A-Z of Entries

SOCY for CONST INFO : George Bond Esq of the Temple proposed 7.2.1783 Alured Shove 2nded Samuel Shore. In 1792 he was a signatory to the Friends of the People and to the Friends of the Liberty of the Press. DNB 1750-1796. See Ride, Ann in Greater Soho dataset for more on his personal life.

GODWIN DIARY:  Bond 8.12.1790 at Holcroft's, with Fenwick and Bishop. May be George Bond as above, or the singer below if Bishop (QV) was the musician

Nicholas B Esq Boyle's 1792 44 Sloane St / John B singer Worcester & London (Highfill, Burnim & Langhans)  /…

14.9.1810 Bond (on sir R Corbett) calls

Sir Richard Corbett will PCC 1815 claimed to be the heir to Sir Richard Corbett 4th baronet will PCC 1774 but the books of baronetcy say the 4th baronet died unmarried and the baronetcy became extinct with him. The claimant was a son of Charles Corbett, a bookseller who went bankrupt and was therefore excluded from the estate in the 4th baronet's 7th codicil.. Public Ledger 14.3.1810 reported the claimant's Chancery case against Archdeacon Corbett formerly Joseph Plymley, and the case by archdeacon Corbett that the claimant should not be…

Benjamin Bond 1788 in printed list of 77 / BB PCC 1810 ironfounder Bristol / BB PCC 1835 St Marylebone / BB PCC 1838 Clapham buried Bunhill Fields 23.5.1838 age 76 from Blackman St Southwark / Holdens 1799 BB Esq South Lambeth / 1790, 1793 BB Connissioner of Land Tax London / Wakefields 1793 BB cabinetmaker Ratcliffe Highway

31.1.1795 at Powel's / 16.10.1801 calls / 11.8.1802 call with M(ary) J(ane)on E Bone / Godwin calls on 27.9.1809 / adv at Place's 14.7.1813.

John Bone, bookseller and muslin cleaner, member of London Corresp Socy, went bankrupt with William Hone in 1810. Bone & Hone booksellers &c 331 Strand. At 180 Fleet St (Holden's 1802) which was the address of J S Jordan, who published 1808 Bone's weekly journal The Reasoner. The Making of the Modern World database has no.13 online, the Bodleian have a copy, not seen by me, See work notes below

Elizabeth d c1830 wife of Henry…

John Bonham junior of Hammersmith proposed 25.10.1793 by Charles Sinclair 2nded Thomas Holcroft. John Bonham was the oldest son of Francis Warren Bonham by his first wife Mary Ann Leslie, born about 1769 probably in Ireland and matric at Merton College Oxford 1785. F W Bonham Land Tax Hammersmith 1791-99, his will PCC 1810 of Bath. John Bonham the younger of Hammersmith and Arthur Bedford were prosecuted for an assault by Ruth Ann Barnes and Elizabeth Thornton of Turnham Green who relinquished their prosecution at Middlesex Sessions in January 1793 (London Lives) (probably in return for a…

GODWIN DIARY 4.1.1795 &c

John Augustus Bonney of Percy Street, Rathbone Place proposed 8,4.1791 by John Frost 2nded Joseph Adams. Born 1763 youngest son of Thomas Bonney rector of Ockham, Surrey 1710-1764 (son of Charles Bonney d.1744 woolstapler of Reading and his wife Elizabeth nee Armington d.1756) and Grace d.1776 dau of Chrstopher Key, receiver-general. Apprenticed 31.3.1779 to John Frost (DNB 1750-1842) attorney of St Pancras for 5 yrs premium £200. Married 23.9.1787 St Pancras Mary Johnson widow, wits Charles Tomkins, Tom Hague. She was probably born Mary Hague about 1762…

3 Bonnors 7.3.1802 at Perry's

Two people of this name in DNB either could have been at Perry's. Charles Bonnor DNB d1829? actor & civil servant and Thomas Bonnor DNB 1743-1807x12 draughtsman & engraver. Other Bonnors Thomas B paymaster of 15th foot will PCC 1801 mentioned Marianna B spinster of Gloster, John B of GPO London, Thos B of Pentonville engraver, William Gillies of Throckmorton St corn merchant and his wife Charlotte Hester / PCC 1823 Thomas Bonnor late of Spring Gardens Westminster and now of Lindsay Pl Chelsea / PCC 1833 Jane B wife of John B of Doughty St, St…

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1796 but not coded to his person record in GD website

4.8.1807 dine at Johnson's, w. Bonnycastle & son, &c / 29.12.1808 Hommey, & misses Bonnycastle & Yeates call / 7.1.1809 Knowles & miss Bonnycastle dine / 20.1.1809 dine at Johnson's, w. Bonnycastle & fille, &c

Charlotte born 1788 Lewisham = 1813 Henry Gritten, Lt. Royal Marine, wits. M F Hommey, W Hommey. Bonnycastle's only daughter, he had three sons Richard Henry, Capt. Royal Engineers, Humphrey born 1795, Charles b. 1796. Bonnycastle's wife was Bridget Newell (not…

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

John Bonomi architect Bailey's Directory 1785 2 Poland St. See Howard Colvin's Dictionary of Architects

5.2.1810 call on Bonsor / 9.2.1810 again / 2.11.1813 again / 1.8.1823 again / 18.8.1823 seek Bonsor / 10.8.1823 again / 22.8.1823 call on Bonsor / 2.10.1823 again / 28.10.1823 again / 5.4.1825 Guildhall; Bonsor &c / 25.5.1825 call on Bonsor

Joseph Bonsor printer & stationer 132 Salisbury-sq, Fleet-st (1768-1835 bbti)

27.9.1809 call on Boosey / 17.11.1809 again

Thomas Boosey bookseller 4 Old Broad-st

Boot's Atherston nr Stratford 5.6.1797

In GD website Atherston is wrongly transcribed Albertson. In a letter to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin described Boot as a country farmer. John Boote gamekeeper and yeoman of Atherston from 1774, subscribed (along with Samuel Parr and many of his local friends) to History & Antiquities of Stratford upon Avon 1806, Jackson's Oxford Journal 22.3.1823 J Boote of Cricklade Wilts formerly of Atherston upon Stour died age 75. There were other Bootes in the vicinity, Mr Boote of Lapworth also subsribed in 1806 to the same work, and JOJ recorded on 8.…

20.9.1795 Booths at Holcroft's / 29.8.1797 walk to Booth's, with Wollstonecraft, read, en famille, Werter p127. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1795, Booth crossed out after Dudley and inserted above before Dudley (which probably referred to 23.9.1795)

12.7.1809 write to Booth &c / 1.8.1809 write to Booth (Norwich) &c / 9.8.1809 write to Booth & Frizac / 19.1.1810 write to Booth &c / 23.2.1810 write to Franklin, Baker & Booth / 28.7.1810 write to Booth (Norwich) / 30.10.1810 write to Upham & Booth / 1.12.1810 write to J Taylor, Booth & Berry / 20.12.1810 write to Gillet & Booth

The above entries have all been coded on GD website to David Booth DNB 1766-1846. Those where Norwich was specified were very likely William Parkinson Booth bookseller of Norwich 1790 to 1825 (bbti). Also probably 12.7.1809…

The four paragraphs below don't have to be the same person, but the name was rare so they may be, and same trade between first and last para



Aaron Booth bapt 20.4.1766 Selston Notts son of Joshua & Mary (née Leiven), older brother Caleb Booth 1764-1846 in 1841 census at Selston, (son?) a framework knitter, Thos Saxton joiner of Alfreton, Derbys took appr Aaron Booth 17.5.1780 for 7 years. (Alfreton just 3 miles from Selston)

Aaron Booth = St Geo Han Sq 1.2.1789 MargaretXBrookshaw botp banns wit Thos Rice



TS 11/965/3510A  30.4.1794 Wickham (…

2.5.1816 call on Moore (not seen) : seek Boothby

Godwin went to Ashbourne, probably to see the poet Thomas Moore, but finding him out tried to find Sir Brooke Boothby DNB 1744-1824 poet and writer of Ashbourne Hall

Borcham 16.4.1792 at miss Godwin's.

Ann Godwin's letter (Abinger c.1 f78) says she missed Burcham so had to send by post. All 6 Borchams in the Apprenticeship Tax records (National Archives IR1) lived in Suffolk or Essex



 

Borman 26.4.1795 at King's / 20.7.1810 Borman calls / 23.7.1810 again

Bosse 29.6.1788 at Holcroft's. Cesare Bosse d. 1802 (Highfill, Burnim & Langhan's Biog Dict of Actors &c) was a composer. Godwin noted him again at Shield's on 17.7.1788, then as Bossy at Holcroft's on 5.4.1791 and 7.7.1791 and finally Godwin dined at Bosse's on 9.11.1791

 

John Bostick of Bolton, Lancs Swedenborgian conference 5.9.1791