A-Z of Entries

Martin 28.6.1794 at Alderson's.

Probably the banker Simon Martin born 13.4.1774 St Clements Norwich son of William & Elizabeth, died 20.1.1839 in his 64th year of the firm of Gurney, Birbeck & Martin bankers of Norwich. He married Hannah elder daughter of Mr Thomas Ransome of Norwich on 20.12.1809, his eldest daughter Emma died 25.8.1825 in her 13th year at Nathropp's Cottage. His will was PCC 1839, his youngest son Simon married in 1840 and his daughter Hannah married in 1841 (Norwich papers)

Subscribed 1786 to Astronomy of Comets by Bligh Hancock, 1830 to Synoptical…

See Newman Street 1 to 9 in London Addresses dataset

Thomas Martin Land Tax 3 Newman St 1784 / Thomas Martin Land Tax 4 Newman St 1791-97 / Thomas Martin attorney of Marylebone took appr 1776 Abraham Holden Turner /  Thomas Martin attorney 3 Newman St 1782 Law List / Middlesex Sessions (London Lives) Mr Martin solicitor for St Marylebone parish 3 Newman St 1784-88 3 Newman St 1789-98 / SunFire 1790 Thomas Martin gent 4 Newman St / Boyle's 1792 Martin 4 Newman St 1794 Martin & Whishaw attorneys 4 Newman St 1798 Thomas Martin 4 Newman St / Thomas Martin & Hugh Whishaw…

f 46r of Vol VII of Godwin's diary: £25 per night, Martindale to mrs Strutt or Lady Bucks. F R

See Oracle 13.3.1797 where Lady Buckinghamshire (see Albinia nee Bertie 1737/8-1816 in her husband George Hobart DNB 1731-1804) & Mrs Sturt (probably will PCC 1808 widow of Humphrey Sturt 1725? - 1786 History of Parliament and later mother-in-law of Augustus Butler Danvers) were fined £50 each for playing Faro and Henry Martindale was fined £200 for keeping the Faro table. The Faro bank was stolen 30.1.1797 and servants were dismissed who then laid information against their former…

10.12.1794 at Martineau's / 23.12.1794 call on Martineau / 2.10.1795 Martineau at Montagu's.

Probably Peter Finch Martineau 1755-1848, (3rd son of David Martineau surgeon of Norwich) who with his brothers David and John had a brewery at King's Arms Stairs, Lambeth in 1789 and at Stamford St, Southwark in 1792. He was on the Revolution Society commitee in 1789 with Lambeth as his address, in the list of the Unitarian Society 1791 at Stamford St, and had a house in Brompton by 1800. He had married Catherine, sister of Charles Marsh at Norwich in 1784. Note that Marsh called on Godwin…

mrs Martyr 9.12.1801 see Kelly

16.7.1796 event tag: the comment in the GD website suggests that this "Mary chez elle" clearly referred to Mary Wollstonecraft, who was a hundred miles away. Possibly Godwin put an entry for 1797 in the wrong year when writing up his diary, but since he never called Mary Wollstonecraft "Mary" anywhere else in the diary, nor did his letters address her as Mary, it seems quite possible that this referred to another Mary. Godwin had supped that night at W. Tooke Harwood's not far from his mother's house at Dalling, possibly at Melton Constable where at one point Harwood lived with…

2.11.1796 Masclai adv at Perry's

No sign of surname spelt like this in any nationality

HCR diary 10.2.1823 to Aders, Euston Sq "calling on the way at Mrs Mason"

                 10.12.1826 "called at Mrs Anne Mason's"  Mrs Frankland going to Van Diemens Land. Mrs A: M: bedridden, disease of spine, Mrs McMurdo next door

                 11.12.1826 called on Mrs Mason at her daughter's Mrs Williams

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see Batemans Buildings in London Addresses dataset

James Massey ratebooks 5 Batemans Bldgs 1774 / SunFire 1780 James Massey tailor Hollis St Cavendish Sq / Land Tax 1780-84 James Massey 8 Holles St / Old Bailey 1.7.1795 James Massey rented a house in - St, Cavendish Sq / will PCC 1806 James Massey of St Marylebone gent (seen will - of Queen Charlotte Row probably different person) / there was also a grocer at Knightsbridge, a butcher in Aldgate High St and a baker in St Martins Lane, all called James Massey c. 1784

Massygar 25.5.1800

Nearest name I can find to this entry was the Swiss name Massuger (with umlaut on u). Jacob Massuger died 3.9.1821 at Antwerp Belgium was born 1787 Vallendas Suisse s of Benoit Massuger & Menga Pfester

see Poland Street 1 to 8 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset

Elizabeth Masters 55 Poland St ratebooks 1793-4 / SunFire 17.3.1792 Elizabeth Louisa Masters spinster 55 Poland St / SunFire 1790, 1791 Elizabeth Louisa Masters 6 China St, Gower St / Elizabeth Louisa Masters ratebooks Grosvenor St, St Geo Han Sq 1799-1806 / The Fashionable Cypriad (1798) biographies of courtesans (Cyprus was island sacred to Venus) had chapter on Louisa Masters, said to have been born Sarah Marsden (perhaps bapt 7.12.1765 of William & Sarah Covent Garden or 2.12.1759 of John & Elizabeth St…

Masters 3.12.1792 dines

Martin Kedgwin Masters was baptised at Maidstone in 1770 son of Martin & Elizabeth Masters. His son Martin Chamberlain Masters by Anne was born at Watford 26.9.1805, and on 29.9.1823 he married Mary Ann Priest at St Mary Lambeth. His eldest daughter Ann died 9.10.1868 at Great Malvern. See Godwin Diary website Person Record. 3.1.1819 mrs Masters may have been his first wife.

 

10.12.1794 Matthews at Thelwal's / 2.2.1795 again / 7.5.1794 at Firth's (with Thelwal) / 15.8.1794 calls / 6.2.1796 again / 21.4.1796 Tobin's / 20.6.1796 Stoddart's / 29.7.1796 Montagu's (with Tobin) / 6.7.1797 adv at Tobin's / 23.2.1799 at Mackintosh's lecture / 7.6.1799 at Ranelagh / 28.12.1799 adv at Tobin's.

Probably William 1769-1801 son of James Mathews bookseller and medicine vendor of the Strand and brother of actor Charles DNB 1776-1835. At Cambridge BA 1791 where he was Wordsworth's most intimate friend, admitted…

Maton 24.5.1799 at Carlisle's / 23.6.1801 at Tobin's

William George Maton DNB 1774-1835. Began medical studies at Westminster Hospital 1797, FRS 1800, MD 1801

Matthew 8.1.1797 at John King's and in 1796 list for 1797 / 21.2.1799 Matthew adv at theatre

One of the three Mathew brothers, immortalised by Cruikshank as the three Mr Wiggins's, probably the eldest Francis James 1768-1833 styled Viscount Mathew (as son of Earl of Landaff), MP for Tipperary, Whig sympathies, married 10.7.1797 Gertrude Cecilia daughter & coheiress of John Latouche, (her cousin Elizabeth (died 1788) had married Robert Butler 3rd Earl of Lanesborough, the eldest son of John King's wife Lady Lanesborough) See History of Parliament. Or his brother Hon Montague…

2.10.1809 Matthews calls / 28.12.1809 call on Mathews (adv. Young) / 31.12.1809 Listons &c dine; invité Mathews / 18.4.1810 call on Mathews (not seen) / 15.11.1810 dine at Cooper's, w. Incledon, Bellamy, Matthews, Fawcett, Swartwout / 2.12.1810 Cooper &c dine; invités Mathews, Swartwout / 27.12.1810 dine at Cooper's, w. Mathews / 23.11.1813 dine at Poole's, w. Matthews / 2.5.1818 Mathews at Home / 15.4.1819 Matthews at Home / 7.5.1821 Exhibition, adv. Matthews / 13.12.1824 Matthews calls / 7.4.1825 Matthews, Memorandums

All of the above except the two spelt Matthews have…

Thale p127n, report from spy Metcalfe of LCS Div 11 on 1.4.1794 (Nat Arch TS 11/956/3501) enclosed 'A New Song by J_ M_' which starts 'Come my Sons of true Liberty, let us agree/ To form an Alliance firm honest and free/ Lets join hand in hand, as Reason upholds/ Her bright Torch to Friendship. Ah! let us be bold.' Thale added that the author may be Matthews, a bookseller who published a volume of songs. Thale p144 report from spy Nodder at LCS meeting Shire Lane 21.4.1794, chairman Scofield "mention was made of a Vol: of Songs published by a Man whose name N-dd-r thinks is Mathews and for…

23.3.1789 Matthias at Miss Williams'.

1786 subscribers to HMWilliams poems Mrs M, Miss Albinia M, Miss C M, Thomas James M Esq (see Thomas James Matthias DNB 1753/4-1835). As this one was part of a female plural, either Marianne Nicholls (nee Popple) mother of TJM or (most likely) his sister Albinia, and/or other sisters. Rev Norton Nicholls (see 16.3.1789) left a legacy to TJM (PCC wills 1807). And see Weston (26.10.1788)



 

23.2.1796 Mattocks at mrs Inchbald's with C Kemble, H Siddons. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1796 as mrs Mattocks (crossed out) but wrongly transcribed in GD website as mrs Mallocks

Isabella Mattocks DNB 1746-1826. She acted Mrs Placid in Inchbald's Every One Has his Fault and Widow Warren in Holcroft's Road to Ruin. DNB says in summer she generally joined her husband in Liverpool

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

James Maund 29 Poland St ratebooks 1791-2 / James Maund otp = St James 16.4.1765 Jane Edwards of St Vedast Foster la by Abp lic wit John Serjeant / children James Edmund bt 12.5.1765 Jane bapt 5.8.1769 James bapt 19.10.1772 Ann bapt 15.12.1774 all of James & Jane at St James / Mary Jane bapt 24.12.1779 of James & Ann at St James / James Maund Carnaby St coroners jury 1764 grocer 1767 tea dealer Carnaby St voted 1774 Mountmorres & Mahon, SunFire 1779 grocer & tea dealer Carnaby St / see The Fashionable Cypriad (…