A-Z of Entries

31.1.1795 at Powel's / 16.10.1801 calls / 11.8.1802 call with M(ary) J(ane)on E Bone / Godwin calls on 27.9.1809 / adv at Place's 14.7.1813.

John Bone, bookseller and muslin cleaner, member of London Corresp Socy, went bankrupt with William Hone in 1810. Bone & Hone booksellers &c 331 Strand. At 180 Fleet St (Holden's 1802) which was the address of J S Jordan, who published 1808 Bone's weekly journal The Reasoner. The Making of the Modern World database has no.13 online, the Bodleian have a copy, not seen by me, See work notes below

Elizabeth d c1830 wife of Henry…

John Bonham junior of Hammersmith proposed 25.10.1793 by Charles Sinclair 2nded Thomas Holcroft. John Bonham was the oldest son of Francis Warren Bonham by his first wife Mary Ann Leslie, born about 1769 probably in Ireland and matric at Merton College Oxford 1785. F W Bonham Land Tax Hammersmith 1791-99, his will PCC 1810 of Bath. John Bonham the younger of Hammersmith and Arthur Bedford were prosecuted for an assault by Ruth Ann Barnes and Elizabeth Thornton of Turnham Green who relinquished their prosecution at Middlesex Sessions in January 1793 (London Lives) (probably in return for a…

GODWIN DIARY 4.1.1795 &c

John Augustus Bonney of Percy Street, Rathbone Place proposed 8,4.1791 by John Frost 2nded Joseph Adams. Born 1763 youngest son of Thomas Bonney rector of Ockham, Surrey 1710-1764 (son of Charles Bonney d.1744 woolstapler of Reading and his wife Elizabeth nee Armington d.1756) and Grace d.1776 dau of Chrstopher Key, receiver-general. Apprenticed 31.3.1779 to John Frost (DNB 1750-1842) attorney of St Pancras for 5 yrs premium £200. Married 23.9.1787 St Pancras Mary Johnson widow, wits Charles Tomkins, Tom Hague. She was probably born Mary Hague about 1762…

3 Bonnors 7.3.1802 at Perry's

Two people of this name in DNB either could have been at Perry's. Charles Bonnor DNB d1829? actor & civil servant and Thomas Bonnor DNB 1743-1807x12 draughtsman & engraver. Other Bonnors Thomas B paymaster of 15th foot will PCC 1801 mentioned Marianna B spinster of Gloster, John B of GPO London, Thos B of Pentonville engraver, William Gillies of Throckmorton St corn merchant and his wife Charlotte Hester / PCC 1823 Thomas Bonnor late of Spring Gardens Westminster and now of Lindsay Pl Chelsea / PCC 1833 Jane B wife of John B of Doughty St, St…

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1796 but not coded to his person record in GD website

4.8.1807 dine at Johnson's, w. Bonnycastle & son, &c / 29.12.1808 Hommey, & misses Bonnycastle & Yeates call / 7.1.1809 Knowles & miss Bonnycastle dine / 20.1.1809 dine at Johnson's, w. Bonnycastle & fille, &c

Charlotte born 1788 Lewisham = 1813 Henry Gritten, Lt. Royal Marine, wits. M F Hommey, W Hommey. Bonnycastle's only daughter, he had three sons Richard Henry, Capt. Royal Engineers, Humphrey born 1795, Charles b. 1796. Bonnycastle's wife was Bridget Newell (not…

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

John Bonomi architect Bailey's Directory 1785 2 Poland St. See Howard Colvin's Dictionary of Architects

5.2.1810 call on Bonsor / 9.2.1810 again / 2.11.1813 again / 1.8.1823 again / 18.8.1823 seek Bonsor / 10.8.1823 again / 22.8.1823 call on Bonsor / 2.10.1823 again / 28.10.1823 again / 5.4.1825 Guildhall; Bonsor &c / 25.5.1825 call on Bonsor

Joseph Bonsor printer & stationer 132 Salisbury-sq, Fleet-st (1768-1835 bbti)

27.9.1809 call on Boosey / 17.11.1809 again

Thomas Boosey bookseller 4 Old Broad-st

Boot's Atherston nr Stratford 5.6.1797

In GD website Atherston is wrongly transcribed Albertson. In a letter to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin described Boot as a country farmer. John Boote gamekeeper and yeoman of Atherston from 1774, subscribed (along with Samuel Parr and many of his local friends) to History & Antiquities of Stratford upon Avon 1806, Jackson's Oxford Journal 22.3.1823 J Boote of Cricklade Wilts formerly of Atherston upon Stour died age 75. There were other Bootes in the vicinity, Mr Boote of Lapworth also subsribed in 1806 to the same work, and JOJ recorded on 8.…

20.9.1795 Booths at Holcroft's / 29.8.1797 walk to Booth's, with Wollstonecraft, read, en famille, Werter p127. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1795, Booth crossed out after Dudley and inserted above before Dudley (which probably referred to 23.9.1795)

12.7.1809 write to Booth &c / 1.8.1809 write to Booth (Norwich) &c / 9.8.1809 write to Booth & Frizac / 19.1.1810 write to Booth &c / 23.2.1810 write to Franklin, Baker & Booth / 28.7.1810 write to Booth (Norwich) / 30.10.1810 write to Upham & Booth / 1.12.1810 write to J Taylor, Booth & Berry / 20.12.1810 write to Gillet & Booth

The above entries have all been coded on GD website to David Booth DNB 1766-1846. Those where Norwich was specified were very likely William Parkinson Booth bookseller of Norwich 1790 to 1825 (bbti). Also probably 12.7.1809…

The four paragraphs below don't have to be the same person, but the name was rare so they may be, and same trade between first and last para

Aaron Booth bapt 20.4.1766 Selston Notts son of Joshua & Mary (née Leiven), older brother Caleb Booth 1764-1846 in 1841 census at Selston, (son?) a framework knitter, Thos Saxton joiner of Alfreton, Derbys took appr Aaron Booth 17.5.1780 for 7 years. (Alfreton just 3 miles from Selston)

Aaron Booth = St Geo Han Sq 1.2.1789 MargaretXBrookshaw botp banns wit Thos Rice

TS 11/965/3510A  30.4.1794 Wickham (secretary of state's)…

2.5.1816 call on Moore (not seen) : seek Boothby

Godwin went to Ashbourne, probably to see the poet Thomas Moore, but finding him out tried to find Sir Brooke Boothby DNB 1744-1824 poet and writer of Ashbourne Hall

Borcham 16.4.1792 at miss Godwin's.

Ann Godwin's letter (Abinger c.1 f78) says she missed Burcham so had to send by post. All 6 Borchams in the Apprenticeship Tax records (National Archives IR1) lived in Suffolk or Essex

Borman 26.4.1795 at King's / 20.7.1810 Borman calls / 23.7.1810 again

Bosse 29.6.1788 at Holcroft's. Cesare Bosse d. 1802 (Highfill, Burnim & Langhan's Biog Dict of Actors &c) was a composer. Godwin noted him again at Shield's on 17.7.1788, then as Bossy at Holcroft's on 5.4.1791 and 7.7.1791 and finally Godwin dined at Bosse's on 9.11.1791
 

John Bostick of Bolton, Lancs Swedenborgian conference 5.9.1791

misses Bosville 30.12.1792 at Paradise's

Possibly natural daughters of William Bosville (DNB 1745-1813) or of his father

Godfrey Bosville will PCC 1784 was William Bosville's father. His will mentioned his wife Diana (her will PCC 1795) & children William (his will PCC 1814 unmarried and no natural children mentioned), Thomas Blackett (his will PCC 1793), Diana Elizabeth wife of Alexander Baron Macdonald & Julia (her will PCC 1833) wife of John Viscount Dudley & Ward (his will PCC 1788).

Boyle's 1792 Lt Col Bosville & Thomas Bosville 16 Clarges St /…

William Bosville of Maddock Street proposed Socy for Const Info 3.6.1791 by John Horne Tooke 2nded John Augustus Bonney. William Bosville DNB 1745-1813. Will PCC 1814 of Thorpe Hall Yorks. He died unmarried and his will mentioned no natural children but see Bosville, Misses.

BONNEY DIARY  14.11.1794 / 15.11.1794 / M Bosville 18.11.1794

1806 Bosville chair of Middlesex freeholders club, who resolved Mr Byng's letter was an insult and in violation of a pledge made in 1805 to celebrate the return of Burdett & Byng in 1802

2.11.1795 miss Boswell at Richard Johnson's

Her father James Boswell DNB 1740-1795 was at Richard Johnson's on 8.1.1794 (Journal). He died on 19.5.1795 leaving three daughters, the eldest Veronica died in October 1795 aged 22. The youngest Elizabeth (Betsy) was aged 15 at a boarding school in Chelsea, so this is more likely to be Euphemia born 1774 will PCC 1837 spinster of Auchinleck. She would have been in mourning, for father and sister, and the other guest at Johnson's Mrs Sharpe was perhaps her 'chaperone'. See Elizabeth Ogborne (DNB 1763/4-1853).