GODWIN DIARY 30.7.1813
CRABB ROBINSON DIARY 8.7.1828 at Lambs "found there a Louisa Holcroft - a fine and interesting young woman - seemingly a girl of talents and sweet disposition"
21.3.1829 at John Payne Collier's - Kennys & Mrs Baddam
Born 24.6.1801 daughter of Thomas Holcroft and his fourth wife Louisa, she married John Badams of Aston Warwicks bachelor by licence at St Pancras on 30.12.1828 (the witnesses were her father-in-law J Kenney and Basil Montagu's wife Anne D B Montagu). She married secondly on 15.10.1835 at Whippingham, Hants her father's grandson Barham Cole Mergez, which Jane Carlyle thought somewhat shocking. Her last entry in Godwin's diary on 1.7.1835 calls her "L Baddams (Mergez)". She died 2.10.1869 calling herself Louisa Baronne Mergez (Nat Probate Calendar)