Saturday 01 Mar 1845 (p. 3, col. 7) Deaths. In West Tower Street, on the 21st inst., Mrs. Elizabeth WEALL, late grocer, Rickergate, aged 62 years. In Cartner's Lane, Botchrgate [sic], on the 27th ult., Mr. George Digins [Diggins according to FreeBMD] KIRK, hatter, aged 33 years, deeply regretted by his numerous acquaintances. In Rigg Street, on the 22nd inst., Mr. Joseph GILBERTSON, aged 63 years. In Botchergate, to where she had lately removed, on the 22nd ult., Sarah, relict of the late Mr. Jos. DAWSON, wine and spirit merchant, Keswick, in the 72nd year of her age; and only sister of the late Mr. Thomas SANDERSON, so well known in this locality from his various literary productions. She was highly and deservedly respected. In Botchergate, on the 22nd ult., Mrs. Ann MAXWELL, aged 53 years. In the English Damside, on the 24th ult., Mr. Joseph HEAD, aged 58 years. At his residence, Church Street, Hackney, on the 21st ult., Mr. Joseph TOPPIN, son of the late Joseph TOPPIN, of this city, aged 56 years. At Scotby, on Monday, the 14th ult., Mr. Thomas DOBINSON, aged 76 years. At Harby Brow, on the 19th ult., Ann, the only daughter of John and Jane RICHARDSON, aged four years and three months. At the Ship Inn, Thursby, on Monday, the 24th ult., after a long and painful illness, borne with great patience, Mr. Isaac CROSTHWAITE, headstone cutter, aged 44 years, much respected. At Longtown, on the 22nd ult., Mr. Robert NIXON, schoolmaster, who was found dead in bed. At Longtown, on Sunday, the 23rd ult., Sarah, the wife of Mr. Wm. CORRIE, ironmonger, aged 78 years. At Low Wood Nook Inn, near Wigton, on his return from Wigton horse fair, where he was taken suddenly ill, and was in extreme agony for ten hours, Mr. Andrew HERBERT, of Bolton Hall, in the parish of Gosforth, aged 48 years. At Wigton, on the 24th ult., Sarah SHIELDS, aged 57 years; on the same day, Miss Sarah THOMPSON, aged 44. At Alston, on the 21st ult., Miss Elizabeth FLETCHER, aged 22; Frances, daughter of Mr. Robt. HORSLEY, Alston, aged 10. At Canonby, near Maryport, on the 18th ult., Gustavus RICHMOND, Esq., aged 87 years. The deceased has for a number of years back lived very frugal and retired, and is supposed to have amassed the immense sum of nearly £100,000, which he has left to his numerous relatives. At Cockermouth, on the 17th ult., Mrs. Jane HUNTINGDON, aged 79 years. At Maryport, on the 18th ult., Thomas GUNSON, aged 17. At Workington, on the 22nd ult., very suddenly, Mary, the wife of Capt. William BOYD, aged 35 years; on the 23rd, John, the son of Mr. William BOWMAN, aged one year and eleven months. At Hensingham, on the 17th ult., Mr. Thomas MADDERS, miller, aged 54 years. At Netherwasdale, on the 22nd ult., Mrs. Bridget JACKSON, aged 84 years, much respected. At Keswick, on the 18th ult., after a long and tedious illness, Jane, the wife of Mr. Joseph TOLSON, labourer, aged 59 years; on the 17th, Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Henry POWLEY, millwright, aged ten years. In Keswick Workhouse, on the 22nd ult., Mr. Thos. GREENHOW, tailor, aged 80 years. At Whitehaven, since our last, Mrs. Mary BURNETT, aged 59; Mr. Thomas HINDSON, aged 59; and Mr. John PRATT, aged 81 years. On the 8th of January, after having been five days at sea, on his passage home from New Orleans, where he had ruptured a blood vessel, Capt. William GREENLAW, late of the brig Union, of Whitehaven, aged 31 years, much regretted. At Albany Place, Dumfries, on the 22nd ult., the venerable mother of the late Allan CUNNINGHAM, Esq., in the 98th year of her age. At St. Petersburg, on the 30th ult., his Excellency Admiral GREIG, member of the Imperial Council, and Senator of Russia, and Knight of all the Russian Orders, aged 69 years. DEATH OF THE MARQUIS OF WESTMINSTER.—We regret to announce the death of a noble and zealous Free-Trader, the Marquis of Westminster. At an important crisis in our great struggle, when the League was accused of hostility to property and the landed interest, he, one of the wealthiest and largest proprietors of land in England, came forward to give the calumny a practical refutation by sending, voluntarily and without solicitation, to the League Fund the munificent donation of five hundred pounds. The decased [sic] marquis was lineally descended from a companion and near relative of William the Conqueror; but the family was not ennobled before 1761, when the father of the deceased marquis was created a baron, and subsequently elevated to an earldom in 1784. The marquis was born March 22, 1767, and had therefore nearly completed his 78th year. For many years he had withdrawn himself from political life, but continued to be a distinguished patron of the arts, and a liberal supporter of the charities in the county of Chester. His views of commercial policy were those which PITT endeavoured to carry into effect before the wars of the French. Revolution, and to which most of the party that assumed Mr. PITT's name have shown themselves inveterate opponents. His lordship is succeeded in his titles and estates by his eldest son Richard Earl Grosvenor, who represented the county of Chester in three successive parliaments previous to 1835, since which time he has lived in the retirement of private life.—The League. DEATH OF THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH.—We deeply regret to announce the death of the Rev. Sydney SMITH, who after an illness of some weeks' duration, which ended in an entire prostration of strength, expired at his residence in Green-street, shortly before eleven o'clock on Saturday evening. The medical attendants on the reverend gentleman have had no hope of his ultimate recovery for some days past, and on Saturday morning it became evident that their worst fears would be shortly realized. Mr. SMITH had been in a very weak state during the preceding fortnight, and his debility gradually increasing, he died at the hour above stated. Dr. HOLLAND and Mr. HIBBERTS (sons-in-law of the deceased), were both in attendance on their lamented relative at the time of his death. Mr. SMITH had attained his 74th year. By his death a canonry in St. Paul's Cathedral becomes vacant. Mr. SMITH was partly educated in Edinburgh, where he resided for some time, in company with Lord BROUGHAM, Lord JEFFREY, the late Sir James MACINTOSH, and others. In conjunction with the above eminent men, he commenced the Edinburgh Review, which was under his editorship for a short period, and to which he contributed during the most part of his life. During the early period of his life, Mr. SMITH was not in very affluent circumstances, and for all the advancement he obtained was indebted, in a great measure, to his own industry.—Morning Post. DEATH OF SIR T. F. BUXTON, BART.—It is our painful duty to state that this truly worthy man died at his seat in Norfolk, on the 19th ult. This distinguished philanthropist first became known to his country by his exertions to diminish the sufferings of those at home, whether confined in gaols or struggling in deepest poverty, such as the Spitalfields manufacturers a quarter of a century ago. Entering into parliament, he commenced that great career of enlarged usefulness which will always associate his name with the abolition of slavery in the West Indies, and with the most active endeavours to confirm and improve the measures for the abolition of the slave-trade; and not less with the admirable, though not equally successful, efforts for the benefit of the African race in their own vast continent. The comparative failure of the Niger expedition preyed on his spirits and even on his health. The deceased baronet was the eldest son of Mr. BUXTON, of Earl's Colne, Essex, who married the daughter of Mr. HANBURY, of Coggeshall, in the same county. He was born on the 1st of April, 1786, and received his school education at Greenwich. Dr. BORNEY—not the historian of music—but a gentleman who kept a school at Greenwich, numbered young BUXTON amongst his pupils. From the care of Dr. BURNEY he went to Trinity College, Dublin. On the 13th of May, 1807, being then in the 22nd year of his age, he married Miss GURNEY, fifth daughter of Mr. GURNEY, of Earlham-hall, in the county of Norfolk, by whom he had issue, amongst others a son who now succeeds to the baronetcy, and was born in 1812. DEATH OF THE EARL OF MORNINGTON.—The noble earl, expired at half-past nine o'clock on Saturday night, at his mansion in Grosvenor-square, London. On Thursday and Friday it became too apparent that the noble sufferer was at length sinking fast under his disorder. He remained insensible throughout Saturday, but at nine o'clock, only half-an-hour before death terminated his career, a change took place, and hopes were thus given which ended in disappointment. At half-past nine the noble earl expired, the Countess of Mornington and Lord and Lady Fitzroy SOMERSET being by his side at his dissolution. The Duke of Wellington was at the family mansion during the greater part of the afternoon. William WELLESLEY-POLE, Earl of Mornington, Viscount WELLESLEY of Dengan Castle, and Baron Mornington of Mornington, county Meath, in the peerage of Ireland, and Baron Maryborough of Maryborough, of Queen's county, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, was second son of Garret, first Earl of Mornington by the Honourable Ann HILL TREVOR, eldest daughter of Arthur, first Viscount Dungannon. His lordship, who perhaps was better known as Lord Maryborough, was born 20th May, 1763; consequently he was in his 82nd year. The late noble earl married, 17th May, 1784, Catherie Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Admiral the Honourable John FORBES, who so distinguished himself against the combined fleets of France and Spain, second son of George, third Earl of Granard, by whom, who survives the venerable earl, he had a family of one son and three daughters, namely Lady Mary Charlotte Ann, born February 5, 1786, and married to the late Sir Charles BAGOT, who died on the 2nd instant; the Honourable William Viscount WELLESLEY; Lady Harriet, born 13th March, 1792, married to Lord Fitzroy SOMERSET; and Lady Priscilla Anne, born 13th March, 1793, married to the Earl of Westmoreland, our ambassador at the Court of Berlin. The deceased was Custos Rotulorum of Queen's county, constable of Maryborough Castle, and a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order. On the death of the late Lord Carrington, he was appointed by his brother the Duke of Wellington (the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports), captain of Deal Castle, but his lordship resigned that honorary appointment the year before last in favour of the Earl of Dalhousie. In 1821 he was created peer of the United Kingdom by the title of Baron Maryborough, &c., and the death his brother, the Marquess WELLESLEY, in 1843, he succeeded to the ancestral honours of Earl of Mornington, &c.

Saturday 01 Mar 1845 (p. 3, col. 7) Marriages. At St. Mary's Church, on the 27th ult., Mr. John NANSON, agent, to Miss ROUTLEDGE, Scotch Street. At St. Cuthbert's Church, on the 24th ult., Mr. Matthew KNUBLEY, to Mrs. Ann BAILEY, both of King Street. At the Office of Mr. Jas. MOUNSEY, Superintendent Registrar, in this city, Mr. William PATRICK to Miss Sarah SHORT, both of Shaddongate. At the French Protestant Chapel, Bayonne, on Thursday, the 20th ult., by the Rev. Edward HEDGES, James ELLIS, Esq., of Greenhill, near Bingley, Yorkshire, third son of the late Lister ELLIS, Esq., of Liverpool, to Alethea, eldest daughter of Fergus James GRAHAM, Esq., Her Brittannic Majesty's Consul at Bayonne. At Manchester, on the 8th ult., Mr. Thos. WILLIAMS, of the Royal Hotel Inn, to Miss Mary CARRUTHERS, daughter of the late Richard CARRUTHERS, butcher, of this city. At Aikton, on the 22nd ult., Mr. John CARR, shoemaker, of Whiterigg Lees, to Ann, second surviving daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth LENNOX, of Aikton, and late of Thursby. At Wigton, on the 26th ult., Mr. John SMITH, to Miss Mary Ann COTTERIL. At Penrith Church, on the 27th ult., by the Rev. Michael DAND, Mr. William ATKINSON, late of Askham, to Jessie, daghter [sic] of Mr. James THOMPSON, Dornock, near Annan, Dumfriesshire. At Cockermouth on the 22nd inst., Mr. Robert ASKINS, hatter, to Miss Elizabeth, NIXON, both of Cockermouth. At Workington, on the 23rd ult., Mr. John HALLIWELL, chain maker, to Miss Martha GRAHAM. At Ponsonby Church, on the 15th ult., Mr. James NEWBY, brewer with Mr. CLARK, of the Stanley's Arms inn, Calderbridge, to Miss Sarah DIXON, servant with Mr. Isaac GUNSON, of Calder Hall, both in the parish of Ponsonby. At Alston Church, on the 22nd ult., Mr. Albany PROUD, to Miss Mary LIDDLE, both of Nenthead; on the 23rd, Mr. Wren SPARK, to Miss Elizabeth DAWSON, both of Alston; and on the 27th, Mr. John RICHARDSON, of Welgill, to Miss Mary BLACK, of Ruffside.

Saturday 22 Feb 1845 (p. 3, col. 6-7) Deaths. In the West Walls, on the 14th inst., in her 27th year, Sarah, the wife of Mr. Robert GATE, joiner and cabinet maker-much respected. At the house of Mr. RENNISON, Shaddongate, Carlisle, on the 12th inst., at the early age of 20, Mr. Edmund GRINDALL, late of Waverton. A young man of the most promising talent and amiable disposition, beloved and lamented by all who knew him. In Annetwell Street, on the 15th instant, Mr. John PEAT, aged 69 years. In Botchergate, on the 15th inst., Jane, the wife of Mr. John SCOTT, aged 77 years. At No. 51, King Street, on the 18th inst., George, only son of Mr. George G. GORDON, aged five years and eight months. At Stainton, on Wednesday, the 19th inst., Mary, relict of the late Mr. George DENNISON, bone-setter. Her decease will long be felt by her friends and neighbours, to whom she was endeared for her quiet and amiable disposition. At Wreay, on the 15th instant, Mr. Thomas LANCASTER, aged 79 years. At Rockcliff, on the 16th inst., Mr. John CARTNER, innkeeper, aged 81 years-highly esteemed by all who knew him. At Old Town, near High Hesket, on the 18th inst., Mr. Thos. HOUSEBY, aged 73 years. At Brampton, on Friday, the 14th inst., Mrs. Margaret BELL, of the Joiners' Arms Inn, in her 71st year. Her death will be deeply felt by her relatives, and sincerely regretted by a numerous circle of friends. At Milton, near Brampton, since our last, Mrs. Jane NEVING, grandchild of Mr. Thomas ROWNTREE, aged 21-much respected. At Wigton, on the 17th inst., Ishmael Ernest Eldon, youngest son of Mr. Thomas MARK, auctioneer; on the same day, William, son of Mr. William CRAGHILL, shoemaker, aged 17 years; on the same day, Esther, widow of Thomas COOK, aged 70 years; on the same day, at the Wigton Union Workhouse, James TURNER, aged 73 yehrs [sic]. At Penrith, on the 26th ult., after a tedious illness, Mr. Wm. GRAHAM, builder, aged 46 years. At Lancing, near Brighton, on the 16th instant, Mrs. LODER, third daughter of the late James SIMONDS, Esq., of Wigton. At his residence in Chapham Road, London, on the 31st ult., Mr. Jonathan MONKHOUSE, coal merchant, formerly of High Bridge, near Raughton Head, in this county, advanced in years. At Annan, on the 16th instant, Mr. Joseph THWAITES, late of Penrith, aged 58 years. At Leamington, on Wednesday, the 12th inst., General Matthew SHARPE, of Hoddam. At Bath, on the 9th inst., Sophia, the second daughter of John Charles BRISTOW, Esq., of Eusemere Hill, Westmoreland, aged 28 years. At Blackburn, on the 5th instant, aged 28 years, Mary Ann, daughter of the late Mr. William FLEMING, of Broughton-in-Furness. At Keswick, on Friday week, William, son of Mr. Isaac THWAITE, labourer, aged 15 years. At Braithwaite, near Keswick, on Wednesday week, Mary, the wife of Mr. John RITSON, shoemaker, aged 60 years. At Cockermouth, on Friday week, Joseph, the youngest son of Mr. John HURD, brazier, aged five years and eleven months; also on the same day, Mr. Thomas COLLINS, late blacksmith, aged 59. At Rose Hill, Harrington, on Sunday last, Richard, youngest son of the late Captain Richard LITTLE, of the brig Amphion, of Harrington, in the 19th year of his age. At High Harrington, on Friday last, Mr. John LAWSON, farmer, aged 68 years. At Harrington, on the 10th instant, after a tedious illness Miss Sarah SEWELL, aged 31 years. At Egremont, on Thursday week, Mr. Adam KEITH, paper maker, aged 56 years. At Whitehaven, last week, Thos. son of Capt. Jos. CARMICHAEL, aged two years; since our last, Margaret, wife of Mr. William ROPER, aged 57 years; Mr. John TYSON, in the 40th year of his age; Mrs. Elizabeth MOAT, widow, advanced in years. At Soutergate, Kirkby Ireleth, on the 15th instant, of consumption, James, son of Mr. William KNIGHT, aged 23. At Bowness, Windermere, on Saturday, the 8th inst., aged 40, Mrs. Elizabeth BALMER, eldest daughter of the late Mr. William COWARD, joiner, Kendal. At Kendal, on Sunday last, Mrs. Ann HODGSON, formerly of Keswick, in her 88th year. At Kendal, on the 11th inst., aged 42 years, Jane, the wife of Mr. George BIRKETT, bookbinder; same place, on the 13th, Mr. John Mawson ATKINSON, aged 34 years; since our last, Mr. John COTTAM, labourer, aged 54; Mr. [sic] Dorothy TURNER, widow, aged 78; Mary, wife of Mr. Thomas KNIGHT, aged 47; Mr. Jos. KITCHEN, groom, aged 27; Isabella, wife of Mr. Alexander ORCHESTON, aged 56; and Mrs. Mary SMITH, aged 74 years; on Monday last, Richard, youngest son of Mr. John MELDRUM, aged 25 years. At Witherslack, near Milnthorpe, on the 11th, in the 21st year of his age, Richard, the youngest son of Mr. Richd. PARRINGTON, of the Derby Arms Inn. At Glasgow, on Friday last, Charles, the only child of Mr. Mc.DONALD, of the Buck's Head Hotel. In his 90th year, Mr. Andrew FRANKLIN, of Tavistock-street, Covent-garden, for nearly seventy years connected with the daily press of London. On the 29th ult., aged 67 years, Mrs. Letitia SCOTT, Murray-street, Oldham-road. She was a soldier's wife, and gave birth to twins (girls) on the field of Waterloo, both of which are still living. On Tuesday week, at Southampton, Lieut. E. N. KENDALL, marine superintendent of the Peninsula and Oriental Steam Company. This promising officer served on several expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic Seas, and accompanied the last expedition of Sir J. FRANKLIN to the Polar Seas, between the years 1825 and 1827, and was the companion of Dr. RICHARDSON on that branch of the expedition which discovered and delineated the northern coast of America lying between the Mackenzie and Coppermine Rivers. DEATH OF MR. LAMAN BLANCHARD.-It is our most painful duty to announce the sudden death of Mr. Laman BLANCHARD. He had lately suffered a severe domestic affliction; and his unceasing anxiety during the progress of the long and harrassing illness in his family, which terminated fatally, had so injured his own health, that fits ensued, which finally led to his death. He died about half-past one o'clock this (Saturday) morning, and has left four orphan children to lament his loss. Mr. BLANCHARD is well known in periodical literature. His graceful verses, his lively stories, his wit that never had a touch of malice, are known to many readers. There, perhaps, never was a man who had a readier pen. A poem, an essay, a witty paragraph, seemed to spring spontaneously from his brain. There was an amenity in everything he did; and, indeed, how could it be otherwise, seeing that he himself was the very impersonation of kindness and goodness of heart. Mr. BLANCHARD was long in the service of literature. He was a member of the press in various ways, for more than twenty years; beginning young, and fighting an upward fight throughout-bravely, independently, without envy or uncharitableness-until he reached the age of 42, when he died. We may fearlessly assert that no man ever ran the same career, in the same circumstances, who left so few enemies, and so many, many friends. These few facts are addressed to strangers. His independence, his perseverance, his untiring kindness, and his many sterling and amiable qualities, need no demonstration to his acquaintance or his friends.-Examiner. [Mr. BLANCHARD committed suicide after his wife became insane.]

Saturday 22 Feb 1845 (p. 3, col. 6-7) Births. At Hayton Parsonage, on the 18th inst., the wife of the Rev. George TOPPIN, of a daughter. On Thursday, the 30th January last, Mrs. SPENCE, wife of Jas. SPENCE, working tanner in Anstruther, was delivered of four children-two boys and two girls-who, with their mother, are doing well. The parents are poor, but honest and industrious. The family consist of ten, and the weekly earnings of the father only afford twopence daily for each. It has therefore been resolved to open a subscription for their relief.-Edinburgh paper. Marriages. At St. Cuthbert's Church, on the 15th inst, Mr. George SMITH, of Court Square, to Miss Elizabeth GRIFFIN [GIFFIN according to FreeBMD], of Shaddongate. At the Office of Mr. Jas. MOUNSEY, Superintendent Registrar, on the 15th inst., Mr. James GLENCROSS, of Longburgh, to Miss Rachael LITTLE, of the same place; same day, Mr. Hugh GALLAGHER, of John's Lane, Caldewgate, weaver, to Miss Mary BLYTHE, of the same place; on Thursday, the 20th instant, Mr. William BARNES, of Botchergate, joiner, to Miss Elizabeth BIRRELL, of the same place. At Aspatria, on the 10th inst., by the Rev. E. SALKELD, M.A., Mr. C. TAYLOR, grocer, of Carlisle, to Miss Jane Ann, only daughter of the late C. HENDERSON, Esq., surgeon, of Aspatria. At Wigton, on the 20th inst., John, son of Mr. Isaac BANKS, of Allonby, to Sarah, daughter of Mr. Robert LIGHTFOOT, of Wigton. At Annan, on Monday last, Mr. John HULLOCK, tailor, to Miss Jane JOHNSON, both of Allonby. At Crosthwaite Church, Keswick, on Saturday last, Mr. Wm. HODGSON, to Miss Martha ALLISON, both of Newlands, near Keswick. At Lorton Church, on the 11th instant, by the Rev. James BUSH, the Rev. Thomas James CLARK, A.M., Vicar of Penrith, and late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, to Miss Harriet JOPSON, of Woodhouse, Buttermere. On Saturday week, at St. Paul's Church, Liverpool, Captain A. RORISON, of the brig James Ray, formerly of Harrington, to Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. John VARTY, of St. Paul's square, and late of Whitehaven. At Derry Hill Church, on Monday, the 10th inst., by the Rev. J. GUTHRIE, M.A., the Hon. James K. HOWARD, youngest son of the Earl of Suffolk, to Lady Louisa FITZ MAURICE, only daughter of the Marquis of Lansdowne.

You assume correctly! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jane Houghton Sent: 07 April 2014 20:00 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ENG-WESTMORLAND] Carlisle Journal, 22 Feb 1845 - Committal / Suicide / Death / Disappearance Burked as in Burke and Hare I assume Sent from my iPhone > On 7 Apr 2014, at 19:46, "Petra Mitchinson" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Saturday 22 Feb 1845 (p. 2, col. 8 - p. 3, col. 1) > > > THE REPUTED "BURKERS" AT SUNDERLAND.-A FALSE ALARM.-The body of John ELLIOTT, and old man belonging to Sunderland, who has been > missing for many weeks, was found in the river Wear, on Saturday morning last, near the Coal-drops of the Durham and Sunderland > Railway Company. The sudden and unaccountable disappearance of this old man gave rise to a multitude of conjectures as to his fate. > The most prevailing was that he had been burked, and sent to Edinburgh for dissection. This was soon multiplied into several cases > of burking, and the whole town was alarmed into belief that a regular gang of burkers was located in Sunderland, and that it was > unsafe to stir abroad after night-fall. Three poor Irishmen, who, because they were poor and could not afford to hire separate > apartments, lodged together in one room, which they had not the means of furnishing, were pitched upon as the guilty parties; and as > ELLIOTT happened to live near where they lodged, it was confidently believed that they had seized the old man and had put him to > death; and they were so persecuted by the police and the populace that they were compelled to quit the place. Now all this hubbub > has ended in the discovery of the simple fact, that Elliott had gone down to the quay-side, had fallen into the river, and was > drowned.

Burked as in Burke and Hare I assume Sent from my iPhone > On 7 Apr 2014, at 19:46, "Petra Mitchinson" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Saturday 22 Feb 1845 (p. 2, col. 8 - p. 3, col. 1) > > > Bridget KIRKBRIDE, of Maryport, was committed, on the 19th inst., by J. P. SENHOUSE, Esq., to take her trial at the ensuing Assizes, > on the charge of concealment of the birth her infant.-[Particulars of the inquest appeared in our paper of this day fortnight.] > > > On Friday morning last, Mr. Joseph FEARON, of Aspatria, grocer, was discovered hanging in an orchard adjoining his house, quite > dead. The deceased left his house about half-past six o'clock in the morning, and was found shortly afterwards. > > > DEATH OF GENERAL SHARPE.-This gallant and venerable officer died at Leamington Spa on the 1th [sic] inst., at an advanced age. The > deceased had seen a great deal of service. His commission as General was dated January, 1837. [General SHARPE represented the > Dumfries District of burghs in the first Reform Parliament]. > > > THE REPUTED "BURKERS" AT SUNDERLAND.-A FALSE ALARM.-The body of John ELLIOTT, and old man belonging to Sunderland, who has been > missing for many weeks, was found in the river Wear, on Saturday morning last, near the Coal-drops of the Durham and Sunderland > Railway Company. The sudden and unaccountable disappearance of this old man gave rise to a multitude of conjectures as to his fate. > The most prevailing was that he had been burked, and sent to Edinburgh for dissection. This was soon multiplied into several cases > of burking, and the whole town was alarmed into belief that a regular gang of burkers was located in Sunderland, and that it was > unsafe to stir abroad after night-fall. Three poor Irishmen, who, because they were poor and could not afford to hire separate > apartments, lodged together in one room, which they had not the means of furnishing, were pitched upon as the guilty parties; and as > ELLIOTT happened to live near where they lodged, it was confidently believed that they had seized the old man and had put him to > death; and they were so persecuted by the police and the populace that they were compelled to quit the place. Now all this hubbub > has ended in the discovery of the simple fact, that Elliott had gone down to the quay-side, had fallen into the river, and was > drowned. > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Saturday 22 Feb 1845 (p. 3, col. 1) INQUESTS. ----- (Before Mr. CARRICK, Coroner.) At Mungrisdale, in the parish of Greystoke, on Friday, the 14th instant, on the body of Hannah SANDERSON, aged 2 years, daughter of Thomas SANDERSON, joiner. The unfortunate child, on the Wednesday afternoon prior, had gone into a neighbour's house, and seeing a tin standing upon the table, took hold of it, and before she was observed put it to her mouth and drank the boiling water which it contained. She was immediately seized with most excruciating pain and difficulty of breathing, and died early the following day from the inflammation produced. Verdict-"Accidental death." On the following day, at Faugh, in the parish of Hayton, on the body of Sarah, daughter of Edward DALTON, husbandman, aged 11 years, whose death was occasioned by burning, on Tuesday forenoon. She was hanging a pan of potatoes on the crook, when her dress caught fire. Another child, aged 4 years, assisted her in her endeavours to extinguish the flames, but they failing, the deceased ran into the street, where her frightful screams alarmed the whole village. Mr. John BROWN ran to her and stripping off his coat folded her in it, by which judicious step the fire was got under, not, however, before the greatest part of the child's clothes had been consumed, and her body had received most severe injuries upon almost every part, from which she died in twenty hours. Verdict, "Accidental death." At Aspatria, on Monday last, on the body of Mr. Joseph FEARON, grocer and draper, who committed suicide on Saturday morning. The deceased had been spending Friday night at a beer shop in the village, kept by James DOUGLASS, and did not return home till six o'clock in the morning: his mother received him. When he entered she said "Oh, Joseph how you slight my good advice;" she then returned to her room, and the servant girl gave him the boot jack. Deceased told her he did not require it, and that she was to go to bed: he was then sitting by the table resting his head on his hands, and appeared to be crying. At seven o'clock he was found in a shed in the brewery premises suspended from a beam, and quite dead.-Verdict, "Suicide during insanity." Deceased was twenty-three years of age, he had of late been intemperate in his habits, and was one of the parties present when Thomas FORSTER lost his life last June, by the discharge of a gun in BOWLE's stack-yard, between one and two o'clock in the morning. (Before Mr. THOMPSON, Coroner for Westmoreland.) At the New Inn, Shap, on Tuesday last, on the body of John SLACK, aged 33, an excavator on the Lancaster and Carlisle railway. Deceased had been labouring under typhus fever, and on the Sunday morning previous was found dead in bed. Great care and attention had been paid to him by the person with whom he lodged. He had been attended by a surgeon.-Verdict, "Died by the visitation of God."

Saturday 22 Feb 1845 (p. 2, col. 8 - p. 3, col. 1) Bridget KIRKBRIDE, of Maryport, was committed, on the 19th inst., by J. P. SENHOUSE, Esq., to take her trial at the ensuing Assizes, on the charge of concealment of the birth her infant.-[Particulars of the inquest appeared in our paper of this day fortnight.] On Friday morning last, Mr. Joseph FEARON, of Aspatria, grocer, was discovered hanging in an orchard adjoining his house, quite dead. The deceased left his house about half-past six o'clock in the morning, and was found shortly afterwards. DEATH OF GENERAL SHARPE.-This gallant and venerable officer died at Leamington Spa on the 1th [sic] inst., at an advanced age. The deceased had seen a great deal of service. His commission as General was dated January, 1837. [General SHARPE represented the Dumfries District of burghs in the first Reform Parliament]. THE REPUTED "BURKERS" AT SUNDERLAND.-A FALSE ALARM.-The body of John ELLIOTT, and old man belonging to Sunderland, who has been missing for many weeks, was found in the river Wear, on Saturday morning last, near the Coal-drops of the Durham and Sunderland Railway Company. The sudden and unaccountable disappearance of this old man gave rise to a multitude of conjectures as to his fate. The most prevailing was that he had been burked, and sent to Edinburgh for dissection. This was soon multiplied into several cases of burking, and the whole town was alarmed into belief that a regular gang of burkers was located in Sunderland, and that it was unsafe to stir abroad after night-fall. Three poor Irishmen, who, because they were poor and could not afford to hire separate apartments, lodged together in one room, which they had not the means of furnishing, were pitched upon as the guilty parties; and as ELLIOTT happened to live near where they lodged, it was confidently believed that they had seized the old man and had put him to death; and they were so persecuted by the police and the populace that they were compelled to quit the place. Now all this hubbub has ended in the discovery of the simple fact, that Elliott had gone down to the quay-side, had fallen into the river, and was drowned.

Saturday 15 Feb 1845 (p. 3, col. 6-7) Deaths. In English Damside, on the 11th instant, Mrs. Agnes IRVING, aged 28 years. At the Town of Kendal, Orleans County, in the state of New York, America, on the 30th of October last, John BRECKONS, in the 38th year of his age, eldest son of the late Mr. Andrew BRECKONS, of Wetheral, in this county. At Blackburn, on Sunday, the 2nd inst., at his uncle's house, Mr. BIGGAR, Mr. George FORSTER, son of the late Mr. John FORSTER, Back-street, Brampton, aged 40 years. At Longtown, on the 30th ultimo, Mr. John HOLLIDAY, aged 76 years. At Ashes, in the parish of Wigton, on the 7th instant, Jane, second daughter of Mrs. Barbara BARNES, aged 33 years. At Wigton, on the 9th, Mr. Benjamin BARRETT, tea dealer, aged 39 years; on the 10th, Margaret, the wife of Mr. Wm. NICHOL, aged 49 years; on the same day, at the Union Workhouse, Jonathan HODGSON, aged eight years; at Wigton, on the 5th inst., Mr. John WILKINSON, aged 91 years. At the Cockle House, Penrith, since our last, Miss Jane STOCKDALE. At Penrith, on the 25th ult.; after a tedious illness, Mr. Wm. GRAHAM, butcher, aged 46 years. His urbanity and amiable disposition endeared him to all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance, and his loss is deeply deplored by his friends and acquaintances. At Langholm, on the 6th inst., the Rev. Mr. DOBIE, minister of the Secession Church there. At Appleby, on Monday last, Ann, wife of Mr. Matthew EWBANKE, sen., aged 73 years. At Keswick, on the 3rd instant, Dinah, the wife of Mr. Jos. HODGSON, woollen weaver, aged 60 years, much respected. At Maryport, on the 8th, Mrs. Jane CASSON, widow, aged 53; same day, Mrs. Elizabeth IRVING, aged 75. At Cockermouth, on Saturday last, Sarah, relict of the late Mr. Jacob MILLER, potter, formerly of Rose Cottage, near Cockermouth, aged 62 years. At Bootle, on Tuesday week, the 28th ult., Thomas, infant son of Mr. John GEDDARD, of the King's Head inn, in that town. At Grange, in Borrowdale, on Saturday morning, Mr. James LANCASTER, aged 49 years-a workman at one of the slate quarries in Borrowdale. At Greysouthen, on Wednesday week, Mrs. Nancy ROBINSON, relict of the late Mr. Amos ROBINSON, one of the Society of Friends, aged 73 years. At Workington, on Friday week, after a painfully protracted illness, Sarah, wife of Mr. John GUY, aged 60 years. At Whitehaven, on Saturday morning last, awfully sudden, Mrs. LONGMIRE, relict of the late Mr. Jonathan LONGMIRE, innkeeper, in the 70th year of her age; in Plumbland's Lane, on the 9th, Mrs. Isabella KITCHIN, widow, in her 81st year; in New Street, on Monday last, Jane, daughter of Mr. Henry MIERS, joiner, aged one year and ten months; in King Street, on Thursday evening week, Mr. William B. BANFIELD, solicitor, aged 44 years. At his house in Stricklandgate, Kendal, on Thursday evening week, in the 70th year of his age, Mr. Edward BURTON, one of the oldest members of the Wesleyan Society in that town. At Milnthorpe, very suddenly, on Monday last, aged 74, Mr. John CROSTHWAITE, for many years an industrious and faithful servant to George WILSON, Esq., Dallam Tower; on Thursday week, Elizabeth, daughter of Elizabeth HADWEN, lodging-house keeper, aged 22 years. DEATH OF MISS KNATCHBULL.-We regret to announce that Sir Edward KNATCHBULL's daughter, whose illness has of late prevented the right hon. baronet from attending to public business, died on Sunday week. She was in her 21st year. The illness of this young lady was the cause of Sir E. KNATCHBULL's absence from the Cabinet Councils lately held. DEATH OF A FRIEND OF BURNS.-Mr. William CUNNINGHAM, a native of Ayrshire, who for a long period enjoyed the acquaintanceship of Robert BURNS, died at Hamilton last week, at the age of 81. Mr. CUNNINGHAM's father was a natural son of one of the Earls of Eglinton. He abounded in anecdotes of the poet, which he was very proud of relating, and also in tales of the smugglers of Ayrshire in the olden time. He kept up his friendship with Mrs. BURNS, after her husband's death, and annually sent her a present of fruit.-Kilmarnock Herald. We must record the recent death of Mrs. James GRAY, a writer of pleasing verses: who, in her maiden days, as Miss Mary Anne BROWNE, gave promise of merit of a higher order. But she was prematurely encouraged into publication, praised with unkind extravagance, and alas, paid-as many a hundred victims had before her-for those few days of bright delusion, with after years of disappointment, struggle, and difficulty. Since her marriage, and her residence in Ireland, Mrs. GRAY's literary efforts gave increasing signs of thought and concentration. As a woman, she was upwright [sic], unaffected, and amiable,-unwearied in devotion to her family, and kind offices to her friends. EXTRAORDINARY PROGENY.-Widow RUTHERFORD died at Aberfeldy on the 20th ult., aged 92 years. She was the mother of five children-three sons and two daughters. By her eldest daughter, she had 13 grandchildren and 57 great-grandchildren. By her second daughter, she had 15 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. By her eldest son, she had eight grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. He second son had no children, and the third son had three children. In all, she had five children, 39 grandchildren, and 79 great-grandchildren,-being 123 of a progeny! Her eldest great-grandchild is rising 51 years of age and several of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, were at her bed side when she breathed her last.-Edinburgh Paper.

Saturday 15 Feb 1845 (p. 3, col. 6-7) Births. On the 10th inst., in Roper Street, Whitehaven, Mrs. DALY, of a daughter. At Langholm, on the 7th instant, Mrs. Francis SCOON, of twin daughters. On Monday last, a woman of the name of POMFRET, the wife of a power-loom cloth dresser, residing in Wellington-street, Accrington, of four sons, all likely to live. Marriages. At St. Mary's Church, on the 10th inst., Mr. William HUNTON, West Tower Street, to Miss Margaret LEE, Rickergate; on the 11th, Mr. Frederick TEMPLE, to Miss Alice ATKINSON, of the Old Bush, Scotch Street. At St. Cuthbert's Church, the 0th inst. [sic – according to the IGI, the marriage took place on the 9th], by the Rev. Henry GOUGH, A.M., Mr. Wm. NAPIER, of King Street, Botchergate, to Miss Dinah BIRD, of Caldbeck. At Penrith, on the 9th instant, Mr. John IRVING, blacksmith, Shap, to Miss Charlotte FLETCHER, Penrith. At Ednam Street, Annan, on the 10th inst., by the Rev. James DOBIE, Mr. Joseph WOFF, cabinet-maker, Buenos Ayres, to Miss Elizabeth OLIVER, Ednam Street. At Langholm, on the 8th inst., by the Rev. William WATSON, James THORBURN, to Elizabeth HUTTON, daughter of Thomas HUTTON, mason. At Langholm, on the 7th instant, Mr. John ELLIOT, mason, to Mary, daughter of Thomas HOGG, joiner. At Crosscanonby, on the 4th, Captain LUDLEY, to Mrs. Ellen MASON, both of Maryport. At St. Mary's Chapel, Maryport, Mr. John ADLAY, shoemaker, to Mrs. Elizabeth FISHER, both of Maryport. At St. Ann's Church, Liverpool, on Sunday week, Mr. John GARNETT, tea dealer, of that place, and son of Mr. GARNETT, of Cragg Hall, in Millom, to Miss BANKS, of Duke-street, Whitehaven. At Gosforth, on Saturday last, by the Rev. F. F. PINDER, A.M., rector, Mr. George DIXON, husbandman, to Miss Elizabeth CAMERON, daughter of Mr. Edward CAMERON, of Gosforth. At Brigham, on the 9th instant, Mr. William BLACK, teacher at Brigham Grammar Scbool, to Mary, eldest daughter of the late Rev. J. WHITELOCK, vicar of Dearham; on the 8th instant, Mr. William CASS, tailor, to Miss Elizabeth SHEPHERD, both of Brigham. At Moresby, on the 1st inst, Mr. William WATSON, blacksmith, Whitehaven, to Miss WILSON, daughter of Mr. John WILSON, yeoman, of the High, in Moresby. At Saint Bees, on the 1st instant, Mr. J. C. COLDBECK, of the firm of Messrs. COLDBECK and Son, brewers, Queen Street, to Agnes, daughter of Mr. G. STEELE, of Greenbank, near Whitehaven. At St. James' Church, Whitehaven, on the 5th instant, Capt. Henry WILSON, of the brig Lightfoot, of Whitehaven, to Jane, eldest daughter of Capt. William HUNTER, of the Elizabeth, also of Whitehaven; same place, on the 6th, Mr. William CROSBY, mariner, to Miss Mary HARRISON, both of Whitehaven. At Kendal, on Sunday last, Mr. John CONWAY, ivory combmaker, to Eliza, the eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas WHITEHEAD, yeoman, of Kellet, near Orton; same place, on Tuesday week, Mr. William VIPOND, shoemaker, to Miss Betty SCOTT, bread baker, both of that town; same place, since our last, Mr. James WIDDUP, to Miss Mary ROBINSON; Mr. Isaac MONKHOUSE, to Miss Ann SHAW, all of that town. SINGULAR MARRIAGE.—On Monday week, a somewhat singular wedding took place at the parish church of Rochdale. The bridegroom, who is a stout man about twenty-five years of age, has two thumbs on each hand, and his fingers and toes are all double-jointed. A short time ago he received parish relief from the township of Butterworth; but lately, having come into possession of a fortune of £15, he has paid back the money he thus received. His name is James CROSSLEY; he is an outdoor labourer. The bride is a widow, from fifty to sixty years of age, named Martha WOOD, but better known in Rochdale as the "Old Queen from Saddleworth." She has resided for many years in Priestley-square, Castleton, and, in consequence of her having been confined to her bed for the greater part of the last seven years with rheumatism, she has received parish relief from Saddleworth. On the day of her wedding she was so afflicted with her complaint that she had to be conveyed in a vehicle to the church gates, and thence carried by several men into the church; and, the ceremony having been duly performed, she was carried in the same way back to the gates, placed in the coach along with her husband, and driven, amidst a merry peal from the church bells, to a beer-shop near School-lane, where the party spent their first day of conjugal felicity. Tuesday being the day for the paupers to receive their weekly pay, she sent a person to the vestry for her allowance; but, in consequence of her now belonging to the same township as her husband, it was refused. The newly-married couple are now residing in Priestly-square, and, it is said, go by the names of the "King and Queen of Milnrow."

Saturday 15 Feb 1845 (p. 3, col. 4-5) INQUESTS. ----- (Before Mr. CARRICK, Coroner.) At Penrith, on the 13th instant, on view of the body of John, illegitimate son of Mary LITTLE, aged six weeks, who was found dead in bed on Tuesday morning. A rumour had obtained circulation in the neighbourhood of deceased's residence that his death was attributable to neglect or ill-treatment on the part of his mother. Upon a careful investigation before a highly respectable Jury, however, it did not appear that there was any ground for the suspicion; on the contrary, every attention had been paid to the child, who had died from costiveness, to which he had been subject since his birth. The Jury accordingly returned a verdict of "natural death." (Before Mr. LEE, Deputy Coroner.) On the 9th instant, at Plumpton Wall, in the Parish of Lazonby, on the body of Charles DEANE, aged 16 years, servant with Thomas JACKSON, of Brownriggs, in the same parish, farmer. Deceased started from home to go to Carlisle on the preceding Friday morning, about two o'clock, with a cart-load of stones. About an hour afterwards he was found lying on the road about two miles distant from home in an immense pool of blood, and quite dead. There was an extensive wound upon the right temple, and the right side of his face and knuckles were much grazed. Some of the hair of his head was found adhering to the stones upon the road when he was found. The deceased had been in the habit of riding upon his laden cart, and in this instance the hay bag lying on the top of the cart was found to be much crushed down as if he had been lying upon it-his horse and cart were found about a mile further on the road. The Jury were of opinion that he had fallen from his cart whilst asleep and returned a verdict of "accidental death." At Bromfield, on the 12th instant, on the body of Joseph GILBERTSON, aged 29. Deceased had for several years been subject to fits. He went to bed in his usual health on the preceding Sunday night, and was found by his mother on the following morning dead in bed.-Verdict, "natural death." At Hallburn Workhouse, Longtown Union, on the 11th instant, on the body of Jane M'GREGOR, aged 82, a casual pauper who had been admitted on the previous Friday. Deceased was very feeble, and on the previous Saturday night was observed to be restless. On the Sunday morning she was found on the floor of her bed-room dead. Verdict, "natural death." Deceased was a soldier's widow, and stated that she was at the taking of Siringapatam. (Before Mr. LUMB, Coroner.) On Tuesday last at Keswick, on the body of John PAPE, son of Richard PAPE, aged five years, who, as we stated last week, was so severely burned on the Sunday preceding, by his clothes catching fire that he died on the following morning. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental Death." In Tangier-street, in Whitehaven, on Saturday last, on the body of Mrs. Agnes LONGMIRE, widow, aged 70 years, who, on the morning of that day was found by her servant lying dead upon the staircase in her own house. Verdict, "Died of apoplexy." Also in Whitehaven, on Saturday last, on the body of Mary Mc.MULLEN, an infant three weeks old, who on that morning was found dead in bed by her parents. Verdict, "Natural death." On Monday, on the body of John DAWES, who, on Saturday evening last, was proceeding from his own house on the West Pier, Whitehaven, when he accidentally fell from the Quay into the harbour, in consequence of the darkness of the night, and the want of sufficient protection on the pier, by which he was killed on the spot. Verdict, "Accidental death." This is the fifth or sixth person, whose lives have been sacrificed by their having accidentally fallen over the pier at this place. At Hensingham, on Monday, on view of the body of Mr. John WILKINSON, miner, who on Saturday morning last, whilst at work in Messrs. BARKER and Co's coal-pit, on Cleator Moor, was so dreadfully burnt by an explosion of inflammable air, in addition to one of his legs being fractured, that he lingered without any hopes of recovery until Monday, when death put an end to his sufferings. After a careful investigation of all the circumstances relating to the melancholy occurrence the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental Death." The deceased has left a widow and three children to lament their irreparable loss.-A fellow workman who was also in the pit at the time, was so severely burned by the explosion that little hopes are entertained of his recovery. Also at the Hollins, near Hensingham, on Monday evening, an inquest was held on view of the body of Mr. Henry ROTHERY, of Beckermount, aged 61 years, who, whilst on his way to Whitehaven in the course of Monday last, was observed by one of Mr. ROBERT's cart-drivers standing near a gate on the road side, and presently afterwards fell backwards. The driver lost no time proceeding to Mr. R. who on being lifted up expired almost instantly. There appeared to be little doubt that the cause of death was apoplexy, but the jury, in the absence of medical testimony, returned a verdict of "Died by the Visitation of God."

Saturday 15 Feb 1845 (p. 3, col. 2-4) MOST HORRIBLE MURDER. ----- [continued] Jane HUGGAN, wife of James HUGGAN, of Lamonby, labourer, says-Between eight and nine o'clock on the Tuesday evening Mary CROSBY came and said to me, "Sarah's brat and frock were on fire, and her mother could not put it out." I did not go then. I got another message between ten and eleven, and went. I found some clothes lying upon the floor in the passage. At the time, I thought they were scouring cloths, and took them up and threw them into a hole in the wall, behind the passage door. They were wet. I believe they were made so by us walking over them with our wet feet. There was snow. There was smoke in the house, and a smell as if clothes had been burnt. The smoke and smell were in both kitchen and parlour. When I went in, Jane CROSBY said,-"I have been at Ellonby, and when I got to Millhouse I found the smell of burning, and the nearer I got home the stronger the smell became. When I got home I found the house full of smoke. I went into the house, and out of the house into the parlour, and shouted of Mary, and Mary said 'she was there.' I asked where Sarah was? and Mary said she did not know." She said she then went out and shouted "Sarah," and Sarah answered she was lying beside James Bainbridge's Stile, and her clothes all burnt off her. Jane also said she went to deceased, lifted her, and found her quite naked, as I then saw her. Sarah had no clothes upon her whatever at the time when I saw her, except her stockings. The smell in the house when I entered was like to suffocate one, it was so offensive. The smell was like the burning of clothes and flesh. The hair on deceased's head was very little burned. Her face and neck, both back and front, were very much burned. I do not think Jane CROSBY was sober that night. I live about three hundred yards distant from CROSBY's house. I was out at my door several times that evening, between seven and nine. I did not smell burning. I gave the burnt clothes which I threw behind the door to the constable. Elizabeth SCOTT, wife of John SCOTT, of Lamonby, stonemason-I live about three hundred yards distant from CROSBY's house. At half-past eight o'clock on the Tuesday evening, I learnt from Mrs. HUGGAN that Mary CROSBY had been up to say that Sarah's brat and frock were on fire, and that her mother could not put them out. Between ten and eleven I was called. I found the deceased sensible and able to speak. She asked for some water. I proposed giving her some milk and water; and she then asked for milk and water. She spoke with much difficulty. I asked the mother how it happened. She answered, "Elizabeth, I do not not know: I was not at home. I was gone to Ellonby and Skelton for to seek some kitchen, (provisions,) and when I came to the door the house was full of smoke, and I called Mary, and Mary answered I am here, mother. I said where have you Sarah? Mary said I do not know, mother; but I believe she is all burnt." The mother further said-"I went to the door and called Sarah, and Sarah answered I am here, mother. I am all burnt off. I went forward and lifted her at Bainbridge's Stile." I left before the child died. I assisted to clean the house the next morning. There were pieces of tinder lying upon the parlour floor. Jane showed me the quilt and blanket. She told me the blanket was burnt by endeavouring to put out the fire, and the quilt was burnt by the child running against it when she was on fire. William MASON, the younger, of Lamonby, farmer, says, on the Tuesday night in question, my wife and I went down to CROSBY's house at a quarter before eleven. I heard Jane CROSBY say how the burning happened. She said she had gone to Ellonby: she had not got that far,-that she had got down below George DODD's close to Ellonby. This is considerably beyond the Limekilns, and about a mile from Lamonby. Afterwards she said she only got as far as the Limekilns, and she found a smell of burning, which made her turn back, and she came direct back as fast as she could, and went into the house and found it full of smoke. She shouted to Mary where was Sarah. She could not find Mary. She ran out of the parlour into the house and trode upon her. I understood her to say that she had trampled on her in the house. She afterwards told me she found the child beside Bainbridge's Stile. I then said to her she was contradicting herself. She said she had trampled on her in the house. Mary Ann MASON, wife of William MASON, the younger, farmer, says I was at CROSBY's house on Tuesday night. My husband told her she would have to give an account of where she had been; she then said she had been at Skelton; she afterwards said she had only been at Ellonby; she next said she had only been as far as the Limekilns, and smelled a burning: she at another time said she had been as low down as George DODD's. At one time she said she found the child at Bainbridge's Stile with all the clothes burned off; she at another time said she found the child at the door or near the passage. Mary was asked by some one how it happened, and the mother said to her "Was not she sitting on the fender, Mary?" I saw some burnt clothes in the passage. I think Jane was intoxicated at that time. Thomas ROPER, the younger, of Lamonby, stonemason, says-On the Tuesday night in question I went into my own house about five minutes to nine. I came direct from Joseph SALKELD's. When I got near my own house, which is about one hundred and fifty yards from CROSBY's, I heard cries which I thought to be those of a child. I stopped a short time and came forward opposite CROSBY's house. I was then in our garth. I stood about a minute. When I heard the cries, I saw a light in CROSBY's parlour window. I thought it was light more than an ordinary candle would produce. When I was looking the light went out. I cannot tell whether it was extinguished or passed into another room. The cries were the cries of a person receiving punishment. Alice PATTINSON, of Lamonby, widow, says-On the day the child was burnt, about five o'clock in the afternoon, I was standing at William SWINBURN's door; I saw Jane CROSBY standing at the smiddy corner. She appeared tipsy. Sarah was going up the road. The mother called to her to come back. The child appeared frightened of her mother. John WILSON brought her back by the hand. She cried when she went nearer her mother. On the same evening, about nine o'clock, I was at Thomas LING's grocer's shop. On returning home I went past the blacksmith's shop to the front of CROSBY's house. Just as I shut the grocer's shop door I heard several cries in the direction of CROSBY's house. On going up to CROSBY's house I saw a light in the parlour window. When I reached within forty yards of CROSBY's house, the light passed from the parlour into the kitchen. I then saw the outer door was open. I went within two yards of the house. I stopped a short time and listened. I heard Jane CROSBY in her own house. I heard her say, "Oh my honey Sarah, oh my darling Sarah;" and something like, "Oh thy mother is done now." I heard a child in clogs walking in the house at the same time. I immediately left, as I thought they were taking no harm. I heard no cries or moans after I went to the door. William GRAHAM, servant with Mr. William HORSLEY, farmer, says-Last harvest, one Sunday evening, I was standing near the smiddy corner, when I saw Jane CROSBY, who had fallen down the blacksmith's stairs. I thought she was drunk. Just as she rose, her children were there; she took up first one and then the other by the hair of their head and threw them across the road. She called them to her again, and again threw one of them away by the hair of the head, and swung the other one round by the hair of the head two or three times, and they both fell to the ground, the mother uppermost. She then grasped her hands round its neck and appeared to be suffocating it. I went up and pushed her off it, and she again tried to get to it, and the father came up and took it away. I think it was the younger child she attacked last. William MASON, the elder, Lamonby, labourer, says I am the owner of CROSBY's house; they have been my tenants four years gone last Martinmas. I have seen Jane CROSBY punch deceased at times. I have seen her use Sarah very badly; she would have kicked her with her foot. I have seen her kick the child, both when she was drunk and sober. I remember being in CROSBY's house about six weeks ago, CROSBY was at home poorly, she struck at him with a poker, she said he was bad of his back, and she would straight it with the poker, she said she would poison the bairns, and then she would poison herself. John SCOTT, of Lamonby, stonemason, says, on Tuesday the 21st January, deceased slept out all night. I assisted to look for her from half-past eight till past one o'clock in the morning. Deceased's mother was drunk. She desired me to go to Mr. BELL's of Blencowe, and tell him she insisted upon him finding her child for her. Hannah THOMPSON of Lamonby, single woman.-On the Tuesday of the burning I saw deceased sitting behind a wall in the village. I asked her what she was sitting there for, she said her mother was going to bray her. I asked her what she was going to bray her for, she said nothing at all. I told her to go to Jenny HUGGAN's, she said she durst not, her mother would come there and bray her. Frances THOMPSON of Lamonby, widow, says, on the Tuesday of the burning, in the afternoon, I was passing William SWINBURN's house, I came up to deceased, she was crying and going from home. Her mother was standing on the road and calling out to people to stop her. After I passed deceased, she sat down under the wall. Richard WILSON of Ellonby, township constable, says, I received the child's shift and remains of the petticoat from Jane HUGGAN. I and an assistant were searching the house and were in the act of shutting the passage door to see if there was any thing behind it, when Jane HUGGAN went and brought these clothes out of a hole in the wall, there were also a pair of stockings. I also found some pieces of burnt cloth on the ash heap, also some burnt skin. I also got from the parlour a woollen great coat, a quilt, and a blanket, all partly burnt, also a cotton sheet a little burnt, also from the kitchen, two pokers, all of which I now produce. The cape of the coat is burned in three places, the fire having been applied on the outside-In one part, a hole is through the cloth. The left sleeve is burnt in several places. There are about thirteen holes through it, they are separate from each other, one of the holes passes through both sides of the sleeve, and altogether they have the appearance of having been made by the application of heated iron on the different parts; the hole through the sleeve is exactly fitted by the square end of the large poker. There is no continuity between any of the burns. The left skirt is also burnt on several places (three) they are holes slightly burnt. The blanket is burnt on the edge, and in the middle there is one square hole and an oblong hole, all bearing the appearance of having been made in the same way as the burns upon the coat. The side of the quilt has been burnt about ten inches from the side towards the middle. The length of the burn at the side is about twelve inches, and tapers away to a point; it appears to have been burnt from the outside; part of the edges show that it has also been torn; a little further up is a hole apparently made from the outside; it is a square hole. The shift contains several holes; one of which, high up, exactly corresponds with the large poker; the others appear to be made in the same way. The petticoat, only a small portion of it remains, part of which has been separated from that part that is missing, by having been torn away, and not by burning, the other part appears to have been burnt in the same way as the coat, the whole of the inside is untouched by fire; the mother's gown has also several similar holes in it at the bottom. The pieces of skin were much softer than they now are; one of the pieces appeared to be the skin of a palm of a hand and of one of the fingers. The stockings are a little singed. William CARRICK, of Unthank, surgeon, says,-I received a call between ten and eleven o'clock on the night of Tuesday the 28th January last. I found deceased very much burned on the face, and all the other parts of the body, except the breadth of a hand between the shoulders, running to a point on the right shoulder, and narrowing to a point on the left haunch, and also except the legs and feet, and also except the head, the hair upon which was only partially singed the hands, arms, face and breast, were much more burned than the other parts of the body; the face, hands, and arms, were most burned, the skin upon the inside of the hands, which is thicker than other parts, was peeled off and curled up in the palms of the hands. To have caused this appearance, considerable heat must have been applied. I do not think the burning of the frock and slip would have caused the injuries that I found upon the body. The greater part of the petticoat is burned, but the waistband round the back is not destroyed; nearly the whole of the back of the shift is uninjured, and does not appear to have been under the influence of fire; there are holes burned in it in different places; the shift tail is singed, and the sewing of the shift in several places has been torn; the injuries upon the back parts of the body of the deceased did not correspond with the burnt part of the shift, on the contrary, those parts of the shift which had not been under the influence of the fire covered to a large extent parts of the body which were very much burned. I do not think that the injuries of the back part of the body could have been received while the shift was on the child's body. I may here state that when I was first called, I was told by the mother that the whole of the child's clothes had been burnt off her body, which accounted to me for the body being so much burned. I fitted the shift upon the body. I examined the whole of the body very carefully. I found no external marks of injury except those from burning. When I first saw her I considered her in a dying state; she was labouring under all the symptoms of a person suffering from severe burns; these burns I have no doubt were the cause of death; there were no bruises or fractures upon the head. While I was in CROSBY's house on the Tuesday night, the mother looked round in a menacing manner and said, "Do you blame me for the child? if you do, I will put end to myself," or something to that effect. This concluded the evidence, and the Corner [sic] informed the prisener [sic] that she was at liberty to make any statement she pleased; but cautioned her it would be taken down, and might afterwards be used against her. The Prisoner then said - As to, any thing I have to say either one way or the other, certainly she was an obstinate girl; the two girls agreed very badly, the greater was the master of the little one. Sarah sometimes ran away, and I was harder on her on that account. I never knew or saw her burning until I found her. I have taken my foot and kicked them when I was in my passion. I was quite innocent of her. I was on the road when the child burnt. I left her sitting and found her burnt. When I returned I found the lower part of the bed burning; it was smouldering, the coat was worst to put out. I found the child besideways of the pump. I cannot say there was any thing upon her except her stockings when I lifted her; if there was, it fell off before I took her into the house. I cannot say how the coat was lying on the bed that night, but I generally threw the upper part of the coat to the far side of the bed, and the coat tails hung over the outside of the bed. I have nothing more to say, but I am quite innocent of the child. The Coroner then proceeded to sum up the whole facts to the Jury, pointing out with great clearness the bearing of each circumstance for and against the prisoner, and leaving them to say, after a calm and impartial consideration of all the facts, whether or not the prisoner had been guilty of the child's death. The Jury retired for about ten minutes, and on their return, gave a verdict of WILFUL MURDER against Jane CROSBY, "by forcibly holding and keeping deceased to, upon, and against a fire, whereby the deceased received divers mortal burns of which she died." The wretched woman was then committed to Carlisle Gaol for trial at the ensuing Assizes.

Saturday 15 Feb 1845 (p. 3, col. 2-4) MOST HORRIBLE MURDER. ----- We have this week the painful duty of recording one of the most frightful and unnatural murders to be found in the annals of crime-perpetrated by a mother on her own daughter, in one of the most quiet and secluded villages in Cumberland. In our last we stated that a Coroner's inquest had been held, for two days, upon a child that had been burned to death at Lamonby: that the inquest had been adjourned until Monday last: and that in the meantime the mother of the child had been sent to prison on suspicion of having caused its death, to await the verdict. The details of the case which had then reached us were so horrible in their nature-so revolting to every feeling of humanity-that we did not think we should be justified in giving them publicity until fully confirmed by the Coroner's inquisition. That confirmation is now before us, in the evidence of the witnesses examined and the verdict of the jury, and we proceed to lay the terrible details before our readers. Before giving a summary of the evidence, however, it will be necessary to state a few particulars to enable the reader to understand the case clearly. The person accused of the crime is JANE CROSBY, the wife of a labouring man, who keeps a small public-house, and is engaged during the week by a small farmer a few miles off,-returning home on the Saturday evenings to stay over the Sundays with his family, consisting of his wife and two female children. The wife appears to be between 35 and 40 years of age, of most forbidding aspect, and of a most violent and ungovernable temper. Her conduct during the investigation before the Coroner was at times exceedingly violent-her temper breaking out in the most outrageous expressions against the witnesses-particularly those who spoke of her previous ill-usage of the deceased. She is a native of Bewcastle in this county, and her maiden name was TELFORD. The husband is a quiet, inoffensive man, and respected by his neighbours. The children were of the respective ages of 7 and 9 years; and it is the younger of these which has fallen a victim to its mother's fury. Lamonby is a small village, in the parish of Skelton, in the ancient Forest of Inglewood, a few miles from Greystoke Castle. The house in which the murder was perpetrated stands fronting the public highway. It consists of a kitchen, parlour, and cellar on the ground floor, and a garret or lumber-room above. A passage divides the parlour and kitchen. The parlour is used as a bedroom. In the front of the house, and about three yards distant from the door is a pump; and on the opposite side of the road, and about 14 yards distant from the door is a stile, called "Bainbridge's Stile," and to which frequent allusion is made by the witnesses. A four-posted bed stands in the parlour, and is hung with common cotton curtains, with a valance below of the same material. The bed is made up of a straw-platted mattress, without a cover, a bed, some quilts, and an old great coat with a cape thrown over all. The upper quilt, the great coat, a woollen petticoat and a shift belonging to the deceased child, and a gown belonging to the prisoner, bore marks of having been burned by a heated poker-several of the articles having burned holes in them which exactly fitted the end of a poker found on the premises; and the probability is that these burns were made by the prisoner after she had destroyed the child, in the hope that they would give an appearance of accident to it. The cape of the great coat, which must have been lying on the opposite side of the bed to that where the fire had been applied, was also burnt; but the mattress, the bed, the valance, and the curtains were all untouched by fire. The mode in which the dreadful crime had been perpetrated, was described by the elder child to the Coroner and Jury, and to her frightful description we refer the reader. The body of the deceased, when examined by the Jury, presented a most horrible spectacle. The mouth was wide open; the tongue and inside of the mouth were black; part of the nose burned off; one eye apparently destroyed, and the other very much burned; the whole of the face nearly burned black. From the breast, shoulders, and hams, the skin was entirely burned off: the thick skin of the palms of the hands was entirely shrivelled up, as if in her struggle for life she had grasped some hot substance-probably the grate bars. Part of the skin of one of her hands was afterwards found in the ash-heap. Indeed, the whole body, with the exception of the part of the legs below the knee, on which the stockings, partly singed, still remained, and the back of the head, the hair of which was only slightly singed, was burned less or more-the hands, arms, face, and breasts having suffered most. The Jury viewed the frightful mass with feelings of horror and dismay. The inquest lasted three days, and did not close until near eleven o'clock on Monday night last. We now proceed to give a summary of the evidence,-not exactly in the order which the witnesses were examined, but arranged so as to place the facts in the clearest light before the reader. THE INQUEST. Mary CROSBY, daughter of William CROSBY, and Jane, his wife, of Lamonby, in the parish of Skelton, labourer, and landlord of the Blue Miller public-house, says-Sarah Ann CROSBY was my youngest sister. She died on the morning of last Wednesday week. She was quite well until she received the burns. On the Tuesday night previous to her death my mother was not from home. My mother went into the parlour and laid down in bed on that evening a short time after dark. My mother drank a good deal of ale that night; then she said she was poorly, and went to bed. She bolted the door before that. In about half an hour, Sarah's clothes took fire when she was sitting on the fender. Sarah ran direct into the parlour. I ran after her. My mother jumped out of bed, and threw some of the bed clothes at her, and that put the fire out. The frock and slip were then burnt off her. My mother sent for a candle. I got one, lighted it, and took it in. Sarah was then naked, except her stockings. My mother then brought her into the kitchen, and a blanket about her. My mother took the blanket off her, and then held Sarah's face over the fire, close over it. She laid her face upon it, and held it there. Sarah did not scream, she could not scream, she was past that. I am quite sure that all the burning upon the face was caused by my mother holding her upon the fire. My mother bore her up while she held her to the fire, so that her feet were off the ground. I thought Sarah was dead then. She did not speak for some time. After some time my mother sent me for Jenny HUGGAN. My mother then had her upon her knee, folded in a blanket. Sarah had not then spoken. She could not stand, and looked as if she was going to die. I opened the door to go for Jenny HUGGAN. I went and told Jenny that Sarah's brat was burned. My mother told me to say that Sarah was nearly burnt to death. I next went to BAINBRIDGE's, and told them Sarah was nearly burnt to death. I returned to my mother, and she sent me for John WILSON, the blacksmith. Neither my mother nor I ever called out for assistance. My mother told me before I went for Jenny HUGGAN that I was not to tell how it happened, and that I was to say she had been at Skelton. My mother told me to say that Sarah was lying beside James BAINBRIDGE's with her clothes burnt off, and that she found her there when she returned from Skelton. On the day that Sarah was burned I was away at George HOPE's, of Woodend. I came back about four o'clock. Sarah was running up the road away from home. My mother was standing at the blackmith's corner, calling to the people to stop her. The wound upon my head was caused by my mother striking me with the poker. I saw my mother ram the great poker through father's coat slieve in the parlour. This was after Sarah was burnt. The bed was never on fire. The remains of the shift and petticoat now produced are those worn by Sarah that night. The small torn blanket is that which Sarah was folded in. The large blanket and quilt were upon the bed. It was before I went out that my mother put the poker through the coat. The gown produced is that which my mother wore that night. The pokers produced were in my mother's house that night. John WILSON, of Lamonby, blacksmith, says, I am nearest neighbour to CROSBY. My dwelling-house is above my shop. The door of my house looks upon CROSBY's front. The distance between the houses is about forty yards. On Tuesday, the day on which deceased was burnt, I saw deceased leave her mothers house, and run up street as if she was wishing to escape. Her mother was following her a short way behind, and calling her to come back. She did not come back. I looked out from time to time and saw the girl sitting behind the walls, and she gradually came nearer home. About five o'clock, I took her back to her mother's house. I saw her mother. Shen was not then sober. She was not very violent at that time. I told her she was not to ill-use her child, and she said she would not. I left home about six o'clock the same evening, and returned about nine. I went up the road, and stood between their house and our's a few minutes, listening whether there was any noise in CROSBY's house. It was a frosty calm evening, there was little or no wind: all was then silent in CROSBY's house. I was not in a position to see whether there was any light, or whether the door was shut or open. I then went into my own house and to bed, and about ten minutes before ten the same evening, I was called up by Mary CROSBY, who said her sister Sarah was burnt. I asked her what they had been doing, and where her mother was. She answered her mother had been at Skelton. I got up and dressed as quick as possible, and went direct to the house, where I found Jane CROSBY sitting by the kitchen fire, with Sarah upon her knee folded in a blanket. The child was quite naked except its stockings; to the best of my belief, it was rather crying. I said to the mother, what in all goodness have you been doing to the child. She said I might see the child, it was much burnt. She said she was coming up the road from Skelton, a village two miles distant, when she found the child near Bainbridge's Stile, and no one would put it out. I laid the blanket from off the child, and observed that its face, breast, and arms were very much burnt. The parts were then red. I asked her if she would wish to have a doctor, and she said she would. I then went for assistance. I did not then observe any smoke in the house; there might or might not. I was much agitated. I returned in about an hour; the appearance of the burns was then very much altered,-they had become black. The first time I was in the child did not speak, when I returned it spoke and asked for water. Some water was given it. Two or three women had arrived by this time. The mother asked deceased who had set it on fire and how. I saw the child was in great agony, and told her to desist, and she did so. When I first saw her with the child on her knee she certainly was not sober. I remained in the house until the child died, between two and three o'clock the following morning. During the night I heard her say to some of the people in the house, that when she was at the Mill-houses, on her return home, she smelled burning. Mill-house is distant from her house four fields, about 300 yards, and on the road from Skelton. She said she then ran home, and when she came to the house it was very smoky, and that she could not find the child until it spoke to her,-that it spoke from near Bainbridge's Stile, and said, "Mother, my clothes are nearly burnt off," and that she found it lying there. Another part of the evening, I heard her say she could not find it until she stramped upon it. On hearing this, some one asked her if she found it in the house, and she answered, "No, it was out of doors." She talked a great deal about the bed being on fire. About a month ago, on a Saturday night, in conquence of some information from Thomas ROPER, I went to CROSBY's house. The house was dark, the fire was darkish. The deceased and her mother were both crying. The child was screaming very much. I asked her what she was doing to the child to make it scream. She said she was doing nothing, it had been frightened the night before. She had the child lying across her knee upon its back, and was leaning over it. I raised the mother up, and said to the child, "Come with me, she shall not hurt you"-the child clung to its mother. When she asked the child who had set it on fire, she spoke in a loud and violent tone of voice. John WILSON re-examined, says, when I first went into CROSBY's house on Tuesday night, the fire in the kitchen grate was a good one. Ann WILSON, wife of John WILSON, blacksmith-On the night of the burning, I followed my husband to CROSBY's house in about ten minutes. Jane CROSBY was in her ordinary indoor dress. The first thing said to me was-"Oh, Ann, this is a bad job." I said "It is." She said she had gone to Skelton for some butter and provision for the house-they had had none for three days. In the course of the night she said she had got as far as the Limekilns when something came over her, she did not know what, she turned back and found the smell of burning. The Limekilns are about three quarters of a mile distant, and about half a mile beyond Millhouses. She said when she got back she could not find the child. That she then went out and shouted Sarah, and Sarah answered all her clothes were burnt off her. Jane said she found Sarah beside the Stile, with no clothing upon her, and quite naked. I then went into the parlour and found little Mary working on with the bed-clothes. She was putting fresh clothes upon the bed, and the burnt things were lying on the floor. A small piece of the child's petticoat was lying on the floor burnt. Jane said the bed-clothes had been on fire. There was a strong smell of burning. The burnt clothes were in the passage. Jane said these are the burnt things lying in the passage. I saw her during the afternoon. She was drunk. When in this state she was always in a crazy way with herself. I have often seen her beat the child. I have seen her lift it by the hair of the head and dash it down upon the ground. Jane said the burning took place about eight o'clock at night; but Mary would not go and tell the neighbours. On the same afternoon I saw the child running from her house and screaming. She followed it out at the door and wanted it to go in again. I was at home the whole of that evening. I was not out after seven until I went to CROSBY's house. Our outer door opens nto [sic] our sitting room. I heard no noise, neither did I feel the mell [sic] of burning. William SWINBURN, of Lamonby, innkeeper, says-I was called by John WILSON, on the Tuesday night, about ten o'clock. After I went into CROSBY's house, I asked Jane how it happened that it was burnt, and there was no alarm. She said she did not know. She was at Skelton, and when she got home the little lass shouted, "Mother, all my clothes is burnt off, and nobody would put her out." She said she found her lying beside Bainbridge's Stile. I left and went for Jane HUGGAN. A fall of snow had just fallen-it was then snowing. I went to examine the ground near the Stile, but could not find any traces of any person lying there, or of burning. She told me all the clothes were off it when she found it. On the following day I had a conversation with the mother. She said she was going down to Ellonby, and she got to the Limekilns and she found a smell of burning, or something struck her suddenly. She turned and came home and found the house full of smoke, and then she went out to the door and trampled on the child.

Saturday 15 Feb 1845 (p. 2, col. 8) A GRETNA GREEN MARRIAGE.-Windsor, Friday.-Yesterday morning, John BARRON, 19 years of age, a private in the regiment of Royal Horse Guards, (Blue,) stationed at Windsor, was charged by the parish officers, before Thomas CLARKE, Esq., (mayor,) and Robert TIBBOTT, Esq., with having deserted his wife, who had, since the 16th of last month, become chargeable to the parish of New Windsor. The defendant, accompanied by the corporal-major of his troop, stated, at the outset of the proceedings, that the marriage, which took place at Gretna Green, was not a legal marriage, and that the female, therefore, was no wife of his. The wife replied, that they were married at a public-house at Gretna Green, upwards of two years' ago; that, as her husband was a Catholic, he had spoken to a priest on the subject, who told him he could not be better married, and that no man on earth could part them. Mary Ann BARRON (the wife) was then sworn. She stated that she was married to the defendant, at Gretna Green, in September, 1842, by a publican named Thomas LITTLE, and that the ceremony was precisely the same as she had seen it performed in England by a regular clergyman, neither more nor less. Mr. TURPIN, the vestry clerk, proved that the wife of the defendant had been in the weekly receipt of three shillings and two loaves of bread, since the 16th of last month, and put in the marriage certificate, which he had obtained from the "officiating minister," the publican, Thos. LITTLE, of Gretna Green. The certificate, which was a printed form, on half a sheet of letter paper, the blanks filled up with names, places, and dates, in written hieroglyphics, (not very easily to be deciphered, and the words curiously spelt,) ran as follows. The "written introductions" we have printed in italics:- "Kingdom Scotland, county of Dumfries, parish of Gretna. "These are to certify to all whom they may concern; that John BARRAN from the parish of Nuestal, in the county of Durham, and Mary Ann MABORN from the parish of Haton, in the county of Cumberland, being now both here present, and having declared to me that they are single persons, have now been married after the manner of the laws of the church of England, and agreeably to the laws of Scotland. As witness our hands at Gretna, this day of September, 27, 1842. "JOHN BARRON, "MARY ANN MEABORN. Witnesses { "Wellem IRVING, { "Jane LITTLE. "Thomas LITTLE." The certificate was surmounted with a wood-cut of the Bible and Crown. Mr. LONG, the magistrate's clerk, said, that according to the laws of Scotland, the marriage was legal. The defendant observed, that he never considered her to be his wife. She had lived with him, it was true, but not as wife; the marriage was an illegal one, and he had made up his mind, after having taken good advice, not to enter into any arrangement at all. The Mayor: Why, you have lived together as man and wife for a period of two years; and as far as we can judge, you were legally married according to the laws of Scotland. The further hearing was adjourned till Monday next, in order, in the meantime, to obtain an opinion as to the legality of the Gretna Green marriage.

Saturday 15 Feb 1845 (p. 2, col. 7-8) DEATH OF THE REV. JOHN DOBIE, OF THE UNITED SECESSION CHURCH.-It is with much regret that we record the death of this talented, energetic, and highly-esteemed minister of the Gospel, which took place at Langholm, on the 6th instant. For some years past, Mr. DOBIE has been in a declining state of health; but, notwithstanding the progress of the malady which has terminated in his death, he continued to devote himself, with his wonted diligence and faithfulness, to the discharge of his ministerial duties; though in a state of extreme weakness, he preached to his congregation on the Sabbath immediately preceding his death, both in the forenoon and evening. At the close of the evening service, which proved to be his last public ministration, he was borne home much exhausted, and in less than four days he died. Mr. DOBIE, for upwards of 23 years, discharged the duties of a faithful and devoted minister of the Gospel. FATAL ACCIDENT.-It falls to our lot again to record another dreadful and fatal accident upon the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, at Hangbridge, near Milnthorpe, on Thursday afternoon. The unfortunate person is named Robert WILLIS, a small farmer living at Hale, near Beetham. From what we are able to learn, it would seem that, while he was working on the line with a young spirited horse belonging to himself, the animal took fright at something on the line, while drawing two empty waggons, and he riding on the waggon at the time, leapt off to catch hold of the horse, when he fell under the waggon, and the wheels passed over his head, which nearly severed it from his body. Medical aid was immediately sent for from Milnthorpe, but he breathed his last before the surgeon arrived. He has left a wife and four small children to deplore his untimely end. No blame is attached to any of the labourers.-Kendal Mercury. SUICIDE AT DARLINGTON.-On the afternoon of Tuesday last, Thomas Moor WINTER, one of the ticket-clerks in the service of the Stockton and Darlington Railway Company, put a period to his existence, by shooting himself in the head, in the water-closet, at the Darlington station. An inquest was held before W. TROTTER, Esq., at the railway station, on Wednesday the fifth instant, when a verdict of suicide when under temporary insanity was returned. BROUGH.-On Monday last, a serious accident occurred to Mr. Joseph TALLENTIRE, innkeeper, Brough, from the bursting of a gun. It appears that Mr. TALLENTIRE, along with another person, was practising shooting at a white, and, in firing, the gun barrel burst, and shattered his arm in such a dreadful manner as to leave but faint hopes that it will not ultimately have to be amputated. The gun was a double-barrelled one, and it is supposed that the unfortunate man had in mistake put two charges into one barrel. It is a matter of surprise that greater caution is not exercised in the using of guns, as accidents resulting from them are of such frequent occurrence.

Yes, it is stuff like this, "picturesque," that brings the genealogy and lives of these people from long ago to life, like the beautifully filmed scenes in Roman Polanski's "Tess D'Uberville." Thanks, again. Joan Gibson, Maine, USA ---------- Original Message ---------- From: "Barb Ontario Canada" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: [ENG-WESTMORLAND] PENRITH HERALD, JUNE 20, 1874 / THE PUBLISHER'S STATEMENT Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 22:41:43 -0400 Hello Joan: I couldn't pass up the poem !! so picturesque. Glad you enjoyed reading it. B. <<<<-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 9:11 PM>>>>> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ____________________________________________________________ Fast-Growing Industry A New Player In The Booming Bottled Water Market. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/533d6e461fe436e457616st02vuc

Barb, Thank you so much for this. I have ancestors in Mallerstang somewhat earlier than the likely date of this poem being written but I can't imagine that weddings would be very different in the late 1700s and her words are so evocative of the scene. She must have been very well educated and I like her sentiments regarding the wording of the marriage vows - an early women's libber! And I didn't know that Mallerstang was pronounced "Mostyn"! I wonder if it still is? Kay Jackson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barb Ontario Canada" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 11:37 PM Subject: [ENG-WESTMORLAND] PENRITH HERALD, JUNE 20, 1874 / POEM / > POEM. > > A MALLERSTANG WEDDING FIFTY YEARS AGO. > > The following lines, descriptive of a Mallerstang wedding in former times, > were written by an old lady, still living, some fifty years ago or > upwards.... > ______________________________________________________________ > > My muse seems half inclined, unasked, unbidden, > To sing a Mallerstang (or Mostyn) wedding; > And should I let her give her whim full scope, > The folks in Mallerstang would not, I hope, > Pronounce me a censorious meddling fool, > And treat my simple song with ridicule; > For sure I would not willingly offend ‘em; > I’d sooner burn those lines when I have pen’ed ‘em. > Soon as a couple have agreed to wed, > Straightway a friendly messenger is sped > To bid their friends and neighbours far and wide > To come and see the Gordian-knot fast tied, > And taste the cheer which weddingers provide. > Then, early on the long-expected morn, > The youthful couple do themselves adorn > In gay apparel, and the Scripture says > They did the same in patriarchal days. > Anon, their friends arrive with blithesome faces, > Nor have they left at home their smartest dresses, > For snowy robes adorn each blooming fair, > And curls and feathers flutter in the air: > Wide contrast to the nags on which they ride, > Which, by the bye, shew very little pride. > In their long flowing manes you may behold > How many years it is since they were pol’d; > Indeed, from heat to tail, they’re clothed in hair, > Almost as shaggy as a Greenland bear. > But though this is the meagre plight of most, > Some others may some share of beauty boast; > It would be wrong to rob them of their merit, > And say that no one rides a tit of spirit. > Some ride their own; some borrow one, of course; > No matter how, – each guest must have a horse ! > Being all arrived, and everything agreed, > To Church, pell-mell, they gallop off full speed. > The few on mettled steed outstrip the wind---- > Those on a tardy jagger lag behind; > Yet these, unwilling to be distanced quite, > Apply the whip and spur with all their might. > The foremost few look back with scornful leer, > While shouts and peals of laughter rend the air. > O’er hill and dale, through thick and thin, they drive > Until at Kirkbystephen they arrive; > Then down the street, with clattering noise and din, > They bend their courses to some well-known inn, > Where they dismount and cheerfully regale > Themselves with wine, or punch, or nut-brown ale. > And then to Hymen’s shrine they all repair, > While on all sides the people gaze and stare, > And every quizzing looker-on expresses > Their thoughts about their persons or their dresses. > With open book, the priest officious stands, > Ready to bind the matrimonial bands, > And hear them plight their faith and pledge their vows > Of mutual love, till death those bonds shall loose. > There Hymen rivets on those sacred fetters > Which binds alike the clown and man of letters > To nourish, cherish, and support his wife > Through all the strange vicissitudes of life; > Which binds each married woman to obey > And yield, submissive, to her husband’s sway..... > A clause methinks too rigid and severe, > Unless all husbands men of feeling were. > ‘Twould be no hardship to obey a man > Who exercised his sway by wisdom’s plan; > But to be subjugated by this rule > To “honour and obey” a silly fool > Is more than mortal woman can endure; > Or e’er fulfill with promptitude, I’m sure...... > But stay -----‘tis quite impolitic, I grant, > For me on this subject to descant; > For if these lines by man should e’er be read, > It will, no doubt, with irony, be said, > “This logic was composed by an Old Maid.” > So from such criticism I’ll refrain, > And to the happy pair return again. > > They leave the Church, and, smiling, bend their courses > Unto the ale-house, where they left their horses. > The blushing bride and bridegroom lead the van; > Next follow the brides-maid, and bridegroom’s man, > While friends and neighbours follow in the rear, > Each lover whispering in his lassie’s ear. > Some lead their sweethearts leaning on their arm, > And in the modern custom see no harm, > While other swains prefer the ancient taste, > And throws one arm around his dearie’s waist. > > Again they push the sparkling goblet round > Or briskly foot it to the violin’s sound, > Or spend an hour in all that jovial mirth > To which a Mostyn-wedding still gives birth. > At length, they think of home, and well they may, > For while the party here carousing stay, > The marriage feast is oft completely spoil’d..... > The roast is pine’d.....the pudding’s too much boil’d. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Barb, Ontario, Canada. > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2014.0.4355 / Virus Database: 3722/7290 - Release Date: 04/02/14 >

Really interesting and for info the Jagger referred to was a pack horse like the Dales pony breed. There is a well known packhorse route called Jagger's Way. Sent from my iPhone > On 2 Apr 2014, at 23:37, "Barb Ontario Canada" <[email protected]> wrote: > > POEM. > > A MALLERSTANG WEDDING FIFTY YEARS AGO. > > The following lines, descriptive of a Mallerstang wedding in former times, > were written by an old lady, still living, some fifty years ago or > upwards.... > ______________________________________________________________ > > My muse seems half inclined, unasked, unbidden, > To sing a Mallerstang (or Mostyn) wedding; > And should I let her give her whim full scope, > The folks in Mallerstang would not, I hope, > Pronounce me a censorious meddling fool, > And treat my simple song with ridicule; > For sure I would not willingly offend ‘em; > I’d sooner burn those lines when I have pen’ed ‘em. > Soon as a couple have agreed to wed, > Straightway a friendly messenger is sped > To bid their friends and neighbours far and wide > To come and see the Gordian-knot fast tied, > And taste the cheer which weddingers provide. > Then, early on the long-expected morn, > The youthful couple do themselves adorn > In gay apparel, and the Scripture says > They did the same in patriarchal days. > Anon, their friends arrive with blithesome faces, > Nor have they left at home their smartest dresses, > For snowy robes adorn each blooming fair, > And curls and feathers flutter in the air: > Wide contrast to the nags on which they ride, > Which, by the bye, shew very little pride. > In their long flowing manes you may behold > How many years it is since they were pol’d; > Indeed, from heat to tail, they’re clothed in hair, > Almost as shaggy as a Greenland bear. > But though this is the meagre plight of most, > Some others may some share of beauty boast; > It would be wrong to rob them of their merit, > And say that no one rides a tit of spirit. > Some ride their own; some borrow one, of course; > No matter how, – each guest must have a horse ! > Being all arrived, and everything agreed, > To Church, pell-mell, they gallop off full speed. > The few on mettled steed outstrip the wind---- > Those on a tardy jagger lag behind; > Yet these, unwilling to be distanced quite, > Apply the whip and spur with all their might. > The foremost few look back with scornful leer, > While shouts and peals of laughter rend the air. > O’er hill and dale, through thick and thin, they drive > Until at Kirkbystephen they arrive; > Then down the street, with clattering noise and din, > They bend their courses to some well-known inn, > Where they dismount and cheerfully regale > Themselves with wine, or punch, or nut-brown ale. > And then to Hymen’s shrine they all repair, > While on all sides the people gaze and stare, > And every quizzing looker-on expresses > Their thoughts about their persons or their dresses. > With open book, the priest officious stands, > Ready to bind the matrimonial bands, > And hear them plight their faith and pledge their vows > Of mutual love, till death those bonds shall loose. > There Hymen rivets on those sacred fetters > Which binds alike the clown and man of letters > To nourish, cherish, and support his wife > Through all the strange vicissitudes of life; > Which binds each married woman to obey > And yield, submissive, to her husband’s sway..... > A clause methinks too rigid and severe, > Unless all husbands men of feeling were. > ‘Twould be no hardship to obey a man > Who exercised his sway by wisdom’s plan; > But to be subjugated by this rule > To “honour and obey” a silly fool > Is more than mortal woman can endure; > Or e’er fulfill with promptitude, I’m sure...... > But stay -----‘tis quite impolitic, I grant, > For me on this subject to descant; > For if these lines by man should e’er be read, > It will, no doubt, with irony, be said, > “This logic was composed by an Old Maid.” > So from such criticism I’ll refrain, > And to the happy pair return again. > > They leave the Church, and, smiling, bend their courses > Unto the ale-house, where they left their horses. > The blushing bride and bridegroom lead the van; > Next follow the brides-maid, and bridegroom’s man, > While friends and neighbours follow in the rear, > Each lover whispering in his lassie’s ear. > Some lead their sweethearts leaning on their arm, > And in the modern custom see no harm, > While other swains prefer the ancient taste, > And throws one arm around his dearie’s waist. > > Again they push the sparkling goblet round > Or briskly foot it to the violin’s sound, > Or spend an hour in all that jovial mirth > To which a Mostyn-wedding still gives birth. > At length, they think of home, and well they may, > For while the party here carousing stay, > The marriage feast is oft completely spoil’d..... > The roast is pine’d.....the pudding’s too much boil’d. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Barb, Ontario, Canada. > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Ah ! I never thought of (Mostyn) being the pronounciation for Mallerstang ! Thanks Kay, for this. Barb, Ontario, Canada. <<<<<-----Original Message----- From: K and J Jackson>>>>>>

Thanks for that info, Jane ! I wondered, also, about (Mostyn); what I can find is it probably indicates a location in Westmorland, as there is a Mostyn Hall Bed and Breakfast advertised. Barb, Ontario, Canada. <<<<<-----Original Message----- From: Jane Houghton>>>>>>