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weanesday, Mar 12 THE TEESDALE MERCURY. Wednesday, March 18th, 1931 ONSER V ATWE Winston.-F. S. Ileadon, T. Smith, G. H. DISTRICT COUNCIL ELECTIONS. Miller; J . W. Richardson, G. W. Smith, E Watson, -F. Richardson. YOUR EYES BARNARD CAS \\oodlan1.-J. R. Blackett, II. Crawford, J. DESERVE THE BEST ! LAND CONTESTS IN SEVERAL TOWNSHIPS. !toper, J. Tarn, T. Wallace, J. W. Waller, II. T. Waller. It ie easy enough to buy glasses-in fact, all too easy ca,,,,,,,,H Newbiggin.-W. R. Coatsworth, R. -Goggins, to get unsuitable ones. No sensible person would ,:),,tliaativetivcei:seicari.enaeneogrsd wintry Nominations for election to Urban and willingly risk his eyesight. teatduPieelraadeildasdt.nmee collinson, W. Gibson, W. Nixon, J. G. eredelhed.terhoTeaia Rural District Councils were received on Robinson, J. \V. •earmouth. ndt‘sh te Thursday, and it will he seen from the Decide to have the best by consulting t Marwood.-Elected: S. Allison, \V. Anton, CHjaoosanurtIllenseLaDiv list of persons nominated below that there .1. Chilton, A. Robinson, R. J. Stubbs, •\V. F.S.M.C., F.B.O.A., (Hons.), are many contests. Stuildart. \V. T. Wilson. Not elected : J. J. A. WEBSTER, H. Porter. OPHTHALMIC OPTICIAN, Barnard Castle Urban Council. Cocktield.The following were nominated The ordinary number of vacancies on the for Cockfield Parish Council at the meet- 145, NORTHGATE, DARLINGTON, f03=dzat!.. men's Barnard Castle Urban Council was in- ing on Tuesday: J.. Cowley, T. W. Dent, G. W. Dickenson, Theophilus Dixon, A. d Pease, Seta creased by one through the resignatiOn of also at 35, Market Place, BARNARD CASTLE clau Gargett, W. Gray, 1'. Hall, S. Heslop, G. (2 Doors below Boots, Chemists), Every Wednesday at 10-30 a.m. to 4-15 p.m. p:dBbeyll,LseorderBetaar Mr A. H. Taylor after one year of service. Linsley, E.. Marshall, \V. Morrell, T. SPECTACLES AND REPAIRS AT MODERATE CHARGES. There will therefore be five members to be Nodding, F. Nodding, A. Sams, T. Stevens, in the course of elected, but the fifth will hold his seat for 1'. Slither, J. Wallace, L. Wetherell. There - are eighteen nominations for nine seats. two years only. Mr J. Ingram DaWson, ::1: Clerk to the Council and returning officer, 1803. February 28th.. William Soulby E;liooleeartrlituele:drh' rei tnWoflea:sowrt1ba es 1 lrobe lamnints' elch tlmedhs jnoe: received the following nominations : W. YESTERDAY'S WITHDRAWALS. SOME CURIOUS OLD PAROCHIAL February 28th), Whorlton, mason, x‘ Id_ high tribute to th Ascough, T. K. Bell, E. W. Boxall, A. Apart from the ['Hiatt •District of Barnard ower, aged 54. Killed by the fall of thi omen' s Douglass, J. C. Heslop, E. R. Hanby Holmes, REGISTERS. he that Castle there was a surprising lack of with- gable end of a house at.Barningh ol i • T. H. Hunter, G. L. Jones, T. M. Metcalfe, drawals of candidates yesterday.' where he was working. (N.B.-He we T ; atmosidt s • F. J. Nevison, •. Peacock, V. Walton, C. F. - At Barnard Castle Messrs Bell, Douglass, [BY THE REV. A. W. M. CLOSE.] an inoffensive, honest man.) 3;isillatedactobinnoereecdtthiotehr:Tr Woodhams. Jones, Metcalfe, Peacock, and Woodhams 1811. September 12th. Mary Richardso withdrew, leaving seven candidates for the In an article published in the Teesdale s attended 250 'main Barnard Castle Rural. (died September 11th), Whorlton, widow live seats. Mercity last January, entitled "The Toll with of William Richardson, labourer, aged; Mr T. W. Bainbridge, Clerk and return- In the Barnard Castle Rural District the of the Tees," the writer remarked on the % hanked very cor e nd She was born at Spital House, Bowes, a t ing officer, received the following nomina- only withdrawal was that of Mr Auton at difference between the entries in the •endeLraerd assistance. was, as I have heard her say, the natural tions on Thursday : Mat wood, where 'there are still three candi- ancie t and modern parish registers; how daughter of a Joseph Curtis, a tradesmas Lord Barnard Cleatlam-(1) Harry Dent, •Thoirms G. dates for the two seats. that iany more details are often given in s in Kendal. Her mother's name, if she told rd, wBahlillchaThdemsao. Robinson. In the Start forth Rural District the the fi •ner than the latter. Such details at relp,00rt me, I have forgot, but was married to 1, Cockfield (6)-F. W. Buttle, •G. W. Dickin- only withdrawal was that of Mr Pickers- times prove of great service in tracing person afterwards and dwelt at Caldwell. . atisfactory. Altho son, Theophilus Dixon, Alfred Gargett, gill at Bowes, where there are still five events that have happened parochially, or • Thomas Hall, •Simpson Heslop, Watson candidates for the three seats. -Whorlton Registers. .-cogneirireastiovfelyactivin u t in compiling local history. The different Morrell, Frederick Nodding, Thomas It will be noticed that in most of these Nodding, Thomas Robson, •Alfred Sams, Thirteen Contests. entries of drowning cases were given to entries facts are given, which had the alive, and there w. • Joseph B. Simpson, •Thomas Sunter. in the Rural Districts there will be prove the point. nisattoio deaths occurred subsequent to 1813, when the tliaast‘N theessoerngtiaal Eggleston (3)-•Robert Neesham, •Joseph contests as follows : Appended are a few others collected from present style of Register Books came into Parmley, Ernest Thompson, •John Wesley Startforth Rural-Bowes, Cotherstone, _going,.however sm Dalkire different sources, which make interesting use, would have been Holwick, Mickleton. unrecorded and less the circumsta reading. Hundreds of such abound in passed into oblivion. Forest and Frith (3)-•C. W. L. Robson, Barnard Castle Rural-Cleatlam, Cockfield, eferred with satisf • Thomas Teward, •John Watson. local registers, which could, only be Eggleston, Middleton, Staindrop, Marwood, A. W. M. CLOSE. ilgent, Mr H. P. B Gainford (3)-•E. C. Adamson, •F. W. brought to light by a careful search through Woodland. remained for the r. Beadon, •J. R. Deacon. theSe books, a task which would not be Stanhope Road, Darlington. Parish Councils-Cockfield, Staindrop. do their duty i difficult to undertake. Some of these entries t o Hilton (1)-•John Townson. (To be continued.) o achieve success Langton (1)-•Isaac C. Bainbridge. are very short, others give a fuller account was afraid there w Marwood (2)-S. Allison, •William Anton, PRIORY YARD DEMOLITION. of thre whose burials they record, the real Conservatives COTHERSTONE WESLEY GUILD. • • William Sowerby, W. Stoddart. differ ce being accounted for by the !link that they ne Middleton-in-Teesdale (5)-G. W. Cameron, INTERESTING DISCOVERIES. tempe anent of the parish clerg,..men of nor do anything i • T. Collinson, J. W. Dent, Alexander the t who made such entries. The '1'1le Cotherstone Wesley Guild was a fort There were some, McDonald, •Joseph Morton, . John W. Bapti al and Marriage Registers usually night ago addressed by the Rev. C. F. Robinson, R. J. Smith, •James Watson. Interesting discoveries have been made Brend on the very interesting subject, "Dr. hought they need contain fewer outside details, and are con- they expect to win t Newbiggin (2)-•William Gibson, •William during the demolition of a portion of a Jekyl and Mr Hyde." In this address the Nixon. house in Priory Yard, Barnard Castle, sequently of less interest to the reader than reverend gentleman very vividly portrayed -people among then our animal instincts and asked the young st Party was al Raby and Keverstone (1)-•H.• L. Fife. which since its condemnation about a year those which record burials. Here are people especially to take Jesus Christ ta, ickly populated a ago as unfit for human habitation has copies of some old entries : Staindrop (4)-•John J. S. Clark, •F. R. conquer these instincts. Mr Kipling was ivies were general Jackson, •G. Lowson, J. A. Preston, T. W. remained derelict. Mr G. W. Addison, who 1762. A saylor. the chairman and the music was supplied 0.atttehreemd districts,, s w Richardson, •Joseph Thompson. has the demolition in hand, is removing 1771. A superannuated soldier. by the male voice trio. r take• p Streatlam and Stainton (1)-•R. S. Calvert. Last Wednesday evening Mr J. H. the first floor, the intention being to retain 1771. A travelling person. Armory lectured on " A visit to Norway.' r vote at elections. Wackerfield (1)-Jonathan Burrell. for the present the ground floor with its -Cockfield Registers Mr Armory said that this was his firs conservative polic Whorlton (1)-•George A. Alcock. old ecclesiastical windows looking into the 1798. June 2nd. John Dent, killed in single attempt to speak or lecture at a religious duty to put them meeting. He held his audience spell-bound Winston (1)-•J. H. Miller, •G. W. Smith. yard. One cannot but be struck by the combat. Holwick. whilst he painted the lovely picture of h lenience rather t Woodland (3)-John R. Blackett, •John sound condition of the roof beams, which 1801. uly 19th. Joseph Tinkler, aged 44, short tour. Mr Brotherton, Bishop Auck- grouse and let the Hall. •J. Tarn, •Robert T. Waller. are of oak' and as sound as they were when supp sed to have murdered William land, in whose car Mr Armory came, "if we believe, as There were no nominations for the the Priory was erected in the Twelfth Robi son, Holwick. supplied the music by Greig, the Norwegian 16t.-rvative policy is Century. They are held together by seven- [Not -William Robinson of Hungary, composer, on his gramophone. Mr Ling. icuiiiii.In out of its parishes of Headlam, Ingleton, Langleydale ford occupied the chair. and Shotton, Morton Tinmouth, and West- inch nails which were no doubt made by near olwick Fell, Upper Teesdale, was duty to work for th concluded Lord B. wick, where the retiring councillors are a local "naylor" of that far-off time. Until murdeed on April 9th, 1794. His murderer NEr A. M. Fletche deemed to have been re-elected. recent years there was, of course, in busi- was never discovered.] A memorial to war pigeons was unveiled ness in Barnard Castle a "naylor" named 1801. May 18th. Ann wife of William in Brussels in the presence of Prince Leopold of the report, whit Startforth Rural Council. and Burgomaster Max. The financial s Watson, but his business, like many.others, Dent, als (alias) Kettlepot Willy. Lune. s, tired by Mr Bell Colonel H. C. Watson, Clerk and returning has vanished with the advent of machinery. 1806. October 18th. John Bastin, aged 47, trIlroepsoidseani t, of MrL officer, received the following nominations The beams referred to are remarkably well killed by falling down Mill Hill Scar, the on Thursday : cut, and the joiner's mark in the form of a 15th 1 instant coming from market. officers of the as Barfo•th (1)-W. Cowling. "V" is clearly cut on each beam. The Cotherstone Mill, walls on the Yard side of the building are Barningham (1)-•Sir Frederick Milbank, 1807. November 28th. John Alderson, aged altii r :ess se rrE B. C. .Dw o want si eo: Bart. in places thirty-four inches thick, and they 70, l'st in the snow while looking after ei lairinan, Mr Cla Boldron (1)-•M. S. Welsh. were evidently built to remain a long time. his s eep, the 20th instant. Woodicroft. ! Davison Bowes ($)-•J. W. Alderson, R. L. Close, The exact date of the building of the Priory 1810. nuary 23rd. William Raine, rtiOCX titr 'nsThornton,hiaonui tdr nautt ipnvonieeo,asns iesn, tt od V. E. Gatenby, •J. T. Hardy, M. Hastings, is not known, and there are very few refer- aged 02. Mickleton. W. J. Pickersgill. ences to it by local historians. Fordyce, 1811. August 26th. Thomas Kidd and Jane Brigtmi (1)-J. W. Errington. who wrote of Barnard Castle in his history his wife killed by the fall of the New treasurer, Mi' Cotherstone (3)-J. H. Armory, C. Chipchase, of Durham County in the 'fifties of the last Bridt at Step Ends. Mickleton. R. W. Dent, R. Forster, J. W. Hodgson, century, says, apparently of the Priory, 1813. James Iceton, •J. W. Kipling. ay 31st. Ann Pattinson, spinster, " An old building formerly stood on the killedi by a fall from a horse near the Egglestone Abbey- (1)-•G. Young. lit other side of the street [the Bank, which he . Hall, !Bowbank, aged 27. Cit : v -nnoht ehei ry ne eahdI e1H a Gilmonby (1)-•T. Bayles. Battery associated with Thorngate], conjectured by -Romaldkirk Registers. °I the work of Holwick (1)-G. W. Bell, .1. harder Hutchinson to have been a house of Friars . 1676. August 20th. Margaret, wife of Peter Htindertliwaite (2)-G. J. Walker, •H. E. Emerites, of the Order of St. Austin, who Robinson, of Nether Coniscliffe, whose t Coulthard. he vgfalesiicod elhotrntfieor is obtained leave of Archbishop Neville, in the eyes, being blinded, God Almighty opened in th is Hutton (1)-•T. W. Garth. vacancy of the Bishopric of Durham, to a year before her death. Glory to God in Lunedale (2)-•J. Brown, \V. Langstaff. boil,] a priory and chapel, upon ground the highest. ort of the for the work- so Mickleton (3)-*T. Addison. T. Burn, W. given by Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of - Coniscliffe Register. , months, an Did- (High Green), J. Kelsall, •J. G. Warwick. On a mullioned bow window in Walton. [Note.-The writer thinks that these words leis the front was inscribed, " Soli Deo honor refer to the woman's spiritual condition, Oviegton (1)-•W. S. Thoburn. et Gloria." The back buildings formed' a and not to any physical defect in her eye- llokeby (1)-W. Armstrong,. they had square, in the style usual in religious sight-a case of conversion.] etyhCouncil w h. el' Romitldkirk (1)-•R. Walton. establishments. Some years ago the front 1585. A straunger slayne at Pearsbrigg Scargill• (1)-•James Peacock. of the house was used as a chapel by with the fall of a wall, 31st October, 1585. Startforth (2)-J.• Audas, T.• B. Heslop. Dissenters. It is now nearly all re-built, 1587. A straunger dying in Mr Scroope's l `ttty in the Wycliffe and Thorpe (1)-•J. G. Harris. a small pointed arch only remaining of the ground., 10th August, 1587. ,d . spite the vision There were no nominations for Hope or original structure, and the inscription has 1599. One Nicholas, a wandering souldier, been built up in the interior wall." No Lartington, of which the retiring members died at Gainford, August 1599. •i,ay ers are deemed re-elected. • doubt the structure has undergone further 1704. Coffee, Caesar, Barford, Forcet Parish, alteration since Fordyce wrote, and very Co.. York., 21st October, 1704. Burd. In all cases retiring members are indi- risen icated by an asterick (•). few strangers are aware that through:the Gainford. We stock all types and voltages passage leading from a comparatively - Gainford Registers. =id Pere the l nahuneoyti modern building are the remains of one of 1780. February 28th. Malley, d. of William All Wireless Dealers and Garages. coo PARISH COUNCILS. the oldest buildings in Barnard Castle. and Mary Gibbon, in the Small Pox. lectiTssult Of th 1801. March 22nd. Elizabeth, d. of Ralph while i The folio% lug have been elected parish H. TURNER, affo OOD PRINTING is the CHEAPEST. and Jane Roantree, Small Pox. rded n ]councils in addition to those published in o:. G Good ink, good paper, good taste, 1801. January 12th. Geo. Dowson (died WIRELESS ENGINEER. me the Teesdale Mercury last week: artistic display, and punctuality in. the generally January 9th), Whorlton, labourer, killed 7, Market Place, tle;, the situa Ingleton.-I. C. Bainbridge, J. C. Bainbridge, execution of orders can be relied on at to even tak J. J. Bradberry, R. C. Horner, Joseph the TEESDALE MERCURY PRINTING WORKS, by falling dawn the Tees banks near the Barnard Castie. Porter, G. W. Thornton, A. A: Wade. BARNARD CASTLE. Tel. 45. Low Barn house.