Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1782. Dec. 8. Died, Mr. Henry Boyd, attorney, Newcastle. ^2
1782. Dec. 15. Died, Mr. Robert Richardson, sen., attorney,
Alnwick, aged 68.^3
1782. Dec. 20. Mr. William Hunter, attorney at Hexham, died
at Islington, near London. ^^
1782. Dec. 23. Mr. Horsley of Bolam married to Miss Meggison
of Whalton.15
1782. Dec. 25. Died at Berwick, Mrs. White, sister to Doctor
Davison. 1^
1782. Dec. Died, a son of John Wood of Beadnel, at Craster.i
1782. Dec. 29. Died at Newcastle, Matthew Bell, jmi., esq.,
lieutenant colonel of the Northumberland militia.
1782. Dec. Died, Thomas Windham of Alnwick, taylor.
1782. Dec. Negotiations for peace with America, France, Spain
and Ho-lland, but great disputes in both Houses : Spain for the
fortress of Gibralter deliyered up, and Holland for St. Eutacious and
Cape G-ood Hope delivered up.
1783. Jan. Negotiations for peace are seemingly at an end:
Paris adverse, and Versailles obstinate on account of America, inde-
Thompson's Walls hi Kirknewton), a great great grandson of Edward Grey of
Howick.
The following is an abstract of the will of the above named John Grey of
Alnwick, wine merchant, dated 15th May, 1775 : I give all my estate to my
brother-in-law, Charles Grey of Morwick, and my cousin Edward Grey of Alnwick,
in trust to pay to my daughter Anne Grey, when 21 , £600. My wife, Anne
Grey, to have my estate for life and then to my daughter ; remainder to my
cousin James Richardson and his heirs ; remainder to my cousin, James Edmeston
; remainder to my sister, Anne Grey, and my cousins, Sarah Lisle, Hannah
Jolly, Marj' Richardson and Nanny Richardson. Proved at Durham, 1775
(Raine, Test. Dunelm.).
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The Newcastle Coiirant of 14 Dec, 1782, states that he was an attorney
at All Saints Church Stairs, and that at the time of his death the youngest of
his three children was but ten days old. He was buried at St. John's,
Newcastle.
'^
1715. 6 Sept. Robert, son of John Richardson, tanner, baptized.
Alnwick Betjisters. Either he or his son of the same name was author of the
letters of An Old Craftsman, mentioned above.
'*
See p. 232, supra.
'^ 1782. Dec, 23. Robert Horsley and Philadelphia Meggison married.
Bolam liegisters. He was the representative of a famih^ which had owned
Milburn Grange since the middle of the sixteenth century and was born
15 June, 1749. Out of his numerous issue, but one daughter survived, viz.,
Philadelphia, -wife of John, Lord Decies.
Hannah, daughter of George Davison of Little Mill in Long Houghton,
"*
by his wife, Mary, daughter of Nicholas Brown of Bolton, married at Alnwick,
19 Nov., 1761, Andrew White of Berwick, saddler. Cf. p. 249, jw-^t.
'
Craster Henry Wood, eldest son of John Wood of Beadnell, by his wife
Anne, daughter and in her issue heir of Daniel Craster of Ci'aster, was
baptized 28 July, 1782, and died 30 December following.
* Mr. Matthew Bell, jun., eldest son of Matthew Bell of Newcastle, who
had purchasedjWoolsington, married Dulcebella, daughter of Sir Robert Eden,
bart., and died in the lifetime of his father, leaving issue.