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5.11.1789 B Wits at Rev Socy. Broome Philip Witts 1767-1845 of Champion Hill, Camberwell, is the most likely candidate, though there were two other cousins of his called Broome Witts living in Berkshire and Wiltshire at the time. Broome Philip Witts married Jane Lake, was partner in 1794 in Witts & Rowley, silk mercers & muslin warehouse, 21 Friday St, and moved to a large house in Brunswick Sq about 1800
 

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1788 and in 1794 version. Has person record in GD website but 1796 list entry not coded to it

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1787, crossed out and inserted above in 1792, also in 1794 version for 1787. The crossed out Wolcot in the 1796 list is not coded to his person record on the GD website.

John Wolcot DNB 1738-1819. I presume (though it is pure speculation) that Godwin moved Wolcot in the list because he had met him in 1787 but had not conversed with him. I think this was the only entry in the 1796 list that got moved further than within a year or to the next year. 

call on, Wolger constable 27.2.1804 (in Lewes)

Thomas Woolgar draper of Lewes 1797 (East Sussex Record Office), Woolgar of Lewes subscr 1795 to Dunvan's History of Lewes, will PCC 1822 Thomas Woolgar of Lewes gent mentioned son John Webb Woolgar his will PCC 1831 solicitor of Lewes

16.1.1806 Wt jr calls / 2.3.1806 Wt jr calls^na / 9.3.1806 Wt jr calls / 12.8.1807 Edw. Wt dies / 23.8.1807 Ed. Wt adv. (at dinner) / 16.9.1807 Ed. Wollstonecraft in Primrose Street / 31.10.1807 Ed. Wt calls^na / 30.5.1816 meet Ed. Wt / 29.6.1816 Ed. Wt calls / 23.9.1817 met Edw. Wt. / 19.2.1833 F. Wt calls / 27.12.1833 M(ary) W(ollstonecraft) S(helley), Mrs Hogg & Ed. W dine

Edward Wollstonecraft born 10.10.1783 London died 7.12.1832 Crows Nest, North Sydney, New South Wales. baptised 23.11.1783 St Katherine by the Tower son of Edward & Elizabeth. He was…

chez elle Everina 10.2.1797 / 12.2.1797 chez elle E / 14.2.1797 again / 18.2.1797 dine, E / 20.2.1797 chez elle E / 22.2.1797 again / 25.2.1797 Wollstonecraft & E at M Robinson's / 27.2.1797 theatre w E / 4.3.1797 theatre adv W(ollstonecraf)t, E

On 8.2.1797 and 10.3.1797 the chez elle is followed by - -, very likely Godwin's notation for sexual intercourse. After the 6 chez elle entries in between those 2 dates there is no - -, and all but that on 2.3.1797 are followed by E.  On 16.2.1797 and 23.2.1797 the chez moi is followed by - -,, as is the dines on 3.3.1797, thus…

Thomas Wolrich of Armley House nr Leeds proposed Society for Constitutional Information 14.2.1783 by Gamaliel Lloyd 2nded Jeremiah Batley ("to be sent to Mr lloyd's Leeds")

Thomas Wolrich's ancestry was taken back to Ethelred the Unready in Burke's Landed Gentry 1837 vol 4 p759, where it said he was brought up by Lady Hewley (Sarah Hewley DNB 1627-1710) which may have meant his father Tobias 1683-1742, as he was son of a Church of England vicar who died when Tobias was six years old. The vicar Thomas was son of Capt Henry Wolrich, master of horse to King Charles I, whose brother Sir…

3.3.1807 at mrs Hippisley's, w. Wolsey / 24.2.1811 Wolsey calls / 25.2.1811 again / 18.3.1811 again

Despite the fame of Cardinal Wolsey this was a rare surname in Godwin's day. Wolseley was more common, and as the guests at mrs Hippisley's were of Irish connections, Sir William Wolseley (1779-1819) 3rd baronet of Carlow who died unmarried, is a possible, but I could find very little about him, and he seems less likely for the three calls in 1811.

13.9.1808 W(estminster) Abbey, w. F(anny), C(harles) & M(ary). rosa (? in Godwin's Greek). Write to Wooburn Deincourt

Wooburn Deincourt the name of a manor by Beaconsfield, Bucks. The owner in 1808 was James Du Pré, 1778-1870, son of a "nabob" (a person who made a fortune in India) and M P for Chichester, who supported Pitt but attended the House very little, perhaps due to illness. Godwin was writing to lots of rich people to drum up subscriptions, but usually to those of Whig sympathies. Equally Godwin might have had some historical interest in this manor. I don't know Greek…

5.3.1790 at Timothy Hollis' / 17.12.1794 at Crisp's / 8.3.1795 at Foulkes' adv Woods & miss Williams / 7.4.1795 at Foulkes' Woods & mes Harris & Williams / 25.2.1796 at Foulkes' adv mrs Wood & Williams ? 3.7.1804 mrs Wood at Combe's

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

Andrew Wood ratebooks 55 Poland St 1780-2 / Andrew Wood perfomer Swallow St coroners jury 1770 / Andrew Wood mantua maker Swallow St voted 1774 Mountmorres & Mahon / SunFire 1779 Andrew Wood mantua maker 55 Poland St / Andrew Wood Poland St voted Fox & Lincoln 1780 / (Andrew Wood = St James 6.10.1780 Frances Buirn) / Andrew Wood sacque & habit maker bankrupt 1787 / (an Andrew Wood was charged with rape of Mary MacDonald in Nov 1789 in Charles Court in the Strand and acquitted at Old Bailey) /  Andrew…

see Autobiography of Francis Place ed. Mary Thale page 87

Henry Wood otp = St Martin i t Fields 14.5.1775 by Archbishops lic Sarah Holland otp sigs wits Saml Tooth, S Ealand

Henry Wood carpenter Thackhams Court, St Martin i t Fields voted 1780 Fox, 1784 Fox. Westminster coroner's juryman 25.8.1786

Henry Wood buried 26.5.1800 St Martin i t Fields from workhouse. Admitted workhouse 21.2.1800 age 59 died 23.5.1800

Wood 8.6.1800 at John King's / 11.1.1801 Wood calls / 10.5.1801 again / 19.5.1801 sups / 7.6.1801 calls / 14.6.1801 again / 28.6.1801 again / 12.7.1801 again / 19.7.1801 Wood (talk of Home & Lumsden) calls / 27.7.1801 call on Wood / 15.8.1801 Wood calls / 18.8.1801 sups / 6.9.1801 at tea / 25.9.1801 calls / 21.10.1801 sups / 1.11.1801 calls / 8.11.1801 dines / 22.11.1801 calls / 29.11.1801 again / 6.12.1801 again / 27.12.1801 again / 19.1.1802 again / 7.2.1802 again / 6.3.1802 again / 14.3.1802 Wood & Campbell call / 23.3.1802 Wood dines / 18.4.1802 again / 30.4.1802 Wood &…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

John Wood 30 Poland St ratebooks 1782-88 Mary Wood 1789-1800 / SunFire 1780 John Wood plumber 30 Poland St / John Wood Poland St voted Fox & Rodney 1780 plumber Poland St voted Fox 1784 / will PCC 17.7.1786 John Wood plumber of Poland St dated 29.10.1784 mentioned wife Mary dau Harriet children of brother Phillip Wood (John, Thomas & Hannah Wood) wit Paul Fox servant to Mr Wood codicil 25.2.1785 / will PCC 19.12.1805 Mary Wood widow of Poland St dated 24.10,1804 to be buried in Tottenham Court chapel near husband &…

dine at H Tooke's, with his sister & miss Wood 4.9.1803 / 21.9.1806 mrs Dicker at H Tooke's

John Horne Tooke DNB 1736-1812 had four sisters - Mary  = Thomas Wildman, Sarah = Stephen Demainbray, Elizabeth = William Clark, and Ann = Dicker. The will PCC 1834 of Ann Dicker widow of Strand on the Green Chiswick mentioned (as well as Demainbray relatives which identify her) her friend Harriot Wood spinster

Thomas Wood of Stockwell Place proposed Society for Constitutional Information 1.6.1792 by William Sturch 2nded West

James Wood Esq of Stockwell Place £100 voluntary contribution Sun 16.3.1798, Holden's directory 1799 of Stockwell Place, Willis Wood & Co 76 Lombard St bankers from 1788 (& Perceval from 1792), James Wood treasurer of London Bridge Water Works 1811, his will PCC 7.3.1820 James Wood of Stockwell late of Lombard St, banker, mentioned his cousins Mrs Cotton of Greenfields, Staffs, and Jane wife of Ralph Addison of Doughty St, (his brother?) Rev William Wood of…

Thomas Wood merchant of Hull proposed Society for Constitutional Information 3.8.1781 by John Cartwright 2nded Edward Bridgen

the following scraps of maybe more than one person / Thomas Wood brazier of Hull voted 1774 for Lord Robert Manners / Thomas Wood = Hull 8.12.1779 Ann Stephenson / 1783 John Boyes & Thomas Wood of Hull merchants took appr Thomas Sutton for 2 years premium £220 / Thomas Wood = Hull 23.6.1785 Elizabeth Winteringham / SunFire 1788 Thomas Wood north side of Robinsons Row Hull gent / Mrs Wood of Hull subscr 1792 to Charlotte Beverley's poems / East Riding…

7.9.1809 seek Zoust, at Woodburn's &c, w. M(ary) J(ane)

J Woodburn, picture dealer, 112 St Martin's-lane (Holdens trades directory 1811). They were looking for a print of Shakespeare by Gerard de Soest or Zoust

18.8.1809 Funeral; Woodcock &c / 24.8.1809 write to Woodcock / 24.9.1809 again / 7.10.1809 again / 31.10.1809 again / 7.11.1809 again / 10.11.1809 again

Thomas Woodcock of Briston (3 or 4 miles north of Wood Dalling) advertised in Norfolk Chronicle 18.11.1809 for all creditors and debtors of the late Mrs. Ann Godwin of Wood Dalling. In December 1809 he and Godwin's brother Philip Hull Godwin were the contacts for details of land to be sold at auction by James Woodcock. In 1811 he subscribed 1 guinea to the Norfolk & Norwich Auxiliary Bible Society. Norfolk Chronicle 9.5.1812…

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1786 Woodfal, also in 1794 version, but entry in 1796 list not coded in GD website to his person record

Henry Sampson Woodfall DNB 1739-1805 or his brother William Woodfall DNB 1745-1803 (the GD website person record says it could be either)