Cumberland Pacquet, 25 Nov 1777 - BMD

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Tuesday 25 Nov 1777   (p. 2, col. 3)

 

MARRIED

 

Wednesday last, at St. James's Church in this town, Mr. John HARRIS of Bransty, to Mrs. Jane COCKIN of Marlborough-street.

[According to the Copeland Registers Index, they married on 19 Nov 1777.]

 

Last week at Wigton, Mr. John SLEE of Whitbarrow, to Miss BUSHBY of Wigton.

[According to the Parish Register Transcript, John SLEE of Westward parish, batchelor, aged 22, and Ann BUSHBY, spinster, aged 23, of this parish, married on 17 Nov 1777 at Wigton.]

 

Tuesday in this town, Mr. Robert HALL (one of the seamen belonging to the ship Mercer) to Miss Thomason TOPPING.

[According to the Copeland Registers Index, the bride's forename was Thomasin; they married on 18 Nov 1777 at St. James, Whitehaven.]

 

Tuesday at Broughton, the Rev. Mr. GILPIN, to Miss LAW, daughter of T. M. LAW, Esq.; of that place.

[According to FamilySearch, Jeremiah GILPIN and Jane LAW married on 18 Nov 1777 at Broughton in Furness. The bondsman for the marriage license was Thos. Mirfield LAW, Esq.]

 

Sunday se'ennight, at Caldbeck, Mr. Joseph WILLIAMSON of Hudscales, to Miss Sally BEWLEY of Fellside.

[According to a transcription of the Bishop's Transcripts, Joseph WILLIAMSON of the Parish of Caldbeck and Sarah BEWLEY of the Parish of Flimby married on 11 Nov 1777 at Flimby (not at Caldbeck).]

 

Tuesday at Crosthwaite, near Keswick, Mr. William TROUGHTON, to Miss GRAVES, both of that parish.

[According to the Parish Register Transcript, Thomas (not William) TROUGHTON and Ann GRAVE married on 17 Nov 1777 at Crosthwaite.]

 

Tuesday at Broughton, Mr. TAYLOR, attorney at Liverpool, to Miss Peggy LEWTHWAITE of Broughton.

 

DIED

 

Friday Night last, at Harrithwaite near this town, in the 82d year of her age, Annas the wife of Mr. John ELLERA of that place.

[According to the Copeland Registers Index, Agnes ELLERAY, wife of John, of Arrithwaite, was buried on 23 Nov 1777 at St. Nicholas, Whitehaven.]

 

In Newcastle, Mr. BARBER, corn-factor, aged 101.

[Newcastle Courant of Saturday 22 Nov 1777: Thursday was interred in Bothal church, Mr. Thomas BARBER, formerly an eminent Corn Factor, at Ulgham, in Northumberland, and late of the Custom-house here; aged near 100 years.]

 

At Sessay near Thrisk, Mr. HOUSEMAN, labourer, aged 111.

[According to Yorkshire Extracted Church of England Parish Records on Ancestry, John OUSMAN was buried on 21 Oct 1777 at Sessay, Yorkshire.]

 

Monday last, at Penrith, Mrs. Elizabeth GREENHOW, aged 104 years; she retained her faculties to the last.

[According to the Parish Register Transcript, Elizabeth GREENHOW, spinster, aged 100, was buried on 19 Nov 1777 at St. Andrew, Penrith.]