A-Z of Entries

Curteis 28.11.1805 at Joseph Johnson's

Perhaps Edward Jeremiah Curteis History of Parliamnet 1762-1835 MP for Sussex 1820-1830 by then a Tory but had been a member of Society for Constitutional Information, proposed 27.2.1784 as Jeremiah Curties of Inner Temple by James West, 2nded John Baynes. See Westminster School Register for date of birth, mother &c.  He was rebaptised as Edward Jeremiah in 1788 and called to the bar that year. He married in 1789 Mary dau of Rev Stephen Barrett of Hothfield, Kent. Member of Society of Friends of the People 1792. He contributed to the Gents…

9.8.1796 at Joseph Johnson's

see Curtis person record in GD website, William Curtis DNB 1746-1799 and Curtis entries in index to Farington's Diary

Cuthbert 19.7.1800 at Lefanu's (in Ireland)

see Autobiography of Francis Olace, ed. Mary Thale p. 53-4 (in Greyhound Court where Place learned to turn and file) Place made a simple error calling him Cuthbertson. There was indeed a John Cuthbertson, mathematical, philosophical and optical instrument maker c.1743-1821 who worked in Amsterdam in the 1770s and 1780s and then returned to London, trading in Shoe Lane Holborn and then Poland Street. However the mathematical instrument maker in Greyhound Court was David Cuthbert

A David Cuthbert was apprenticed to James Mackay coppersmith of Edinburgh for 6 yrs on 13.8.1768, premium…

Thomas Cuthbert bapt 15.5.1791 Amey & Elizabeth Cuthbert bapt 18.12.1791 all at New Jerusalem

Cutting 19.3.1797 at (Thomas) Knight's

17.3.1799 mrs Foulkes, SC, EM at Holcroft's / mrs Curson calls 25.5.1799 / S Curson calls 27.5.1799 / S Cuxson at tea 29.5.1799 / call on mrs Cuxson 2.6.1799

The two Curson entries were clearly Godwin's misreading (the cataloguer of the Abinger manuscripts has made the same mistake) of the name in the letter (Abinger c14 f76-7) in which S Cuxson asked Godwin to comfort an afflicted being for an hour or two. Dated Friday evening it fits best with the call of mrs Cu(r)son on Godwin on Saturday 25.5.1799. In another letter (Abinger c14 f78-9) (s)he asked him to keep a secret. The GD…

Cyclops 18.4.1790 at John Paradise's

5.7.1788  v. D.B. at Epsom

miss D'Alton 20.8.1792 at Brand Hollis.

There were three Irish generals named D'Alton in the Austrian service; this may well be Frances, daughter of late General Count D'Alton who married Sir Richard Steele in March 1793 and died Frances Mary Steele 17.7.1857 at Weymouth (newspapers). Mary D'Alton widow of Count Edward D'Alton died 12.8.1815 her will PCC 1815 mentions her eldest son Peter D'Alton, 2nd son Christopher Albert Thomas Francis D'Alton, daughter Ann Jackson, brother Charles McCarthy, late brother John McCarthy Esq of Springham Tipperary

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

ad 1790 Count D'Arnoux physician and oculist 57 Great Poland St / will PCC 2.11.1796 dated 12.4.1796 of John Arnoux occulist of Bridge Rd Lambeth late of Racket St, St Margaret in the suburbs of St Anthony Paris where he owned a "manufactory of ropes on improved principles, capstans, fire engine, land & navy pumps, a machine of a new construction for making flowered or damask cloths and a flower mill going by weights" "spinning wheel invented by me on a new construction" absent from France since 1789, left half…

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

Ad 1791 M D'Auberval & Mme Theodore D'Auiberval 52 Poland St / see Highfill Burnim & Langhans. D'Auberval was the composer/choreographer of La Fille Mal Gardee / Doane's 1794 D'Auberval Poland St / they were presumably tenants or guests of the Legoux (QV*) family

D'Esterre 4.3.1798 on Bath Coach

William Parker D'Esterne otherwise D'Esterre late commander in Hon East India Coy of Passage green. co Cork. His ship United Kingdom captured by French 19.11.1809, ship Fairlie 1810-14, ship Bridgewater. See Bullock

meet d'Osmond 1.12.1801

Rene Eustache Marquis d'Osmond 1751-1838 , Antoine Eustache Baron d'Osmond 1754-1823, or Marie Joseph Eustache, Viscount D'Osmond 1756-1839 were three brothers who were all French emigres (Hoefer: Nouvelle Biographie Generale). As bachelor of St James Picc'y the Viscount married 19.7.1795 St Marylebone Ann Marie Martha Gilbert de Voisin spinster a minor with consent of her mother Ann Marie Merle Gilbert de Voisin among the witnesses was the Marquis d'Osmond

call on Dadley 30.4.1805 / 26.5.1805 again / 28.5.1805 Dadley & Mulready call / 15.6.1805 Dadley, Dawe & Mulready call / 9.7.1805 Mulready & Dawes tea & supper adv Dadley  / 30.7.1805 Dadley calls / 21.8.1805 call on Dadley & Dawe / 27.8.1805 Dadley calls / 28.8.1805 again / 13.9.1805 call on Dadley / 21.9.1805 again / 26.9.1805 Dadley calls / 9.11.1805 meet Dadley / 20.10.1808 Dadley calls / 2.11.1808 again / 1.12.1808 again / 3.12.1808 again / 25.3.1812 again / 18.6.1814 again / 21.6.1814 again / 16.7.1814 again

There were perhaps enough coincidences of Dadley…

RICHARD DAGLEY (d.1841)
CURRENT TEXT "Dagley, Richard (d.1841), genre painter and engraver, was an orphan and was educated at"
SUGGESTED CHANGE <Dagley, Richard(1761-1841), genre painter and engraver, was born on 30 December 1761 and baptised on 29 January 1762 at St Margaret's, Westminster, son of Samuel Dagley, citizen of London in the Curriers' Company, and his wife Ann. His father was buried at St Andrew Holborn on 12 February 1762, and his mother married Roger Peck in 1765. On 8 March 1770 he was admitted to>
NOTES London Metropolitan Archives MS18218/10 and…

6.7.1792 Damen at Holcroft's.

On a night of quartets - with eight musicians present - this must be one of the three Dahmen brothers:Herman, horn player (1755-1830); Johan Arnold, violinist, cellist and composer (born c 1760, died London 1794 according to Grove, but played Kings Theatre in 1797); Wilhelm, horn player (born 1769, joined British army) (Highfill, Burnim and Langhans)

Dakins 21.3.1803 at Westminster Abbey

Rev William Whitfield Dakins DD of Dover will PCC 1850 (said to have been of Trinity Coll Cambridge, where his son went, so he may have been the William Daking admitted there 1787 priest 1795). Buried Westminster Abbey 21.1.1850 age 83 of St James Dover. Translated History of the Reigns &c from French 1801, Society for Suppression of Vice 1803, see Morning Post 14.5.1803 Rev W Dakins, Cloisters, Deans Yard, Westminster. Rector of St MichaelCrooked Lane 1819, Precentor of Collegiate Church of St Peter Westminster & chaplain &…

2.11.1795 baron d'Ahlberg at Richard Johnson's In Godwin's 1796 list as Dahlberg crossed out

Co-adjutor of Mentz & Worms along with Prince Bishop of Constanz, was appointed by German diet in Nov 1794 to negotiate armistice with France, said in August 1796 to be at Geneva and in March 1798 at Vienna, hoping to become Archbishop of Vienna (British newspapers)

1744 -1817 (Deutsche Biographisch Enzyklopade) Archbishop of Mainz, of Regensburg, Grand Duke of Frankfurt 1810-13 under Napoleon. Doesn't mention his English visit but says he was friends with Goethe, Schiller &c…

14.1.1796 Dalby at John Frank Newton's / 31.1.1798 Dalby adv at Reveley's