Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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majority) that the High Bayliff shall proceed forward with the
scrutiny. Mr. Fox and a few of the electors entered a protest against
the scrutiny, under hands.
1784. June 20. An account of Ralph, Clavering, esq.'s, affairs
being in confusion, but by the assistance of his friends the same are
jDut upon a settlement for hisi creditors.**
1784. July 8. A county court (bad one).
1784. July 10. Miss R. Gallon removed to Thos. Sewel's to
lodge. 9
1784. July 11. Rev. Mr. C. Charlton^*'* preached his first sermon
in Alnwick church from St. John viii., 7.
1784. July. Died, Miss Dolly Faldcr of Alnwick, aged ... .1°
1784. July. Died at Berwick, Mrs. Potts, sister to Mrs. Taylor,
aged 72.
1784. July. Died at Craster, Daniel Craster, esq., aged 59.^1
1784. July. Died at Alnwick, Mrs. Learmouth, aged 61.
1784. July. Duke of Northumberland nor none of the family at
the Castle this year.
A crop of hay belonging to Thomas Busby, farmer in Barnyside.
1784. July. Died at Lesbury, the Rev. Mr. William Forster, vicar
of that place and Longhoughton, aged 61.^2
* Mr. Ralph Clavering of Callaley, son and heir of Ralph Clavering of
the same place, by his wife Mary, daughter of Nicholas Stapleton of Ponteland
and of Carlton, West Riding of Yorkshire, was born 29 June, 1727. He
married three times, first at St. George's, Hanover Square, July, 17f)7. Eliza,
daughter of James Egan, second in Paris, Aug., 1764, Frances, daughter of
John Lynch of Bordeaux, and third at St. James', London, 20 June, 1767,
Mary, daughter of Edward Walsh. He had issue by his second and third
wives.
® For a pedigree of Gallon of Alnwick see new Historij of Northumberland,
vol. ii. pp. 486-488.
loa iY[j._ Charles Charlton, a younger son of William Charlton of Lee-hall,
commissioner to the first Duke of Northumberland, was educated at Lincoln
College, Oxford, and was vicar of Tynemouth from 1789 to his death 18 Aug.,
1824.
Dorothy, daughter of John Falder of Alnwick, the elder, surgeon, by his
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wife Ann, daughter of Lieutenant John Hall, of Hobberlaw, died 9 July,
1784. Cf. Monumental Inscription Alnwick Chancel.
" Daniel Craster of Craster, eldest son of Daniel Craster of the same place,
baptized at Embleton 19 July, 1723, was High Sheriff of Northumberland in
1779. In the announcement of his death in the Neircastle f'hronich 7 Aug.,
1784, he is described as ' a man of extensive understanding in agriculture.' By
his wife Anne, daughter of John Coulter of Newcastle, he had issue five sons and
four daughters.
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Mr. William Forster, third son of Joseph Forster of Newton-by-the-Sea.
was born at High Buston, baptized at Warkworth 27 March, 1722, and
educated at Jjincoln College, Oxford. He was presented to the vicarage of
Long Houghton in 1752, which he continued to hold with that of Lesbury from
1775 until his death, 31 Aug., 1784. By his wife Margaret, daughter of John
Cameron of Fassefern, he had, with other issue, two sons and four daughters.
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