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PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, 
WITH THE MARRIAGES AND DEATHS; 
Furnishing the Domestic and Family History of England for the last Twenty-nine Years, 
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NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 
Married.| At Tynemouth, H. Shadforth, 
esq., of this town, to Anna Maria, daugh- 
ter of the late Capt. Whitehead. 
Died.| At Heighington, 65, J. Col- 
ling, esq—At Egglescliffe, near Yarm, 
Agnes, wife of Dr. Jackson.— At Bishop- 
wearmouth Green, Mrs. J. Harrison, mo- 
ther of Mr. Harrison, of Sunderland. 
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND. 
Married.| At Kendal, T. J. Manning, 
esq., of the Island of Barbadoes, to Ann 
Catherine Rose, only daughter of F. Nas- 
sau, esq., of Osythe Priory, Essex, and 
of Jermyn-street, St. James’s, London. 
The happy couple had been previously mar- 
ried at Gretna Green, by Bishop Lang.— 
At Carlisle, G. Thompson, of Appleby, 
banker, to Abigail, daughter of the late J. 
Dodgson, of Kendal. —At Bolton, R. 
Sykes, esq., of Edgley, to Jane, eldest 
daughter of T./ Hardcastle, esq., of Fir- 
wood, in this county. 
~ Died.| 60, the Rev. J. Brocklebank, 
of Whitbeck, thirty-six years perpetual 
curate of that parish.— At Whitehaven, 
92, Mrs. Elliot, of Duke-street, relict of 
the late Capt. Elliot—At Kendal, 73, 
R. Whitehead, esq.—At Workington, 84, 
Mr. P, M‘Gasa— At Workington, 56, Mary, 
relict of the late Capt. B. Scott—At East- 
bank, 75, Mr. Weir—At Allonby, Walter, 
- third son of R. Mackenzie, writer to the 
Signet. 
YORKSHIRE. 
A crane is now alive on the farm of Mr. 
J. Jowett, near Bingley, which measures 
from ‘the head to the feet four feet eight 
inches, and between the extremities of the 
wings five feet six inches, ; 
A large viper, measuring a yard in length 
and four or five inches in circumference, 
was taken alive in the mill-race of the 
King’s Mills, at Bradford. The belly is 
beautifully variegated, and the back is nearly 
black, ‘The reptile is now in the possession 
of Mr.Cockshott, the druggist, in Westgate. 
Married.| At St, Mary’s, Scarborough, 
T. Chorley, jun. esq. to Margaret Sarah, 
widow of the late Mr. J. Tute-—J. Buckle, 
esq., of Aiskew-hall, near Bedale, to Miss 
Jane Ray, daughter of the late Mr. L. S. 
Ray — At Skipton, W. Waithman, esq., of 
Yealand, near Lancaster, to Eleanor Armi- 
stead, of Birstwith, near Harrowgate,—At 
Leeds, J. H, Fletcher, esq. to Marianne, 
eldest daughter of C. C. Coventry, esq.—: 
_ At Thornhill, T. Shaw, esq. of Netherton, 
_ to Jane, daughter of Mr. J. Kilburn, of 
- Mowxviry Macazixe.—No, 415. 
Thornhill— At Wakefield, Mr. J. Farquhar 
Ledger, great nephew of J. Farquhar, esq’ 
of Fonthill Abbey, to Eliza, eldest daugh- 
ter of the Rey. T. Johnstone, of Wakefield 
—At Swillington, the Rev. C. Lee, m.a., 
Lecturer of Hexham, Northumberland, 
youngest son of R. Lee, esq., to Mary 
Louisa, eldest daughter of T. Ikin, esq., 
of Leventhorpe-house. 
Died.| At Belle-Vue house, near Scar- 
borough, J. Bell, esq. a member of the 
corporation of that ancient borough, and 
one of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace 
for the North Riding of this county.—63, 
Mr. T. Chippindale, of Skipton—At Ho~ 
tham, 95, R. Clark, esq.—-80, the wife of 
S. Atkinson, esq., of Rippon—At Whitby, 
the Rey. T. Watson, for fifty-seven years 
the venerable pastor of a congregation of 
protestant dissenters in that town—At his 
seat, Castle Howard, 79, Frederick How- 
ard, Earl of Carlisle, Viscount Howard 
of Morpeth, Baron Dacres of Gillesland, 
K.G. &c,—At Sheffield, 57, Mr, Main- 
waring, preacher in the methodist connexion 
—Captain Littlewood, of Cinderhills, near 
Mirfield. He had just mounted his horse 
at Wakefield, and was proceeding on his 
return home, when the stirrup of his saddte 
broke, and he was precipitated to the 
ground with such fatal violence, as to frac- 
ture his skull, and instantly terminate his 
existence. The deceased was a fine hand- 
some man, of almost gigantic stature, in 
- the meridian of life. 
LANCASHIRE. ‘ 
A fatal accident lately occurred at the 
new coal works of — Blundell, esq., of 
Pemberton, near Wigan. ‘The boiler of an 
engine burst, by which eight individuals 
suffered in a most dreadful manner. ‘The 
engineer was hurled to a distance of fifty 
yards, and expired almost immediately ; 
four others (boys) are since dead, and a 
young man, an assistant to the engineer, 
and two boys, are dangerously wounded. 
A destructive fire broke out lately, in the 
building-yards beyond the Brunswick Dock, 
at Liverpool. There are five building-yards 
together there: the fire broke out in that 
one nearest the south, and in less than an 
hour the whole of the wood in the yards, 
with the exception of the northern one, 
nearest to the dock, was in flames, — Five 
vessels, in progress cf building, more or 
less advanced, were consumed; one, @ 
steam-vessel, was nearly ready for launch- 
ing; another, a ship of 400 tons burden, 
was little less forward. Fortunately, in 
the yard next to the* Brunswick Dock, 
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