A-Z of Entries

5.4.1809 Crown & Anchor; present Spyring &c / 3.2.1824 Spyring calls / 7.6.1828 meet Spyring

Crown & Anchor was a memorial drink or meeting for Thomas Holcroft, followed by dinner at Thelwall's. Spyring & Marsden chemists & druggists 163 Borough, directories 1801, 1816. John Samuel Shepheard Spyring treasurer of Brighton Unitarian church 1822, will PCC 1848 gent of Brighton. Born 11.10.1774 St John Exeter son of John Spyring and Elizabeth dau. of Samuel Shepheard registered Dr Williams 10.7.1816.

12.10.1806 Tooke's, w. Squire & many / 8.10.1808 Squire calls / 24.10.1809 again / 23.11.1809 call on Squire

Holdens directory 1811:

Squire & Bowley truss makers 17 Broad-st Golden-sq

Daniel Squire shoemaker 23 East-st Manchester-sq

James Squire pork butcher 244 Upper Shadwell (will PCC 26.8.1833 of St Pancras)

John Squire straw hat maker 273 Oxford-st

Joseph Squire salesman & butcher 75 Aldgate

Robt Squire linen draper 2 Field-terr Battle Bridge

Thomas Squire solicitor Scot's-yd Bush-la

Thomas Squire…

2.7.1796 squire to Scole

The Scole Inn was a coaching inn halfway between Ipswich and Norwich. squire is odd for not having a capital letter, if it was intended as a verb, the meaning is obscure. If a proper name it could have referred to Charles Squire, gentleman of Ipswich (will PCC 1817), Edmund Squire, liquor merchant of Bury (will PCC 1835), or Edward Squire, merchant of Norwich, or the name of a local carrier, though not found in directories.

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Thomas Squires of Plymouth proposed member 25.4.1783 by Jeremiah Batley 2nded James West

Joseph born 8.10.1741 and Thomas born 29.5.1743 were both baptised 19.10.1760 at West Alvington, Devon, sons of Richard & Mary Squire. Mary Squire bur 28.3.1773, Richard Squire bur 15.8.1786 West Alvington. Joseph Squire otp = Plymouth St Andrew 21.11.1761 Ann Dunning Jago wits Rd Squire, Geo Jago. Joseph Squire merchant otp = Plymouth St Andrew 10.12.1766 Elizabeth Spurrell sp by lic wit Jo Spurrell. The will PCC 27.11.1787 of Joseph Squire merchant…

St George 27.12.1801 at John King's / 17.1.1802 St Georges at King's / 4.4.1802 mrs St George at King's

Possibly  Melesina Trench DNB 1768-1827 (nee Chenevix, widow of St George). Her Remains, edited by her son and published 1862, have extracts from her journal which show she was still in Ireland on 17.11.1801 and arrived in Calais on 5.7.1802, so it is possible she was at King's on the above dates, the plural entry perhaps referring to her teenage son who was travelling with her. In the Remains he wrote of this period that he found "few memoranda and fewer still which need to…

St Hermine 21.1.1800 at John  King's / 16.3.1800 again

Probably Rene Louis, Marquis de St Hermine born 15.10.1741, married 23.5.1775 Aimee de Polignac, gentleman of honour to Charles-Phillipe Comte D'Artois 1762-1836 (who later became King of France 1824-1830). He died in London 1805 or 1815. He had two daughters, the older Caroline 1779-1864 married at St Marylebone 29.7.1806 Michele Marie Comte de Greilly bach otp = Caroline Parsimeter St Hermine sp otp wits R Louis de St Hermine, J L Dufort Corrac duc de Corgi and she married 2ndly in London 1815 Charles de la Bourdonnaye…

Godwin Diary:  Stabler 2.4.1794 at Newgate

at Newgate. William Stabler linen draper from York age 28 5ft 5ins hazel eyes brown hair fair complexion sent to Newgate 31.7.1793 for conspiracy to escape from Kings Bench prison with Dr Tom Crosfield and Lord William Murray. A William Stabler was committed to Kings Bench prison 17.9.1796 at the suit of Alexander Wyllie for £40 and Edward Daniell for £25 and discharged 2.7.1797

 

see Poland Street 1 to 8 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset

William Stacey 60 Poland St ratebooks 1796-1802 / William Stacey Law List 60 Poland St attorney 1794-1800 / Middlesex Sessions 24.10.1796 Charles Kane clerk to William Stacey of Poland St / J Stacy Poland St 1799 subscriber to edition of Milton's Paradise Lost / Richard bapt 22.5.1801 William bapt 15.7.1804 Mary Ann bapt 6.10.1811 all of William & Ann Stacey at St James / possibly William Stacey bach = St Marylebone 2.5.1792 Ann Revell botp banns

Stacpoole 29.4.1800 at theatre

George Stacpoole born 26.8.1736 died 25.3.1824 see Burke's Irish Families, De Stacpoole. Heir to large estates in County Clare, Ireland. He was a man of fashion in London noted for the painting of his coach and was active in the Society for General Inoculation and the Society of Ancient Britons. He was later made duc de Stacpoole by Louis XVIII of France. Some of his relatives were also prominent in London, his second cousin Joseph Stacpoole, admitted Middle Temple 1767 became a money scrivener and went bankrupt in 1782, then acted as secretary to the…

Stacy 14.2.1802 at King's

In Shelley and his Circle there is a promissory note (SC 83) to Benjn Stacey 25.1.1808 but this was probably Benjamin Stacey baker of 23 Somers Place East (Holdens 1811) and not likely to have any connection with the Stacy at King's. A Mr Stacy was teaching Joseph Farington French in 1802/3 (Farington Diary). John Stacey attorney 2 Lyons Inn 1800. Stacey of Rupert St and Stacy of the Bedford Arms, Covent Garden were among the subscribers to the comedian George Parker's Life's Painter 1800. There were many more around spelt Stacy, Stacey or Stacie but i…

Stafford 8.6.1800 at John King's

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Joseph Stafford of the Borough proposed member 24.1.1783 by Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield 2nded John Jebb

World 2.2.1789 Joseph Stafford of Borough hosier bankrupt. World 5.2.1789 John Baskerville Stafford & John Wintle of 71 St Margarets Hill, Southwark hosiers advertised they had no connection with the bankrupt Joseph Stafford. So two of them to disentangle

Joseph Stafford (& 6 others) presented address of merchants and traders of Southwark to the King 1784 (Deformities of Fox & Burke), governor of Surrey Dispensary 1787,…

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

Andrew Staley ratebooks 6 Poland St from 1795 or before / SunFire 1798 Andrew Staley 6 Poland St gent / Boyle's Court Guide 1798-9 Andrew Staley 6 Poland St / he died 9.10.1813 at Poland St in 86th year (news) bur 15.10.1813 St James age 80 / his will PCC 1813 of Poland St gent mentioned wife Elizabeth, wife's son Andrew Staley, wife's daughter Anne Sainthill Staley, Elizabeth Rowe widow of the late George Rowe senior, surgeon of Cranborne, Dorset, niece Hannah Jones, nephew Benjamin Staley son of late brother…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Mr Staley, 10 Upper Thames St, proposed member 5.5.1786 by Henry Amory 2nded John Satchell

GODWIN DIARY: Staley 2.1.1796 at Dyer's /  5.6.1796 at Amelia Alderson's

Identity probable but not clear, either for SCI member or Godwin Diary. Benjamin Staley of Bankside, Southwark, subscr 1783 to Comfort by W Augustus Clarke pastor of Red Cross St chapel. Benjamin Staley of Horseshoe Wharf, Thames St in 1786 list of Socy for Promoting Religious Knowledge among Poor (joined 1784). Benj Staley Upper Thames St subscr 2 gns to New College…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Thomas Stamford of Derby original member 1780

Thomas Stamford of All Saints, Derby hosier (& bondsman Geo Holford of Manchester innkeeper) license 8.6.1752 to marry Hannah Crompton of Bolton, Lancs sp. Bolton Archives ZAR/1/7 & 9 John Crompton of Bolton gent & wife Catherine, Thomas Stamford of Derby gent & wife Hannah. Jedediah Strutt DNB 1726-1797, Thomas Stamford hosier & dissenter of Derby and John Bloodworth, partnership 1758 to 1762 with Strutt & William Woollat. Will PCC 17.9.1787 of Thomas Stamford of Derby…

Standard 30.7.1805 adv at tea (& Carlisle) / 26.8.1806 miss Standert at Carlisle's / 20.3.1806 Standert (& Tobin) call / 22.3.1806 Standert calls / 24.3.1806 again / 6.4.1806 Standert (& Tobin) call

Probably Hugh Chudleigh Standert 1782-1850 (Plarr's Surgeons) MRCS 5.7.1805, practised at Taunton his will PCC 1850

adm Stanhope 13.1.1804 at Foulkes's

Sir Henry Edwyn Stanhope,  born 21.5.1754 bapt St m,arylebone of Edwyn Franci (d.1807) & Catherine (Lady Catherine Lyon or Brydges her will PCC 1810). He married Peggy Malbone 17.8.1783 at Trinity Church,  Newport, Rhode Island. He was made Rear Admiral 1.1.1801, baronet 1807, full Admiral 12.8.1812, lived at 1 The Circus, Greenwich in 1810 and died 1814, will PCC 1815 of Stanwell House, Middlesex

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Earl of Derby proposed member 29.11.1782 by Edward Hall 2nded Samuel Shore

Edward Smith Stanley DNB 1752-1834

HCR diary 2.7.1813 Stansfeld 29 Lambeth Marsh

                    8.4.1826 Aders "spoke of Thomas Stansfeld's bankruptcy and blamed it on his father-in-law Briggs. Hatton S> had acted nobly" but HCR heard later at John Collier's a less favourable opinion of H S

                  11.5.1826 call on " Bischoff who acquits Hatton Stansfeld of dishonesty but attributes to him monstrous fatuity"

GODWIN DIARY: Starke 1.4.1794 adv at Jennings' / 6.6.1800 baron Starke at King's

Charles Sigismund Baron Starke formerly of Mitten Hof in Prussian Silesia married Martha Ogle, (sister to Newton Ogle, dean of Winchester and, later, aunt to Mrs Sheridan, Mrs Grey & Mrs Whitbread) at Winchester 11.1753. Baroness Starck died 20.1.1805 (Gents Mag) and Charles Sigismund died 12.10.1776 at Oxford (Gents Mag) where his sons Charles George admitted 1772 age 17 and Edward Chaloner admitted 1775 age 17 (bur 1.7.1833 Lambeth St John age 76) were both at Merton College. For a third son see…