Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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1790. May 20. Died, Right Hon. Earl of Hardwicke, after a sliort
illness, aged 60.
1790. May 25. Died, His Grace Duke of Montague, Master of the
Horse to His Majesty, aged 78.
1790. May. A female sen^ant of the duke of Northumberland's
hanged hei-self at Northumberland House.
1790. May 30. His Grace Duke of Athol and Earl of Aberdeen
passed to the north with their familys.
1790. June 3. The messenger sent to the court of Spain not
returned back.
1790. June 7. Married at Newcastle, Mr. Thomas Kerr, attorney
in Alnwick, to Miss Forster of Ritton "Wliite-house.^
1790. June 8. At Alnwick, Mr. John White, to a niece of Andrew
Mean's.
1790. June. Died at Ridley-hall, Mi's. Lowes, lady of John
Lowes, esq., high sheriff for Northumberland.^
1790. June 10. Died at Denwick, Mr. William Annett, formerly
fanner at High House, near Alnwick, aged 76. i°
1790. June. The svmi of 1,000/. lent by the town of Alnwick to
William and Edward Charleton, esq., upon an estate called the Combs
at 4^ p. cent.^^
Members chosen.
1790. June 17. Berwick:—Hon. John Yaughan, esq., captain
Carpenter.
1790. June 18. Morpeth: —Sir James St. Clare, Francis Gregg,
esqrs.
1790. June. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: —Sir Matt. White Ridley,
bart., Charles Brandling, esq.
1790. June. Durham city:—John Tempest, esq., John Lambton,
esq.
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Mr. Thomas Kerr of Alnwick, solicitor, was son of James Kerr of Cornhill,
innkeeper, and of Martha his wife. By liis marriage with Mary, daughter
and sole heiress of Ralph Forster of Higham Dykes, he obtained Ritton Whitehouse
and Roiighlees
He purchased Tone, in the chapehy of Birtley, in 1816, and dj'ing v.y*.
September, 1831, aged 74, he by his will, dated 15 January, 1830, gave his real,
and the residue of his personal, estate to Anthony (iregson of Lowlinn, only child
of his sister Elizabeth, wife of Anthony (Iregson of Lowlinn. Mr. Thomas
Kerr was the owner of the MS. from which the Rev. John Hodgson printed the
Book of Rolls of 1663 in his Jli^tori/ of XorthinnhtrUind, part iii., vol. i.
* She was Helen, daughter of the Rev. E. Stott of Minnagaff, Kirkcudbrightshire,
was married to John Lowes, 4 June, 1786, and died 2 June, 1790.
'" Ho was the father of Mr. Ralph Annett, a merchant in Alnwick, who
purchased the farm of Heckley Fence.
" Mr. William Charlton, of the Lee-hall on the North Tync, sometime commissioner
to the Duke of Northumberland, died at Alnwick "20 September, 1794,
aged 75, leaving with other issue an eldest son, Edward Charlton of Lee-hall, a
captain in the Northumberland militia, who died 25 February, 1803, aged 45,
leaving issue.