A-Z of Entries

see Poland Street 10 to 18 & 45 to 48 in London Addresses dataset

ratebooks 1780-7 Robert Marris 10 Poland St // SunFire 1779 Robert Marris gent corner of Portland Street, Poland Street / 1786 Margaret St, Cavendish Sq / 1805 22 High St Marybone / 1823 13 Manor Pl Kings Rd Chelsea // Free Society 1770 exhib from Mr Devis', Gt Queen St, Lincolns Inn Fields / 1774 Society of Artists (Robert Morris) exhib from 19 Glanville St, Rathbone Pl / Royal Academy 1780-4 exhib landscapes from 10 Poland St // said to have married a niece or daughter of the brothers Arthur and Thomas Anthony…

3.2.1799 C Marsh, C Moore adv at Mackintosh's / Wed 20.2.1799 C Marsh C Moore at Mackintosh's lecture / Sat 23.2.1799 C Marsh, C M at Mackintosh's lecture / Sat 2.3.1799 C M, C M at Mackintosh ('s lecture)

The above sequence of entries must mean that one of the two C M entries on 2.3.1799 was for Charles Marsh see GDwebsite person record

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

James Marsh ratebooks 1786 4 Poland St 1787 John Marsh / Francis Marsh gent of Poland St 1785 action against him for debt of £420 by Elizabeth Mills, Gt Titchfield St, spinster

James s of James & Amey Marsh bt St James 25.12.1776 / James Henry s of James & Rebecca Marsh bt St James 27.3.1796

sir Cha Marsh & lady's maid 15.5.1800 on coach from Windsor

Charles Marsh banker of Reading was knighted 1786, his will PCC 1805

S Marshal 12.8.1800 on boat from Dublin / 13.8.1800 on mail coach

Irish marriages Samuel T Marshall of Timolin Limerick = Nov 1798 dau of late Garret Fitzgerald of Shannon Grove / will PCC 1823 Samuel Marshall serjeant at law & HMJustice for Cheshire, Flint, Denbigh & Montgomery

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Marshall Esq of Hackney proposed member 24.11.1786 by Thomas Ridgway 2nded John Baynes

There was a John Marshall in Hackney Land Tax records 1783-1785 and a William Marshall at a different Hackney address 1786-1788. Sorry to say Ive made no further identification, Marshall being a common name.

8.11.1821 H M & Rosser sup / 28.12.1821 H Marshal & H(arwoo)d H(olcrof)t sup / 7.2.1822 H Marshal at tea / 28.2.1822 H M sups / 13.3.1822 again / 27.5.1822 again / 5.6.1822 Hudson sups: adv. H M / 10.6.1822 P(eter) P(ilcher) & H M at tea / 3.8.1822 H M sups / 23.8.1822 again / 24.10.1822 H M & H(arwoo)d H(olcrof)t sup / 5.12 H M sups / 9.12.1822 M(arshall), & H M, & M(ary) Lamb call / 17.1.1823 Hudsons & H M at tea / 25.3.1823 Lambs & H M sup / 18.4.1823 Kenney & H M sup / 5.5.1823 H M sups / 12.5.1823 theatre, w. M(ary) J(ane), W(illiam), & H M / 28…

23.8.1792 Mr Marshal's was possibly James Marshall, the GD website editors have left it uncoded presumably because this is the only time out of nearly 1200 entries Godwin referred to him this way. Perhaps it meant his father, if he had one living

19.3.1795 Ms must mean James Marshall's but not coded in GD website / 22.6.1796 dine at Ms, Ml at Coal-hole / 10.5.1800 them underlined in GD website very likely referred to James Marshall & Sarah Elwes / 12.11.1801 them underlined in…

30.12.1795 Marshal at Newton's. In 1796 list for 1795 General Marshal

John Marshall American National Biography 24.9.1755 - 6.7.1835. Of Virginia. Joint envoy to France from US 7.6.1797, See Star newspaper 15.5.1798. His secretary Major Rutledge (see Rutledge, John). Wrongly coded in GD website to James Marshall, Godwin's close friend. See also Hull, William another American general at Newton's

30.7.1810 write to Marshal /10.11.1810 write to March^l  / 4.1.1811 write to Marshal

Probably John Marshall bookseller of Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead from 1801 to 1831 (bbti)

3.4.1796 Smith breakfasts, adv M M / 24.8.1803 theatre with MJ (mrs Godwin) and MAM / 5.9.1803 MAM dines adv L Knapp / 14.7.1804 call with MJ on M A Marshal (not in) / 23.8.1804 meet LK & MAM / 8.10.1804 meet MAM & L Knapp / 21.12.1804 meet L Knapp & M Ml / 18.6.1806 at Mrs Cooper's adv L Knapp & M A Marshal / 19.6.1806 meet LK & MAM / 11.10.1807 MM & MJ at Brille / 21.12.1808 L Knapp & MAM call / 23.9.1808 M, MAM, LK, mrs Toke & Franklin call / 2.1.1811 theatre adv Mrs M, M & C(ooper) / 9.3.1812 theatre with MM

James Marshall's family I am still…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

John marten 33 Poland st ratebooks 1791-1800 poor 4 children / John Martin = St James 16.8.1795 Mary Ann Sharp botp banns wits John Owen, Thos Cross / John Marten his mark = St Anne Soho 4.8.1786 Helen Stuart her mark botp banns wit John Mendock / John son of John Martin & Mary Smith bapt St James 1.6.1788 / coroners jury 11.2.1793 John Martin perfumer Poland St / will PCC 1806 of Edward Osborne coal merchant of 34 Poland St dated 11.1.1806 mentioned John Martin hairdresser of Poland St

Sally Martin 27.3.1795 at Gerald's // Martin's Exhibition with Nicholson's 13.8.1799 // 20.4.1800 Martins at Mary Robinson's / 6.5.1800 mrs Martin at Mary Robinson's / 19.5.1800 Martins at Mary Robinson's // 9.8.1804 Martins & miss Field at Lamb's / 10.2.1805 Lambs, Hazlitt & miss Martin at Godwin's / 8.6.1806 again / 18.6.1806 Martins at Lamb's / 27.7.1806 Lambs & L Martin sup / 17.1.1807 L Martin at Hazlitt's / 24.6.1807 3 Martins at Lamb's / 20.7.1809 L Mn at Lamb's / 4.11.1809 Lambs & L Martin sup / 4.11.1809 L Martin at M Lamb's / 10.7.1810 Martin calls

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Martin of Galway 13.1.1802 at Wycombe's with Curran. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1802 / 10.7.1810 Martin calls

Pretty clearly Richard Martin Hist of Parl 1754-1834, though no reason to think he was the caller of 1810 (see also Martin). On my way to identifying him I came across Nicholas Martin of Ross, Galway died 1811 (Burke's Irish Families) who may have been the Nicholas Martin Esq who stood in the pillory opposite the Royal Exchange Dublin, pursuant to his sentence (Morning Post 20.10.1803) which must have been in connection with the 1803 rebellion, but I could reach no Dublin…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: James Martin of Whitehall, MP for Tewkesbury proposed member 22.2.1782 by John Jebb 2nded John Churchill. Took on Gloucestershire & Worcestershire for tract distribution with Edward Hall

James Martin DNB 1738-1810 and historyofparliamentonline (1754-1790 & 1790-1820)

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONALINFORMATION: John Martin of Richmond Buildings, Soho proposed Honorary Member 4.5.1792 by John Horne Tooke 2nded John Frost

Born Scotland 1754 according to an Ancestry user-submitted tree, because of James Bannantine mentioned below 1791 I guess he may have been John Martin son of John Martin & Elizabeth Bannatine bapt Melrose 12.11.1752 (John Banatine writer Edinburgh SunFire 1780) but many John Martins in Scotland / London Sessions 28.2.1783 John Martin clerk to William Johnstone attorney 4 Inner Temple Lane (may not have been him) / I have a note I…

see Poland Street number not known in London Addresses dataset

Morning Post 18.5.1778 leases of Joseph Martin deceased for sale, two properties on Clapham Common, and a ground rent of twelve houses in Poland St, Oxford St and Harris's Court. This was probably a square of land on the west corner of Poland St & Oxford St including 34 to 37 Poland St / the will PCC 1765 of Thomas Martin of Clapham left two leasehold houses in Clapham to his cousin Anna Hopkins spinster and after her death (her will PCC 1768) to his nephew Joseph Martin (DNB 1726-1776). His will PCC 1776 of St…

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

John Martin ratebooks 51 Poland St 1782-4 / SunFire 1781 Joseph Francis Martin Poland St gent his wife a mantua maker / 15.9.1784 Magdalen Martin witness at Old Bailey husband Joseph Francis Martin, married 12 years, he lived in Poland St, but was in the country the last 2 months or better / Joseph Martin = St James 23.4.1769 Magdalen Polet / children bapt St James of Joseph Francis & Magdalen Martin, Thomas 30.6.1777, Frances Charlotte Wilhelmina 10.11.1779 Thomas William Catherinus 29.9.1781

e-mail to Richard Angus Whitehead, assistant professor at National Institute of Education, Singapore

hello, I am Edward Pope, an independent historian, see my website edpopehistory.co.uk



I refer to your article "Mark and Eleanor Martin, the Blakes' French Fellow Inhabitants at 17 South Molton Street, 1805-1821" which I read online at Blake, An Illustrated Quarterly, volume 43 issue 3, page 84



When you wrote this you had presumably not seen the will proved Canterbury 31.8.1831 of Marc Joseph Martin of No 17 South Molton Street, which makes it…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Mark Martin 41 (or 42) Poland St ratebooks 1792-3 Le Grange & Martin 1793 / Mark Martin ratebooks South Molton St, St Geo Han Sq from 1795 / Sophy Hellen bapt 13.6.1802 & Elizabeth Sarah bapt 14.4.1805 St Geo Han Sq of Mark & Mary Martin / SunFire 1810 Mark Martin staymaker 17 Southmolton St / Marc Joseph Martin age 73 from South Molton St bur St Geo Han Sq 1831 / will PCC 1831 Marc Joseph Martin St Geo Han Sq / Morning Post 21.12.1833 ad for claims on Marc Joseph Martin deceased stay and corset maker. I could find…