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PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, 
WITH ALL THE MARRIAGES and DEATHS; 
Arranged geographically, or in the Order of the Counties, from North to Soiith, 
Communications for this Department of the Monthly Magazine, properly au» 
thenticated, and sent free of Idostage, are alxcuys thankfully received. Those are 
more particularly acceptable which describe the Progress of Local Improvements of 
any Kind, oi' which contain Biographical Anecdotes or Facts relative to eminent 
or remarkable. Characters recently deceased. 
NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 
O'! the I?th of Auitust, his Grace the 
Duke of Northumberland endowed and 
opened, atAlnwick, a seminary for 200 boys, 
the children of the neighbouring poor, to be 
clothed, fed, and educated, at his Grace’s 
sole expence and bounty j enacting, as an ex¬ 
press clause in this institution, that the Na¬ 
tal-day of the Regent should be observed, for 
«ver, as a holiday. 
On Sunday, August 3, as three female 
children of Mr. Ferguson, of Newcastle, 
were going along Mosley-street, the elder 
(aged eleven) picked up a paper with some 
rat-powder inclosed, which she conceiving tit 
to eat, gave a small portion of it to her sis¬ 
ters, and took the rest herself. It was not 
long before she was taken extremely ill, and 
•ontinued so until she died, in great agony. 
The other children were saved by medical aid, 
Newcastle numbers 36,369. 
Married-I Charles Foitcr Charleton, esq. 
of Alnwick, to Jane, youngest daughter of 
Archibald Campbell, esq. late of Whitton 
Dean. 
■-Hanbottle, esq. of Anick Grange, to 
Miss Brown. 
Mr. T. Embleton, of Lowick, to Miss M. 
Jameson, of Berwick. 
-At Sunderland, Mr. J. Bellerby, to Miss M. 
Bell. 
At Stockton, Mr. T. Moises, to Miss E. 
Goodsir. 
At Whitley, Mr. W. Howbuck, of South 
Shields, to Miss Bulner. 
At Stockton, Mr. Fleeraan, to Miss Light- 
lev. 
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At Sunderland, Mr. G. R. Taylor, to Miss 
Baharie.—Mr. T. Baharle, to Miss Steel. 
At Newcastle, Mr. J. Lowrie, to Miss 
Ayre. 
At Tynemouth, Mr. John Carry, to Miss 
Greggs. 
At Newcastle, Mr. T. Rutherford, to 
Miss Ann MeivilL—Mr. A. Reid, to Miss 
Spence.— Mr. R. Malcomb, to Miss Ann 
King —Mr. J. Heslop, to Miss M. Alter. 
At Stokesley, Mr. Pratt, to Miss Child. 
At Alnwick, Mr. J. Fryler, to Miss 
Stanley. 
Mr. Thomas Robinson, of Durham, to Miss 
M. Atkirisyn. 
^ At Bambdugh, Mr. F. Bonnar, to M.si 
Greg son. 
W. O. W. Ogle, esq. of Cansey Park, t« 
Mrs. E. F. Staples. 
Died.'^ At Newcastle, after a short illness, 
67, Mr. Anthony Clapham, sen. of Newcas¬ 
tle, one of the Society of Friends. 
Mr. r. Reid, 76, late beadsman in Sc. 
Mary’s Church, and Tyler of the Union 
Lodge of Freemasons, which office he hel4 
upwards of 58 years. His remains, on 
Thursday, were attended to the grave by up¬ 
wards of 140 of the brethren in masonic 
form. His death was occasioned by a cart 
crushing him against a wall. 
At Bishopwearraouth, after a severe illness, 
which he sustained with tranquil serenity and 
Christian fortitude. Tipping Brown, M.D. &c. 
Dr. B. will be long and deeply remembered 
by those who had the happiness to know and 
appreciate his private worth, and who had, 
for thirty years, experienced his professional 
skill and beneficence. The Humane Society, 
the Sunderland Dispensary, and Public Li¬ 
brary, remain monuments of his philanthro¬ 
pic activity ; for, of these institutions he was 
the father and founder: and, in every other 
matter of public utility or active benevolence, 
he stood forward the ready agent, as well as 
willing contributor. To polite manners, 
amenity of disposition, a passion for literature 
and philosophy, and much to public spirit, be 
united all the other liberal qualities, which 
form the friend, the scholar, and the gentle¬ 
man. His funeral was respectably attended, 
his professional brethren surrounding the re¬ 
mains ; his intimate friends followed with un¬ 
feigned sorrow; and the Society of Free and 
Accepted Masons, to which he belonged, and 
over whom he had presided, added grace and 
dignity to the whole. 
At Minsteed, after an Illness of a few 
hours, Mr. G, Scoray, 83, At his wedding, 
53 years ago, he preserved three candles, one 
of which he burnt at the funeral of his wife, 
another at that of a relation, and he ordered 
that the third should be burnt when his own 
funeral took place j and that some mead, pre¬ 
served at the marriage.feast, with all the cy¬ 
der and liquors remaining in his house, should 
then be drank. His funeral took place, when 
his friends and relatives followed his remains 
to hiinsceed Cimrch, w'itnessed the funeral 
rices, and heard an excellent sermon ; a ter 
which they returned to his house, burnt the 
candle 
