A-Z of Entries

(mes0 Pym 5.5.1789 at miss Williams'

call on Grace Pyne with M(ary) J(ane) 17.8.1803

According to an Ancestry user-submitted tree John Pyne married Grace Palmer 6,8,1779 at Langford Bordville Somerset and their son Isaac married a Mary Wale, and then a Mary Snook on 12.11.1805 at Wellington. The will of Grace Pyne widow of Wellington, Somerset was proved 28.7.1808 at the Consistory Court of Wells (Nat Arch IR26) and mentioned her daughter Mary and son Isaac. Mary Jane Godwin had a number of contacts in London from Somerset, notably the Napiers, but they were from the Yeovil area some 30 miles from Wellington. I've…

HCR diary 21.5.1824 at French theatre "I introduced Quayle to Mrs Aders and Long and Tiarks to Qu: so that I had a variety of conversation"

                  17.11.1826 "Quayle, Wood & Pryme breakfasted with me - The Suffolk Magistrate, the Preston member, the Cambridge candidate agree admirably in their politics"

                    20.5.1833 "went early with Quayle to look at Aders prints…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Andrew Quesnell 41 (42) Poland St ratebooks 1779-1818 / Andrew Quesnell = St James 26.5.1777 Ann dau of Peter Creps (QV*) baker, the previous householder at this address / Middlesex Sessions 18.5.1782 Andrew Quesnell late of St James labourer not guilty of an assault on John Baptist La Couture / 14.12.1787 Andre Quesnel of Poland St baker bail for Edward Lomax & others / Andrew son of Andrew & Catherine Quesnell bapt 2.8.1782 St James / SunFire 1791 John Quesnell gent 12 Charles St Grosvenor Sq, his wife a milliner /…

see Batemans Buildings in London Addresses dataset

Jno Claude Quetin 15 Batemans Buildings ratebooks 1774 "gone & broke" / John Cluds Quetin = St Martin i t Fields 20.4.1775 Rose Austen botp by lic wits Francois Quetin, Lawrence (Behr?) / Victoire Rosalie Quetin born 31.7 1776 bapt 21.8.1776 St James Picc'y of Jean Claude & Rose / Nicholas Morel = St Luke Chelsea 17.12.1794 Victoire Rosalie Quetin / Nicholas Morel upholsterer, Marlborough St, St James voted 1818 Romilly & Maxwell

Quins 16.7.1800 at Reeves's / 22.7.1800 Quins at Burton's

GD website has coded these to Edward Turnly Quin DNB 1762-1823 which is probably right for later Quins in London, but though he was Irish there were many Quins in Ireland and Quin didn't appear in Godwin's diary with Curran in London until 1817. E T Quin married in London in 1793 and the DNB says nothing more about his whereabouts till 1803 when he became editor of the Traveller

Thomas Goold's mother was nee Quin (see Gould) and Gould was at Reeves's on 16.7.1800. In Dict Irish Biog Henry Quin 1717-1791 doctor,…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Joseph Quincey of Lant St, Southwark proposed member 8.11.1782 by Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield 2nded Henry Amory

His father perhaps Robert Quincey

Robert Quincey of Kensington bach married St Gregory by St Paul 7.6.1739 Susannah Fielding sp otp. Susnna dau of Robert & Susanna Quincey bapt Aug 1745 St Geo Southwark. Robert Quincey bur St Ann Blackfriars 20.4.1750 age 40. Robert Quincey married at Kensington 14.6.1750 Mary Savage. Sarah dau of Robert & Mary Quincey of New Red Cross St bapt 5.6.1757 St Geo Southwark. Robert…

4.9.1808 Royal Ménagerie, Quist w. M(ary) J(ane), Bonnycastle &c

Probably Charles Adolphus Quist, 1729-1821  Lt. Col attached to the Riding House department of the Royal Artillery, Woolwich, died unmarried. Charles Quist son of Count Adolphus Quist of Sweden, naturalised 1775. Was he displaying riding skills at age 79? The main attraction at Pidcock's Royal Menagerie, Exeter Change, Strand was the female kangaroo with her young hopping in and out of her pouch

18.11.1795 Raby at Montagu's / 25.9.1805 adv Raby at Nicholson's

5.6.1808 dine at Knowles's, w. Fuseli, Jeffery & Racket

Thomas Rackett DNB 1755-1840. Dorset History Centre D/RAC/107 for his letters to Knowles 1809-1833

F Rackstrow 9.10.1801 dines at Mitre, Oxford

Frances dau of Thomas & Ann Rackstrow bapt All Saints Oxford 1781. Her father Thomas was perhaps the Thomas Rackstrow will PCC 1814 of Hertford

13.2.1809 Raddon calls / 12.5.1809 again / 18.5.1809 again / 6.6.1809 again / 12.6.1809 again

Holdens Directory 1811: Robert Raddon plumber & glazier 25 Hatton Wall (will PCC 1844) / Capt W Raddon 5 Jamaica-row, Bermondsey / Mr William Raddon 22 Upper Eaton-st Pimlico. This last was the line engraver artist & entomologist William Raddon 1778-1848, friend of Fuseli. Married to Ann, 22 years his senior.

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: John Rae of Bridge Court proposed member 19.10.1792 by Charles Sinclair 2nded John Balmanno. Withdrew 14.12.1792 after William Sturch put a motion to expel him.

John Rae Esq Angel Court, Throgmorton St, merchant SunFire 1777 / John Rae otp = St Geo Han S. q 23.2.1786 by lic Sarah Batte of St Marylebone / St Jas Chron 10.3.1789 Elizabeth & Anthony Macharg & John Rae merchants of Idol Lane, London bankrupt / John Rae, White Hart Row, Kennington Lane, baker SunFire 1791 / (none of the foregoing particularly likely to have been the SCI…

27.4.1792 at Henley's

see Henley, Isaac

Raikes 27.6.1788 at Robinson's

Identified probably wrongly in GD website as his brother Robert. Godwin met Raikes once at Robinson's on 27.6.1788 and 2 weeks later the 15 year old George Dyson and his 13 year old brother Abraham dined with Godwin. George Dyson referred to Thomas Raikes in a letter of 8.10.1810 (Nat Arch TS11/463) as "my highly respected old master" who had just lost his wife, as Thomas Raikes, Governor of the Bank of England, just had, which Dyson in South America had seen in a newspaper

 

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Peter Raimbach proprietor 38 Poland St Land Tax Redemption 1798 / SunFire 3.4.1798 Peter Raimbach, King St, Soho, also Poland St (glazier) / his son Abraham Raimbach engraver DNB 1776-1843, Peter Raimbach "came when a child to England" "married Martha Butler daughter of a Warwickshire farmer" / John Gabriel s of Peter & Martha Raimbach bapt 17.11.1772 Lambeth / Moses son of Peter Raimbach victualler of King St Soho appr 6.3.1794 to Richard West junior Citizen & Salter of London free 2.7.1801 bur 28.4.1839 from Bloomsbury…

7.11.1792 Doctor Raine / 8.11.1792 / 9.11.1792 syringe / 10.11.1792 syringe / 12.11.1792 / 15.11.1792 (adv Agar) / 26.11.1792 / 19.6.1794 meet Raine

In the Godwin Diary website these entries are coded to Matthew Raine (a Doctor but not of medicine) though the editorial notes make it clear they do not think it can be him as the closeness of the 7 entries and the word syringe clearly suggest a medical intervention. But a medical doctor called Raine, Rain or Rayne doesn't seem to have existed. There were three surgeons, one named William Raine will PCC 1800 'who had resided many…

Ramsay 7.3.1802 at Perry's

A common name but a  one-off in Godwin's diary, apart from Miss Ramsay in 1794 and a Ramsey in 1833. Guesswork might suggest a reporter like Spanky who was also at Perry's that day or some other Scottish connection of Perry's. There was a William Ramsay who was shorthand taker at the Old Bailey in 1801. William Ramsay was clerk in the secretary's office at East India House 1768-1794 and then served as secretary till 1813, William Ramsay junior was clerk in the same office from 1800 to 1816. William Ramsay wrote on the Solubility of Earths in Nicholson…

at Newgate 30.7.1794 'adv Hart Street, miss Ramsay & Cook' / 4.8.1794 at Jennings' / 26.10.1794 again.

Possibly Margaret or Jane, the two unmarried daughters of James Ramsay DNB d.1789 slavery abolitionist. His eldest daughter Sarah married the Rev Richard Warde at Aylesford, Kent on 4.2.1790; Jane married Aretas Akers son of a West Indies merchant at St Geo Queen Sq on 19.3.1795; and Margaret was perhaps the person of that name who married George Burk at St Anne Soho 23.10.1796. Not a rare name, I found 7 other female Ramsays marrying in London 1795-…

23.1.1810 call on Ramsbottom

Perhaps John Ramsbottom surgeon Paternoster-row (Holdens directory 1811)