A-Z of Entries

5.3.1790 at Timothy Hollis' / 17.12.1794 at Crisp's / 8.3.1795 at Foulkes' adv Woods & miss Williams / 7.4.1795 at Foulkes' Woods & mes Harris & Williams / 25.2.1796 at Foulkes' adv mrs Wood & Williams ? 3.7.1804 mrs Wood at Combe's

see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset

Andrew Wood ratebooks 55 Poland St 1780-2 / Andrew Wood perfomer Swallow St coroners jury 1770 / Andrew Wood mantua maker Swallow St voted 1774 Mountmorres & Mahon / SunFire 1779 Andrew Wood mantua maker 55 Poland St / Andrew Wood Poland St voted Fox & Lincoln 1780 / (Andrew Wood = St James 6.10.1780 Frances Buirn) / Andrew Wood sacque & habit maker bankrupt 1787 / (an Andrew Wood was charged with rape of Mary MacDonald in Nov 1789 in Charles Court in the Strand and acquitted at Old Bailey) /  …

see Autobiography of Francis Place ed. Mary Thale page 87

Henry Wood otp = St Martin i t Fields 14.5.1775 by Archbishops lic Sarah Holland otp sigs wits Saml Tooth, S Ealand

Henry Wood carpenter Thackhams Court, St Martin i t Fields voted 1780 Fox, 1784 Fox. Westminster coroner's juryman 25.8.1786

Henry Wood buried 26.5.1800 St Martin i t Fields from workhouse. Admitted workhouse 21.2.1800 age 59 died 23.5.1800

Wood 8.6.1800 at John King's / 11.1.1801 Wood calls / 10.5.1801 again / 19.5.1801 sups / 7.6.1801 calls / 14.6.1801 again / 28.6.1801 again / 12.7.1801 again / 19.7.1801 Wood (talk of Home & Lumsden) calls / 27.7.1801 call on Wood / 15.8.1801 Wood calls / 18.8.1801 sups / 6.9.1801 at tea / 25.9.1801 calls / 21.10.1801 sups / 1.11.1801 calls / 8.11.1801 dines / 22.11.1801 calls / 29.11.1801 again / 6.12.1801 again / 27.12.1801 again / 19.1.1802 again / 7.2.1802 again / 6.3.1802 again / 14.3.1802 Wood & Campbell call / 23.3.1802 Wood dines / 18.4.1802 again / 30.4.1802 Wood &…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

John Wood 30 Poland St ratebooks 1782-88 Mary Wood 1789-1800 / SunFire 1780 John Wood plumber 30 Poland St / John Wood Poland St voted Fox & Rodney 1780 plumber Poland St voted Fox 1784 / will PCC 17.7.1786 John Wood plumber of Poland St dated 29.10.1784 mentioned wife Mary dau Harriet children of brother Phillip Wood (John, Thomas & Hannah Wood) wit Paul Fox servant to Mr Wood codicil 25.2.1785 / will PCC 19.12.1805 Mary Wood widow of Poland St dated 24.10,1804 to be buried in Tottenham Court chapel near husband &…

dine at H Tooke's, with his sister & miss Wood 4.9.1803 / 21.9.1806 mrs Dicker at H Tooke's

John Horne Tooke DNB 1736-1812 had four sisters - Mary  = Thomas Wildman, Sarah = Stephen Demainbray, Elizabeth = William Clark, and Ann = Dicker. The will PCC 1834 of Ann Dicker widow of Strand on the Green Chiswick mentioned (as well as Demainbray relatives which identify her) her friend Harriot Wood spinster

Thomas Wood of Stockwell Place proposed Society for Constitutional Information 1.6.1792 by William Sturch 2nded West

James Wood Esq of Stockwell Place £100 voluntary contribution Sun 16.3.1798, Holden's directory 1799 of Stockwell Place, Willis Wood & Co 76 Lombard St bankers from 1788 (& Perceval from 1792), James Wood treasurer of London Bridge Water Works 1811, his will PCC 7.3.1820 James Wood of Stockwell late of Lombard St, banker, mentioned his cousins Mrs Cotton of Greenfields, Staffs, and Jane wife of Ralph Addison of Doughty St, (his brother?) Rev William Wood of…

Thomas Wood merchant of Hull proposed Society for Constitutional Information 3.8.1781 by John Cartwright 2nded Edward Bridgen

the following scraps of maybe more than one person / Thomas Wood brazier of Hull voted 1774 for Lord Robert Manners / Thomas Wood = Hull 8.12.1779 Ann Stephenson / 1783 John Boyes & Thomas Wood of Hull merchants took appr Thomas Sutton for 2 years premium £220 / Thomas Wood = Hull 23.6.1785 Elizabeth Winteringham / SunFire 1788 Thomas Wood north side of Robinsons Row Hull gent / Mrs Wood of Hull subscr 1792 to Charlotte Beverley's poems / East Riding…

7.9.1809 seek Zoust, at Woodburn's &c, w. M(ary) J(ane)

J Woodburn, picture dealer, 112 St Martin's-lane (Holdens trades directory 1811). They were looking for a print of Shakespeare by Gerard de Soest or Zoust

18.8.1809 Funeral; Woodcock &c / 24.8.1809 write to Woodcock / 24.9.1809 again / 7.10.1809 again / 31.10.1809 again / 7.11.1809 again / 10.11.1809 again

Thomas Woodcock of Briston (3 or 4 miles north of Wood Dalling) advertised in Norfolk Chronicle 18.11.1809 for all creditors and debtors of the late Mrs. Ann Godwin of Wood Dalling. In December 1809 he and Godwin's brother Philip Hull Godwin were the contacts for details of land to be sold at auction by James Woodcock. In 1811 he subscribed 1 guinea to the Norfolk & Norwich Auxiliary Bible Society. Norfolk Chronicle 9.5.1812…

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1786 Woodfal, also in 1794 version, but entry in 1796 list not coded in GD website to his person record

Henry Sampson Woodfall DNB 1739-1805 or his brother William Woodfall DNB 1745-1803 (the GD website person record says it could be either)

5.9.1810 dine at Aldis's, w. Woodham &c / 30.1.1811 call on Woodham / 31.1.1811 call on Woodham; adv. N(athaniel) G(odwin) / 4.3.1811 dine at Aldis's, w. Woodham &c  / 19.1.1817 call on Aldis, w. W(illiam) G(odwin); adv. Woodham / 27.6.1819 dine at Aldis's, w. Woodham &c / 7.10.1822 Funeral, Lady Aldis, w. Woodham / 18.10.1822 dine at Aldis's, w. Woodham &c / 16.9.1823 again / 2.8.1826 again / 16.8.1827 again

James Woodham surgeon 35 West Smithfield (Holdens directory 1811, Robsons directory 1820)

14.7.1796 at tea / 3.10.1803 Godwin calls on / 5.10.1803 at tea / 5.9.1805 Godwin calls on (not in) / 6.9.1805 calls / 18.8.1809 Woodhouse jr at Ann Godwin's funeral / 19.8.1809 Godwin calls on Mrs Woodhouse

all the above entries were when Godwin was visiting his family at Wood Dalling in Norfolk and most have been wrongly coded in GD website to Robert Woodhouse, father or son.

Anthony Woodhouse married Mary Long at Wood Dalling 1758 / Anthony Woodhouse farmer of Wood Dalling voted 1795 & 1802 / Anthony Woodhouse widower of Wood Dalling married Ann…

T Woodhouse 20.12.1799 at Opie's / 17.1.1800 Tho Woodhouse at Opie's / 26.6.1800 again

Presumably John Thomas Woodhouse 1780-1845 fellow of Caius College, Cambridge and brother of Robert Woodhouse DNB 1773-1827 (see Jones)

Woodman 26.2.1791 (just the name, no 'calls' or 'call on')

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Thomas Woollams 44 (45) Poland St ratebooks 1783-94 Mary Woollams 1795-1800 / perhaps Thomas Woollams bach = St Leonard Shoreditch 23.7.1776 Mary Bryer wid botp / or less likely Thomas Woollams wid = Christchurch Spitalfields 13.6.1784 Mary Nordman both of the Liberty of the Old Artillery Ground / Thomas & Sarah twins bapt 1780, Thomas bapt 1781, William bapt 1783 & Thomas bapt 1785 all at St James of Thomas & Mary Woollams / Thomas Woollams perukemaker of Poland St voted 1784 Fox / coroners jury 1792 Thomas Woolams…

see Autobiography of Francis Place ed. Mary Thale page 87

Thos Woollams of Barbers Co. took apprentice William Woollams 1756

William Woollams = St Andrew by the Wardrobe 20.9.1773 Catherine Cox both of St Ann Blackfriars banns sigs wits Joseph & Sarah Knight

Susanna dau of William & Catherine Woollams bapt 28.2.1774 St Clement Danes buried there 3.1.1775 consumption

William son of William & Catherine Woollams bapt 3.5.1775 St Clement Danes

James son of William & Catherine Woollams bapt 26.6.1778 St Clement Danes

rate books…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

John Woolley 23 Poland St (Kings Arms) ratebooks 1788-9 / SunFire 1783 John Woolley victualler of Greek St, Soho but he may have been the John William Woolley victualler of Westminster whose will was proved 19.10,1786 PCC by his widow Mary Ann, no children mentioned / perhaps SunFire 1790 John Woolley victualler of the Three Mariners, Oare, nr Faversham Kent (his will PCC 1815) / perhaps John Woolley bur 15.2.1819 St Geo Han Sq age 69 of Lee's Mews

14.10.1809 Woolnoth calls / 30.10.1809 call on Woolnoth / 31.10.1809 Woolnoth calls / 6.11.1809 again

Likely William Woolnoth engraver (bbti) 92 White Lion-str Pentonville (Holdens directory 1802) 1780-1837 (William Woolnoth gent White Lion-row SunFire 1782 presumably his father). Woolnoth was a surname given to foundlings baptised at St Mary Woolnoth

Woolriche 9.1.1802 at Thomas Moore's (the Irish poet)

Morning Post 24.3.1806 and 3.4.1806 "Mr T Moore has been confined these 8 weeks Stephen Woolriche Esq surgeon to HRH Duke of Cambridge has attended him the entire time". Stephen Woolriche born 3.6.1770 died 29.2.1856 (Plarr's Surgeons). 1794 subsrs to Mary Darwall's Poems Mr Woolriche surgeon, Miss Woolriche New Mills nr Walsall. Army surgeon half pay 1788-1806, 4th foot from 1807. Morning Post 5.11.1825 Mr Woolriche surgeon on staff of Duke of Wellington in Peninsula, accompanied Duke of Bedford to Nice. Retired to Qwatford…