* Maud, SD George Robinson, S. B; George Syall, SB; Ayres, of the Sunderland Post office; Mr. W. S. Ayres, Egerton Terrace, Longsight, near Manchester; Mrs. Airey, wife of Robert Airey, Esq, of Newcastle-uponTyne, and Mrs Macfarlane, wife of the Rev. George Macfarlane, M.A. Vicar of Gainford. Mr. Thomas Ayres was a vestryman, and one of the churchwardens of Sunderland in 1740, and a freeman of the Borough, in 1757. From this family Ayres' Quay, Bishopwearmouth, derives its name. In the award in our possession setting out all the common and private roads upon the divison of the extensive moors in Bishopwearmouth, in 1649, it is described as "Thomas Ayres' Key."Holmes' Wharf, Sunderland, formerly known as Neddy Wright's quay, from Mr. Edward Wright its tenant, was for a long period of years the property of the late Mr. Thomas Ayres, of Green Terrace, and his ancestors. * Warren Maude, Esq., of Sunniside, Bishopwearmouth, coal fitter, was the third son of Samuel Maude, Esq., of 6, Maude's Lane, Sunderland, coal fitter, by his wife Miss Rachel Warren, of Scarborough, which Samuel was grandson of Barnabas Maude, a younger branch of the family of Maude, of Staynland and Alverthorpe, Yorkshire. He married, first, in 1731, Mary, daughter of Simon Forster, Esq., of Hawthorn, and had issue three sons-Samuel, who married Hannah, daughter and heiress of John Makepeace, Esq., of Newbottle, and died in 1755; Thomas, of Newcastle, who espoused Margaret, daughter of John Holme, Esq., of Kendal; and Forster, who died young. Warren Maude, Esq., married, secondly, in 1737, Sarah, daughter of Thomas Holme, Esq., of Kendal, by whom (who died in 1793, aged 74,) he had issue to survive infancy; 1. John, born in 1738, who died unmarried in 1775; 2. Jacob, of Sunniside, Bishopwearmouth, born in 1757, an extensive coal owner, who lived and died in 1839, at Selaby Hall, in the parish of Gainford, who married first, in 1785, Mary, daughter of J. Freshfield, Esq., of Norwich (by whom he had a son, the late Warren Maude, Esq., of Green Bank, near Darlington, J. P.), and secondly, in 1792, Ruth, eldest daughter and co-heiress of John Mitchinson, Esq., of Carlisle (by whom he had several children); 3. Mary, married to Thomas Stamp, Esq., of Sunderland; 4. Margaret, married, first, to Robert White, Esq., of Shincliffe, and secondly, to Major Richard Lluellyn; 5. Sarah, who married Joseph Lamb, Esq., of Ryton; and 6. Jane, who espoused R. L. Lynn, Esq., of Newcastle. Mr. Maude's hospitable mansion at Sunniside was immortalized in an old local song, the following fragment of which has been rescued from oblivion by Sir Cuthbert Sharp, in his Bishoprick Garland : "We'll all away to Sunniside, To Sunniside, to Sunniside, To see the Fitter's maidens." The following is another fragment of the same song, supposed to be addressed by the pee-dee (or boy) of one of Mr. Maude's keels, to the skipper (or master) of the keel: Mark Burley, SD; Inman, † FF; Maylin, W; "Hey, Skipper, our fitter To see our fitter's maidens." * Mr. Mark Burleigh, of Burleigh Street, Sunderland, coal fitter and wine merchant, and one of the Commissioners of the river Wear under the Act of 1746-7. He married Hannah (born in 1698), second daughter of the above named Samuel Maude, and sister of Warren Mauds, of Sunniside. Burleigh and Vine Streets were built principally upon his ground, and received their names from him and his establishment. "A few days ago died at Bishopwearmouth, aged 84, M. Burleigh, wine merchant, and one of the people called Quakers."-Newcastle Newspapers, Oct. 1, 1773.—Mr. George Garbutt's Collection. † Mr. Robert Inman, of Sunderland, coal fitter, (see p. 148), one of the Commissioners of the river Wear under the Act of 1746-7, also a vestryman and one of the churchwardens of Sunderland church in 1755, was a freeman of the borough in 1766. Mr. Inman received a few hundred pounds from his half-share of a lottery ticket which he held along with Abraham Meadley, of 108, High Street, Sunderland, draper, (father of Mr. George Wilson Meadley, the biographer of Dr. Paley and Algernon Sydney). The ticket was drawn a prize a day or two after the death of Mr. A. Meadley, and during the time he was lying a corpse. Mr. Meadley's share of the prize was received by his widow, Mrs. Meadley, who was left with a family of children, of whom Miss Meadley of Fawcett Street, Bishopwearmouth, is now the survivor. Mr. William Maling of Hendon Lodge, Bishopwearmouth, eldest son and heir of William Maling and Elizabeth Church, of Scarborough, was born Nov. 4, 1698, settled in Sunderland in 1723, where he carried on business as shipowner and timber merchant. He married, July 30, 1740, Catharine, only daughter and heiress of Christopher Thompson, Esq., of Hendon Lodge, and previously of Scarborough. He took up his abode at Hendon Lodge on the demise of his father-in-law, 1749: his own father dying 11th May, 1743, he came into possession of a large fortune, and purchased extensive property at Hylton and Ford, on the north and south sides of the river Wear; was appointed, in 1746, a Commissioner of that river, and in the same year, to the office of vestryman and churchwarden of Sunderland church. In 1757, he was one of the freemen of the borough. He died 20th March, 1765, and was buried in a vault in Sunderland churchyard. He had four sons, the eldest of whom, Christopher Thompson Maling, born 22nd Nov. 1741, graduated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and was educated to the bar. He was J. P. for the county of Durham, 1778, and lived many years at Hendon Lodge, afterwards at J J Ann Syall, B; Nath. Leak, B; Cooper Shiphard, W; Silksworth House, and Herrington Hall, near Sunderland. He married, first, 2nd Oct., 1765, Elizabeth, fifth daughter of William Ironside, Esq., of Houghton-leSpring she died 27th Nov. 1766, leaving one daughter. He married, secondly, 31st May, 1769, Martha Sophia, only daughter and sole heiress of John Sheeles, Esq., Queen's Square, Bloomsbury, London. He died 24th Jan., 1810, leaving issue five sons and seven daughters. The eldest son, Christopher Sheeles Maling, went to India, as secretary to the Marquis of Wellesley, and became judge of the district of Punnach, where he died in 1808. The third son, Thomas James Maling, entered the Royal Navy, and after seeing much active service, attained the rank of Admiral: he was deputy lieutenant and J. P. for the county of Worcester, and died at the Elms in that county, 22nd Jan., 1849. Of the daughters, the second, Martha Sophia, married Henry Phipps, third Baron Mulgrave, and Viscount Normandy, by whom she had a large family :-their eldest son, Constantine Henry, is the present Marquis of Normanby, and married the Hon. Maria Liddell, eldest daughter of the late Lord Ravensworth: their third son, the Hon. Col. Charles Phipps, is secretary to H. R. H. the Prince Consort, and their daughters the Hon. Ladies Phipps, have respectively served as ladies in waiting to the Queen. The third daughter, Catharine Julia Maling, married Robert Plumer Ward, Esq., author of several literary works, M. P. for Cockermouth, who was Under Secretary of State, and a junior Lord of the Admiralty, under the administration of the Duke of Wellington: their only son is now Sir Henry Ward, Bart., governor of Ceylon. John Maling, the third son of William Maling and Catharine Thompson, was born 29th Nov., 1746, built and resided at the Grange, Bishopwearmouth, was many years partner with his brothers-in-law, in the banking establishment of Russell, Allan, and Maling, in Sunderland. He married, first, 6th Sept., 1768, Margaret, only daughter of Hugh Awdos, Esq., of Bishopwearmouth, (whose wife was Mary, daughter of Thomas Holme, Esq., of Kendal, and whose other daughter, Sarah, was married to Warren Maude, Esq., above named), by whom (who died 23rd Jan., 1774,) he had issue a son and daughter. He married, secondly, May, 1775, at Sunderland Church, Ann, widow of Hodgson Thompson, Esq., of Sunderland, who was daughter and co-heiress (with her sisters, Mary, wife of William Russell, Esq., above named, and Elizabeth, wife of Robert Allan, Esq., of Sunniside, Bishopwearmouth, and Barton, in Yorkshire,) of Robert Harrison, Esq., of Sunderland. By this second marriage, Mr. Maling, who died 6th Nov. 1823, had three sons and four daughters. William Maling, the eldest son by the first wife, was born 7th June, 1769, and carried on business as shipowner and timber merchant, in the premises now occupied by R. H. Potts and Brothers, in the Low Street, and resided at West Hendon House, Bishopwearmouth. He married, 10th May, 1800, Elizabeth, only daughter and heiress of William Haygarth, of Kidside Craggs, SD; Matthew Carr,† F; Thomas Firryby,‡SD; Lodge, in the county of Westmorland, capt. R. N. and first governor of the Knights of the Naval College of Windsor, who, whilst residing there, had the honour of enjoying the private friendship of George III., and was a frequent guest at the Castle. His Majesty had his portrait painted by John Hopner, R. A. which the good old king graciously presented to Mrs. Maling, on the demise of her father the governor, 22nd March, 1810 (it is now in the possession of his grandson, Edward Haygarth Maling, Esq., of this town). Captain Haygarth was schoolfellow at Eton College, with Edward Hawke, afterwards the gallant Admiral Lord Hawke. He was present in most of the brilliant victories gained by the latter, and their friendship continued to the death of the admiral. Captain Haygarth brought home from the Mediterranean the unfortunate Admiral Byng, to be tried by court martial. Mr. William Maling retired from business in 1808, purchased property adjoining Kidside Lodge, in Westmorland, where he resided many years, and died 19th Jan. 1857. By his wife, Miss Haygarth, he had issue four sons and three daughters the only surviving son being our talented and much respected townsman, Edw. Haygarth Maling, Esq., who embraced the medical profession, and is now senior surgeon to our noble charity the Infirmary, senior surgeon to the Sunderland Eye Infirmary which he was chiefly instrumental in forming in 1836, and is also senior surgeon to the Marchioness of Londonderry's Infirmary, at Seaham Harbour. He married, 22nd Sept. 1836, Joanna Mary, third daughter of Robert Allan, Esq., of Newbottle, (whose wife was Hannah, daughter of William Havelock, Esq., of Ford Hall, Bishopwearmouth, and sister to William Havelock, Esq., of Ingress Park, Kent, the father of the present noble and gallant hero, General Sir Henry Havelock, Bart., of Lucknow, K. C. B. &c.), and sister to Robert Henry Allan, Esq., J. P., F. S. A. &c. of Blackwell Hall and Blackwell Grange, in the county of Durham, of which county he was High Sheriff in 1851. Mrs. Maling died 6th Jan. 1857, leaving issue one son, Edwin Allan Maling, and one daughter, Joanna Maria Maling. Mr. Christopher Craggs, one of the churchwardens and a vestryman in 1734, was a stallinger of the borough in 1757. His son, Christopher, was the owner of the land in Mill Lane, (or Hylton Road,) now the property of the Sunderland Freehold Land Society. + Mr. Matthew Carr, of the Low Street, (near Wylam's Wharf,) innkeeper and anchorsmith, was one of the vestrymen of Sunderland church in 1734, one of the churchwardens in 1740, and a freeman in the same year. Thomas Ferrabee was elected a vestryman of Sunderland, July 8, 1731. In 1737, he was a member of the committee of vestrymen to re-value all the property in that parish, and was one of the churchwardens in 1756. James Donison,* 0; William Wilkinson, † H; John Hodgshon, SB; Officer Bainbridge.- This piece of wood I cut off an old chair in Jarrow church, which was the chair that St. Cuthbert sat in to hear confessions.§"" Mr. Donnison died He bequeathed his James Donnison, Esq. was a vestryman and one of the churchwardens of Sunderland, in 1745 on the 26th of May, 1766, he was elected one of the freemen of the borough. Mr. Donnison was a butcher, in Sunderland, by which business he realized a large fortune, and became the owner of the freehold estate of Farrington, near Silksworth, and the copyhold land lying in Stockton Road, Bishopwearmouth, between the Hospital farm on the north and the northern boundary of the township of Ryhope, on the south, formerly part of the Bishop of Durham's "Wearmouth south moor," now belonging to Messrs. Edward Backhouse, George Scurfield, and the representatives of the late Mr. John Lotherington. Mr. Donnison was the second husband of Mrs. Elizabeth Donnison, (previously Mrs. Guy,) the benevolent foundress of the Donnison School for girls, at Sunderland. without issue, on the 27th of March, 1777, aged 62 years. property to a relative, Mr. Robert Stote, of Horsley Hill, near South Shields, who took the surname of Donnison by royal license. From the family of Stote, the male line of which is extinct, the Rev. G. T. Fox, M. A., incumbent of St. Nicholas' Durham, Robert Thomas Wilkinson, Esq., of Bishopwearmouth, Mrs. Richard Laurence Pemberton, of Barnes, Miss Lotherington, of South Moor, &c., &c., are descended. Mr. Donnison lies buried under a tombstone near the south door of Bishopwearmouth church. His wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Donnison, died Nov. 23rd, 1770, and was buried under a large freestone slab, now partly overgrown with grass, near the south wall of Sunderland church; close to her grave are two tablets affixed in the church wall, one to the memory of Mr. Charles Guy, her first husband, and one of the churchwardens of Sunderland in 1731, who died June 21st, 1736, aged 35 years; and the other in remembrance of her only son, Mr. Henry Guy, named on the tablet as "The son of Elizabeth Guy," who died June 4th, 1756, his age at death is obliterated from the tablet by the hand of time. Neither the inscription on the slab covering the grave of Mrs. Donnison, nor the parochial register give her age at death. + Mr. William Wilkinson was one of the churchwardens of Sunderland, in 1745. Mr. John Hodgshon, one of the freemen and coal fitter of Sunderland, (see pp. 117, 182, 258), whose daughter Elizabeth was the wife of Benjamin Hodgkin, Esq., solicitor. § Sykes in his Local Records, and Richardson, in his Local Historian's Table Book, subscribe this letter with the name of Nicholas Taylor: Richardson referring |
