2.12.1807 miss Atkins,calls, F Buildings
F Buildings was likely Featherstone-buildings, Holborn. Because at this point Godwin was seeing the actors in his forthcoming play Faulkener, she may possibly have had a minor role in it. Otherwise I could not identify her
26.4.1808 Atkinson adv. at Phillips / 1.5.1808 dines at Philips's / 1.6.1810 adv. (at Phillips? or Surr's? or Godwin's?)
Very common name, 74 entries in London Trades 1811 (only one from book trades, Edw. Atkinson, printer, 2 Greystock-pl, Fetter-la / one schoolmaster Geo. Atkinson, academy, 105 Fenchurch-st) and 37 entries in the Court directory. Just possibly Joseph Atkinson DNB 1743-1818 playwright Godwin may have met in Ireland in 1800 (see my entry for Atkinson, Capt.). Or William Atkinson DNB 1774/5-1839 architect or John Augustus Atkinson DNB 1774x6-1830 painter &…
capt Atkinson 3.7.1800 at Curran's / 8.7.1800 calls there (not in) / 15.7.1800 Godwin calls on him (not in)
Joseph Atkinson Dict Irish Biog c1743-1818 Captain, poet & dramatist, friend of Thomas Moore. His address in 1800, along with John Atkinson, was Usher's Island, Dublin
SWEDENBORGIANS: All bapt 21.6.1789 New Jerusalem / William Attwell born 10.5.1760 of William & Ann / Elizabeth Attwell born 20.2.1761 of Joseph & Elizabeth Child / William Attwell born 1.3.1782 of William & Elizabeth Attwell
William Attwell marr 16.4.1781 St James Piccadilly Elizabeth Child. See entry for William Child / Mrs Anne Atwell bur 21.11.1811 age 84 Bunhill Fields her will PCC 1811 widow of Knightsbridge (Michael Atwell = Shoreditch 27.5.1766 Ann Wane)
Atty 29.12.1799 at Lanesborough's
James Atty of Whitby (sailmaker Sun Fire 1781) his will PCC 1814 married Hannah dau of Robert Middleton in 1768. They had three sons / James 1768-1816 married Catherine sister of Rev Robert Hall / Robert Middleton 1770-1833 of 55 Devonshire St, St Marylebone Land Tax 1798, who married 24.11.1807 Margaret Ann Lucy Willes / and George 1772-1797 unmarried Alum Cantab. The presence of miss Middleton at the same dinner makes the identification more likely
John Audley of Cambridge proposed 6.2.1784 by Michael Pearson 2nded John Jebb. Born 16.7.1750 and bapt 2.1.1750 St Ives, Hunts, independent, of John & Eliz Audley. JA woolstapler, Cambridge Oct 1765 4% annuities (source lost) took apprs 1771, 1784 (Nat Arch IR/1),. JA Cambridge subscr 1777 to Poems of John Auther. His father's will PCC 1779 Cambridge. JA Cambridge associator 1780 (see London Evening Post 9.3.1780 &c). JA Cambridge subscr 1781 to John Locke publ Cambridge.subscr 1782 to John Moxon's Agreeable Companion subscr 1784 tos Stephen Addington's Life of Paul subscr 1788…
9.3.1796 Austin at Newton's / 16.2.1798 Austin at Chandler's / 20.12.1802 calls on Godwin (not in) / 31.12.1802 calls / 11.1.1803 calls (not in) / 2.2.1803 calls /25.3.1803 calls / 11.4.1803 meet / 30.4.1803 calls / 22.5.1803 dines at Godwin's / 25.5.1803 calls / 23.1.1819 call on Austin for Hazlitt / 18.2.1819 mrs Austin at Snow's / 9.7.1821 Austin adv at Joseph Godwin's / 12.5.1834 5 Austins at Gaskell's
A possible candidate for the 1798 entry at Chandler's, because Chandler was an artist, would have been William Austin DNB 1721? or 1733-1820. He exhibited at the RA 1776 from a…
HCR diary 16.2.1826 "after dinner to Austin's"
25.11.1828 at Mrs Aders' "she gave me an account of Mrs Austin which surprised me but which Sutton Sharpe has confirmed viz: that her intimacies with several men had even injured her reputation and that Mrs Aders gave no credit to the reports yet Sharpe from Goff does"
16.11.1833 "N.B. called on Hayward he talked freely about Mrs A: It seems Pr: was her lover and that Hellar is a cast off lover. But I doubt all this".
These entries probably referred to Sarah Austin nee Taylor (DNB…
see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset
John Avery 33 Poland St ratebooks 1785-7 / Gazetteer 28.1.1789 executors of John Avery deceased sell properties on south side of Oxford St nr Pantheon & at 4 Chesterfield St / John son of John & Sarah Avery bapt St James 31.10.1771 / John Avery adult bur St James 26.12.1802 / probably not the organ builder (see Grove's Dictionary of Music &c) who was however an interesting character see next para
London Gazette 18.11.1775 John Avery organ builder of St George Bloomsbury bankrupt, Public Advertiser 17.1.1776…
miss Axtel 29.7.1799 sups at Godwin's with H G / 2.5.1800 sups at Godwin's with H G / 7.1.1800 dines at Fell's with Godwin, M,F,M,L & LJ / 29.10.1800 H G & Axtel at tea.
Elizabeth Amy Axtell was bound to Hannah Godwin on 16.1.1799 (IR1/37). She married John Calow at St James Clerkenwell on 16.8.1801 and was buried at St Pancras 3.12.1842 age 65.