19.4.1802 write to Geo King / 20.4.1802 again
Abinger c7 f115-20 has George King's letter to Godwin of 17.4.1802 from Liverpool and his two further letters of 21.4.1802 and 22.4.1802. He was clearly a son of John King DNB c1753-1824, perhaps by a Scotch woman (Mary Barbara Mackay?), and claimed to have had no education but reading and writing and to have spent 9 months in a school in Yorkshire where the pupils were put to farm work. He had got into debt in London, gone to sea and ruptured his groin. In the first letter he said his father had discarded him, but by the second he had received a letter from his father offering some support. See his own account of his life and that of his two brothers and two sisters in Scourge 1815 p219 September issue and p411 December issue. See Francis Place's account in his Autobiography (ed. Mary Thale 1972) p 238-9. And see Biddulph, Jervoise in Greater Soho dataset