Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1783. Aug. 10. Lord Algeninu Percy and lady came to Alnwick.
Castle. An accmint i>f Her Majesty beinj; delivered of a prince. Dr.
Ford attended as physician.
1783. Aug. Sir John Hu.ssey Delaval, hart., created a peer of
Ireland by the title of Lord Delaval.
1783. Aug. 13. Mrs. Hoi-sley set of for the soutli.^
1783. Aug. 16. Died at Greenstield, Miss Wake, aged 73.
1783. Aug. 20. Mr. Thompson, a farmer at Fenham-hill, hanged
himself in his stal)le, being known to be insane some time.*^
1783. Sept. 15. Married at Edlingham, Mr. Raine, attorney at
law, and Miss liatey."
1783. Sept. 18. Married at Alnwick. Mr. John Forster and Miss
Baird.«
Mrs. Xeal and H. Rutherford took the farm at Harley-liill at the
audit, ujwn lease for 21 years at the rent of o2/. ID.*.
1783. Sept. 22. Died, Anne, wife of Thomas Patterson, clerk of
Alnwick parish, aged 49 ( I).
1783. Sept. 23. Died .suddenly at Broomhill, near Warkworth,
Mr. Edward Brown, a farmer, aged iS.^
1783. Sept. Died in London, Lady Delaval, wife of Lord Delaval,
formerly Sir John Hussey Delaval, bart.^"
1783. Oct. 4. Died at Newcastle, Miss Younghusljand of Ikidle, of
a fever, aged 15.^1
* The Diarist's daughter Jane, wife of John Horsley of Darlington, surgeon.
They had with other issue, a son, Nicholas Horsley, captain in the army, whose
daughter Margaret became wife of William, second Earl of Limerick.
" '
Wetlnesday se'nnight at Fenham-hill, near Belford. Mr. William Thompson,
a wealthy farmer and corn merchant, greatly regretted by his faniilj-. '
Couratit, 27 Sept., 1783.
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"
Mr. John Rain of Gray's Inn, Middlesex, married at Edlingham 16 .Sept.,
1783, Mary, daughter of Rev. Robert Batey, vicar of Edlingham.
" Mr. John Forster of Alnwick, linen draper, married Jane, daughter of
William Baird of Alnmouth (by Jane Strother, his wife), and died "29 Aug.,
1812, aged 66. They had (perhaps with other) issue four sons, Matthew, Richard
Strother, John who assumed the name of Baird, William who also assumed the
name of Baird, and four daughters, Jane wife of Henry Wilkinson, (irace wife of
John Warren, Ann wife of Robert Chrisp, Mar\' wife of Joseph Graham.
John Forster, afterwards Baird, baptized at Alnwick 8 March, 1791, was a
surgeon in Newcastle and died at Kensington 15 June, 1844, leaving John
Forster Baird, barrister-at-law, of Beaumont-hill, and other issue.
" Mr. Edward Brown of Ciievington Broomhill, eldest son of Edward Brown
of the same place by his marriage at Woodhorn 28 May, 1739, with Jane Clark,
was born at Hauxley and baptized at Warkworth 2 Dec, 1742. By his marriage
with Frances, daughter of Robert Widdrington of Hauxley, he left an only
surviving daughter, Sarah, afterwards wife of Rev. Joseph Cook of Xewton-onthe-Moor.
'"
A 'character' of Lady Delaval, who was buried in Westminster Abbey
with great pomp, maybe found in the d'tiit/eman's Maijazine for 1783, p. fc94.
" Pedigrees of Younghusband may be found in the new History of Northumber/and,
vol. i., pp. 1S8, 414, but the person named in the text has not been
identified.