A-Z of Entries

3.4.1806 Wedd's (Morland) w. 4 Rowans, M(ary) J(ane) & Dawe

Robert Wedd solicitor of George Morland (DNB 1763-1804). Robert Wedd bapt Royston, Herts 14.5.1758 son of Benjamin & Mary Wedd. Beware there were several benjamin Wedds in Royston, Robert's father died in 1781. Robert Wedd = Covent Garden 4.5.1779 Catherine Royer by lic. Caroline Maria bapt 1.10.1779 Covent Garden dau of Robert Wedd & Catherine. Robert Wedd of Bedford Court gent articled 1.5.1780 to Jonathan Dennett attorney of Henrietta St. Robert Wedd attorney of Gerrard St age 42 joined masonic Lodge of…

Event tag. See 18.4.1788 - Lord Loughborough should be identified as Alexander Wedderburn (DNB 1733-1805)

 

miss Wedgwood 10.3.1798 at Pump room Bath / 17.8.1800 at (Robert) Darwin's Shrewsbury

Of the daughters still alive in 1798 of Josiah Wedgwood DNB 1730-1795, Susannah 1765-1817 had married Robert Waring Darwin on 18.4.1796 at St Marylebone. (They were the parents of Charles Darwin DNB 1809-1882). The two youngest Catherine 1775-1824 (will PCC 1824) and Sarah remained unmarried, This was more likely the older one Catherine as the title Miss without first name generally implied the oldest unmarried sister, Josiah Wedgwood & Co, potters had a shop in Milsom St, Bath (1784 directory…

21.2.1793 Wedgwood's concert

Boyle's 1792 Josiah Wedgwood Esq 12 Greek St Soho

mrs Wedgwood's 7.6.1797 / 12.6.1797 again / 17.8.1800 mrs & miss Wedgwoods at (Robert) Darwin's, Shrewsbury / 28.11.1813 S Wedgwood at Mackintosh's

Sarah Wedgwood 1734-1815 widow of Josiah Wedgwood DNB d.1795. The S Wedgwood of 1813 was perhaps more likely her unmarried daughter Sarah (see Wedgwood, Catherine). Mrs Robert Darwin was Mrs Wedgwood's daughter so the three sisters and their mother were probably at dinner

Weeding  calls 20.7.1798

Weekes 12.12.1804 at Joseph Johnson's

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

Frederica Weichsel nee Weirman in DNB Elizabeth Billington 1765-1818 / ad for Mrs Weichsel 7 Poland St 24.3.1778 & 8.3.1779 Morning Post, she died 1786. Her landlady was presumably Mrs Alfrey (QV*). Charles Weichsel bach = St Martin in the Fields by lic botp 18.9.1804 Stefana Rovedino sp wits Antonio Mariotti, Carlo Antonio De Gricy (?)

23.3.1789 Welby at Miss Williams' / 9.5.1795 (Ritson &) Welby call / 14.3.1800 (Northmore &) Welby call / 28.10.1800 again / 31.10.1800 at Northmore's / 4.12.1801 again

1786 subscribers to HMWilliams poems Miss Welby, & R E Welby Esq. Richard Earle Welby baptised 3.11.1755 Welbourn, Lincs, son of Richard, and married 17.8.1799 at St Anne Soho Mary Leece, and was buried 10.5.1828 St Marylebone age 72 of Bentinck St, PCC will 1828. He was a cousin of William Earle Welby who was more closely related to Northmore and therefore more likely the Welby of 1800 and 1801. The…

Weld 3.10.1799 adv at Curran's

Richard Weld died 12.12.1799 (see Lloyd's Evening Post 13- 16.12.1799). All previous Weld entries in 1796 and 1797 are coded in GD website but the person record does not identify him, though David Fallon does in his article on booksellers in the Bodleian Library Record's issue on Godwin's diary. Richard Weld of Bolton St, St Geo Han Sq, voted Fox 1784, Fox & Tooke 1790

Francis Weldon of 59 Friday St proposed Society for Constitutional Information 25.10.1793 by George Williams 2nded Thomas Wardle

William Tapp linen draper 59 Friday St 1780-1786 & Reymer 1790. Francis Weldon SunFire 1794 warehouseman Watling St, 1795 gauze warehouseman with George Coleman 1800 with him in trust. Friends of Freedom steward on 5.11.1796 (Morning Chronicle 17.10.1796). Francis Weldon merchant of Watling St joined Whig Club 3.4.1798. Bury & Norwich Post 19.6.1811 Francis Weldon draper of Stamford died 11.6.1811. Nat Arch PROB 31/1055/837 inventory of Francis…

13.6.1796 Wells at Dealtry's / 9.8.1796 at Joseph Johnson's with Newnham / 5.12.1797 at Joseph Johnson's /.4.9.1798 again / 29.1.1799 at J Johnson's with Newnum / 12.3.1799 at J Johnson's with Newnum, adv Wells / 30.4.1799 at J Johnson's with Newnum / 30.4.1799 again / 30.9.1799 at J Johnson's / 5.11.1799 again / 28.1.1800 again / 2.12.1800 at J Johnson's with Newnum / 2.6.1801 again / 16.9.1801 again./ 19.7.1804 Wells's call / 26.7.1804 miss Wells dines / 18.8.1804 Wells on water trip / 18.10.1804 theatre w miss Wells & MJ / 10.11.1804 again / 30.12.1816 Wells at Constable's / …

See Welles, Richard

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

John Wells 36 Poland St ratebooks 1796-1814 / John Wells = St James 21.4.1792 Mary Holmes / coroners jury 1799 John Wells grocer Poland St / John Wells cheesemonger Poland St voted Paull 1806 / SunFire 1814 John Wells grocer & cheesemonger 34 Poland St / Morning Post 29.11.1814 Mr Wells cheesemonger Poland St / John Wells cheesemonger of Oxford St voted Burdett & Romilly 1818

10.11.1789 Wendeborn at Robinson's.

Gebhard Friedrich August Wendeborn (PCC wills 1813 Hamburg) born Magdeburg, in England 1767-93 then went to Hamburg and couldn't return to England because of the war. Minister of German chapel on Ludgate Hill, wrote 'A View of Great Britain' and a German Grammar, both published by Robinson in 1790/1. Leeds Archives letter to Rd How Aspley 1792 (not seen)



 

see Poland Street number not known in London Addresses dataset

see American National Biography Online / letters in Sheffield Archives 1764-1769 (WWM/F/41/36, /R/1/766 & 959, /Gov/2)  Paul Wentworth at Spring Gardens 1767, Pall Mall 1768 / Marriage Licence 30.4.1776 Paul Wentworth wid of St James & Anna Catherina Kennedy (note ANB states he never remarired) / 17.1.1771 Public Advertiser Paul Wentworth appointed one of His Majesty's Council for New Hampshire / 20.7.1775 Public Ledger Governor Hutchinson, Sir John Lindsay, Sir John Maine &c at dinner at Mr Wentworth's…

4.12.1807 call on West / 5.12.1807 again / 28.3.1811 write to West / 12.7.1811 West of Cork calls / 13.7.1811 again / 1.1.1812 write to West / 20.3.1812 write to West / 23.4.1812 write to West (Cork) / 29.6.1812 write to West / 28.11.1812 again / 13.3.1813 again / 4.10.1813 again / 7.3.1814 write to West-Grinstead / 12.12.1814 call on S West / 24.11.1815 call on West (Leather-seller) 

The first two West entries above in 1807 might have been an attorney, as Godwin was perhaps active in helping his friend William Nicholson who got out of debtor's prison on 5.12.1807 after seven…

West at tea 30.6.1795

James West of Alscote Park nr Stratford Auditor of HM's land Revenues, son of James West Joint Secretary to Treasury 1741-62, died at Snitterfield, Warwickshire 11.5.1795 (Morning Post 14.5.1795). His son & heir James adm St John's Cambridge 1794 born 18.3.1775 died 25.3.1838 as James Roberts-West

James West of Chatham Square proposed Society for Constitutional Information 24.1.1783 by Thomas Brand Hollis 2nded John Jebb

James West born 9.6.1747 bapt at Bradford Abbas, Dorset son of Mark & Hester West (see West, Mark in this dataset) / James West wid = St Sepulchre 17.1.1778 Sibella Batley / SunFire 1779 William Curteis & James West linen drapers 1, Angel Court, Friday St.  / SunFire 1780 James West linen draper 36 Charterhouse Sq /  Mark West born 7.2.1780 at Charterhouse Sq, son of James West & Sibella dau of Benjamin Batley (Dr Williams' registry) /…

Mark West of Bradford, Dorset proposed Society for Constitutional Information 9.5.1783 by John Jebb 2nded James West

Mark West = Charlton Mackrell, Somerset 27.5.1746 Hester Samson / Sun Fire 1780 Mark West Esq, Bradford Abbas / 1781 Mark West gave property worth £110 to Bradford Abbas charity school, along with William Read who gave the same amount / see West, James in this dataset for his son, from whose will we know he died between 1781 and 1792