A-Z of Entries

mrs Hawthorn 15.11.1804 at H Rowan's / 28.1.1805 Hawthorns at H Rowan's / 30.1.1805 again / 10.7.1805 meet Hawthorns / 4.3.1806 Hawthorns at Rowan's / 11.3.1806 meet Hawthorn / 23.5.1806 Hawthorns at S Beresford's / 10.12.1806 theatre with Hawthorn / 31.1.1807 Hawthorns call / 4.2.1807 dine at Hawthorn's / 16.2.1807 Hawthorns call / 29.5.1807 M Hawthorn dines / 21.9.1807 call on mrs Hawthorn with M(ary) J(ane) / 2.1.1808 Hawthorns call / 7.1.1808 dine at Hawthorn's / 1.2.1808 Hawthorn calls / 4.2.1808 dine at Hawthorn / 29.5.1808 Hawthorn calls

As friends of Hamilton Rowan these…

Hey 4.2.1792 at Shields' with Gray, Perry & Holcroft / 24.8.1794 Hay at Gray's with Gordon & Holcroft / 14.12.96 Hay at House of Commons with Gordon & Perry / 7.1.1805 adv Hay & 2 at H Rowan's / 11.7.1813 miss Hay at Hume's

Likely Hey and Hay in the first three entries above were the same person because of similar company, and Godwin most often (and understandably) got spelling wrong on first meeting someone, so more likely Hay, and quite likely a journalist for Morning Chronicle (Perry & Gray's paper). The Hay at Rowan's in 1805 could have been Edward Hay DNB…

HCR diary 10.10.1819 "by appointment to Aders. At one I met at his house Haydon the painter"

Benjamin Haydon (DNB 1786-1846)

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

Edmund Hayes 2 Poland St ratebooks 1782-5 / SunFire 1782 Edmund Hayes gent Bentinck St Piccadilly,  Edmund Hayes Poland St nr Broad St / Edmund Hayes ratebooks 1784 Carnaby St, St James / SunFire 1785 Edmund Hayes Poland St / will PCC 1786 Edmund Hayes gent dated 16.12.1785 Poland St mentioned lawful wife Hannah who only got one guinea as she had her own money and he had paid for her and she never paid for him, son Samuel, dau Elizabeth / Edmund Hays gent of Poland St voted Hood & Fox 1784. (Possibles: Edmund…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

William Hayhurst 33 Poland St ratebooks 1780-1 / William Ahurst of Poland St voted Fox & Rodney 1780 / 5.10.1780 William Hayhurst junior staymaker of Poland St, son of Oliver Hayhurst staymaker of Bristol & Joan his wife (both deceased) married Elizabeth Hayhurst of Chelsea dau of William Hayhurst of Pimlico / their daus Phillis born 7.9.1781 Elizabeth born 11.12.1783 both at Newman St (Quaker registers) / Phillis Hayhurst died 27.1.1784 bur Bunhill Fields / SunFire 1781 William Hayhurst 93 Newman St staymaker / William…

GODWIN DIARY: adv soeur 4.4.1799 at M Hays / 25.9.1799 mr Hays adv at Astley's

Mary Hays' sister Sarah Hills has a person record on the GD website. Soeur should perhaps be added to her. perhaps to another sister like Joanna Dunkin, or Elizabeth Hays later Mrs Lanfear. Mr Hays was probably one of their brothers John or Thomas, her father was by then dead. See Correspondence of Mary Hays

CRABB ROBINSON DIARY     5.9.1812 at George Wedd's, Mr Hill nephew and Mr Lanfere son in law of Miss Hays (should be nephew-in-law?)

meet Hayward 8.12.1795 after or at W(estminster) Forum / 7.3.1796 Hayward calls (& Calder) / 4.6.1799 call on Mrs Hayward / 21.1.1803 Hayward at Nicholson's / 7.7.1803 miss Hayward adv at Nicholson's, Kentish Town / 29.4.1805 Dawes, Christal & Hayward at (RA) exhibition / 4.5.1805 miss Hayward at Nicholson's / 14.11.1806 Westminster Hall with Nicholson, Hayward, Wilkinson & Fletcher / 27.11.1806 Westminster Hall with Nicholson & Hayward / 1.1.1807 S & A Nicholson, Dawes at Godwins, invited Hayward / 3.2.1807 Westminster Hall (with Hayward) & Serjeants Inn for…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Francis Hayward 35 Poland St ratebooks 1787-95 Mary Hayward 1796-7 / Francis Hayward = St James 16.6.1775 Mary Clifford botp banns wits Charles Clifford, Wm Brown / Francis Clifford Hayward s of Francis & Mary bapt 4.3.1777 St Geo Han Sq / Old Bailey 10.1.1787 Francis Hayward "I am a victualler, I live in John St, Golden Square" Mary Hayward "I live in Poland St, my husband's name is Francis" / marriage of William Pullen & Mary Manders 21.10.1787 St James wits Francis & Mary Hayward / Francis Hayward adult bur 5.8.…

16.6.1795 mrs Hazlitt adv at Holcroft's

Probably the wife of John Hazlitt, who married 16.5.1789 at St Anne Soho, Mary Pierce of Marylebone, in the Bishop of London's license called Mary Pearse of Southsea, Hants

Or possibly the Hazlitts' mother Grace (nee Loftus) 1746-1837 on a visit to her children in London from Wem

HCR diary 10.12.1820 ""Hazlitt, Mrs Horace Twiss & Barry Cornwall were at Montague's and I had a very pleasant lounge"

                      21.2.1821 after meeting Hazlitt at Lamb's "Hazlitt and I now speak again"

William Hazlitt (DNB 1778-1830)

Heard 10.10.1799 adv at Curran's

25.3.1808 call on C Heath / 29.3.1808 C Heath & H Corbould call / 23.4.1808 C Heath calls / 31.5.1808 again / 30.6.1808 again / 1.10.1808 again / 6.9.1819 steamboat to London w. C Heath & wife / 18.12.1820 call on Perkins; adv. C & G Heath & Miller / 19.12.1822 C Heath adv. at theatre / 16.5.1828 C Heath at Reynolds's / 18.11.1829 call on C Heath; at F Reynolds / 19.11.1829 write to F Reynolds, leave at Heath's / 23.3.1832 C Heath adv. at Suffolk Street (gallery)

Charles Theodosius Heath (DNB 1785-1848), engraver, married Elizabeth Petch 1808. It is strange that…

18.12.1820 call on Perkins; adv. C & G Heath & Miller / 9.10.1821 seek Heath, barrister / 11.10.1821 call on Heath / 11.12.1823 call on G Heath / 6.11.1824 call on Heath (Debtors' Court)

George Heath eldest son of James Heath engraver (DNB 1757-1834) admitted Inner Temple 22.6.1802 called to bar 13.11.1807 eldest son of James Heath Esq, Russell Place, Fitzroy Square, his will PCC 15.5.1852 serjeant at law of Kitlands Surrey. He may not have been the Heath barrister of 1821 and 1824 as Godwin had probably known him from childhood and would have used the initial G (you might…

14.9.1788 call on Barry met Wilson & Heath / 24.3.1789 Robinson & Heath call talk of Barry / 29.8.1789 at Robinson's adv Shield & Heath / 12.10.1795 Shield & Heath at Robinson's / 14.10.1795 call on / 27.12.1796 at Robinson's / 26.1.1797 adv there / 11.2.1797 there / 31.10.1797 call on (not in) / 1.11.1797 call on / 3.11.1797 call on Fuseli with Heath / 16.11.1797 call on / 5.12.1797 / 6.12.1797 / 11.12.1797 / 12.12.1797 / 14.12.1797 / 16.12.1797 / 20.12.1797 / 9.1.1798 (all call on) / 23.4.1798 at exhibition / 28.4.1800 at exhibition / 17.5.1800 at Milton gallery / 12.9.…

Heathcote 11.11.1792 at Pinard's /  29.12.1793 at Holcroft's

Richard Heaton of Harpur Street, Red Lion Square proposed Society for Constitutional Information 6.1781 by Lewis Disney Ffytche 2nded Thomas Brand Hollis

See Burke's Landed Gentry. John Heaton (1696-1779) = 16.7.1734 Martha Adamson, their son Richard born 1.10.1738 married 11.8.1783 Sarah dau of Edward Venables of Oswestry, their children John (1787-1855), Sarah Elizabeth, Margaret, Mary. Richard Heaton died 27.11.1791 buried Oswestry 3.12.1791. He went to Harrow School and Cambridge (son of John of London & Denbighshire), admitted Middle Temple 1756 eldest son of John Heaton of…

Heaviside of Seymour St, proposed Society for Constitutional Information 18.5.1792 by John Horne Tooke 2nded John Williams, WITHDREW

Not a common name so probably the following but no mention elsewhere of Seymour St address, perhaps an error for Somerset St. Lyson's Environs of London (1792) Peterborough House, Fulham was sold to Richard Heaviside, Esq on death of late Lord Peterborough (i.e. 1779), now unoccupied. Member of Society for Encouragement of Arts. Manufactures & Commerce 1785-6 Peterborough House, 1787-9 Temple, 1790-3 Peterborough House, 1794-8 Somerset St, 1800…

5.3.1792 Helvets / 14.12.1792.

Must have referred to Claude Adrien Helvetius 1715-1771
 

Heming 6.10.1794 at Parr's / 10.10.1794 at Coventry with Hall & Ca. Parr.

No clear identification. Thomas Heming (or Hemmings) of Hatton will proved 1824 PCC, Thomas Heming s of John & Mary bapt Lapworth 20.9.1778. Thomas Heming, Alcester subscribed to History & Antiquities of Stratford 1806 (as did Samuel Parr and many of his local friends). Thomas Heming of Cookhill, nr. Alcester 1810
 

John Hemmings Esq of Bear Binder Lane proposed Society for Constitutional Information 26.2.1790 by Benjamin Cooper 2nded Richard Sharp

His father was John Cheshyre Hemming linen draper of St Saviour Southwark will PCC 14.12.1787 who had married Martha Tyson at St Lawrence Pountney 3.6.1756. A son of John Cheshyre Hemming, probably John (the first name is obscured on the document) was admitted to the Vintners Company by patrimony as born 1760, father admitted 1754. Directoeries 1780-1782 John Hemming 1783-1787 John Hemming & Son linen drapers 38 Borough High St. John Hemming of…