Cumberland Pacquet, 14 Oct 1777 - BMD

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Tuesday 14 Oct 1777   (p. 3, col. 1)

 

MARRIED.

 

Saturday last, at Lamplugh Church, by the Rev. Mr. NICHOLSON, Mr. Senhouse PARKIN of the King's Arm's Inn, Workington, to Miss FOX of Millgill-head.

[According to the Copeland Registers Index, their full names were Senhouse Abraham PARKIN and Fanny FOX.]

 

Thomas TUNSTALL, Esq. of Durham, to Miss BORNEY of Bosworth Hall, in Lincolnshire.

[According to FamilySearch, Thomas TUNSTALL of St. Oswald, Durham, and Mary BOLNEY of Husbands Bosworth, married on 29 Sep 1777 at Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire (not Lincolnshire).]

 

Tuesday last at Ennerdale, Mr. John PALMER of Cleator, to Miss LAMB of Kinnyside, an agreeable young lady with a handsome fortune.

[According to the Copeland Registers Index, the bride's forename was Sarah; they married on 07 Oct 1777.]

 

Wednesday last at St. Ann's, Soho, London, Mr. John RUMNEY, merchant in this town, to Miss BACCHEN, of Dean-street, Soho.

[According to the Parish Register of St. Ann, Soho, London, the bride was Ann BALCHIN of this Parish, a Minor; they married with the consent of Ann BALCHIN, widow, her mother, and her two guardians; her deceased father was Peter BALCHIN.]

 

DIED.

 

Wednesday last greatly respected, in the 56th year of his age, Mr. John BORROWSCALE, who had been many years employed by Henry CURWEN, Esq. as an agent in the colleries [sic]. His death was untimely, and occasioned by a rope breaking as he was going down one of the pits. His remains were interred last Friday at Harrington Church, where a great concourse of people attended on the mournful occasion, sincerely lamenting the sudden loss of a worthy, honest man.

[According to the Copeland Registers Index, John BORRANSKELL, son of John, was buried on 10 Oct 1777 at Harrington.]

 

At Whitby, Mr. Jeremiah ROBINSON, deputy comptroller of the customs there.

[According to the Parish Register, Jeremiah ROBINSON, Comptr. of the Customs, aged 52, of Whitby, was buried on 27 Sep 1777 at St. Mary, Whitby.]

 

David PRATT, Esq. Mayor of Berwick.

[According to FamilySearch, he was buried on 10 Oct 1777 at Berwick-upon-Tweed.]