A-Z of Entries

From meeting of Div 23 on 11.12.1793 in Brown Bear, Moorfields the spy George Lynam reported that Davis went to a Serjt at the Tower and made a convert of him & several Soldiers. On 20.12.1793 Home Secretary Evan Nepean wrote to Major General Leake that a shoemaker named Davis of 15 Cannon Street had been spreading sedition to soldiers at the Tower. (Thale p.34). He may have been the same as Peter Davey or Davie who testified at the LCS trial of Lynam 13.6.1793 that he had enquired about Lynam's character from a Mr Crab and then proposed him as a member. Peter Davey was Div 23 delegate…

Davis, Welch Unitarian calls 20.1.1803

David Davis DNB 1745-1827 poet and dissenting minister was a radical in politics and became an Arian in theology but some of his congregation broke away to form Unitarian churches. His son David Davis Dict Welsh Biog 1778-1846 was a Unitarian and the diaries of his son Timothy Davis 1779-1860 are in the Nat Libr of Wales (5487-99). As far as I can gather none of the ministries of this family were in London so they are less likely to have been any of the later Davis entries (see Davis after 1805)

23.1.1795 Davies / 30.1.1795 adv Thelwal & Davis (Erskine's) / 13.2.1795 /  4.3.1795 /  26.4.1795 /  20.8.1795 /  9.11.1795 /  26.11.1795 / 12.2.1796 / 2.5.1797 / 19.12.1798 / 16.1.1799 / 17.11.1799 / 2 Davis's 5.1.1800 / Davis's 26.1.1800 / 9.2.1800 / 25.5.1800 / 27.12.1801 /  21.3.1802 all at King's, also 5.3.1795 Davis's, Hazlits & King at Thelwal's (compare to 30.1.1795), and 6.8.1796 & 19.8.1796 meet W Davis. Also 15.2.1800 adv Davis jr at opera was perhaps his son William. In 1796 list inserted above with others Godwin met at King's early 1795.

William 'Black'…

MILL VOTERS 1802: William Davis of Hounslow

William Morgan Davis bapt Heston 1821 of William & Catherine schoolmaster of Hounslow / William Davis = Heston 20.7.1807 Catherine Trevis / Catherine Trevis bapt 31.1.1776 St Sepulchre, Holborn / William Davis bur 18.9.1828 Heston age 61 of Hounslow / William Davis bapt 7.2.1763 Heston bastard son of Peter Crape & Elizabeth Davis / Catherine Davis = 1834 Robert Hackett (Ancestry user-submitted tree) / Catherine Hackett buried 3.11.1844 Heston age 67 of Hounslow

William X Davis = Heston 16.12.1788 Ann X Dobbs wid botp banns…

meet Davis 13.9.1805 / 17.12.1805 Wilks, London Coffee House, adv Davis [this could have been Robert Wilks printer and his retired partner Jonas Davis, see my entries for Wilks and for Davis, Jonas] / 26.2.1806 Davis & R Sharp breakfast

30.12.1807 Davis from Sir F(rancis) B(urdett) calls / 7.1.1808 Davis calls / 8.1.1808 write to Davis / 11.1.1808 letter from Davis / 13.1.1808 Davis calls, sign

6.9.1808 call on Davis

22.4.1809 Davis, attorney calls (see work notes below for Davis, attorney possibles)

29.4.1809 write to M L Davis = Matthew L Davis of…

Davison 9.1.1791 at Fenwick's.

There are many later (post 1795) Davison entries, and in the Godwin Diary website these have mostly been coded to Thomas Davison printer, which seems probable. This one seems unlikely to be the printer, and Davisons were plentiful in London at this time, so there is little to go on unless some connection to Fenwick could be found. One possible and interesting person was James Davison of the Loyal Lambeth Association. later active in drilling members of the London Corresponding Society in using pikes, but this entry was before the LCS even began or…

7.7.1810 write to A Davison

Holdens directory 1811: Anthony Davison tailor 23 Cecil-st Strand / A Davison merchant Ormond-yd York-st St James-sq / Alex Davison prize agent 13 Holborn-court Grays Inn

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Thomas Davidson 40 Poland St (Pantheon Punch House) ratebooks 1790-1800 / Thomas Davison victualler Vine St, St Martin i t Fields voted 1774 Mountmorres & Mahon will PCC 1779 / Thomas Davison otp = St James 18.2.1762 Mary Bullivant  of St Geo Han Sq by Archbishop's lic wit Patrick Gillfoy / Michael Humble = Holborn 1.8.1782 Mary Bullivant Davison botp wits Isabella Humble, Thos Brown / SunFire 1789 Thomas Davison victualler corner Bedford St, Tottenham Court Rd / Thomas Davison victualler Poland St voted 1790 Hood / coroners…

HCR diary 19.6.1828 at Jameson's at Hackney "the daughters of Mrs Davy and the late Mrs Darvil interested me on account of their mothers"

                    20.1.1829 Feb or Mar 1800 Robinson got message from Mrs Davy "thro her brother Mr Saville that my visits in her house were not agreeable to Mr Davy" (Mr Davy now partner with McMurdo, Gould Sq)

                       3.2.1829 Mr Davy - husband of his eldest daughter Mr Wansey

Thomas Davy of St Botolph Aldersgate bach = Holy Trinity Minories 25.6.1792 by lic Sarah Savill otp sp wits Mary Kingsbury, Mary Davy. Emma…

29.3.1796 at Holcroft's / 9.7.1796 at March's Norwich / 25.4.1798 calls on Godwin / 25.6.1798 again / 17.6.1799 Godwin called on Porson, adv Dr Davy

Martin Davy DNB 1763-1839. He was a friend of Dr Samuel Parr's, became Doctor of Medicine in 1797, and was said to have been a religious sceptic though he later became a clergyman. He was abroad in Europe as tutor to Lord Ossulston for two years, perhaps at the time of the first entry above, but I haven't looked closely enough to identify the dates of that tour. The only entry above which was very likely him was the Dr Davy in 1799. The…

20.7.1810 Dawbarn calls / 21.7.1810 again / 23.7.1810 Dawburn calls / 25.7.1810 again / 26.7.1810 Three Dawburns call / 27.7.1810 Dawburn sr calls

Thomas Dawbarn bach of St Dunstan Stepney married Frances Reynoldson sp of St Leonard Bromley there by lic 21.3.1809 wit R B Dawbarn

Holdens directory 1811: Mr Thos Dawbarn, sen. 7 Mile End-terrace / Mr Thos Dawbarn jun. 2 Mile End-terrace

Thomas Dawbarn freedom of Joiners Co. London 1812

Stamford Mercury 2.7.1813 Wisbech Auxiliary Bible Society Meeting Mr Thomas Dawbarn of London spoke (Robert Bunbury Dawbarn 1757-…

call on Dawe adv MD, F(anny) & C(harles) 22.8.1805

MD was perhaps Mary Margaret Dawe 1785-1871 in Philip Dawe DNB 1745?-1809?. The twenty year old may have been formally or informally looking after or hanging out with Fanny aged 11and Charles aged 10, two of the children in Godwin's household

PHILIP DAWE 1745?-1809?
CURRENT TEXT "on 25 August 1745"
SUGGESTED CHANGE < on 25 August 1745, or the son of Philip Dawe, brazier of Rowes Court, and his wife, Sarah, baptised at St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey on 4 September 1748.>
CURRENT TEXT "said to have died in 1809."
SUGGESTED CHANGE <said to have died in 1809, or he may have been the Philip Dawe aged 71 from St Pancras who was buried at St Marylebone on 8 December 1819.>

letter from Dawne 23.3.1804

Perhaps George Dawne attorney Bridge Court Westminster 1794, 4 Brydges St Covent Garden 1800, Henrietta St Covt Gdn 1805, Southampton St Covt Gdn 1818 voted Burdett & Romilly, his will PCC 1826 gent of Southampton St Covt Gdn. No particular reason to make that identification

Edward Dawson, Paternoster Row joined 31.5.1794 the "unnumbered division" (QV)

Edward Dawson son of George Dawson boltingclothworker of Reading appr 2.8.1763 for 7 yrs to Thomas Harrison of Paternoster Row, Stationers Co, premium £21 paid by father
History of the Oxford University Press, vol 2 p83 William Dawson warehousekeeper at 7 Paternoster Row from 1780
SunFire 1789 William Dawson 7 Paternoster Row bookseller
Book of Common Prayer printed at Clarendon Press, Oxford 1797 and sold by W.Dawson, Oxford Bible Warehouse, Paternoster Row, London
Holdens…

LCS General Committee 21.3.1793 (report from spy Lynam) Dawson Covent garden has one (a roll to get signatures for petition to Parliament.); General Committee 10.10.1793 Dawson has 2 skins for signatures for petition to the King (see Thale). No other evidence Dawson was LCS member.

(James Dawson of Jacksons Alley voted Fox 1780, ratebooks there 1799 to 1819, maybe different person).

Sun Fire 1784 James Dawson of Drury Lane greengrocer & fruiterer, 1786 same of Covent Garden Market. James Dawson fruiterer of Covent Garden voted Hood 1788. voted Fox & Tooke 1790, orange…

meet S Day 28.6.1799 / 31.1.1802 call on Day / 12.4.1802 Day dines/ 28.2.1804 coach from Lewes with rev Hudson, Tomkins & Day / 6.12.1813 call on Hume. Hume, Day & Faithful dine / 7.12.1813 write to Day, call on Day / 9.12.1813 write to Day / 11.12.1813 again / 16.12.1813 again / 18.12.1813 Faithful calls / 20.12.1813 letter from Day. coach for Maldon...sup at Day's. Day writes to Pattison & Laver / 21.12.1813 Day breakfasts (in Maldon) dine at Day's / 22.12.1813 Day breakfasts (in Maldon) adv Draper. dine at Day's / 23.12.1813 write to Day / 27.12.1813 letter from Day / 1.1.…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION:  founder member 1780 address Stapleford Abbott, nr Aybridge Essex

Thomas Day DNB 1748-1789 / will PCC 1790 Stapleford Abbott, Essex

EDWARD DAYES 1763-1804
CURRENT TEXT "his widow, a miniaturist who had exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1797 to 1800, but of whom no further details are known."
SUGGESTED CHANGE <his widow Sarah (nee Parker) whom he had married at St Mary Lambeth on 11 November 1786. She had exhibited miniatures at the Royal Academy from 1797 to 1800, and she married Joseph Garnett of Kirkland, Kendal on 18 December 1806.> NOTES Lambeth marriage specified Edward Dayes of St Paul Covent Garden, for his widow's marriage Lancaster Gazette 3.1.1807

Dayes 12.2.1794 at J C Jennings'.

George Days married Catherine Povey at St James Piccadilly 11.12.1787 by archbishop's licence (wits J Days, Sarah Days). Catherine must have been the sister or other close relative of Elizabeth Povey who married Joseph Clayton Jennings in 1790. In his will PCC (proved 21.11.1807 by Andrew Smith, surgeon of HMS Reynard) George Days surgeon of 5th W India regt left all to his daughter Elizabeth Dayes of 11 Plumpton Row Brompton. Joseph Clayton Jennings of Lincolns Inn swore to his handwriting and that he had known George Days since his marriage with…