A-Z of Entries

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

Samuel Christie ratebooks 58 Poland St 1795 / ad 1792 Mr Christie seeks apprentice to master taylor / ad 1795 Christie Poland St tuners wanted / 1799 Samuel Christie tailor Poland St took appr Alex Rough / Samuel Christie tailor Poland St voted 1802 Fox & Gardner 1818 Burdett / Samuel Christy = St Clement Danes 23.5.1785 Alice Oney / children of Samuel & Alice Christie bapt  St Clement Danes 1786 Jane 1790 Sarah 1792 Catherine Agnes bapt St James Samuel 20.4.1794 Eliza Catherine 1796 Harriet Esther 1798…

Mr Christie proposed Society for Constitutional Information 20.4.1792 by John Frost 2nded John Lockhart

This seems likely to have been Thomas Christie (DNB 1761-1796) but since there was no surname or address entered in the minutes it's hard to be sure

GODWIN DIARY Christie 22.3.1795 at John King's / 30.12.1795 at Newton's / 15.4.1796 adv at Wolstonecraft's / 23.4.1796 call on, w. Imlay / 5.6.1800 call on Christie (incog) & Colman (do) / 9.9.1801 adv Mr Christie at Lamb's

The first four entries above have been coded to Thomas Christie (DNB 1761-1796) in GD website…

dr Christy 18.1.1801 at Lamb's / 26.1.1801 Christy at Lamb's / 12.2.1801 again / 3.7.1801 Christys at Lamb's / 9.9.1801 mr Christie at Lamb's / 15.3.1819 Christy at Booth's / 2.6.1820 again

Dougal Christy (Letters of Charles & Mary Lamb says died1857 but will PCC 1837 Dougal Christie of Montagu Square, Middlesex) and his brother, see Lamb's letter to Godwin of 29.6.1801. Married 17.12.1813 Mary (Crozier?) nephew John McGowan

24.4.1796 Chubb at Mrs Robinson's

All the Chubbs in PCC wills were of Salisbury. Lawrence C PCC 1797 his dau Ann wife of Thomas Roles her will PCC 1829 his sister Susanna spinster her will 1829, will PCC 1815 Thomas C, 1844 Alexander, 1845 Latitia widow

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

John Church ratebooks 8 Poland St 1782-95 / SunFire 1781 John Church sacque stay & habit maker Poland St / John Church = St James 20.2.1773 Frances Williams botp by Archbishop's license wits John Walker, Catherine Sanyer / their children baptised there John Fraugott Kirchoff 13.12.1773, Frederick 1775, Frances 13.1.1777, Henry 1779, William 1781 & Henry 8.4.1783 (all with the middle name Kirchoff). Frances Church buried St James 17.4.1783, John Church buried 12.2.1813 Westminster age 73. Miss P-t-n in Harris…

John Churchill of Parliament St, Westminster founder memeber of Society for Constitutional Information 1780

John Churchill born 1735 son of Rev Charles Churchill (died 1758) curate of St John Smith Square Westminster and his wife Ann (died 1768), and younger brother of the poet Charles Churchill (DNB 1732-1764). His son Charles Wilkes Churchill was born 11.6.1764, bapt 10.7.1764 of John & Susanna at St John Smith Square and buried at St Margaret's Westminster 16.9.1834 age 70 of Smith Square. His daughter Harriott was born 4.9.1774 bapt 8.10.1774 and buried unmarried 10.10.1846…

Holdens 1811 Thomas Churchill, Park St Islington (this was perhaps T F Churchill see Memoir in New Jerusalem Magazine Jan 1828). T F Churchill was clearly a different person from T O Churchill (see Churchill, Thomas Otton in Godwin Duary dataset), although Joseph Johnson published them both / James Churchill = St Stephen Exeter 15.6.1766 Ann Furlong / Thomas Furlong Churchill bapt St Martins Exeter 15.6.1767 son of Charles & Ann (this from Ancestry original not seen) / will PCC 1771 Thomas Furlong of Exeter mentioned his dau Ann wife of James Churchill (also wills PCC of his brothers…

Churchill 17.2.1801 at Joseph Johnson's / 9.12.1803 at Philips's / 19.9.1804 at Johnson's / 21.11.1804 again / 23.6.1807 again / 29.12.1809 at Johnson's funeral / 11.5.1824 Ld Cha Churchil at theatre

John & Elizabeth Citizen were in the printed list of 77 signatories dated 5.12.1788 and were both baptised 15.6.1788 New Jerusalem

John Citizen buried 29.5.1818 Bunhill Fields age 39 so would have been only 9 in 1788. A Charles John Citzen was bapt Shoreditch 20.10.1776 born 4.10.1776 of Charles & Jane Citzen. John Citizen bach = 26.10.1798 Shoreditch by lic Hannah Ghost sp witness Charles Citizen. John T Citizen appr 7.2.1793 to Wm Barclay citizen & Barber of London. Public Advertiser 19.10.1785 John Citizen carpetmaker and then chandler of Golden Lane which fits with…

CC 28.5.1801 at Sadler's Wells / 11.6.1803 wet docks & beasts in tower with C C / 30.6.1803 C C / 27.8.1803 C C at Lamb's / 21.4.1804 C C / 17.12.1807 theatre, w. T(homas) T(urner), F(anny), C(harles) & M(ary)

Careful study will convince you that these all referred to Charles Clairmont (born 1795) who was usually noted as C when with several other children all with a single initial. The GD website has left them uncoded, even though it has coded later examples of C C to him. One C C that wasn't him was 23.2.1804 Golden Cross C C where Godwin and his brother Joseph boarded the…

see Batemans Buildings in London Addresses dataset

Samuel Clare 15 Batemans Buildings ratebooks 1781-1784 / ads for recruitment, sale of commissions and finding deserters Public Advertiser 16.9.1779 Mr Samuel Clare Batemans Buildings, Public Advertiser 23.3.1780 3 Batemans Buildings, Gazetteer 1.6.1780 Mr Clare 3 Batemans Buildings, St James Chronicle 17.7.1781 Mr Samuel Clare Bateman's Buildings agent to Col MacCarmick's regiment 93rd foot 21.7.1781, 24.7.1781, 26.7.1781, Gazetteer 23.8.1781, St James Chronicle 10.8.1782, Daily Advertiser 3.12.1782 93rd regt at Reading, Gazetteer…

7.7.1807 accompany T(homas) T(urner) to Clark / 29.10.1897 call on Clark / 11.1.1809 call on Clark, chamberlain; adv.Walker / 12.4.1813 call on Clark, chamberlain

Richard Clark, chamberlain of London (DNB 1739-1831) was presumably the last two entries above, and may have also been the first two (if not, I regard them as too hard to identify because the name is so common).

19.7.1811 M(ary) J(ane) calls on Eves, Davison, Macmillan, Pheney, Clarke & Butterworth / 4.4.1816 call on Clarke & Boyd, Middleton & Jo(seph) G(odwin) / 14.12.1822 call on Purland, Clarke &…

MILL VOTERS 1802 Thomas Clark of Hounslow

SunFire 1778, 1782 Thomas Clark gardener nr the Bell, Isleworth / Thomas Clark = Isleworth 6.10.1805 Mary West / Thomas Clark buried Isleworth 22.11.1811 age 74 / bapt Isleworth Ann 1816 Mary 1818 of Thomas & Mary Clark gardener of Kingston, Surrey / will PCC Thomas Clark of Hounslow dated 10.10.1813 proved 4.1.1819 mentioned wife Mary children William, Sarah, Elizabeth, Martha & Mercy

18.6.1796 3 Clarkes at Tooke's / 12.11.1797 Clarke at Tooke's / 26.6.1798 Clarke calls (not in) / 13.7.1798 Clarke, Fell & M(arshall) at tea /  2.9.1802 Clarke calls   

See also Clarke, Mrs (work notes) / Clarke, Dr John / Clarke mystic for earlier entries of this name. The two entries at Tooke's had no other guest in common. In DNB sympathies with radical politics are noted for John Clarke 1757-1820 schoolmaster and Adam Clarke 1762-1832 Methodist and scholar. The last three could have been Dr John Clarke, or the Clarke at Tooke's, or another

16.2.1817 dine at L Hunt's, w. Shelleys, Hazlits & B Montagu; adv. Colson, Gatty & Clarke / 15.11.1823 sup at Lamb's, w. Novellos, C Clarke / 1.6.1824 sup at Lamb's, w. Novellos, Holmes, Clark / 26.10.1828  call on L Hunt; adv. miss Kent, Novello & Clarkes

These entries are likely to have been Charles Cowden Clarke (DNB 1787-1877) particularly the last three, where Novellos were present, and after Clarkes's marriage to Mary Novello on 5.7.1828 Novellos & Clarke became Novello & Clarkes. Note the spelling Clark in 1824 demonstrating  that Godwin's spelling with or…

2.3.1794 dr Clarke (talked of at Holcroft's with Ritson) / 5.9.1797 Clarke in the afternoon (when Wollstonecraft ill) / 12.2.1798 Fordyce's with Clarke, Carlisle, Johnson, Stewart

John Clarke DNB 1761-1815 physician and midwife. Friend of Matthew Baillie. Of Queen St, Golden Sq, St James voted Fox 1790. Married April 1789. will PCC 1815. 5.9.1797 this entry was made without the usual "calls" or "call on" but Fordyce was both a physician and a friend of Mary Wollstonecraft's and Clarke was a midwife of high reputation. The dinner at Fordyce's on 12.2.1798 then included three doctors…

Edward Clarke of March Lane Southwark proposed Society for Constitutional Information 27.11.1782 by Joseph Brown 2nded Willam Pickett

Edward Clarke brewer 116 Maid Lane Southwark Kent's Directory 1770, SunFire 1780, Society for Encouraging Arts, Manufactures & Commerce from 1772, directories to 1790 / will PCC 1791 of Edward Clarke brewer of Maid Lane dated 28.4.1791 mentioned Judith Mitchell of Kensington Sq, daughter Elizabeth Clarke, execs William Barnard of Deptford, Kent & Edward Addison of Surrey St, Strand, witness Edward Clarke jr of Lincolns Inn / Law List 1800 John…

8.2.1806 Hewson Clarke callsⁿ

Very likely Hewson Clarke (DNB 1787 - in or after 1845) who at age 18 had come down from Gateshead  to Cambridge University, but was more interested in literature than study and it's perhaps a shame that Godwin missed or refused the call and never recorded the name again. There is a burial record at St Dunstan in the West, London on 21.5.1817 for a Hewson Clarke age 29 from Serle's Place, which accords well with his birthdate and with  the reports of R Welford and E Mackenzie, (which are contradicted by works and letters published in his name…

1.4.1822 Rosser & Joseph Clarke at tea / 24.7.1822 write to Joseph Clarke

not researched

sheriff Clarke 7.10.1803 at Norwich

See Bury & Norwich Post 7.9.1803 and 14.9.1803 Edward Rigby & Joseph Clarke sheriffs. Clarke was a wholesale linendraper and a director of the Norwich Insurance Company from 1809 (newspaper ads). A Joseph Clarke of Norwich subscr 1782 to Hancock's Doctrine of Eclipses. A Joseph Clarke haberdasher, hosier & hatter took apprentices in 1784 and 1790. With his wife Elizabeth (nee Bell) he baptised 3 children at St Andrews Norwich 1786 to 1789, and in 1802 Joseph Clarke merchant of Norwich voted for Fellowes and Smith against Windham &…