A-Z of Entries

There were points in my life as early as age 10 and probably even earlier when I deliberately scanned my earliest memories, so now I'm 66 I can't tell the memories from the memories of them. The filing of memories from my first three years seems to be by place, recalling incidents that took place in my first home at 9 Acton Lane, near Chiswick Park tube station in West London, England. When I was nearly three we moved next door to 11 Acton Lane and we let number 9 to tenants, and I hardly ever went back in there. Both houses are now demolished. Another source that is now lost was my baby…

Names in (brackets) have been changed. 1995 the second year I picked out of a hat to write up my life. Having now discovered my diary of this year I'm in the middle of rewriting this. At the start of 1995 I was 46, I had been living about four years on my boat Tao at Medley on Portmeadow, Oxford, I had been working about ten years as part-time bookkeeper and computer programmer for care agency Oxford Aunts in George Street, Oxford, and I had been seeing my girlfriend (Dora) for about nine months. I'd been involved for about six years in pagan groups in Oxford, and  for about 18 months in…

Porter 2.4.1797 at Mary Robinson's / 4.6.1797 at Horseman's, Oxford / 27.4.1800 adv at Mary Robinson's (& Northcote). In Godwin's 1796 list for 1800 in position which might have referred to any of the 1800 entries / 28.4.1800 at RA exhibition / 2.5.1800 Porter's Seringapatam / 3.5.1800 adv at Bedford House / 13.5.1800 meet Porter / 17.5.1800 sup at Hoare's with N(orthcote) O(pie) Reynolds. Chalmers, Porter / 11.6.1800 Mary Robinson's with Northcote & 4 Porters / 18.6.1800 call on Northcote; meet Porter / 8.3.1802 Porter at Fuseli's lecture / 31.7.1802 theatre adv R K Porter / 3.1.…

Porteus 15.3.1797 at Robert Knight's / 14.5.1809 Porteus dies

For the 1797 entry GD website transcript has Portens, original looks more like Portens than Porteus but I cannot trace any instances of that surname. The 1809 entry was certainly Beilby Porteus DNB 1731-1809 Bishop of London.

5.3.1806 Mrs Potigny at Taylor's

Couldn't find any other mention of her

miss Potts 6.9.1799 sups at Godwin's with H G / 9.10.1799 tea at Fell's with Godwin, Marshall & Fenwicks.

Ann M Potts was bound to Hannah Godwin on 1.6.1796 (Nat Arch IR1/36)

2.3.1789 Nicol & Potts at Robinson's and 9.3.1789 same pair at Hamilton's.

George Nicol DNB 1740-1828 bookseller and James Potts (R Pollard, Dublin Book Trade 1733-96) seem a likely pair to have been dining with these publishers (and see Jenkins 22.1.1789)
 

Poulain 2.1.1794 at Richard Johnson's

1774 Poulain, the Academy, Kensington / 1786 Paris 'L'Amour Conjugal' by Mlle Poulain / 1785-90 Poulain & Kaye navy agents 11 Savage Gdns / 1798 will PCC John Poulain of Grosvenor Row Chelsea (dated 11.9.1797 'nevew Francois Disiaux of Valenciennes, servant Jane Hallifax') / 1828 will PCC James Poulain of Finchley

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Peter Paulett Esq of Manchester proposed member 6.6.1788 by Richard Sharp 2nded John Lodge Batley

A pair with George Phillips Of Manchester (QV*) proposed by the same two members on the same day. As Peter Poulete signed the pro-American Lancashire petition 1775. SunFire 1786 Peter Poulet merchant Manchester. SunFire 1789 John Clegg, Peter Poulett & John Chalton Danson fustian manufacturers, Manchester. 1790 subscr to james Ogden's poem The Revolution. Oracle 4.10.1797 John Clegg fustian manufacturer bankrupt

7.1.1789 Powell at Miss Williams' and 14.9.1789 there.

Jane Powell 1766-1838 and her sisters Anna and Margaret, daughters of John Powell (d.1799 PCC will) a prosperous Boston merchant who lost money by taking English side then came to live in Ludlow where they were part of Penelope Weston's circle (see her entry) and moved to London about the same time as her. Their brother Willam Dummer Powell (see his life by William Renwick Liddell) became Chief Justice of Upper Canada and died in 1835. Anna married Isaac Winslow Clark on 5.3.1791 in Boston and died in childbed in America. Jane…

11.3.1796 Powell at Holcroft's

Not James Powell the spy as coded in GD website. In Holcroft's diary (Hazlitt's Works vol 3 p196) he mentioned seeing William Nicholson's diary entry for 11.3.1796 and referred to Powell as "a young Oxonian brought by Parr". May be one of these

Charles Powell son of Rev Wm of Abergavenny - Jesus Coll matric 20.5.1790 age 18, BA 1794 MA 1796 (PCC 1827?)

James Powell son of James of Abingdon - Trinity Coll matric 13.12.1788 age 16, scholar, BA 1792, MA 1795, died 20.3.1797 (PCC 1797 x 2)

John Folliott Powell son of Richard of…

Gen. Powell 10.10.1794 at Johnson's.

His will PCC 1814 Henry Watson Powell, General in HMArmy of Warwick. Took part in the 1790 Warwick meeting against dissenters and voted Villiers (pro Pitt) in 1792 Warwick poll. Died 14.7.1814 at his house near Lyme, Colonel of 15th regt of infantry
 

in {} brackets, probably not the right James Powell, but possibly
{SunFire 1786 James Powell gent, corner of John St, Tottenham Court Rd}
Customs 1788 James Powell £25 per annum Examiner of Journals for Northern Ports. In 1795 he stated he had been a clerk in the Customs Office for 12 years. Thale p256 note 34
The Narcotic and Private Theatricals Two Dramatic Pieces by James Powell of the Custom House. London, printed for & sold by the author, H D Symonds, Vernor, R Gyfford, Harrison, I Axtell, and Riley & Willis, published March 1793, 8vo 2 shillings.
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14.11.1807 write to H Siddons & mrs Powel / 2.12.1807 mrs Powel calls / 2.6.1808 Exhibition; adv. mrs Powel

Jane Powell (DNB 1761-1831) played the Countess Orsini in Godwin's play Faulkener at Drury Lane on 16.12.1807. Over the month between 14.11.1807 and the opening night Godwin saw three other of the principal actors in his play, Mr & Mrs Siddons, and Mr Elliston

curly brackets {} not clearly same John Powell but maybe him or relative. A very common name
Old Bailey sessions 26.11.1772 John Powell baker of Goodge St accused of selling loaves underweight, discharged informant not appearing
{John Powell baker of Denmark Court St Martin in the Fields voted 1774 Mountmorres & Mahon 1780 Fox 1784 Fox (painter of Denmark Court)}
{SunFire 1780 James Powell victualler Northumberland Arms Goodge St / SunFire 1786 James Powell gent corner of John St, Tottenham Court Rd}
John Powell Land Tax 8 Goodge St 1781 to 1797 value £4
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see Batemans Buildings in London Addresses dataset

Lancelot Powell ratebooks 8 Batemans Buildings 1778-1781 / there may have been two or more Lancelot (or Launcelot) Powells in London at this time, as birth dates given in the the baptisms of his children by Martha postdated his marriage to Susanna Turner, which didn't specify if he was bachelor or widower, also if there was only one person, he made abrupt career changes, from being a scholar at Westminster to a stationer's apprentice in 1769, and from being a printer in 1781 to being a tailor in 1787 / Harvey Powell bach of St Paul…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Rev Charles Powlett proposed member 1.2.1782 by John Jebb 2nded Edward Bridgen. He took on Denbighshire with Jackson Barwis for tract distribution

Charles Powlett 1728-1809 was the eldest of three illegitimate sons of Charles Powlett 3rd Duke of Bolton (DNB 1685-1754) and Lavinia Fenton (DNB 1710-1760) the actress who first played Polly Peachum in the Beggars Opera. He went to Trinity College, Cambridge and was ordained priest on 9.6.1754, shortly after his father's death. He married as bach on 23.3.1755 at Greenwich by lic Elizabeth Gunman sp…

Prado 25.6.1801 adv at Northcote's / 14.10.1801 Prado's nephew at Hoare's / 9.7.1805 Prado at Northcote's

Abraham Prado Billiter Sq 1774 will PCC 1782 Twickenham widow Esther will PCC 1788 Twickenham / Joseph de Prado merchant 1790 New Court Throgmorton St / Josue de Prado merchant 1791 10 Lothbury will PCC 1814 Newington Butts / Samuel Prado Land Tax Twickenham 1789, Socy for Improving Naval Architecture 1792, Robert St Adelphi 1798, 28 Grafton St 1811, will PCC 1839. There were also many PCC wills for Prado and de Prado of Amsterdam

see Poland Sterr 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

John Pratbernon 27 Poland St ratebooks 1777-9 (note 3 Paddington Green) / Jean Pierre Pratbernon son of Thomas & Jeanne (nee Villars) bapt 31.5.1771 Glasshouse St Huguenot / John Pratbernon = St James 12.3.1770 Susannah Neau / their children Jean & Eliz bapt 1771, Jeanne 1772, Eliz 1775 all at La Patente Soho / John Pratbernon gold & silver worker of Oxford St voted 1774 Mountmorres & Mahon / his father Thomas (1712-96) and brother David (will PCC 1811) were also jewellers

Jas Pratt calls 25.1.1803 / 3.9.1804 Pratt (taylor) calls / 15.8.1813 call on Pratt, Islington

The two last entries above are coded in the GD website to Samuel Jackson Pratt DNB 1749-1814. There is nothing to suggest he was ever a tailor and he died in Birmingham in 1814, and there is nothing to suggest he was living in Islington in 1813.

The first entry was clearly the James Pratt who wrote to Godwin on 27.8.1804 from 10 Howard St ,Strand (Bodleian Abinger c8 f93) saying that he had called a year and a half ago. He had plans for a school and hospital in London for the…