A-Z of Entries

call on mrs Grimsby 27.9.1803  / 11.9.1805 again / both at Stowmarket

William Crowfoot Grimsby will PCC 1823 grocer & draper of Stowmarket. He married at Stowmarket 5.7.1784 Mary Eleanor Sutton

see Batemans Buildings in London Addresses dataset

John Gritten 12 Batemans Buildings ratebooks 1787 / Wakefields directory 1790 Frisberg & Gritten staymakers 12 Batemans Buildings, Soho / Oliver Frisberg ratebooks 32 Bedford Court Covent Garden 1784 / James Gritten Star Court Strand staymaker voted 1749 Vandeput / daus of John & Jane Gritten bapt St Paul Covt Gdn Elizabeth 5.4.1785 Charlotta Carolina 14.1.1786 / bapt St Martin i t Fields Sarah 10.11.1788 / bapt St James Picc'y Phebe Mary Ann 22.9.1799 (not found marriage of John & Jane but see Turmeau, John of 14…

Gros call 3.12.1805 / 28.11.1806 again

C Gros was co-author with C V Lavoisne of A New Genealogical, Historical and Chronological Atlas 1807 London published by J Barfield 91 Wardour St, and he edited and revised various works of French grammar especially the works of Jean Baptiste Perrin which ran to many editions through the 19th century. Louis Gros gent was insured Sun Fire 1806 at 29 Little Marybone St and at 7 Thayer St Manchester Sq from 1807 to 1815 as a milliner and dealer in artificial flowers, lace modes and perfumery. In Holdens 1811 Philip le Gros was a jeweller at 12…

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1788 Grose, also in 1794 version. Not in Godwin's diary for 1788 although the two names before it in the 1796 list and all those after it were.

Francis Grose DNB 1731-1791

affidavit bef. judge Grose 29.2.1804

Nash Grose DNB 1740-1814. The event tag on this in GD website was a result of my research

19.12.1808 call on Grosvenor / 6.6.1809 again / 23.1.1810 again

Gilbert Grosvenor attorney Austin Friars took appr 1808 / William Limbery Grosvenor & Eliezer Chater, stationers 11 Cornhill / George Grosvenor perfumer & hardwareman 303 Holborn / Thos. Grosvenor whip maker 23 Wardour-st, Golden-sq

John Groves of Crown Court, Russel Street, Covent Garden gent was a witness at the trial of Thomas Hardy for treason in November 1794. He said he had been a conveyancer for 22 years and that he first attended the LCS in order to spy on it on 20.1.1794. His first preserved letter as a spy was dated 13.2.1794; in it he said he had introduced himself to Daniel Jones, whitesmith, who was Clerk to a presbyterian meeting in Crown Court and a member of the LCS, in order to be invited to Div 2. Groves had voted from Crown Court 1788 Townshend and 1790 Fox and stood bail for one Richard Jackson…

see Batemans Buildings in London Addresses dataset

Thomas Grubb ratebooks 8 Batemans Buildings 1774, Meards Court 177? / SunFire 1787 Thomas Grubb dealer in glass bottles 46 King St, St Ann's / will PCC 1780 Thomas Grubb gent of Precinct of St Katherine by the Tower / Thomas Grubb calico printer of Isleworth bankrupt 1769, certificate 1774, sale of properties in Mill St, St Olave Southwark 1775,  final dividend 1782

Gruber 30.5.1804 at Joseph Johnson's / 21.11.1804 again / 20.1.1805 Gruber at Nicholson's / 13.2.1805 Gruber at Johnson's

See William Nichoison junior's memoir of his father (Bodleian MSS Don d175 & e125) which said that Gruber turned out to be a spy

Gummer 11.12.1801 at Nicholson's

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

George Gundry 37 Poland St ratebooks 1777-81 /  George Gundree peruke maker Poland St voted 1774 Mountmorres & Mahon / George Gundree Poland St voted 1780 Lincoln / George Gundrey = St James 12.2.1776 Rebecca Ricketts botp banns / perhaps SunFire 1784 George Gundry 4 Hart St Bloomsbury gent / will PCC George Gundree yeoman of Poland St dated 24.11.1789 mentioned brother Simon Gundree of Holloway Mount, Moorfields London labourer & worthy friend Mary Gough spinster of Pantheon proved 6.7.1790 by Mary Gough widow / George…

HCR diary 5.11.1824 "Mrs Aders, Ellen, Miss Denman and the Miss Gunns called on me - Not a little worried by such a visit I accompanied them to the Royal Academy Somerset House"

                    8.11.1824 party at Aders "The Flaxmans with the Miss Gunns and old Stothard"

                    20.5.1828 "The Rev Mr Gunn and his son breakfasted with me"

                    11.7.1836  blue stocking party at Mrs Aders "the Miss Denmans & Miss Gunn etc"

The daughters of William Gunn (DNB 1750-1841) who married Ann Mack (1768-1828) at Smallburgh, Norfolk on 11.2.…

9.7.1796 Gunning dines (in Norwich, perhaps at Alderson's) / 13.7.1796 Gunning at March's / 19.6.1797 dine at Gunning's, Ickleton

Henry Gunning DNB 1768-1854. Ickleton is just south of Cambridge, where Gunning was bedell. Gunning married Susan Bertram in 1794 at Lakenham, just south of Norwich. He was an advanced whig in politics (DNB)

miss Gunning 9.4.1804 adv at H Rowan's

See Plunket

ELIZABETH GUNNING (1769-1823)
CURRENT TEXT "her marriage in 1803 to Major J. Plunkett from Kinnaird in co. Roscommon, with whom she had several children."
SUGGESTED CHANGE <her marriage on 5th November 1803 at St George Hanover Square to Major James Plunkett from Kinnaird in co. Roscommon, who had been arrested in London in 1798 for his part in the rebellion at Connaught. They had several children.>
NOTES See Godwin Diary dataset under Plunket

mrs Gurney 1.1.1800 at O Fancourt's

Perhaps the wife of John Gurney DNB 1768-1845 who was Maria daughter of William Hawes DNB 1736-1808. They were married at St Botolph without Bishopsgate on 11.12.1797, her first child was born 27.4.1799 and her second 16.8.1800. Most of the other Gurney wives would more likely have been in Norfolk. It could have been her mother-in-law Rebecca (nee Brodie) 1747-1814, but given the context of mrs Fancourt's the younger wife seems more likely. See Hawes for the visit of the miss Hawes' to Thelwall's in 1795, which suggests an adventurous spirit

HCR diary 10.11.1817 "I stayed with Aders till late and gave him directions to buy a number of engravings for Mr Gurney"

Probably?  Hudson Gurney (DNB 1775-1864)

Gutchs 8.10.1800 at Lamb's / 16.11.1800 Gutch at Lamb's

John Matthew Gutch 1776-1851 see Letters of Charles & Mary Lamb

Guy 12.2.1795 at Gerald's / calls 13.7.1808

No clues.

Holdens 1811: Benj. Guy haberdasher 6 Cross-st Hatton Garden / Edw. Guy academy 59, Fetter-la / Edw. Guy watch maker 43, Gee-st, Goswell-st / E Guy & William Adams stockbrokers 5, Change-alley / Edw. Guy, Esq 29 Soho-sq / Mr Fred. Guy 6, Ranelagh-st, Pimlico / Mr Thos. Guy 6, Providence-row, Finsbury

Holdens 1805 Melmoth Guy Esq 46, Gloucester-pl / Mr Rich. Blunt Guy, Terrace, Homerton

P. O. Directory 1801 J Guy attorney 4 Kings arms-yd, Coleman-str

8.10.1806 call on Curran (talk of H S) / 25.10.1807 Curran calls, talk of C M

John Philpot Curran (DNB 1750-1817) seems to have had a number of mistresses in his life, see my entries for Hughes, Maria, for Dixon (mrs Dixon) and for W Place (mrs Fitzgerald). Godwin sometimes used initials for convenience, but particularly for children, and also for women, perhaps especially when mentioning their name was a socially delicate matter. They could also have been abbreviations for some politically sensitive subject. For possible identity of C M, see Mercier, Charlotte. Godwin later…

H, C, M & M Moore call 28.12.1794.

H C and M are presumably Holcroft, Cooper and Marshall rather than Matthew Moore's family