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1777—November 19. Elizabeth Greenhow, spinster, aged 100. 
(No doubt about Elizabeth being an o/d maid.) 
1784—Mrs. French, a widow lady and an adult, baptized. 
In 1785, we have a doubly-distinguished personage in George 
Thompson, rattan-catcher and pauper, buried. 
1788—Edward Whitehead, aged 21, and Sarah Redhead, aged 26, 
married. (Let us hope that this union of hearts and 
colours proved harmonious, notwithstanding the trifling 
disparity of years.) 
1772—What appears then to have been a curiosity, is a man 
registered as “ John Hill,” a Methodist, aged 85, buried. 
The registers having gone on for 200 years without any per- 
ceptible break, in 1760, when Mr. John Cowper was vicar, 
experienced a hitch, as stated in the following memorandum in 
the register book :—‘ There are no entries of baptisms or burials 
from January 17th to October 5th, 1760, occasioned by Mr. Joseph 
Tickell leaving the curacy and going into Virginia.” (Wrong, no 
doubt, of Mr. Joseph Tickell, but where was the vicar ?) 
Clockmaking is said to have been a speciality in Penrith during 
the last century. I find the following names of clockmakers 
mentioned in the registers and churchwardens’ book :— 
1712—Aaron Cheesbrough made a new clock for the church, as 
per churchwardens’ book. 
1713—John Washington buried. He mended clock and chimes 
in 1664. 
1741—William Porthouse, daughter baptized. (He is mentioned 
in the churchwardens’ book several times as repairing the 
clock and chimes up to 1765, as the Rev. H. Whitehead 
mentions. ) : 
1757—John Porthouse, clockmaker, daughter baptized. 
1771—John Cheesbrough, clockmaker, aged 85, buried. 
1773—Miles Henderson, clockmaker, daughter buried. 
1777—John Savage, clockmaker, daughter buried. 
1780—George Porthouse, watchmaker, child baptized. 
1790—William Porthouse, clockmaker, aged 84, buried. 
1791—Hugh Lough, clockmaker, aged 51, buried, 
1817—George Porthouse, aged 74, buried, 
