Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1782. Aug. 20. Died at Windsor, Prince Alfred, the son of His
Majesty, aged one year eleven months.
1782. Aug. 21." Died, Mr. Rd. Strother, merchant, aged 57.^5
1782. Aug. 24. Died, Mrs. Shell of Denwick, aged 77.
1782. Aug. 25. Mr. Hall's text, Psalm xxxvii. 37, 38.
1782. Aug. Died, William Fenwick of Bywell, esq., aged 60.1^
1782. Sept. 1. Mr. Hall's text, Exodus xx. 8.
1782. Sept. Admiral Keptonfelt,i with 500 more, drowned in
Plymouth bay by a gale of wind.
1782. Sept. 2. Died, Mr. Thomas Call,^ gardener to His Grace,
Hugh, Duke of Northumberland, aged 65. Succeeded in his office by
one Manners.^
1782. Sept. 4. Married at Alnwick, Mr. Banks, jun., dancing
master, to a daughter of Thomas Bell's.
1782. Sept. 15. Mr. Hall's text, 1 Samuel xii., 24.
1782. Sept. 22. Mr. Hall's text, Romans viii., 28.
1782. Sept. 29. Mr. HaU's text, Isaiah xii., 2.
1782. Sept. 30. Died, Mr. Joseph Clark of Morpeth, grazier.4
1782. Sept. Died, Mr. Thomas Vardy, Cannongate.
1782. Sept. Died, Mr. Dobson, under-steward to Sir Henry Grey,
bart.s
1782. Sept. Died at Tweedmouth, Mr. George Potts, formerly
of White House.
'*
Mr. Richard Strother, eldest son of Nicholas Strother of Alnwick, was
baptized 10 September, 1725 ; he died unmarried and was buried at Alnwick.
The Neivcastle Gourani of 31 August, 1782, states that he was 'a man of great
attention and integrity in business.'
"*
Mr. William Fenwick was eldest son of John Fenwick of Stanton and
Brinkbui'n by his first wife, Margaret, daughter and coheir of William Fenwick
of Bywell. He was High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1752, and died 27
August, 1782, having disinherited his eldest son John, in favour of his j-ounger
and only other son VVilliam, the last Fenwick of Bywell.
'
The loss of Eear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt (1718-1782) and his ship is
commemorated in Cowper's verses on the Loss ' of the Royal George.
1764. Dec. 25. Mr. Thomas Call and Mrs. Ann Baron, widow, married.
Alnwiclc Registers. She was daughter of — Miniken and widow of John Baron of
Alnwick, merchant (who was buried Feb. ?,, 1763), by whom she had, with
other issue, a son Joseph, and a davighter Christian. By her second husband
she had no issue. Mr. Martin Call, a kinsman of Thomas Call, became
superintendent of the Imperial Gardens in Russia.
^ Mr. Charles Manners died 11 November, 1799, aged 67. Monumental
inscription, Alnwick.
"Mr. Joseph Clark was buried 3 Oct., 1782. Morpeth Registers. In the
Newcastle Courant of 5 Oct., he is described as an eminent grazier and butcher.
^ John Dobson was buried at Howick 6 Oct., 1782.
^
Mr. George Potts of Tweedmouth, eldest son of Robert Potts the younger,
of White-house, in the parish of Ahiwick, by his wife, Mary, daughter of
[George] Morrison (of Low-linn), and grandson of Robert Potts, also of Whitehouse,
married Jane, daugliter of Roger Pearson of Titlington, by his wife,
Rosamond Colville. Thej' had with other issue a son, George Morrison Potts,
baptized at Alnwick 27 June, 1760, a lieutenant in the 51st Regiment. Cf.
p. 303, post.