sir Lancelot Allgood, knight, eldest son of Isaac Allgood of Brandon
White-house, in the parish of Eglingham, married 22 Feb., 1738/9, at Chollerton,
his kinswoman Jane, only child of Robert Allgood of Nunwick, by whom he had
issue. He was high sheriff of Northumberland in 1746, knight of the shire in
1748 and was knighted in 1761. His biography may be found in Welford, Men
of Mark 'tioixt Tyne and Tweed. Cf. Newcastle Gourant, 27 April, 1782, where
it is stated that he died in his 72nd year.
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He was baptized at Shilbottle on the 3rd June, 1722, as son of Thomas
Pallister, a freeholder of that place. He married at Warkworth, 1 May, 1758,
Anne, daughter of John Hall of Bondicar, by whom he had numerous issue.
He was an ancestor of the late Professor Marcus Dods the eminent Scottish
divine.
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Mr. William Stoddart, son of John Stoddart, attorney, was born at
Morpeth, was admitted to St. John's College, Cambridge, 17 May, 1737, aged
19 and was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Carlisle, on the 24th May, 1741.