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Mr & Mrs Jones 17.1.1790 at Mrs Webb's / 20.4.1790 again / 25.12.1791 again / 18.12.1791 call on Mrs Jones / 18.10.1792 write to Mr Jones

This first set of Jones entries in Godwin's diary all seem to refer to one couple, friends of the Webbs. They may just possibly be Arthur Jones (died 1794) linen draper of Bath and his wife, whose daughters appear often later in the diary (see Jones, Louisa & Jones, Margaret). The Webbs were Bristol merchants trading to the West Indies.

Another possibility is William and Margaret Jones of Pall Mall parents of WJAdair (see Adair…

9.6.1798 R Jones & Langley dine / 17.3.1799 R Jones calls (not in) / 12.5.1799 again / 19.5.1799 adv Jones's at dinner (where Louisa jones was) / 9.6.1799 R Jones calls (not in) / 14.7.1799 R J adv at dinner (where Louisa Jones was) / 28.7.1799 R Jones calls / 15.8.1799 again / 1.9.1799 R J calls; tea R Jones's / 27.10.1799 meet R Jones / 20.3.1800 again /  26.5.1800 adv at Opie's / 2.9.1801 R Jones sups / 5.9.1801 meet R Jones / 17.5.1804 again / 19.10.1805 again / 23.5.1807 R Jones at M Jones's

Richard Jones brother of Louisa & Margaret Jones, mentioned unfavourably…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Robert Jones 23 Poland St (Kings Arms) ratebooks 1786-7 / coroners jury 16.9.1785 victualler Poland St / SunFire victualler Kings Arms Poland St 1787 / lots of other Robert Jones victuallers in London, nearest one to Poland St found Robert Jones victualler of Wardour St Soho voted 1774 Mountmorres & Mahon

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION William Jones elected honorary memeber 26.4.1782

William Jones (DNB 1746-1794)

25.11.1809 call, L Mayor's Ct, Jones

William Jones was one of the four attorneys of the Lord Mayor's court, which was above the Royal Exchange (Holdens directory 1811)

25.4.1796 mrs Jordan's night

Dorothy Jordan DNB 1761-1816. Mrs Jordan's benefit was that night at Drury Lane, she acted Juliet in Romeo and Juliet

19.5.1792 'news of J S Jordan confirmed' (crossed through) / 4.9.1792 write to Jordan

Jeremiah Samuel Jordan, printer of Paine's Rights of Man, trading 1790 to 1809, freedom of City of London by patrimony 1791, bankrupt 14.11.1795. Tried as publisher of 2nd part of Rights of Man Nat Arch TS11/726 (Kings Bench Prison 1792-4) and of Gilbert Wakefield's Reply &c TS11/456 (Kings Bench Prison 17.7.98- Feb1799). Committed to Newgate for a misdemeanour by Lord Kenyon Sept 1798, age 35 dark complexion 5ft4 born St Giles bookseller, tried Kings Bench 11.1.1799 sentenced to 1 year in…

CHRISTIAN JOSI 1768-1828

CURRENT TEXT "marrying in 1795 Carolina Susanna"

SUGGESTED CHANGE <marrying on 13 February 1796 at St George Hanover Square Carolina Susanna (1773-1828)>

NOTES St Pancras burial 23.9.1828 Carolina Susa Josi age 55

call on Joslyn (Doctors Commons) 2.3.1804

There were two proctors in Doctors Commons called George & Henry Gostling, but that would have been a rather extreme mishearing. More likely this was Thomas Joslyn who had signed the marriage licence of Godwin and Mary Jane Vial in 1801, and he also signed some other adjacent marriage licences. He must have been a clerk of the Consistory Court which was in Knight Rider St where Doctors Commons was, and maybe the term was used for the general area. I think Godwin may have been on the trail of the marriage of Thomas West and Lucy Dallas (…

23.9.1809 call on Joy / 16.11.1809 call on Cradock & Joy / 30.12.1812 again

William Joy bookseller Ave Maria-lane 1807, Cradock & Joy publishers 3 Ave Maria-lane, 32 Paternoster-row from 1809 to 1815 (bbti) thereafter Baldwin, Cradock & Joy. SunFire 1810 Charles Cradock & William Joy 32 Paternoster-row booksellers. Morning Chronicle 18.5.1813 at Forcett Mr Charles Cradock of Paternoster-row to Miss Clerk, only daughter of William Clerk, Esq of Barforth Hall, nr. Richmond, Yorks. William Joy left the partnership in 1826 and carried on at 66 St Pauls Churchyard

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

John Joy 33 Poland St ratebooks 1788-9 / ratebooks Brewer St, St James 1790-2 / John Joy = St James 20.10.1775 Sophia Sturt botp banns wits Ann Bader her mark, John Hartstaff / SunFire 1795 56 Hatton Garden John Joy Esq

30.8.1806 4 Boadens dine: adv. E Joyce, C Colnet, Essex & Sheffields

This was the first time a Colnet appeared in Godwin's diary, and Caroline Colnett would have been only about 12 years old, though she may have come to see her older sister Emily who may have been present unmentioned if she was there to help with the children (see Colnet). Essex and the Sheffields seem to have been neighbours of Godwin's in the Polygon. E Joyce was quite likely of the family of Jeremiah Joyce (see my entries for him, his brother Joshua, and Joice, and see his person record on GD website).…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION Rev Joyce proposed member 20.4.1792 by John Lodge Batley 2nded Benjamin Cooper

Jeremiah Joyce (DNB 1763-1816). DNB article gives very little detail about his wife and children. He was apprenticed 1777 to John Willis, glazier of St Clement Danes (will PCC 1801). He married at Chevening, Kent 4.1.1796 Elizabeth Fagg of Bathwick, Somerset, whose sister Mary had married his older bother Joshua in 1784. They were daughters of Robert Harding Fagg, tallow chandkler, his will PCC 1784 tallow chandler of Bermondsey. Their children were Emma born 6.12.…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION Joshua Joyce 48 Essex St, Strand proposed member 4.5.1792 by John Frost 2nded Robert Merry

Older brother of Jeremiah Joyce (DNB 1763-1816) and see my entry on this website for Joyce, Jeremiah. Joshua was bapt 10.12.1756 at Cheshunt, Herts of Jeremiah & Hannah Joyce. His father Jeremiah Joyce will PCC 1778 woolcomber of Cheshunt, Herts, and for earlier forbears Jeremiah Joyce PCC 1742 and Joshua Joyce PCC 1751 both woolcombers of Cheshunt. Joshua Joyce = St Clement Danes 25.12.1784 Mary Fagg (whose sister married his brother Jeremiah). His…

mrs TCJoyce 19.7.1804 at Joyce's

This may have been Mary Joyce wife of Jeremiah Joyce's brother Joshua, who was a tallow chandler (TC?). The brothers married sisters, so she had a double reason for being at Joyce's. See Joyce, Jeremiah and Joyce, Joshua on this website

18.7.1796 Weybourn camp, officers Judson

True Briton 15.6.1795. Oracle 12.9.1796 The camp at Weybridge, light artillery commanded by Major Judson is suddenly ordered to Woodbridge in Suffolk.

Thomas Judgson, Royal Artillery, Captain 23.3.1786, Lt Colonel 1.1.1800. He vanished from Army list after 1806, but Morning Post Monthly military obituary of 1.1.1836 had Lt Colonel Judgson late of Royal Artillery

see Judgson, Thomas

FRANCIS JUKES 1745-1812

CURRENT TEXT "Ryland that January."

SUGGESTED CHANGE <Ryland that January. (In the Society of Artists catalogue the exhibitor was listed as J Jukes. The prints were after Chatelin (DNB 1710-1759), and a James Jukes had married Frances Chatelain at St Anne Soho on 31 May 1778.)>

CURRENT TEXT "He died in 1812, probably in March."

SUGGESTED CHANGE <He died on 21 August 1809 at his house in Pinner, Middlesex. His will mentioned no wife, but his housekeeper and companion Ann Close and her children. Eight children of Francis…

HCR diary 25.12.1823 at Sam: Kent's "the whole Jupp family - Mr J: rather a low joker, but still a sensible man - very religious but yet remarkably coarse in his conversation - with a tendency to freedom of talk on sexual matters before his own sons. Three of them - two forward striplings - one a young architect - also 4 daughters - a fine family on the whole - Mrs J: was sighing all the day - it amounted nearly to groaning - for the loss of a favourite daughter two years ago!!"....."The whole Jupp family tremendous Irvingites"

An ad in the Morning Chronicle of 4.8.1823 listed…

miss Kaine 8.8.1800 at Burne's (in Ireland)