Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1784. Aug. :5. Alnwick races,i^ Mr. Carr's colt win.
1784. Aug. 4. ,,
Mr. Hutchinson inare win.
1784. Aug. 5. ,,
Mr. Charlton's mare win.
1784. Aug. 6. Died at North Acton, John Ord, esq., of Morpeth,
aged 83.14
1784. Aug. 12. A woiuan, by name Murray, died in Cannongate,
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aged 108.
The Tea Act and Window-sess Act passed the House of Commons.
1784. Aug. 22. Died, Mrs. Smith, wife of Mr. J. Smith, schoolmaster.
1784. Sept. 11. Died at Tuggle-hall, Samuel Younghusband,
esq., aged 68. ^^
1784. Sept. 21. Died at Alnwick, Mrs. Jane Strother, aged 82. is
1784. Sept. On the . . . day of this month was married Rich.
Pepper Arden,i" esq., attorney-general, to Miss Bootle, daughter of
Richard Wilbraham Bootle, esq., F.R.S., Latham-hall, near Onuskirk,
Lanca.sliire, member for the city of Chester.
1784. Oct. Died, Francis Forster, esq., an alderman of Newcastle
uix)n Tyne.i^
1784. Oct. The Rev. Mr. Percival Stockdale promoted to the
livings of Lesbury and Longhoughton.
1784. Oct. Thomas Selby, esq., of Biddlestone, left the country
on account of debt, being much in debt, and the servants all
discharged, i^
1784. Nov. 2. Mr. John Brown came to Alnwick from London. 20
The race-course was on that high ground on Alnwick moor called
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Hobberlaw Edge.
" Mr John Ord, who died when on a visit to his son-in-law, Mr. Robert
Lisle of North Acton, was buried at Morpeth. Cf. Newcastle Courant, 14
August, 1784.
'^ Mr. Samuel Younghusband, eldest son of Thomas Younghusband of Budle
and Tuggal, was born rirra 1716. He married first Anne, daughter of \Yilliam
Claverin" of Beri'ington, by wliom he had at least three sons, and second, Mary
Story wlio survived him.
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.Jane, dauffhter of Richard Strother, was baptized at Alnwick, 16 Nov.,
1702. Will dated iS Aug., 1782.
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Richard Pepper Ardeu (i 745-1804) of Trinity College, Cambridge, and of
the Middle Temple, barrister-at-law, Master of the Rolls, afterwards created
Lord Alvanlej'.
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Mr. Francis Forster, fourth son of Joseph Forster of Newton-by-the-Sea,
baptized at Einldeton 16 Jan., 1725/6, was apprenticed 17 Jan., 1742, to John
Kelk-y of Newcastle, liootiiman, and admitted free of Merchants' Company,
13 Jan., 1752. He was mayor of Newcastle 1769 and 1779, and was a partner
in the sugar-house in the Close and also in the Commercial Bank. He married
Eleanor, daugiiter of Robert Greave of Gateshead, saddler and hardwureman,
and lett issue.
Mr. Thomas Selby, the head of the very ancient family of Selby of Biddiesstone,
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was born at York on the 20 .April, 1711, anil dying on the 26 May, 1787,
was buried witli his ancestors in the ciiancel of Alwinton.
" Tiie Diarist's son John, who was baptized at Alnwick on the 19th October,
1757.