98 Amhle and Hauxley. By J. C. Hodgson. 



his marriage .with Isabella,^® daughter of John Forster of 

 Adderston, and last survivor of that ancient line, he acquired 

 an interest in her large fortune, and by purchases from the 

 other freeholders, was enabled to extend his patrimonial estate. 

 His will, dated 9th December 1779, recites his marriage 

 settlement, and declares that he had borrowed £1000 of his 

 wife's fortune of £8000, in order to complete the purchase of 

 lands in Hauxley and Amble from Mr Cresswell and Mr 

 Taylor. He charges the lands so purchased from Cresswell, 

 with £20 per annum, in favour of his kinsman, Nathaniel 

 Punshon, *'now living with me": he mentions the £314 

 devised by his late sister, Sarah Widdrington, to "Mr Brown's 

 children;" he devises £500 a piece "to Edward Brown, jun., 

 and to Sarah Brown, children of Edward Brown of Broomhill, 

 and of my late sister Frances"; and to the " daughter of my 

 late sister, Mary Teasdale." 



He was succeeded by his only brother, Nathaniel Widdrington, 

 who died unmarried, and by his will, dated 28th April 1783, 

 devised legacies to his nieces, Sarah Brown and Sarah Teasdale, 

 to Nathaniel Punshon, to Samuel Bell his gardener, to his 

 maid, Frances Muers. He charged his real estate at Hauxley, 

 with £20 per annum, in favour of his servant, Margaret Muers 

 (to whom he also devised his late mother's wearing apparel) 

 and subject thereto, he devised his lauds iu Hauxley, Amble, 

 Guyzance, and Alnwick, to his cousin John Widdrington of 

 Newcastle. 



A reference to the table will show that Robert Widdrington, 

 whose will is dated 1717, had a second son named John. He 

 practised as an attorney in Newcastle, where he resided in 

 Hanover Square : he married the daughter of John Carr of 

 Newcastle and Dunston Hill. Dr Oarlyle, in his autobiography, 

 speaks of "Ralph Carr, an eminent merchant [in Newcastle] 

 and his brother- in-law, Mr Witherington, styled the honest 



^' Under the entail created by Mrs Widdrington' s father, the real estate of 

 the Adderston Forsters passed to the Bacons of Staward, but under her 

 brother's will [1764] she succeeded to £8000— South Sea Stock— the 

 accumulation of his minority. She was married at Edlingham, from 

 her step-father's house, 26th May 1767. She did not long survive her 

 husband; and by her will, dated 31st March 1780, appointed as her 

 executor, Henry Mills of Willington, oo. Durham, the husband of her 

 half-sister, Elizabeth Fenwick, etc. 



