Carlisle Patriot, 11 Jun 1825 - BMD (2)
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Saturday 11 Jun 1825 (p. 3, col. 5) [continued]
DEATHS.
On Sunday morning last, at the Damside, Carlisle, Mr. George HORNSBY, cotton-spinner, aged 39. He was highly respected as an honest, industrious man, and for the general rectitude of his moral conduct. Besides leaving a wife and seven children unprovided for, his death was attended by a truly melancholy circumstance: a few hours before he breathed his last, his wife was brough to bed in the same room in which he died. Mr. H. had been unable to follow his employment since Easter; but having been upwards of 24 years in the service of Messrs. COWEN, HEYSHAM, & Co., that firm regularly contributed pecuniary support to this faithful servant; and Mr. Jacob COWEN (one of the co-partners of the firm) not only evinced the laudable kindness of an indulgent master to a deserving workman, but has also promised to become a "father to the fatherless," and has thereby carried consolation into this "house of mourning."
Since our last—Miss Mary JOHNSTON, of Botchergate, aged 24 years. Mr. William ANNISON, of High Cummersdale, aged 72. Mrs. Alice FOWLER, of Shaddongate, aged 55. Mr. Isaac NANSON, of Upperby, aged 31 years.
At Scotby, on Tuesday last, Wm. CARTNER, in his sixteenth year, son of Mr. Thos. CARTNER, of the above place, a young man of considerable literary attainments, and highly regarded by all who knew him.
At Penrith, on Monday last, very suddenly, Mr. John HODGSON, yeoman, of Sandgate, aged 74.
At Plumpton, near Penrith, on Tuesday last, Mrs. Margaret Parker CRABTREE, aged 82.
On the 7th inst. at the Rigg of Gretna, aged 74, Mr. John YOUNG, innkeeper, much respected.
At Tavoy, Burmah Empire, on the 19th Oct. last, universally regretted by his brother officers, Lieut. William KENNEDY, of his Majesty's 89th regiment, third son of David KENNEDY, Esq. of Craig, in consequence of a wound which he received while gallantly leading on his men to the attack at Mergui, on the 6th Oct. Although a young officer, Lieut. KENNEDY had signalized himself in various engagements, and at the time he was mortally wounded, was advancing to the gate of the Stockade.
In West-strand, Whitehaven, Mr. Rich. HUMPHREYS.
At Workington, Mr. Launcelot HARRIS, aged 84.—Miss Jane TAIT, aged 34.—Mr. Wm. PEAK, aged 44.
Lately, at Hartlepool, Mrs. WILSON, wife of the Rev. William WILSON, perpetual Curate of that place. She had suffered a lingering illness of many months. The respect and regret manifested towards her were almost without example, and her funeral, on Whit-Sunday, was more numerously attended, by persons both belonging to the town and from the country, than any that has taken place at Hartlepool within the recollection of the oldest inhabitant.
At Dumfries, Mr. James M'LELLAN.—At Skipmire, on the 2nd inst. aged 12 years, James, fourth son of Mr. MOUNSEY, farmer there.
At Inverness, on the 25th ult. in her 20th year, Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Mr. James BRUCE, grocer, Dumfries.
At Broadlane, Closeburn, on Saturday last, Mr. John GILLESPIE, aged 74.
At Richmond, on the 3d inst. Lord Spencer CHICHESTER, third son of the Marquis of Donnegal.
June 5, in Langley Park, Bucks, aged 78, Sir. Robt. BATESON HARVEY, Bart.
June 3, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, at an advanced age, Mrs. SCOTT, widow of the late H. SCOTT, Esq. brother of the Lord Chancellor and Lord Stowell.
On Sunday last, in Conduit-street, London, in his 57th year, Sir Henry Carr IBBETSON, Bart. of Denton-Park, Yorkshire.
In London, the Very Rev. G. ANDREWS, D. D., F. S A. Dean of Canterbury, and Rector of St. James's, Westminster.
At Douglas, Isle of Man, after a long illness, Mr. John GELLING, joiner, aged 37.—At Castletown, Mrs. Mary DUFF, relict of the late Mr. J. DUFF, of that town. At Douglas, Mr. Robert KAY, tide-waiter, aged 61.—Lately, on the coast of Africa, Mr. Philip CANNELL, 2nd son of Mr. R. CANNELL, of Douglas, aged 30.
At Newry, Mrs. Anne FLANNEGAN, aged 106 years.
Late Mr. Thomas WHITE, Mathematician.—We are called on this week to form a very painful duty (says the Dumfries Courier) to announce the demise of our respected townsman, Mr. Thomas WHITE, who expired on Wednesday the 1st June, in the 67th year of his age. For more than a twelvemonth his health had been declining; but he bore his sufferings with admirable fortitude, and so far from complaining, took every opportunity of soothing his relatives and friends by appealing to the consolation afforded by the Gospel, and declaring that even the near approach of death was much less formidable than he had expected. For nearly half a century, he presided over the mathematical department of the Academy here, and even yet seems so intimately associated with all our recollections of the town of Dumfries, that we can hardly look upon it as the same place—that we feel as if some land-mark had been suddenly removed, which graced and distinguished our moral boundaries. During that long period his classes were attended by three successive generations of Dumfriesians, and they, at least, whether maintaining the high character of Scotchmen abroad, or benefiting society by the fair exercise of their talents at home, will bear us out in saying that his death leaves a blank which cannot be filled up—that, taken all in all, we shall probably never look upon his like again. Mr. WHITE was a native of Hexham, in the county of Northumberland. He was born on the 12th April, 1758, and was inducted to the charge which he so long held here in the year 1782, after a comparative trial, in which he failed every competitor, and secured by the early display of his talents the friendship and esteem of these great ornaments of letters—Dugald STEWART, Esq. and the late excellent Professor ROBINSON. Though fond of reading, and possessed of various and extensive knowledge, mathematical science was evidently his forte; and we believe we may state without exaggeration that in the higher department of that severe study he had few equals and no superiors.
Geo.
There is a mass of local information on these pioneers and the many hardships they endured in the initial years at Augusta and subsequently at the Vasse River, now Busselton. .
Georgiana was honoured by having a private school at Busselton named in her memory.
Geo.
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The Carlisle Archive Centre holds a file of correspondence kept by David KENNEDY of Crosby. I was able to glean some great information about one of his close friends.
One of his daughters, Georgina, married Captain John MOLLOY, and they settled in Western Australia where she made a name for herself as a notable botanist. A biographer of Georgina has also made good use of that file.Bruce