A-Z of Entries

27.9.1809 call on Boosey / 17.11.1809 again

Thomas Boosey bookseller 4 Old Broad-st

Boot's Atherston nr Stratford 5.6.1797

In GD website Atherston is wrongly transcribed Albertson. In a letter to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin described Boot as a country farmer. John Boote gamekeeper and yeoman of Atherston from 1774, subscribed (along with Samuel Parr and many of his local friends) to History & Antiquities of Stratford upon Avon 1806, Jackson's Oxford Journal 22.3.1823 J Boote of Cricklade Wilts formerly of Atherston upon Stour died age 75. There were other Bootes in the vicinity, Mr Boote of Lapworth also subsribed in 1806 to the same work, and JOJ recorded on 8.…

20.9.1795 Booths at Holcroft's / 29.8.1797 walk to Booth's, with Wollstonecraft, read, en famille, Werter p127. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1795, Booth crossed out after Dudley and inserted above before Dudley (which probably referred to 23.9.1795)

12.7.1809 write to Booth &c / 1.8.1809 write to Booth (Norwich) &c / 9.8.1809 write to Booth & Frizac / 19.1.1810 write to Booth &c / 23.2.1810 write to Franklin, Baker & Booth / 28.7.1810 write to Booth (Norwich) / 30.10.1810 write to Upham & Booth / 1.12.1810 write to J Taylor, Booth & Berry / 20.12.1810 write to Gillet & Booth

The above entries have all been coded on GD website to David Booth DNB 1766-1846. Those where Norwich was specified were very likely William Parkinson Booth bookseller of Norwich 1790 to 1825 (bbti). Also probably 12.7.1809…

The four paragraphs below don't have to be the same person, but the name was rare so they may be, and same trade between first and last para

Aaron Booth bapt 20.4.1766 Selston Notts son of Joshua & Mary (née Leiven), older brother Caleb Booth 1764-1846 in 1841 census at Selston, (son?) a framework knitter, Thos Saxton joiner of Alfreton, Derbys took appr Aaron Booth 17.5.1780 for 7 years. (Alfreton just 3 miles from Selston)

Aaron Booth = St Geo Han Sq 1.2.1789 MargaretXBrookshaw botp banns wit Thos Rice

TS 11/965/3510A  30.4.1794 Wickham (secretary of state's)…

2.5.1816 call on Moore (not seen) : seek Boothby

Godwin went to Ashbourne, probably to see the poet Thomas Moore, but finding him out tried to find Sir Brooke Boothby DNB 1744-1824 poet and writer of Ashbourne Hall

Borcham 16.4.1792 at miss Godwin's.

Ann Godwin's letter (Abinger c.1 f78) says she missed Burcham so had to send by post. All 6 Borchams in the Apprenticeship Tax records (National Archives IR1) lived in Suffolk or Essex

Borman 26.4.1795 at King's / 20.7.1810 Borman calls / 23.7.1810 again

Bosse 29.6.1788 at Holcroft's. Cesare Bosse d. 1802 (Highfill, Burnim & Langhan's Biog Dict of Actors &c) was a composer. Godwin noted him again at Shield's on 17.7.1788, then as Bossy at Holcroft's on 5.4.1791 and 7.7.1791 and finally Godwin dined at Bosse's on 9.11.1791
 

John Bostick of Bolton, Lancs Swedenborgian conference 5.9.1791

misses Bosville 30.12.1792 at Paradise's

Possibly natural daughters of William Bosville (DNB 1745-1813) or of his father

Godfrey Bosville will PCC 1784 was William Bosville's father. His will mentioned his wife Diana (her will PCC 1795) & children William (his will PCC 1814 unmarried and no natural children mentioned), Thomas Blackett (his will PCC 1793), Diana Elizabeth wife of Alexander Baron Macdonald & Julia (her will PCC 1833) wife of John Viscount Dudley & Ward (his will PCC 1788).

Boyle's 1792 Lt Col Bosville & Thomas Bosville 16 Clarges St /…

William Bosville of Maddock Street proposed Socy for Const Info 3.6.1791 by John Horne Tooke 2nded John Augustus Bonney. William Bosville DNB 1745-1813. Will PCC 1814 of Thorpe Hall Yorks. He died unmarried and his will mentioned no natural children but see Bosville, Misses.

BONNEY DIARY  14.11.1794 / 15.11.1794 / M Bosville 18.11.1794

1806 Bosville chair of Middlesex freeholders club, who resolved Mr Byng's letter was an insult and in violation of a pledge made in 1805 to celebrate the return of Burdett & Byng in 1802

2.11.1795 miss Boswell at Richard Johnson's

Her father James Boswell DNB 1740-1795 was at Richard Johnson's on 8.1.1794 (Journal). He died on 19.5.1795 leaving three daughters, the eldest Veronica died in October 1795 aged 22. The youngest Elizabeth (Betsy) was aged 15 at a boarding school in Chelsea, so this is more likely to be Euphemia born 1774 will PCC 1837 spinster of Auchinleck. She would have been in mourning, for father and sister, and the other guest at Johnson's Mrs Sharpe was perhaps her 'chaperone'. See Elizabeth Ogborne (DNB 1763/4-1853).

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1778 also in 1794 version

Perhaps Edmund Bott, barrister and paymaster of Exchequer bills at Tally Court born 16.2.1739 at Spixworth, Norfolk died 31.5.1788 (Alum Cant) son of Thomas Bott DNB 1688-1754. Of Stourfield Farm, Hants proposed Socy for Const Info January 1781 by Lewis Disney Ffytche 2nded Thomas Brand Hollis. 1771, 1773, 1795 editions of his collection of decisions re: Poor Laws in Kings Bench, later editions revised by Francis Const. 1774 JP Southampton. Gave SCI account of borough of Christchurch. His will PCC 1788 Christchurch, Hants mentioned…

see Batemans Buildings in London Addresses dataset

John Bulnois 13 Batemans Buildings ratebooks 1781-1784 note "117 Wardour St" / SunFire 1790 John Boulnois gent 117 Wardour St / John Boulnois bach = St Geo Martyr Queen Sq 13.6.1779 Charlotte Hutchins sp botp banns wit Sarah Bowerman / William of John & Charlotte Boulnois bapt 10.9.1784 St Anne Soho / Louisa of John & Charlotte Boulnois bapt 11.12.1786 St Anne Soho / Harriot of John & Charlotte Boulnois bapt 29.3.1789 St Jas Picc'y / John of John & Charlotte Boulnois bapt 27.4.1795 St Jas Picc'y / Ann Boulnois age 3…

HCR diary 29.1.1845 called on "Miss Denman but I did not go in. Her sister Marian was buried that morning from the house - a happy release for the survivors at all events"

                      1.2.1845 "I found Miss Denman in trouble - She has been ill-treated by Miss Bourgoin with whom her late sister Marian lived but she ought to feel the death of her sister a great comfort"

Mary Ann Denman buried 29.1.1845 from Upper Norton St age 64. She was an unmarried sister of Maria Denman, perhaps the Mary Ann Denman bapt 3.1776 at Whitechapel, though her age at death suggests she…

dean Bourke 12.8.1800 on boat from Dublin

Joseph Bourke 1771-1843 dean of Ossory, 3rd son of 3rd Earl Mayo = 1799 Mary dau of Sackville Gardiner (see Burke's Peerage)

John Bovey of New Brentford

No clues yet. Mostly a Devonshire name

29.12.1794 meet Bowden / 26.1.1818 call on Bowden. Bowden in Godwin's 1796 list for 1787 crossed out, and in 1794 version.

Probably Wright Bowden (1752-1823 Highfill, Burnim & Langhans) a celebrated singer. Also note a William Bowden in John Collick's will
 

GODWIN DIARY:  24.5.1795 see Thos. Bowes

SWEDENBORGIANS:  15.10.1794 St Vedast Foster La TB otp bach = lydia bird otp sp wits Dl Richardson E Richardson. from the witnesses clearly the Swedenborgian who bapt with wife Lydia 2 children at Cross St chapel Hatton  Garden, Mary born 5.9.1797 in St Luke's bapt 24.9.1797 and Maria born 14.5.1799 of Pear Tree St Goswell St bapt 9.6.1799. probably the TB Goswell St land Tax 1804-1818 / New Jerusalem Magazine 1829 p93 died 21.1.1829 at her residence in St John St Clerkenwell in her 50th year Mrs Lydia Bowes (had been Swedenborgian 30 or 40…