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HCR diary 1.5.1819 Mr and Mrs Banks at Charles Aders

                    9.5.1819 at Mrs Smith's (the future Eliza Aders) Mr & Mrs Banks there "Mr B: otherwise a formal and tiresome man talked about precious stones a subject he understands being by profession a worker of precious stones - he was a very rich man but ran through his fortune and then took to this occupation in which he has talent - as a means of subsistence - his wife is a quiet good kind of woman much praised by Mrs Smith & Aders &c. I walked with them to give them the protection of my umbrella"

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Benjamin Banks DNB 1727-95, musical instrument maker of Salisbury, in the printed list of 77 in 1788 and the conference minutes of 1789. No mention of Swedenborg in DNB article

4.9.1794 Henry Banks tailor gave evidence to LCS for John Groves (accused of being a spy and acquitted but later revealed to have been a spy)

Henry Banks tailor Crown Court, Bow Street    SunFire 1787
         do.                Martletts Court                     voted 1788 Hood
         do.                      do.                                  SunFire 1790, 1791
         do.                      do.                                  voted 1790 Hood & Tooke
         do.                      do.                                  voted 1796 Fox…

GODWIN DIARY 10.1.1796 adv mrs & miss Banks at Holcroft's / 7.5.1797 adv mes Banks at Hts
Elizabeth Hooton 1748-1834 married 1766 Thomas Banks DNB 1735-1805 sculptor. Their daughter Lavinia born in Rome 1774 married 3.8.1799 at St Geo Han Sq, the Rev Edward Forster

Thomas Banks of Newman St (DNB 1735-1805 sculptor) was proposed SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION 28.9.1792 by William Sharpe 2nded John Horne Tooke. See his person record in Godwin Diary website and my Background Article Godwin, the Reveleys and the Jenningses

See Newman Street 1 to 9 in LONDON…

Thomas Banning of Liverpool on 1792-3 Swedenborgian conference list 

Richard Bannister, Popes Head Alley joined 21.5.1794 the "unnumbered division" (QV)

Hugh Bannister (died 1790) = Pulford, Cheshire 8.1.1737 Elizabeth Fox (died 1780). Their children John (appr 1758 to a skinner), Richard (appr 1762 to Jeffrey Edwards of Chester flaxdresser 7 yrs premium £9 father Hugh Bannister yeoman), John, Elizabeth
Old Bailey 1771 witness Richard Bannister servant to Mr Curll pawnbroker Fox Court
Old Bailey 14.1.1777 witness Richard Bannister servant to Mr Brown pawnbroker Long Acre
Old Bailey 19.2.1777 witness Richard Bannister belonging to…

16.8.1795 sir Rob Barclay at Perry's / 14.11.1799 call on Barclay (after Perry) / 12.3.1800 sir Robt Barclay at Opie's / 17.5.1800 sir R B adv at Perry's / 20.5.1822 call on Barclay. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1795, crossed out, also appeared in 1796 list near beginning of 1800

Sir Robert Barclay 1755-1839 (History of Parliament) banker & wine merchant, (Aix en Provence, Mauritius)

miss Barker 24.12.1798 at C(harlotte) Smith's / 12.2.1800 again / 1.3.1800 again / 30.4.1800 call on Barker with Sarah Elwes / 26.12.1801 miss Barker adv at C Smith's / 16.1.1802 again

Robert Southey, New Letters p262 2.12.1801 his friend Mary Barker planned to spend the winter at Charloote Smith's. Daughter of Thomas Barker of Penkridge, Staffs who married Mary Homfray otp at Wishaw 25.11.1773. (He may have been the Thomas Barker of Springfield House Birmingham whose will PCC 1815 mentioned his wife Mary and children Mary Jane, Helen, Charles, Henry George & Edgar). She died…

In Ann Godwin's letter of 1796 (Abinger c.14 f112) she said of her son Joseph "his aunt Barker is a kept miss to Mr H Hall" and she said much the same in 1805 (Abinger c.9 f26). The context of both letters suggest that aunt Barker was not living in London. Thomas Barker married Sarah Jex at Kettlestone, Norfolk on 29.7.1777. Sarah, daughter of Robert & Mary Jex was baptised at St John Sepulchre Norwich on 1.6.1760, so she was probably 4 years younger than her niece Mary (see Godwin, Mary). In 1805 Thomas Barker brought a suit in Chancery against Mark Butcher and others (Nat Arch C13/75…

Thomas Barker of Twickenham

UBD 1791 TB slopseller / 25.5.1760 Thomas Barker bach = Jane Coleman sp by banns Twickenham /  Land Tax 1804 Twickenham TB £1.5s pa prop Joseph Harris 1813 £11 pa prop Lydia Harris

1861 census Hyde Side Nursery Edmonton TB marr age 60 market gardener born Twickenham wife Charlotte

call on Bailey 2.10.1804

This name has been mistranscribed as Barley on GD website. James Bailey Land Tav 1805 and 1806 Primrose Street. See Gourbon

BONNEY DIARY  15.11.1794 young Barlow

Nicholas Roe suggested this was possibly John Barlow of the London Corresponding Society. Another possibility would have been Rober Barlow attorney of 1, Little Conduit St 1780 voted Fox, / RB director of Westminster Fire Office of Bruton St 1783 voted Wray 1784 / RB auditor of Westminster Fire Office of 36 Bedford St Coct Gdn 1787, 1788  / Robert Francis s of Robert Barlow & Charlotte born 26.9.1786 bapt 5.11.1786 St Marylebone / RB Esq of Hanover Sq voted Townsend 1788 / RB attorney of 19 George St Hanover Sq 1790 / RB of Hanover Square…

Barlow 4.5.1803 at Joseph Johnson's / 27.7.1803 again / 1.6.1805 Barlow at Philips

The GD website has coded these entries to Joel Barlow DNB 1754-1812. In the editorial notes to his person record it says that the diary (i.e. Godwin's diary) suggests that he returned to America via London. The DNB says he had returned to America by August 1805 so the timing is possible, but it could certainly have been another person called Barlow. Since most guests at Johnson's and Phillips' were authors I can only find John Barlow "teacher of languages geography and the globes" whose poem on the…

Mrs Barlow and 26.5.93 and 6.6.93. Perhaps wife of Joel Barlow DNB 1754-1812 who went to France late in 1792 but she may have stayed behind at first, nee Ruth Baldwin (died 1818)
 

5.7.1794 S & T Barnard at Alderson's / 8.7.1796 mrs W Barnard at J Taylor's / 11.7.1796 W B at Barnard's / 12.7.1796 (call on) WB with A / 8.9.1805 miss T Barnard calls  (all in Norwich)

The entries above are ones the GD website has left uncoded. Mrs W Barnard may have been the matriarch of the family, Mary nee Corsbie widow of William Barnard 1711-1788. She died in 1801. Her sons were John b1744, Samuel b1752, Wiilliam 1754-1828 and Thomas 1757-1833. William may have been the William Barnard who married Elizabeth Slater at Sutton Strawless in 1776 and/or the one who married…

Samuel Cumberland Barnard of Norwich was proposed 10.1.1794 by Francis Weldon 2nded George Williams. He was born 9.1.1775 and baptised 12.9.1775 at the Old Meeting House Independent, Norwich son of John & Mary (see Barnard entry in Godwin Diary dataset). A Samuel Barnard (also his uncle's name, born 1751) was buried 8.8.1805 at Weasenham, Norfolk.. Another Samuel Barnard dissenting minister died 7.7.1807 at Sheffield (Gents Mag 1807 p689)

3.11.1793 at Perry's / 24.11.1793 there / 30.11.1793 at Wright's / 5.11.1794 at Perry's / 26.3.1795 at King's with Newtons / 12.7.1795 Godwin calls on him / 8.8.1795 he (& Newton) call on Godwin / 30.12.1795 he calls, then Godwin dines with Newton / 27.1.1796 meet Newton & Barnes / 12.2.1796 again /23.5.1796 Barnes calls / 28.6.1796 again / 8.9.1796 again / 10.9.1796 again / 26.10. 1796 meet Barnes / 25.4.1797 Barnes calls / 1.5.1797 at Wilton's with Grays (this was after James Gray's death and may have been his brother and sister Alexander and Elspet) / 26.8.1797 Barnes calls / 29…

Thomas Barnes of Isleworth

Thomas Barnes Land Tax 1798, 1808 £10 pa at Mill Bridge prop W F Gardner / Ann d of Thomas Barnes labourer & Ann bapt 1.10.1815 Isleworth

Timothy Barnes of Isleworth plumped for Burdett

Timothy Barnes otp (his mark) = 1.12.1801 at Teddington to Elizabeth Lufflumm

see Francis Place's Autobiography, ed. Mary Thale p 136 (1795 her husband had been dead about a year, had a considerable trade in gloves, also breeches. Two foremen, in charge of breeches was Irishman McDonald)

William Barnes = St George Bloomsbury 22.1.1781 Hannah Beechey botp banns sigs wit Hannah Willcockberton

William Barnes glover, breeches maker 7 Orange St, Bloomsbury, Andrews Directory 1790

William Barnes glover Orange St, Red Lion Square will dated 16.7.1793 dear wife Hannah proved PCC 7.8.1793
William Barnes buried Islington 22.7.1793 age 40

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