THOMAS BEWICK. 



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baptized on March 26th of the same year. Elizabeth, the fourth and last 

 child, was born on March 7th, 1793. 



These children all survived their father, and Miss Isabella still (1882) lives 

 in the house No. 19, West Street, Gateshead-on-Tyne, to which the family 

 removed in 181 2. Robert Elliot died on the 27th July, 1849; Elizabeth on 

 April 7th, 1865 ; and Jane on April 7th, 1881, all unmarried. 



The house at the Forth 

 was the one in which all 

 the children were born and 

 arrived at maturity, and 

 there, after the day's work 

 was done, Bewick returned 

 to share in the pleasures of 

 his ever affectionate family 

 — to comfort the mother in 

 the little household troubles 

 of the day, and help on the 

 welfare of his children by 

 ardent precept and faithful 

 example. In the morning 

 he would set off for busi- 

 ness in the town, walking 

 mayhap by Westgate Street 

 and Denton Chare, or through Forth Lane to his workshop in St. Nicholas 

 Churchyard. The former was the nearer though the less pleasant way, while 

 the other was by cheerful gardens and orchards, leading past the Grammar 

 School of old to the shop, immediately behind the ancient church of St. 

 Nicholas, in a house which still remains much as it was then. Its sur- 

 roundings, however, now bear more of the impress of a busy city's centre 

 than they did in the early days of Bewick's married life. The accompanying 



Bewick's Workshop, St. Nicholas Churchyard, Newcastle. 



