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30.10.1791 William Godwin's older brother John

28.11.1791 John sups. Given 15.1.1792 is 'Miss Godwin dines; John at supper' and has been coded on the Godwin Diary website to Godwin's older brother John, this one must surely have been him; also probably (though a bit more ambiguously) 10.2.1793. Godwin hadn't yet settled into his later JG code for his brother John. Also 24.1.1790 has been wrongly coded to him, and 17.8.1796, 28.9.1796, 29.5.1800 and Jn's 16.4.1797 missed.

John Godwin may have been bapt 11.3.1753 St Mary Staining London (his grandfather Edward Godwin was…

28.11.1795

for baptism and place of birth see Godwin, Joseph. Though baptised John Jex he often appeared in documents as just John or Jno. I would suggest that most of the Jno G as well as the J J G entries in Godwin's diary referred to him. They never appeared together though they did overlap, there were ten uses of JJ before Jno ceased, but they were spaced out in a way that is consistent with Godwin's nephew making calls every month or so on the uncle who had paid his apprenticeship premium. It can be explained by Godwin having gradually come to prefer JJ while being in the habit…

add 19.12.1794  sup at Sutton's with Jo / 9.4.1795 call on Jo G / 23.3.1809 letter for Jo / 8.11.1812 Jo & NG dine / not coded in GD website. Also perhaps 19.10.1805 Jo at Perry's

Godwin, Joseph.

apprenticed 15.10.1771 for 7 years premium £42 to Thomas Raven of Fakenham, grocer and draper. Nat.Arch. IR1/58 f24 (Raven was probably the uncle of Philip Hull Godwin's wife Mary Ann Dunnet Raven)

married 1.12.1776 at parish of Fulmerdestone with Croxton by licence Joseph Godwin single man of parish of Fakenham and Mary Jex of this parish spinster. (Guildhall Mf…

20.6.1793

William St. Clair in The Godwins and the Shelleys supposes Harriet is Joseph Godwin's wife but gives no good reason for it. The simplest evidence against it is the burial record of Mary Godwin at St Botolph Aldgate aged 78 years of St James Clerkenwell on 12.3.1834, 7 days after Godwin's diary notes Mrs Jo Godwin dies. She was probably buried there in error as her husband (and his brother John) had been buried at St Botolph Aldersgate. The instances of Mrs Jo Godwin are then 20.6.1793, 27.10.1795, 30.9.1796, 6.11.1797, 17.8.1802 (when her daughter Harriet is also…

8.9.1791

"probably an older brother of Godwin's" change to "Godwin's youngest brother".

6.8.1827 event tag. "possibly N G's son begins school" change to "Nathaniel Godwin age 60, publican, entered as a pensioner (or Poor Brother) of Charterhouse (London Met Arch ACC/1876/PS/02/053 and ACC/1876/PS/03/024) and died 1.2.1846 aged 79. The position was in the gift of the King (then George IV) and may have been secured by Godwin's contacts with Lord Dillon (a literary 'fashionable') in the preceding months."

from Ann Godwin's letter of 1792 (Abinger c.1 f102-3) it…

11.6.1802

Joseph & Mary's youngest daughter Phebe. for baptism see Godwin, Joseph. The Phebe or P G entries of 29.8.1800, 11.6.1802, 14.8.1802, 29.9.1803, 17.5.1808 and 27.8.1817 should all be added to her person record in GD website. It seems clear from the context of 17.8.1802 and the fact that she appears thereafter so often with Hannah Godwin or her other apprentices that the indenture (event tag) was to Hannah Godwin. In Ann Godwin's letter of 9.7.1805 (Abinger c.9 f26) she says "I wish Pheby not to come I cannot help her".

 

7.8.1791

The Godwin Diary website editorial notes call him an older brother but he was in fact a younger brother. His birth date and those of his wife and children are given in his letter of 1829 (Abinger c.13 f74v). Philip Hull Godwin married Ann Dunnet Raven on 6.3.1793 at Themelthorpe, Norfolk.



 

6.8.1804

Joseph & Mary Godwin's youngest son William. Birth and baptism shown in Guildhall MS12818A/71 f45 (see Godwin, Joseph). He was admitted commoner at Christs Hospital on 10.9.1800 and "cloathed" in his blue coat the next day. He was presented by Lord Lauderdale for which see his letters to Godwin (Abinger c.5 f102-3 & 110-11).

28.10.1810 (event tag) at Christ Church Newgate, William Godwin of this parish married Harriet Gilbert spinster of St Marylebone by licence, witnesses William & Diana Gilbert. The mrs W of 21.7.1811 at Lamb's, 14.10.1821 at Joseph…

6.3.1810 Gold calls / 12.7.1810 again / 24.7.1810 call on Gold / 15.2.1811 again / 19.2.1811 Gold calls / 13.6.1811 call on Gold / 16.7.1811 M(ary) J(ane) calls on Gold / 24.9.1811 call on Gold / 3.10.1811 call on Gold: Gold calls / 18.10.1811 call on Gold / 15.11.1811 again / 26.12.1811 seek Gold / 27.12.1811 call on Gold / 29.2.1812 again / 2.3.1813 again

Perhaps Joyce Gold printer 103 Shoe-la from 1799 to 1823 (bbti) & bookseller (SunFire 1808), Joyce Gold stationer 5, Gt Eastcheap (SunFire 1812)

see Newman Street 1 to 9 in London Addresses dataset

Barthw Goulding 9 Newman St Land Tax 1797-8 / Bartholomew Goulding = Jun 1771 Mrs Maryman (Walker's |Hibernian Magazine) / Bartholomew Golding merchant 35 Ushers Quay Dublin directories 1766-1780, 2 Dyers Court, Aldermanbury, London directories 1781-7 / SunFire 1791 Bartholomew Golding, John Savill Mcnamara & John Keogh jr merchants 29 Queen St, Cheapside / Bartholomew Golding & John Saville Macnamara merchants Queen St bankrupt 1796 / SunFire 1798, 1804 Bartholomew Golding gent 9 Newman St / General Evening Post 28.7.1798…

HCR diary 8.6.1828 "called on Aders - a Mr Goldschmidt was with him, who took us to see some fine paintings on sale in Leicester Square, belonging to Signor Reghellini di Schio"

                 4.11.1833 "went to the Aders - an agreeable evening there - Mr Goldschmidt was there - He has proved a very generous friend"

Possibly Adolphus Goldschmidt?

Morning Post 23.8.1823 Achilles Fould Esq of Paris married Henrietta dau of L. A. Goldschmidt Esq / Morning Post 16.2.1826 failure of B. A.…

Commissioner's Room with Goldsmith 2.10.1799 / 8.10.1799 Goldsmith calls (not in) / 25.2.1801 mrs Goldsmith at S Elwes'. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1801 / 21.3.1801 S Elwes & S Goldsmith call / 19.4.1801 S E(lwes) & L Goldsmith call / 21.4.1801 call on L Goldsmith / 23.4.1801 evening at Goldsmith's with S Elwes, Egerton & others / 16.9.1801 meet L Goldsmith / 16.3.1802 call on Goldsmith (with McAdam) / 19.3.1802 sign with McAdam & Goldsmith

From the position of Goldsmith in Godwin's 1796 list we can deduce that the two first entries above were a different Goldsmith,…

call on Goldston 15.8.1805 wit Jo(seph) G(odwin)

Goldston Primrose St Land Tax 1806 & 1807, Sun Fire 1808 Manasseh Isaac Goldston 20 Primrose St. Manasseh Isaac Goldston merchant Gt Prescot St, Goodmans Fields bankrupt 20.6.1811, cert granted 22.8.1811. Found guilty of forgery at Old Bailey 18.9.1821 and sentenced to death. Described as about 50, small, Jewish. 20 Primrose Street was one of the houses Godwin was managing for his Wollstonecraft sisters-in-law from which he had recently got rid of the previous tenant (see my entry for Ball)

19.5.1793 at Horne Tooke's. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1793 but not in 1794 version.

11.9.1807 dine at Johnson's w. Gooch /  2.2.1820 seek Gooch

The only two Gooch entries in Godwin's diary, and 12 years between them, so they may not have referred to the same person, Possibles:

Robert Gooch (DNB 1784-1830) had graduated MD from Edinburgh in June 1807 and then worked for a time under Astley Cooper in London. He could have also been the 1820 entry.

Rev William Gooch whose General View of the Agriculture of the County of Cambridge was printed for Richard Phillips in 1811 but the preface signed Whatfield parsonage Suffolk 1807. He was born about 1761…

27.11.1795 Goodbehe at Crown & Anchor

This dinner at the Crown & Anchor wasn't advertised in the newspapers and seems to have been only attended by 15 or so people as Godwin lists names followed by "& 2" changed to 3 (or "& 3" changed to 2), but though it could be an anniversary celebration of the acquittals in the treason trials, Bonney and Tooke being present, it was more likely to be discussing the sedition bills, the hot topic of the day. The Crown & Anchor in the Strand was happy to host political associations of all stripes  Goodbehere had been a…

Goodenough of Queen Ann St East proposed Society for Constitutional Information 22.12.1780 by John Jebb 2nded Capel Lofft

Eldest son of Rev William Goodenough of Broughton Poggs (will PCC 1768) and his wife Elizabeth nee Serle, his younger brother was Samuel Goodenough DNB 1743-1827, his three younger brothers went ito Oxford, William studied medicine and died (PCC 1770), Samuel & Edmund went inot the church, Richard was articled 1762 to Edward Bathurst attorney of Cirencester (also to Kedgwin Webley?). He inherited property from his uncle Richard Serle (will PCC 1767) and…

write to E Goodford 23.1.1802 / 7.4.1814 call on Place & Bridger / 13.9.1814 Bridger calls

I have a tentative suggestion as to this person's identity. The will of John Old Goodford of Yeovil PCC 1787 mentioned his wife Maria and his daughters Maria, Elizabeth, Harriot and Mary Ann. The will PCC 1828 dated 14.1.1828 of Elizabeth Bridger formerly Goodford of Romford but late of Windsor, wife of Lt Col James Paul Bridger, mentioned her mother Maria Goodfrod, her brother John Goodford of Clifton Cantelo and his wife Charlotte, her aunt Mrs Harbin, her friend John Frederick Pinney of…

Goodwin 29.4.1800 at Foulkes's / 26.1.1812 at Collier's / 8.10.1814 J Goodwin calls

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Thomas Goodwin 29 Poland St ratebooks 1774 / Daily Advertiser 28.4.1774 first floor to let Mr Goodwin's tallow chandler opposite the Pantheon, Poland St / St James Chronicle 10.11.1772 Thomas  Goodwin tallow chandler of Oxford St married at St Marylebone Miss Prosser of Wells St / Thomas Goodwin bach = 5.11.1772 Bridget Prosser sp wit Pryce Devereux Prosser (who was bapt 5.12.1753 Glasbury, Brecon, he  = St Marylebone 26.11.1782 Frances Pearce bach & sp botp banns , North Devon settlement examination June 1793 of…