A-Z of Entries

T Woodhouse 20.12.1799 at Opie's / 17.1.1800 Tho Woodhouse at Opie's / 26.6.1800 again

Presumably John Thomas Woodhouse 1780-1845 fellow of Caius College, Cambridge and brother of Robert Woodhouse DNB 1773-1827 (see Jones)

Woodman 26.2.1791 (just the name, no 'calls' or 'call on')

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Thomas Woollams 44 (45) Poland St ratebooks 1783-94 Mary Woollams 1795-1800 / perhaps Thomas Woollams bach = St Leonard Shoreditch 23.7.1776 Mary Bryer wid botp / or less likely Thomas Woollams wid = Christchurch Spitalfields 13.6.1784 Mary Nordman both of the Liberty of the Old Artillery Ground / Thomas & Sarah twins bapt 1780, Thomas bapt 1781, William bapt 1783 & Thomas bapt 1785 all at St James of Thomas & Mary Woollams / Thomas Woollams perukemaker of Poland St voted 1784 Fox / coroners jury 1792 Thomas Woolams…

see Autobiography of Francis Place ed. Mary Thale page 87

Thos Woollams of Barbers Co. took apprentice William Woollams 1756

William Woollams = St Andrew by the Wardrobe 20.9.1773 Catherine Cox both of St Ann Blackfriars banns sigs wits Joseph & Sarah Knight
Susanna dau of William & Catherine Woollams bapt 28.2.1774 St Clement Danes buried there 3.1.1775 consumption
William son of William & Catherine Woollams bapt 3.5.1775 St Clement Danes
James son of William & Catherine Woollams bapt 26.6.1778 St Clement Danes

rate books Exeter…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

John Woolley 23 Poland St (Kings Arms) ratebooks 1788-9 / SunFire 1783 John Woolley victualler of Greek St, Soho but he may have been the John William Woolley victualler of Westminster whose will was proved 19.10,1786 PCC by his widow Mary Ann, no children mentioned / perhaps SunFire 1790 John Woolley victualler of the Three Mariners, Oare, nr Faversham Kent (his will PCC 1815) / perhaps John Woolley bur 15.2.1819 St Geo Han Sq age 69 of Lee's Mews

14.10.1809 Woolnoth calls / 30.10.1809 call on Woolnoth / 31.10.1809 Woolnoth calls / 6.11.1809 again

Likely William Woolnoth engraver (bbti) 92 White Lion-str Pentonville (Holdens directory 1802) 1780-1837 (William Woolnoth gent White Lion-row SunFire 1782 presumably his father). Woolnoth was a surname given to foundlings baptised at St Mary Woolnoth

Woolriche 9.1.1802 at Thomas Moore's (the Irish poet)

Morning Post 24.3.1806 and 3.4.1806 "Mr T Moore has been confined these 8 weeks Stephen Woolriche Esq surgeon to HRH Duke of Cambridge has attended him the entire time". Stephen Woolriche born 3.6.1770 died 29.2.1856 (Plarr's Surgeons). 1794 subsrs to Mary Darwall's Poems Mr Woolriche surgeon, Miss Woolriche New Mills nr Walsall. Army surgeon half pay 1788-1806, 4th foot from 1807. Morning Post 5.11.1825 Mr Woolriche surgeon on staff of Duke of Wellington in Peninsula, accompanied Duke of Bedford to Nice. Retired to Qwatford…

call on Wordsworth atty 2.4.1798 / 3.4.1798 call on Wordsworth, adv Montagu / 14,4,1798 call on Worswort atty / 16.4.1798 call on Wordsworth (& Montagu) / 17.4.1798 call on Wordsworth / 5.5.1798 adv Wordsworth at (Samuel) Lister's

The above entries have all been coded to William Wordsworth on the GD website. The poet was clearly down in Somerset at this time (see Reed, Wordsworth Chronology 1770-1799) and two of the above entries add "atty" i.e. attorney, which was the profession of the poet's brother Richard. There are also two later entries that are coded to William Wordsworth…

15.7.1795 Dyson & W call. Since Godwin called on Wordsworth the previous day, this W seems very likely to have been Wordsworth

7.6.1796 sup with W at Montagu's. Since Wordsworth had already been named in full that day, this was certainly him

Benjamin Worship of Great Yarmouth articled 4.7.1757 for seven years to William Worship attorney of the same place
Benjamin Worship bach otp = St Nicholas Gt Yarmouth 25.8.1764 Elizabeth Jay sp a minor otp by license witnesses Bartholomew Jay, Sampson Winn
William Worship bapt 26.6.1767 Gt Yarmouth s of Benjamin & Elizabeth
Maria dau of Benjamin & Elizabeth Worship born 20.11.1786 bapt 30.7.1787 Newington Surrey
Mrs Elizabeth Worship of Newington buried Locks Fields 6.11.1791 age 46
Nat Arch TS 11/956/3501 report from spy Metcalfe 2.4.1794 Mr Worship…

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1779 also in 1794 version

Hugh Worthington DNB 1752-1813 a London dissenting preacher from 1774. Didn't appear in Godwin's daily diary entries dating from 1788

10.11.1795 Wrangham & Montagu call / 11.11.1795 call on Montagu adv Wrangham / 18.11.1795 at Montagu's / 13.1.1796 there / 14.5.1797 Wrangham & Montagu call /  28.5 1797 again / 4.6.1799 Godwin calls on Wranghm (not in) / 5.6.1799 again / 13.5.1800 adv at Mauman's / 15.3.1810 Godwin wrote to / 3.4.1811 Wrangham & Strickland call / 22.7.1815 Godwin wrote to / 8.6.1816 calls / 1.6.1834 calls

Francis Wrangham DNB 1769-1842. Brightwell: Memorials of A Opie p59. Seatonian prize. Married 1799 Yorkshire Agnes Creyke, she d.1800, 2ndly Dorothy Cayley 1801

Sir Cecil Wray proposed Society for Constitutional Information 29.11.1782 Edward Hall 2nded Samuel Shore

See DNB 1734-1805 also History of Parliament. His one appearance in Godwin Diary 1.4.1795 was interestingly at  the table of John King DNB c1753-1823 see my Background article King of the Swindlers

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

Capt Henry Wray ratebooks 7 PolandSt 1788 / Henry Wray RN = 24.4.1783 St James Elizabeth Ideson / Luke Henry son of Henry & Elizabeth Wray bapt 6.2.1784 St James / Anjel dau of Henry & Elizabeth Wray bapt 1.9.1786 Westminster / will PCC 1825 Henry Wray Guernsey dated 13.12.1819 all to Angel Wray proved 30.12.1825 by Angel Wray Rosetti wife of Anthony Rosetti

Nat Arch ADM 254/223/59 Henry Wray of Seagull sloop 1796. Commander 1795-1817 Henry Wray Nat Arch ADM 9/4/888 . See Ideson, Luke

Wright 8.4.1796 adv at King's / 2.12.1807 call on Wright / 4.12.1807 again / 6.9.1808 again (in Newbury)  / 7.11.1808 Wright cpp calls / dine at Collier's w. Wright / 8.8.1812 tea Collier's, w. Wright

I suspect five different Wrights in the above entries. For 1796 at King's I have no suggestions. For the two entries two days apart in 1807 I considered Henry Wright attorney of Paper-bldgs Temple partner to Thomas Nelson Pickering, because a Pickering also appeared in the list of calls on 3.12.1807, 4.12.1807 and 5.12.1807. However on 4.12.1807 they both appeared but separated by…

Wright 16.7.1800 calls, adv at Lefanu's

Perhaps Thomas Wright Dict Irish Biog 1760-1812 surgeon, United Irishman, informer from 1799. Dublin Trades 1797 Benjamin Wright grocer, James Wright victualler, Joseph Wright grocer, Joseph Wright hatter, Nehemiah Wright linen draper, Patrick Wright factor

19.4.1810 call on Curran; adv. dr Wright

Perhaps Thomas Wright 1760?-1812 Dict Irish Biog a surgeon who was part of the United Irishmen but after his arrest informed on them and later served as Temporary Physician to the British forces in the fever stricken Walcheren expedition of 1809. His book The History of the Walcheren Remittent was published in 1811 (Morning Post 26.6.1811) and he died of yellow fever in October 1812 in Spain. He was a licentiate of the Irish College of Physicians, the only Dr Wright in the Royal College in 1811 was Warner Wright of Norwich

John Wright of Milk Street proposed Society for Constitutional Information 27.4.1792 by Michael Pearson 2nded John Horne Tooke (elected but deceased)

John Wright born 12.2.1762 died 12.5.1792 buried 15.5.1792 St Lawrence Jewry. Lowndes directory 1787 John Wright wholesale hosier Milk St, 1788-191 William & Samuel Wright wholesale hosiers 20 Milk St, Kent's directory 1791 John Wright warehouseman 22 Milk St. His father Thomas Wright along with William Wright, manufacturers of hose, Derby, Bailey's 1784. According to an Ancestry user-submitted tree his father was Thomas Wright…

Rev Wright of Ipswich proposed Society for Constitutional Information 27.4.1787 by Thomas Brand Hollis 2nded John Baynes

Rev John Wright, Ipswich subscribed 1796 to Habakkuk Crabb (DNB 1750-1794). Not found in Surman Index or Oakes Diaries, no newspaper mentions found. John Wright = Sudbury, Suffolk 22.11.1763 Mary Key. Her will dated 31.12.1784 Mary wife of Rev John Wright of Ipswich mentioned indenture of 14.3.1770 father John Key, cousin John Eaton eldest son of late cousin Elizabeth Eaton who was dau of aunt Mary Snell, cousin Thomas Smith son of Daniel & Susan Smaith…

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

6 Poland St ratebooks 1780-9 Mrs Wright (poor). The note poor may imply she was let off paying the rates. This does not necessarily mean she was living in greater poverty than some of her neighbouring householders.  Others marked as poor in the ratebooks were Joseph Bennett at 20 Poland St and John Heslop at 25 Poland St. The name Wright was very common but two burials around the time her tenancy ended were Elizabeth Wright adult bur St Martin in the Fields 21.3.1789, Sarah Wright adult bur 3.9.1789 St James