A-Z of Entries

Francis Weldon of 59 Friday St proposed Society for Constitutional Information 25.10.1793 by George Williams 2nded Thomas Wardle

William Tapp linen draper 59 Friday St 1780-1786 & Reymer 1790. Francis Weldon SunFire 1794 warehouseman Watling St, 1795 gauze warehouseman with George Coleman 1800 with him in trust. Friends of Freedom steward on 5.11.1796 (Morning Chronicle 17.10.1796). Francis Weldon merchant of Watling St joined Whig Club 3.4.1798. Bury & Norwich Post 19.6.1811 Francis Weldon draper of Stamford died 11.6.1811. Nat Arch PROB 31/1055/837 inventory of Francis…

13.6.1796 Wells at Dealtry's / 9.8.1796 at Joseph Johnson's with Newnham / 5.12.1797 at Joseph Johnson's /.4.9.1798 again / 29.1.1799 at J Johnson's with Newnum / 12.3.1799 at J Johnson's with Newnum, adv Wells / 30.4.1799 at J Johnson's with Newnum / 30.4.1799 again / 30.9.1799 at J Johnson's / 5.11.1799 again / 28.1.1800 again / 2.12.1800 at J Johnson's with Newnum / 2.6.1801 again / 16.9.1801 again./ 19.7.1804 Wells's call / 26.7.1804 miss Wells dines / 18.8.1804 Wells on water trip / 18.10.1804 theatre w miss Wells & MJ / 10.11.1804 again / 30.12.1816 Wells at Constable's / 

See Welles, Richard

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

John Wells 36 Poland St ratebooks 1796-1814 / John Wells = St James 21.4.1792 Mary Holmes / coroners jury 1799 John Wells grocer Poland St / John Wells cheesemonger Poland St voted Paull 1806 / SunFire 1814 John Wells grocer & cheesemonger 34 Poland St / Morning Post 29.11.1814 Mr Wells cheesemonger Poland St / John Wells cheesemonger of Oxford St voted Burdett & Romilly 1818

10.11.1789 Wendeborn at Robinson's.

Gebhard Friedrich August Wendeborn (PCC wills 1813 Hamburg) born Magdeburg, in England 1767-93 then went to Hamburg and couldn't return to England because of the war. Minister of German chapel on Ludgate Hill, wrote 'A View of Great Britain' and a German Grammar, both published by Robinson in 1790/1. Leeds Archives letter to Rd How Aspley 1792 (not seen)

see Poland Street number not known in London Addresses dataset

see American National Biography Online / letters in Sheffield Archives 1764-1769 (WWM/F/41/36, /R/1/766 & 959, /Gov/2)  Paul Wentworth at Spring Gardens 1767, Pall Mall 1768 / Marriage Licence 30.4.1776 Paul Wentworth wid of St James & Anna Catherina Kennedy (note ANB states he never remarired) / 17.1.1771 Public Advertiser Paul Wentworth appointed one of His Majesty's Council for New Hampshire / 20.7.1775 Public Ledger Governor Hutchinson, Sir John Lindsay, Sir John Maine &c at dinner at Mr Wentworth's, a…

4.12.1807 call on West / 5.12.1807 again / 28.3.1811 write to West / 12.7.1811 West of Cork calls / 13.7.1811 again / 1.1.1812 write to West / 20.3.1812 write to West / 23.4.1812 write to West (Cork) / 29.6.1812 write to West / 28.11.1812 again / 13.3.1813 again / 4.10.1813 again / 7.3.1814 write to West-Grinstead / 12.12.1814 call on S West / 24.11.1815 call on West (Leather-seller) 

The first two West entries above in 1807 might have been an attorney, as Godwin was perhaps active in helping his friend William Nicholson who got out of debtor's prison on 5.12.1807 after seven months…

West at tea 30.6.1795

James West of Alscote Park nr Stratford Auditor of HM's land Revenues, son of James West Joint Secretary to Treasury 1741-62, died at Snitterfield, Warwickshire 11.5.1795 (Morning Post 14.5.1795). His son & heir James adm St John's Cambridge 1794 born 18.3.1775 died 25.3.1838 as James Roberts-West

James West of Chatham Square proposed Society for Constitutional Information 24.1.1783 by Thomas Brand Hollis 2nded John Jebb

James West born 9.6.1747 bapt at Bradford Abbas, Dorset son of Mark & Hester West (see West, Mark in this dataset) / James West wid = St Sepulchre 17.1.1778 Sibella Batley / SunFire 1779 William Curteis & James West linen drapers 1, Angel Court, Friday St.  / SunFire 1780 James West linen draper 36 Charterhouse Sq /  Mark West born 7.2.1780 at Charterhouse Sq, son of James West & Sibella dau of Benjamin Batley (Dr Williams' registry) / …

Mark West of Bradford, Dorset proposed Society for Constitutional Information 9.5.1783 by John Jebb 2nded James West

Mark West = Charlton Mackrell, Somerset 27.5.1746 Hester Samson / Sun Fire 1780 Mark West Esq, Bradford Abbas / 1781 Mark West gave property worth £110 to Bradford Abbas charity school, along with William Read who gave the same amount / see West, James in this dataset for his son, from whose will we know he died between 1781 and 1792

mrs West 31.5.1794 at Calonne's

Tho West 10.12.1801 See Godwin, Harriet.  Only the West entries from this one till 1804 belonged to this person, none of the others had a T. On 14.3.1804 Mrs T West was his wife Lucy and Mrs Dallas her mother Elizabeth.

20.1.1796 [letter from Westley]

Perhaps Robert Hall Westley bookseller 201 Strand. Will PCC 1837 Kingsdown Glos

8.12.1795 W Forum / 31.5.1798 Westminster Forum: duelling, adv M(arshall) & Montagu

Westminster Forum debating society. The subject om 8.12.1795 was "Are not the most probable means left of saving the country from the despotism of the Minister - an immediate junction of the Whig Interest and the Corresponding Society?" The debate was not concluded that night and Godwin doesn't seem to have bothered to return.

Weston of Fenchurch St proposed Society for Constitutional Information 18.6.1784 by Joseph Towers 2nded Edward Bridgen

Law List 1782 James Weston attorney Fenchurch St / Bailey's directory 1784 Ambrose & James Weston attornies Fenchurch St / World 31.10.1789 James Weston of Fenchurch St married Miss (Jane) Whiteway of Portsmouth there (St Thomas) / SunFire 1790 Ambrose Weston 31 Fenchurch St / World 18.10.1792 James Weston steward of Revolution Society dinner on 5.11.1792 / World 29.11.1792 James Weston £2.11s to subscription for France / Law List 1793 Ambrose, George &…

26.10.1788 Weston at Miss Williams' / 27.10.1788 again / 7.1.1789 again / 14.9.1789 again / 11.3.1791 again. Was in 1794 version of Godwin's 1796 list but left out of 1796 version and Baillie later inserted above in same place in list (see Baillie, Matthew)

Penelope Sophia Weston 1752-1827 daughter of Edward Weston a merchant of Worcester who married Mary Jordan of Ludlow, he died in 1765, his will (PCC) mentioned wife Mary, son Joseph and daughter Penelope, and property in Richards Castle, Ludlow. Anna Seward (DNB 1742-1809) knew her by 1783 and in Oct 1785 Miss Weston was her…

HCR diary 21.3.1832 at the Aders "Flor: seemed shocked by hearing of the death of Westfal in Sicily mentioned by Mayer"

Marquardt II p 307 n 79 Johann Heinrich Westphal 1794-1831

see Batemans Buildings in London Addresses dataset

Frederick Wettegg 2 Batemans Buildings ratebooks 1774 / Morning Post 29.3.1777 ad for move to 9 Duke St / Frederick Wettig = Soho 20.2.1775 Elizabeth Butler botp banns wits Philip Jones, Ann Shephard / City of London Sessions 29.9.1781 Frederick Wettig of 1 Duke St Portland Place swore to a waistcoat he had made about Xmas 1780 London Lives / Old Bailey 18.9.1805 John-Frederick & Frederick Wettig of Duke St, Portland Place victims of theft

Whaley 5.8.1800 adv at dinner, Carlow  In Godwin's 1796 list for 1800 / 6.8.1800 dines / 8.8.1800 at Burne's

Thomas Whaley DNB 1766-1800 politician and gambler, pro-union, married Jan 1800 sister of Valentine Browne Lawless, Lord Cloncurry DNB 1773-1853, died 2.11.1800 in Cheshire on way to London. See Bodleian Abinger c6 f36v for Godwin's description of him in a letter to James Marshall

19.5.1793 Seward, Knight, Goring, Wathen at Tooke's / 1.11.1794 Wharton at Hardy's trial.

Although Wathen could have been Jonathan Wathen, noncomformist surgeon of Walbrook, or Josiah Iles Wathen, special pleader Middle Temple, Wharton came (inserted above the line) directly after Seward and Goring in 1793 in Godwin's 1796 list, so this was very likely John Wharton (History of Parliament) 1765-1843. Wharton also appeared twice in the 1796 list for 1794, both times crossed out, and neither time coded to John Wharton's person record in GD website. In the 1794 version of the 1796 list…