Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1787. June. Miss Roddaiu set up house in town. ^^
1787. June. Last month Andrew Robinson Bowes, esq., Bowes'
attorney and five more found guilty in the coui-t. of King's Bench
upon two indictments, for assulting his wife. Countess of Strathmore.^^
1787. June 22. Miss Peggy Brown came to town on a visit from
Liverpool, and Miss Jenny Horsley in company. ^^
1787. June. On the 20 inst. was married at Alnwick, Mr.
Patterson, draper, to Miss Simpson.
1787. June 23. Northumberland militia was dismissed at Alnwick.
Duchess of Northumberland delivered of a son, at Northumberland
House : guns fired at Alnwick Castle on the occasion.
1787. June 25. Married, Mr. George Smith to Jane Dawson, of
Alnwick. i'^
1787. June. About a fortnight ago died at London, Mrs. Edmestone,
widow. She was a daughter of the late James Scott, esq.,
Mtorney at law.^^
1787. June. Mr. Bowes, Avith his several accomplices, sentenced
3 years. Mr. Bowes to find security for his behaviour, 10,000/.
5,000/. security.
1787. July 1. Died at London, Sir Richard Jebb,^ knight,
phisician to the Prince of Wales.
Sir Augustus Elliott, late Governor of Gibralter created a peer
of Great Britain by the name of Lord Heathfield.
1787. July 9. Married at London, Nathaniel Davison, ^ esq., to
Miss Margaret Thornton.
1787. July. Mr. Weatherley in the county.
1787. July 17. Died at Alnwick, Mrs. Calder.
daughters, viz., Elizabeth, wife of William Cook of Alnwick ; Sarah, wife of
Rev. George Dixon, sometime curate of Rothbury ; Mrs. Hutchinson ; and Jane,
wife of Captain John M. Aylward of Balnagar, co. Galway. He died 25 April,
1821, aged 63. The son, John Lambert, married Juliana, daughter of Robert
Mounsey of Carlisle, solicitor, and had issue six sons and two daughters.
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Probably, Winifred, daughter of Edward Roddam of Little Houghton,
baptized at Long Houghton 15 February, 1721/2, died at Alnwick, November,
1795. She was sister of Admiral Robert Roddam of Roddam, the last male
heir of that ancient house.
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An account of the capture of A. R. Bowes may be found in Longstaffe,
Darlington, pp. 308-309.
" The Diarist's daughter and grand daughter.
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George Smith, died October 21, 1798, aged 60 years. Monumental Inscription,
Alnwick.
'» Cf. p. 280, supra.
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A biography of Sir Richard Jebb is given in the Gentleman's Magazine for
1787, p. 642.
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Mr. Nathaniel Davison, fourth son of George Davison of Little-mill, in
Long Houghton, in early life travelled in the East with Wortley Montagu,
and is stated to have been the discoverer of the room over the chamber in the
Great Pyramid of Gizeh. He was successively consul at Nice and at Algiers,
but retired to Alnwick, where he died in Bondgate Within, 23 Feb., 1809, aged
72, leaving issue.