Six north country diaries - The MAN & Other Families

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A commission of bankruptcy issued out against Mr. Aitkin, cornfactor.
1796. Xuv. Mr. John Andei-son, shoemaker, removed from his
shop.
1796. Dec. Married at Eglingham, the Rev. Mr. Hugh Hodgson,
vicar of that place, to Miss Wilkinson, daughter of the late William
Wilkinson, of Newcastle upon Tjnie, esq.^
1796. Dec. 17. Deaths. Empress of Russia, aged 68. William
Lord Cavendish, uncle to duke of Devonshire.^ Samuel Cook, esq.,
of Newton in the Moor, aged 71.^°
1796. Dec. The ship 'Two Brothers' from Alemouth, taken by
a French privateer of 8 guns and 50 men, and carried of. The ship
was not insured, as said.
1796. Dec. A very raging fever in the town and country, not
veiy fatal, mostly amongst the young people, under 30 years.
1796. Dec. Lord Malmsbury returned home: the French, proposals
being veiy inconsistent, they insisting ujwn Cape of Good
Hope and Ceylon being restored, with other articles out of character.
The Spaniards declared war against Great Britain without the least
-cause : the king's message to both Houses of Parliament to defend, it
being a very great insult.
1796. Dec. Mr. Thomas Aitken's assignees, under his bankruptcy,
are Messrs. Henderson and Wilson.
" Mr. Hugh Hodgson, son of Balph Hodgson of Bisliop Auckland, attorney,
matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford, on the 17th December, 1755, aged 18.
B.A. 1759. M.A. 1 70-. Was presented to the vicarage of Eglingham by
Dr. Taylor, hishop of Durham in 1769. Married 21 Nov., 1796, Philadelphia,
daughter of William Wilkinson of Newcastle, and died >•./>. July 1810, aged 73.
His sister Mary Philadelphia Hodgson was postmistress of Alnwick, and died 10
December, 1826, aged 82.
• Query, Lord John Cavendish, fourth son of William, third Duke of Devonshire.
Mr. Samuel Cook was baptized at Shilbottle 23 September, 1725, as son of
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Joseph Cook of Newton, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Davison of
Warkworth, and wiilow of William Smith of Togston.