$811.) 
stocking maker. He had worked froma youth 
to the age of 95 for one house, thatof Moore 
and Co. of Leicester. 
At Bagworth, Mr. Richard Wikes, parish- 
clerk. 
» At Great Wigstone, Mr. Samuel Freer. 
At Harby, Mr. Harby, 72. 
» At Kegworth, Miss Alice Steele. 
' STAFFORDSHIRE. 
Murried.] At Woolstanton, Mr William 
Hall, of the Ridge House, to Miss Sarah 
Grecott; of Hanley. 
Mr. Wright, of Newport, Salop, attorney, 
to-Miss Masfen, of Cannock. 
Mr. Elwell, of Heath House, to Ann, 
youngest daughter of Mr. Willits, of Tipton. 
At Wolverhampton, Mr. Joseph Hill, of 
Biistone, to Miss Susanna Lea, of Hales 
Owen. 
Died.] At Stafford, Margaret, daughter of 
Mr. John Hughes, of the Star Ian, 30.—Mr. 
Stephen Smith, 63. 
At Newcastle, Mr. Thomas Eardley. 
At Rough Close, Miss Jane Robinson. 
At Wolverhampton, Mr. Smith. 
At Wheaton Aston, Mr. E. Jarvis. 
- At Breewoed, Mrs. Haughton, 85. 
, WARWICKSHIRE. : 
Married ] At Birmingham, Mr. J. Shel- 
fon, to Miss Elizabeth Bass.—Edmund Bald- 
win, esq. to Migs Charlotte Jones, second 
dadghter to the late Thomas J. esq.—Mr. E. 
Lavinder, of Dudley, to Miss Esther Baxter. 
Mr. Isaac Spraston, of ‘Tewkesbury, to 
Martha, youngest daughter of R. Lambert, 
_€8q. of Ditchford. 
At Aston, Mr. H. B. Timbs, of Werces- 
ter, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of tle late 
James Richards, esq. of Campi Hill, near 
Birmingham. 
* At Nuneaton, Mr. John Wilson, to Miss 
Elizabeth Harcourt. 
Richard Smith, esq. of Tibbington House, 
- Tipton, ‘to Miss Fereday, daughter of Samuel 
' FB. esq. of Ettingshall Park. 
* At Sutton Coldfield, Charles Clement Ad- 
derley, ‘esq.. of Hams Hall, to Anna Maria, 
éldest daughter of Sir Edmund Cradock Har- 
topp, of Fouroaks Hall. 3 
At Coventry, Mr. James Vale, to Miss 
Martha Sanders. 
* Died.| At Birmingham, Mrs. Mary Shen- 
‘ton.—Mrs. Parsonage, 33.—Mr. S. Toy.— 
Mrs. Hooper.—The Rev. Samuel Pearson, 
_~ tector of Weston-upon-Trent, perpetual cu- 
fate or Osmaston, near Derby, and late of St. 
John’s College, Cambridge. He was one of 
the oldest members of the Antiquarian Socie- 
ty, and formerly lecturer of St. Martin's in 
this town. Few men have passed through 
life more justly esteemed for their modest 
Worth and unassuming manners. M 
At Caldicote Hall, Mary Elizabeth Louisa 
Radney Bowes, lady of tlie Hon. Thomas B. 
P-ahd-only daughter aud heiress of George Car- 
penter, esq. late of Redbourn, Iferts. 
¢* 7. : 
Stafford—Warwitkh— Sr opshire. 
3589 
At the Woodloes, near, Warwick, Miss D. 
Hodgson, 28. 
At Edge Hills, Miss Prentice. 
At Coventry, Mrs. Goode, wife of B G, 
esq. mayor of that city.—-Mr. James Hol- 
land. 
At Leamington Spa, Caroline, widow of 
the Rev. Thomas Harris, of Braddon, near 
Towcester, and second daughter of the late 
Rey. Dr. Marfiott, of Cotesbatch, Leicester- 
shire. 
In London, Mr, Joseph Gibbins, banker of 
Birmingham, a gentleman eminent for pune- 
tuality and probity, 55, 
At Camp Hill, near Birmingham, Margas 
ret, wife of Mr. John Thompson, 54. 
At Foleshill, Mr. Benjamin Newland, 66. 
At Tettenhall, Dorothy Elizabeth, heiress 
of the ancient family of Lyttleton, of Studiey 
Castle, in this county, and wife of Francia 
Holyoake, esq. of Tettenhall. : 
SHROPSHIRE. 
A most extraordinary tornado took place 
early on the 25th of May at Plasyollen, the 
influence of which did not extend more than 
300 yards in length and 30 in breadth ; but 
its violence was so great that every thing, 
from the humblest vegetable to the loftiess 
tree within its range, was totally demolished. 
Sycamores and eaks, which had withstood the 
wintry blast.of ages, though still in full vi- 
gour, were despoiled of all their branches, 
many of which, measuring more than three 
feet in circumference, were twisted off, and 
carried to a great distance, Considerable da= 
mage was done in the gardens; a great num 
ber of fine healthy apple and pear trees wete 
snapt asunder, and all the early crops of ve~ 
getables swept away. 
In the afternoon of the 27th, this county 
was again visited by a storm, the effects of 
which have been awiully felt. Owing te 
the bursting of a cloud, Meole and other 
brooks, within tén or twelve miles, were se 
rapidly swollen, aa almost instantaneously te 
overflow their banks to a most astonishing 
height, extending fer miles over the adjoining 
country, and tearing down and carrying off,. 
in their course, stock of every description. 
Such was the force of this great body of water 
rushing into the Severn from Meole Brook, 
that it actually turned the current of the ris 
ver, whick rose four feet in ten minutes. 
ln the neighbourhvuod of Minsterley and Pon- 
tesbury, twelve persons perished. At these 
two last places, at Poutesford, &c- the ra- 
vages of the torrent were without bounds. At 
Mr. S. Heighw.#'s, of Pontesford, the scene 
was indeed lamentable; not fewer than nine 
persons, including part of his own family, 
were swept away, and among them/his vene- 
rable grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Heighs 
way, and two female servants. Another 
part of the family made their escape by get- 
ting through the roof of the house. At Han- 
wood, the bridge wus carried away, and the 
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