le Cronier 6.1.1805 adv at dinner
Probably a merchant and ship's captain from the Channel Islands, Peter or Philip Le Cronier, sailing often to Plymouth, Padstow and Bristol also to Spain (search newspapers). At Bodmin sessions in 1805 Elizabeth wife of Philip Le Cronier was involved in an assault. Le Cronier's ships were taken by the French several times in the 1790s. Likely to have been an acquaintance of Mary Jane, Godwin's wife, from her earlier days. In France there was a Commissaire de Police of the name mentioned in 1825, and also painters called Le Crosnier in that period