A-Z of Entries

Scurry 3.10.1901 calls  (& Countess Mountcashell) / 8.11.1801 at theatre with Lady Mountcashell

Scary was a variant of this name

28.2.1809 Seabrook calls (not seen) / 2.3.1809 Seabrook calls / 22.3.1810 call on Seabrook / 26.3.1810 Seabrook calls / 30.3.1810 again / 1.4.1810 again / 8.4.1810 again / 21.12.1810 Wardmote St Brides; adv. (Seabrook, Waithman) / 4.10.1811 Seabrook calls / 31.10.1811 call on Seabrook (not seen) / 1.11.1811 Seabrook calls

Holdens directory 1805 James Seabrook, linen draper 26 Duke-st Smithfield / Isaac Seabrook, carpenter & builder, Hosier-lane Smithfield (and 1811 at 18 Skinner-st) / John Seabrook painter & glazier 116 Gt Saffron-hill / Wm. Seabrook butcher 30 Duke-st…

Sealy calls 03.04.1802

A fairly common name (spelt also Sealey, Seally) and just one call on Godwin. see work notes for possibles

Seckerson 7.7.1800 at Gould's

Seckerson was a reasonably common name in England but in Ireland it seems to have been spelt Segerson

Sedgwick 29.4.1799 at G's head with Suet , Gattie, Chandler, Dering &c / 17.7.1830 Sedgwick at Holm's

Highfill, Burnim & Langhans have a Thomas Sedgwick d.1803 who was an ironmonger of Budge Row, Cannon St who performed at Drury Lane Theatre, (like Richard Suett). Also possibly James Sedgwick DNB 1775-1851

27.9.1809 call on Seeley / 18.11.1809 again

Leonard Benton Seeley bookseller 107 Fleet-st

13.7.1806 dine at Nicholson's w. Selby

(all these from Holdens directory 1811)
Wm S cornfactor & seedsman Church-st Greenwich
S & Walmsley wine merchants 60 Mount-st Grosvenor-sq
John S tallow chandler 1 Old Kent-rd
John S oilman 7 Gt Surry-st Blackfriars-rd (will PCC 24.6.1837)
Henry S oil & colourman 65 Chiswell-st
George S attorney 10 Charles-st Northampton-sq Clerkenwell (SunFire 1809 there & John Berry)
Edward S undertaker 31 Gt Leonard-st  Finsbury (SunFire 1813)
S, Craswell & son fishmongers 3…

22.3.1795 Selinas at King's / 1.4.1795 Celinas there. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1795 as Salines

28.6.1808 write to Norfolk & Selkirk / 6.7.1808 Selkirk

Thomas Douglas DNB 1771-1820, 5th Earl of Selkirk

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Lord Sempill proposed member 14.12.1787 by John Cartwright 2nded Alvise Zenobio

Hugh Sempill (14th Lord Sempill) son of John Sempill (died 1782) and Janet Dunlop (died 1809), born 1.7.1758. Ensign 3rd Foot Guards 24.12.1777, Lt & Capt 26.2.1781. Married 25.1.1787 at 13 Orchard St, Portman Sq, Mary dau of Charles Mellish of Ragnal, Notts. Deprived of commission 30.11.1792 for corresponding with Friends of Freedom in France. His wife died 16.9.1806 and he died 25.1.1830 at Boulogne. (GEC Peerage)

19.11.1808 Semple Lisle calls

James George Semple DNB 1759-1815

Seguieras 24.4.1797 at miss Tucker's

Del Valle, Sequeira & Brandon all Jewish guests of miss Tucker. Isaac Delvalle bankrupt 1788 surrendered place of Jew broker 3.9.1789 to Isaac Sequira junr, who compiled a new merchant's guide in 1798 to which I Delvalle subscribed. Doctor Isaac Sequeira of Mark Lane london died aged 78 his will PCC 1816 mentioned his two sons James Sequeira or Case and Lewis Sequeira or Case. Will of Lewis Sequeira of Whitechapel PCC 1819, will of Ester Sequeira wife of Hackney PCC 1792. Leonora Sequeira spinster 24 New Broad St London (Sun Fire 1794) James…

Serbonnier 9.1.1792 at Brand Hollis'

7.7.1807 accompany T(homas) T(urner) to Setcole

A rare name. George Setcole wine merchant SunFire 1777 Friday-st 1782 Lower Islington. Joshua Leigh Setcole SunFire 1795 silk broker, 19 Pavement, Moorfields his will PCC 2.7.1812. William Setcole SunFire 1818 silk broker 24 Church-st Spitalfields, his will PCC 1.2.1821. Quakers?

Seward 19.5.1793 at Tooke's / 23.1.1798 at Johnson's / 13.10.1820 seek Seward / 16.10.1820 call on Seward

First two entries above perhaps William Seward DNB 1747-99 anecdotist

Edward Seward 1770/1 - 1795 'pantisocrat' & friend Of Robert Southey

5.7.1794 B Sewel / 13.7.1796 dine at Sewel.

Bartholomew Sewell was baptised 5.7.1759 son of Robert & Sarah (nee Harmer), apprenticed in 1777 to Simon Wilkin grocer of Norwich, married 27.11.1781, at St George Colegate Norwich, Anna Lincoln, was a grocer, brandy merchant and hop merchant of Coslany Street Norwich in 1784, and subscribed to William Gordon's America in 1788. Star 4.4.1795 witness (see Firth 28.6.1794). He may be the Bartholomew Sewell who was buried at Walworth, Surrey 26.11.1813.
The "dine at Sewel" 13.7.1796 may refer to Samuel Sewell farmer of Wood…

call on H(olcrof)t at Harwwood's adv Mathans & Shakeshaft 5.5.1804

This entry has been mistranscribed on GD website as Shakerhaft . For possibles see work notes below

29.2.1796 call on Nothcote, talk of Shakspear & Burke

Obviously William Shakespeare the playwright but GD website still has it underlined as an unidentified person

sharer 11.3.1800 adv at theatre / 6.5.1800 again / 2.2.1801 Renter adv at theatre

Possibly these entries referred to the arrangements Godwin had with the Drury Lane theatre for free tickets, all three entries above were at that theatre, but the Renter entry with a capital R may have referred to a surname, though it was a rare one. Samuel Renter bur 20.12.1827 Westminster (noncomformist) / George Frederick Renter = 1813 St Clement Danes Hannah Moore / Thomas son of John & Susanna Renter bapt 1791 Holborn St Sepulchre

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Richard Sharp of 6 Fish St Hill proposed member 13.9.1782 by Joseph Brown 2nded Edward Hall

GODWIN DIARY: In Godwin's 1796 list for 1790 as Sharpe followed by Gram crossed out and Rd inserted above before Sharpe, and in 1794 version as Sharpe, hatter. Richard Sharp has a person record in GD website but the 1796 entry is not coded to it. The Gram looks like Godwin confused him while making the list (see Sharpe, Granville)

Richard Sharp DNB 1759-1835