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1702—June. Mary, daughter of Mr. Richard Hutton, baptized. 
And then, alas! on the 30th of the next month (July), 
Susanna, wife of Mr. Richard Hutton, buried. 
In 1706 a new wife comes upon the scene. In May, “ Addison, 
son of Richard Hutton, Esq., and Bridget his wife,” is 
baptized; and same date, “Bridget, wife of Richard 
Hutton, Esq.,” is buried. (This is sad, indeed.) 
1715, and again another wife. In June, “John, son of Richard 
Hutton, Esq., and Barbara his wife,” is baptized. 
Then a daughter, Barbara, is baptized in 1716, and on May 10, 
1717, Richard Hutton, Esq., is buried, and a month later baby 
Barbara is buried. Richard Hutton died at the early age of 41. 
He was High Sheriff for Cumberland in 1710, and his name stands 
in the church books as churchwarden in 1701 and 1702. Of the 
son John, nothing more is heard. He must have died young, since 
his half-brother, Addison, was sole survivor, who lived to manhood, 
and was a doctor of medicine. He sold his ancestral estate in 
1734, to Mr. John Gasgarth, whose son sold it to the Lowthers ; 
and Addison Hutton dying in 1742 without issue, the long line of 
Penrith Huttons became extinct. 
THE CooKsoNs OF PENRITH, MATERNAL ANCESTORS OF 
Wm. WorDSwWoRTH, PoET LAUREATE. 
A notable citizen family, were the Cooksons of Penrith. They 
first appear in the registers with the regular recurrence of established 
families in 1639, about which time the names of William, Lancelot, 
and Anthony Cookson, frequently occur as family men. There 
were, however, Cooksons in Penrith forty years before, as appears 
by the following entries in the parish registers :—1597, Janet, wife 
of William Cookson, buried; 1599, William Cookson and Elizabeth 
Cookson, married ; and 1600, William Cookson, ‘‘tincler,” buried. 
It is not improbable that this ancient “ tincler,” t.e., brazier (for 
tin plate, the material of the modern “tinker,” was then unknown) 
was the father of the three later Cooksons, William, Lancelot, and 
Anthony, but if so, it would appear that they had left Penrith as 
boys and returned as married men, there being no mention of them 
