Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1785. July 24. Rev. Mr. P. Stockdale jireached Ijefore the
Judges of Assi/e at St. Nicholas, Newcastle : his text, Genesis i., 27.
Rev. Mr. Nicholas Hrown'^ preached at Alnwick church : his text,
Zechariah v., 3 and 4.
1785. July 27. Ki^ht lion. Lord Algernon Percy with John
Blacket, esq., of Wylaiu, came to Alnwick Castle.
1785. Aug. Great company at the Castle visiting, among whom,
were Lord Viscount Stormont, Lord Erroll, etc.
1785. Aug. 16. Alnwick races, John Wetherel, esq., win.
1785. Aug. 17. ,, Mr. Simjison's loan mare win.
1785. Aug. 18.
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Joseph Cookson, esq.'s Dunce
win.
1785. Aug. 26. The foundation stone of the bridge across the
road at Denwick (over dry land) was laid. Lord Warkworth, with
his father Earl and Lady Percy, attended.
1785. 8ei)t. 10. Died at Callowley, Miss Clavering, daughter
of R. Clavering, esq.^
1785. Sept. 22. His Grace Duke of Northumberland set of southward
from Alnwick Castle with Mr. Moore.
Died, Mrs. Frankland, wife of — Frankland, esq., of Durham.
Died, Mr. Henry Howey, of the Wooler-haugh-head, aged 70.
1785. Sept. 29. William Yielder, esq., elected mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Chamberlains for Alnwick, Mr. Thos. Moffit, L.
Hindmai-sh, Jos. Baron, Ra. Annett.
1785. Oct. 20. Died, Doctor Mitford of Morpeth with a good
character.*
1785. Oct. 31. Died at Low Newton, Mrs. Brown, wife of Alexander
Brown of Branton, esq., aged 75.
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The Rev. Nicholas Brown, D.D., fourth son and eventually heir of
Alexander Brown of Branton, baptized at Eglingham on the 4 April, IT^iG, and
educated at Christ College, Cambridge, of which society he was afterwards a
fellow. He was successively rector of 8t. Nicholas', Rochester, and rector of
Ingoldsbv, Lincolnshire. He died at Rochester on the i:> Feb., 1810. Cf.
Geiir.s. Mag., 1810.
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The yeirca-if/fi Courant of 10 September, 178,"), states tiiat Miss Clavering
died ' at Rothbury where she went for the recovery of her health.'
* Eleanor, daughter ami coheir of Nicholas Brown of Bolton, was married
at St. Oswald's, Durham, S July, 1772, to Mr. John Frankland of Durham,
grandson of Anthonj- Frankland of Richmond. By this marriage, she had,
with other issue four sons, John, William, Thomas, and Anthony, and died 27
Sept., 1785, aged 42.
Mr. Henry Howey was the lessee of the old coaching inn at Wooler-haugh
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head and also chief proprietor of a system of waggons wliich carried goods
between Newcastle and Edinburgh by way of Wooler and Coldstream. He
died 15 Sept., 1785, and his widow Frances, on 23 Dec, 1791. Cf. M.I.
Ilderton. Aeuxastle. Courant, 24 Sept., 1785.
*
The entry in the text is not supported b}' a corresponding entry either in
the Mori)eth or Mitford Registers of Burials.
* .She was daughter of Rev. Charles Stoddard, vicar of Eglingham, was
married there IJ) Feli., 17."0 1, and was i)uried at Bolton chapel 4 Nov., 1785.