[list-cumbria] Cumberland Pacquet - 14

[Nev Ramsden]

Whitehaven  - January 19 - 1775.



We are now, under the necessity of informing our readers, that the paragraph relating the marriage of William Blencoe, Esq. M.D. to Miss Yeates of Carlisle, is false. We flatter ourselves that the person who sent us this intelligence had been misinformed; the ready and universal Encouragement given to this paper, in the City of Carlisle and its environs, have almost persuaded us that no intention to impose upon us, or desire of invalidating the intelligence contained in the Domestic Department of the Cumberland Pacquet, can arise in that quarter. [This and the following section concerns the paper protecting its reputation]



There are now growing in Joseph Woodsall’s garden, at Picket-how, in the parish of Egremont, several goose-berries as big as small peas, with leaves on the trees full blown. [This might be Woodall]



Thursday morning was married in this town, Mr. Harris to Miss Sunton, an agreeable and accomplished young lady with a fortune of £800.

[a Marriage at St. Nicholas, Whitehaven 12 January 1775 William Harris & Sybil Sumpton]



The 27th of August last died at Gambia, Governor William William Myers, late one of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the County Palatine of Lancaster, - his son John Myers, Esq. who accompanied him, died about the same time.



On Thursday last was married at St.Mary’s Church Carlisle, Mr.Giles, Lieutenant and adjutant to the 19th regiment foot, low lying at Dumfries, to Miss Hodgson, daughter to Mr. Hodgson present Mayor of the City of Carlisle.



There are now living in or nigh Ravenglass, a father and his two sons, married to three sisters; it is also reported, that a brother to these women is paying his addresses to the old mans daughter; if this match succeeds, a query. In what degree of relation will their children stand to each other?

This is probably the family referred to above.

23.01.1762           Hodgson  Isaac  &  Tamar Skelding at Corney

13.04.1762           Hodgson  John  &  Hannah Skelding at Corney

19.10.1771           Hodgson  Robert  &  Betrice  Skelding at Corney



On Monday last, was married at Workington Mr. John Mason of Hunday, to Miss Molly Thompson of Stainburn Hall, an agreeable young lady, with a fortune of a hundred pounds.



Last Thursday was married St.Cuthbert’s Church in Carlisle, by the Rev. Mr. Richardson, Mr. John Barton of that place to Miss Robinson, an amiable young lady with a considerable fortune



Last week a gentleman in the country presented Dr.Brownrigg with the branch of an oak tree, on which are several leaves as fresh and green as they could be in the middle of summer, It was plucked from a tree in a wood at Patterdale, nigh Keswick.

[Dr.William Brownrigg, eventually became a Fellow of the Royal Society, was born at High Close Hall in Plumbland in 1711, he had a medical practice in Whitehaven and worked on the study of the noxious gasses found in the coal mines in the Whitehaven area]



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Nev. Ramsden
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