Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1783. Oct. The Bank of Paris stoj^t payment, but Government
has interfered for three months : national credit will suffer.
1783. Oct. 19. Died at Alnwick, Mr. James Gladstones, of an
inflamation in his bowels.'-
1783. Oct. On the 9th inst. peace was proclaimed in Alnwick. ^^
1783. Oct. 20. The mill in the Boag was set forward and corn
was then grinded ; Ra.. Venis tenant to and under the town of
Alnwick. 14
1783. Oct. A number of bankrujicys in France, occasioned by
the failure of the Bank : the Dutch and Americans will both suffer
greatly by it, but England Avill be triffling.
1783. Oct. 21. Mr. William Thompson, butcher, and Miss Wardell,
of Cannongate, married.
1783. Oct. 21. Married at North Shields church, Walter Spencer
Stanhope, esq., to Miss PuUeine, daughter of T. Babington Pulleine of
Carlton, Yorkshire. ^^
1783. Oct. 28. Mrs. Dring set of for London with Miss Horsley
for Darlington.
1783. Oct. 29. The card assembly begom at the White Swan.
1783. Oct. Died at Kirkleatham in Yorkshire, Sir Chas. Turner,
bart., member for the city of York : a most worthy man in every
station of life: left a son eleven years of age and two daughters. ^'^
1783. Nov. 3. Died at Alnwick, Mrs. Graham, aged 73, wife of
Mr. A. Graham, bookseller, i
1783. Nov. 5. Died, Mr. John Trumble of Shilbottle, worth
2,000/.
1783. Nov. Died, Right Hon. Earl Spencer at Bath; was there
for the recovery of his health.
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1729. Dec. 1. James, son of Mr. James Gladstains, Alnham, baptized,
Alnham Jiegisters-
'^ The Treaty of Peace, signed at Versailles 3 Sept., is printed in the
Gentleman's Magazine for 1783, p. 877.
This mill was erected on land, originally called Ranwell Strothers, on the
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eastern side of the town of Alnwick, belonging to the Corporation. It was
taken down about 1804, but the farm on which it stood is still called Bog Mill.
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Miss Mary Winifred Pulleine was daughter of Thomas Babington Pulleine
of Carlton, Yorkshire, by his M'ife Winifred, daughter of Edward CoUingwood
of Chirton. The issue of Mr. and Mrs. Stanhope succeeded to the CoUingwood
estates at Dissington and Shipley, and also (for a time) to Roddam.
Sir Charles Turner (17-6-1783) of Kirkleatham, in Cleveland, first baronet,
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was the only son of William Turner of that place by his wife Jane, daughter
of Charles Bathurst of Glints. He married first Elizabeth, daughter of William
Woml)well of Wombwell, and secondly Mary, daughter of James Shuttleworth
of Gawthorp.
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Mr. Alexander Graham was a bookseller in Alnwick as early as 1746. He
died 9 March, 1789, aged 77, and was succeeded in his business bj' his son
Joseph (iraham who, dying on 6 February, 1792, m as succeeded by his sisters
Mar\' Graham and Ann Smith.
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1783. November 7. John Tunibull, Shilbottle, buried. Shilhottle
lieciKters.