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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2n'i S. VIII. July 23. '59. 



Watson Family (2""^ S. viii. 10.)— Although I am 

 unable to answer your correspondent 2. ©., the 

 following Information may be new and interesting 

 to him and to other of your readers. 



1. Watson of Malton, co. Ebor, claimed to be 

 of the Rockingham family. He had issue 



II. 1. John Watson. 2. Pleasance Watson. 

 John Watson, a solicitor, is buried at Malton. 

 He married Hannah Bagwith of Whitby, coheir of 

 a good Yorkshire stock. Her father was a lawyer, 

 and his picture was, and probably is, at Bilton. 

 They had 



III. 1. George Watson of Bilton Park, near 

 Knaresborough, where he is buried. He married 

 Clementina Sobieski, daughter of Sir Thomas 

 Kennedy, and niece to the Earl of Cassilis. They 

 died s. p. 



2. John Watson died unmarried, buried at 

 Knaresborough. 



3. Elizabeth Watson, coheir, died 4th Nov. 

 1798, set. eighty-nine. Buried at Beverley. Mar- 

 ried the Rev. W. Ward, A.M.; educated at Thorn- 

 ton Grammar School and Sidney Sussex Coll., 

 Cambridge; fifteen years master of Thornton, 

 and seventeen years of Beverley ; resigned 1768 ; 

 died 5th Nov. 1772, set. sixty-three; buried in 

 St. Mary's church, Beverley. He was also rector 

 of Scawby and perpetual curate of Yeddingham, 

 and the author of an English Grammar, and of 



translations from Terence. His mother, Pen- 



nuch, was heiress of Broughton, a small estate sold 

 by his son John Watson to his brother-in-law 

 Robinson of Houghton-Ie-Spring. Their children 

 were numerous. The eldest representative I be- 

 lieve to be Charles Ward of Chapel Street, Lon- 

 don. In one of Mr. Ward's letters he speaks of 

 his " cousin Baird." 



4. Jane Watson married Dixon of Bever- 

 ley. 



5. Hannah Watson married Wingfield of 



Hull, and had issue. 



6. Margaret (or Mary) Watson married John 

 Farsyde of Fylingdale, co. Ebor. She had Bilton, 

 and left Issue. " One-eighth a Watson." 



Athenasum Club. 



I beg to inform 2. 0. that Bilton Park, Bilton- 

 wlth Harrogate, in the parish of Knaresborough, 

 is the seat of the family. I cannot give him any 

 precise information respecting " Jane Watson," 

 but have no doubt the registry at Knaresborough 

 will give the information he requires. 



The following extract from Hargrove's History 

 of Knaresborough, 5th edit., 1798, maybe inter- 

 esting to him : — 



" From the family of Stockdale this estate (Bilton 

 Park) passed by sale to that of Watson, John Farside 

 Watson being the present possessor. This gentleman is 

 descended from John Farside of Farside, in Scotland, 

 who came into England in the reign of James the First, 

 and was made bow-bearer in the forest of Pickering, in 



the county of York ; he chiefly resided at Filingdale in 

 Whitby Strand, and bore for his arms, gules, a fess or, 

 between three bezants." 



The mansion is at present the residence of Miss 

 G. Farside Watson. Chas. Forrest. 



Lofthouse, Wakefield. 



Grave Diggers (2"'^ S. vii. 475.; viii. 39.) —Mr. 

 PxESSE will find the following In a work called 

 Marvellous, Rare, Curious, and Quaint (Ward & 

 Lock, 1 859), edited by Edmund Fillingham King, 

 Esq. M.A., at p. 211.: — 



" Frances Barton of Horsley, Derbyshire, died in 1789, 

 aged 107. She was a midwife for eighty years. Her hus- 

 band had been seventy years sexton of the parish. They 

 used to say that she had twice brought into the world, 

 and he had twice buried (or taken out of the world, I 

 suppose,) the whole parish." 



Probably some reader of " N. & Q." knows the 

 sexton's age. It must have been an advanced one. 

 T. C. Anderson, 

 H.M.'s 12th Regiment, Bengal Army. 



NatJianiel Ward (2''^ S. viii. 46.) — Nathaniel 

 Ward, born 2 Jan. 1605, was of King's College, 

 Cambridge, but not on the foundation. He pro- 

 ceeded B.A. 1623-4, and commenced M.A. 1627 ; 

 was vicar of Staindrop in the county palatine of 

 Durham, and was slain fighting for the king at 

 Milium Castle in Cumberland, 1644. He was a 

 very learned and estimable person. See as to 

 him, Darrell's Life of Basire, 25-35. ; Surtees's 

 Durham, iv. 139, 140.; Raine's North Durham, 

 351. 



Nathaniel Ward, the prebendary of Lincoln, 



was of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, B.A. 



1631-2, M.A. 1635, D.D. by royal mandate, 1661. 



C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



" Urban" as a Christian Name (2°* S. viii. 11.) 

 — The origin of this name is evidently Roman. 

 We find it, indeed, in the Greek Testament, 

 'Affirdaacrde Ohpfiaviv. But the Apostle Paul is here 

 writing to Rome, and the Vulgate gives us the 

 same name In its Latin form : " Salutate TJrha- 

 nuni" (Rom. xvl. 9.) As In baptism the surname 

 of the sponsor sometimes becomes the Christian 

 name of the child, this may account for the use 

 of Urban as a Christian name, without looking 

 farther. But even If this were not the case, the 

 mere fact of our finding the name in the New 

 Testament, especially as It is apparently employed 

 to designate a believer, would account for Its use 

 in Christian baptism, just as in the case of Mat- 

 thetv, Peter, Timothy, Tabitha, Lydia, 8fc. As a 

 surname. Urban is Illustrious In Its connexion with 

 Sylvanus, which began with the year 1731 ; Ur- 

 ban also occurs in the London Directory for 1858 

 and 1859. . Thomas Boys. 



Scotch Paraphrases (2"^ S. vii. 358.) — Mr. 

 Husband (2°" S. vii. 483.) does not seem to be 



