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Grace Darling's Niece

IT was announced in the Press on 15th April that Mrs. Grace Stokoe, the niece of Grace Darling, had just died at Newcastle. She was the daughter of Robert Darling, of Alnwick, and to her had been left, among other relics, Grace Darling's Bible and the Silver Medal awarded to her by the Institution for her famous rescue of the nine men of the Forfarshire in 1838.