A-Z of Entries

Burne's, Carlow 4.8.1800 tea / 8.8.1800 dine at Burne's (not in Carlow?) / 2.10.1800 (in London) meet Burne / 8.10.1800 meet Burne, Dogherty & Goold / 27.9.1804 Burne at H Rowan's / 20.9.1805 Burne & Curran dine / 9.10.1805 call on Curran (not in), Burne (not in)

Since Godwin began the day of 8.8.1800 seeing St Cavan's Bed at Glendalough nr Wicklow and then returned to the Dublin area it seems unlikely that he went back to Carlow to dine (and this is confirmed by his letter Bodleian Abinger c6 f36v) so the Burne's of 8.8.1800 was probably a different venue from that of 4.8.…

29.3.1806 S Burnel calls / 8.4.1806 S Burnel dines / 22.4.1806 meet S Burnel / 6.5.1806 E Burnel at tea / 11.7.1806 meet S Burnel / 19.1.1808 miss Burnel adv. at dinner / 12.7.1812 meet E Burnel / 16.5.1828 Breakfast, Reynolds's, w. Burnel

I made lots of notes on families of this name but don't seem to have found any plausible identification yet

Elisha Burnet of Richmond plumped for Burdett

Only references to this name I found were in US, so he may possibly have emigrated there but some of the EB references in US were pre-1802

19.3.1808 call on Burney,designer

Edward Francisco Burney DNB 1760-1848. At that time a designer was an artist who made drawings for engravers and this is just what E F Burney did. After this call Godwin then called on Burney's cousin Martin Burney

see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset

Thomas Burosse ratebooks (54?) Poland St 1780-9 / Thomas Burosse = St Martin in the Fields 10.9.1751 Martha Lefebvre / Thomas Burosse surgeon of Poland St witness at Coroners' inquests 1772, 1790 / Martha Burosse wife of St James will PCC 1787 proved by husband Thomas / will PCC 1813 John Burosse surgeon Royal Navy of St Geo in the East Mx

GODWIN DIARY: 6.4.1796 at Stoddart's / 25.6.1796 meet Carr & Burrel, call on Stoddart / 29.7.1796 Montagu's adv Tobin, Matthews & Burrel / 10.1.1797 sup at Carr's with Turner, Burrel, Bell & Littledale / 6.2.1797 Tobin's, with Holcroft. White & Burrel adv Matthews / 12.4.1797 meet Burrel / 21.4.1797 Tobin & Burrel call / 15.6.1797 Burrel adv at Holcroft's / 1.7.1797 Burrel dines with Godwin / 8.11.1797 adv at Holcroft's / 18.3.1798 again / 19.5.1798 adv at theatre / 17.6.1798 meet / 8.7.1798 at Holcrofts with Foulkes 9.12.1798 at Holcrofts with Foulkes & Spurling /…

James Burrell of Dunn Lane, Ealing

Sarah dau of JB & Sarah bapt 17.6.1795 New Brentford / Land Tax 1801 Little Ealing James Burrill house & garden £60 pa prop Mrs Ann Fisher / 1851 census Acton Green JB age 55 born Isleworth market gardener wife Sarah

Burroughs 26.4.1796 at Mackintosh's / Burroughs's 8.2.1799 at John King's / Burro^s 3.7.1800 at Colles's. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1800 as Burroughs / 22.10.1803 Burroughs at Curran's / 25.10.1803 Burroughs at Hamilton Rowan's / 12.8.1804 meet Burroughs / 22.5.1805 call on Burroughs / 24.5.1805 Burroughs calls / 20.7.1805 seek Burroughs / 4.10.1807 meet Burroughs / 2.10.1809 call on Burroughs with Curran / 28.4.1818 call on Burrows / 6.7.1827 Burroughs at Uwin's / 7.4.1830 miss Burroughs at mes Hodget's / 15.5.1830 again

Peter Burrowes DNB 1753-1841seems likely to have…

Samuel Burrow of Richmond plumped for Burdett

Sarah age 84 wife of Samuel Burrow bur Uxbridge 28.1.1810 / Samuel Burrow = 20.11.1820 St Pancras Elizabeth Sankey

miss Burt 7.3.1804 at Napier's (& miss Walsh) / 11.3.1804 miss Burt dines (& Napiers & miss Walsh) / 24.3.1804 Walsh & Burt call

The will PCC 1808 of Elizabeth Burt of Tittinhull (= Tintinhull) where the Napiers came from near Yeovil Somerset, made Joseph Jeffery and William Lambert White (qv) her executors. She left legacies to Mrs Mary Napier, Miss Margaret Walsh, Miss Eleanor Napier & Vernon Napier son of Mrs Mary Napier. Her brother Charles Henry Burt will PCC 1829 was vicar of Cannington Somerset and chaplain to the Duke of Sussex and Lord Grey

Burton 4.7.1800 at Curran's. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1800 / 10.7.1800 at Macnally's / 16.7.1800 at Reeves's / 22.7.1800 at Burton's / 9.10.1817 at Brompton (Curran's) / 10.10.1817 calls / 11.10.1817 again / 14.10.1817 again / 15.10.1817 meet at Brompton / 16.10.1817 calls / 2.11.1819 again / 9.9.1832 (Burton) mourner at Wm Godwin junior's funeral

There were a number of prominent people named Burton in Ireland in 1800 (Sir Charles Burton baronet of Polarton, co. Carlow son of Sir Charles Hist Irish Parl 1702-1775 / Francis Burton Dict Irish Biog d.1828 surgeon / William Henry…

see Autobiography of Francis Place ed. Mary Thale p 88 (according to Place, Bury was one of his father's cronies, a gentlemanly man in some government office, who died poor and miserable in the extreme. An unnamed woman whom Place perhaps implied was Bury's mistress kept a lace and fringe shop for him in the Strand between Arundel and Norfolk Streets. Place said that Bury "sold" her daughter at age 14. At 15 the daughter had a child, at 17 she married a young man who went to the West Indies, made money, then came home and died. The daughter lived on his money but later became a prostitute…

Busbys at Philips 13.5.1802. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1802

The six other instances of Busby in Godwin's diary have all been coded on GD website to Thomas Busby DNB 1754-1838. This one was probably missed because it was plural. Busby appeared 5 times at Sir Richard Phillips DNB 1767-1840 and Busby's DNB article mentions their connection, so it is strange that Busby appeared in the 1796 list in 1802 when Godwin had already noted him at Phillips' in 1801, and the attribution of a 1794 Busby to him seems probable. His name in the 1796 list has not been coded to his person record either…

See Castle Street East 1 to 15 & 11 Berners Street in London Addresses dataset

No 2 Castle St East  / SunFire 1794 William Busby hatter 399 Strand (Cook gent) / Land Tax 1791-1800 Thomas Cook

Will PCC 13.2.1822 William Busby hatter of New Bond St proved by widow Elizabeth still owned this house in Castle St East

BONNEY DIARY Bush 10.11.1794 / 14.11.1794

GODWIN DIARY Bush 22.11.1794 at Tooke's trial / 8.3.1804 call on Bush, Doctors' Commons / 22.3.1804 letter from Bush

The Bush visiting Bonney in the Tower of London and at Tooke's trial could have been Atkinson Bush will PCC 1811 spirit merchant or his son Michael Bush will PCC 1820 attorney who both joined the Society for Constitutional Information in 1791. Another son of Atkinson Bush, James Bush 1764-1830 will PCC 1830 was a proctor at Doctors Commons (one of the Procurators General of the Arches Court of Canterbury) and he was…

Bushe 3.7.1800 at Curran's. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1800 / 6.7.1800 calls there / 7.7.1800 at Gould's / 18.10.1805 (in London) meet Bushe

Charles Kendal Bushe DNB 1767-1843

26.2.1795 Butler t a t at King's / 1.5.1795 Butlers at King's / 7.6.1795 at King's / 21.10.1795 adv & dog at King's / 30.10.1795 AB at King's / 21.11.1795 again / 3.12.1795 again / 9.12.1795 again /19.12.1795 again /25.12.1795 again / 1.1.1796 again / 6.1.1796 again / 11.1.1796 again / 22.1.1796 again / 27.1.1796 again / 2.2.1796 again / 8.1.1797 Danvers at King's / 25.1.1797 meet Butler D's / 28.2.1797 Danvers at King's / 9.3.1797 again / 2.5.1797 again / 5.2.1798…

Butler 22.7.1800 at Burton's / 7.11.1803 Butler at H Rowan's / 19.12.1827 breakfast at C Butler's

The 1827 entry above was probably Charles Butler DNB 1750-1832 whose work on the English, Irish and Scottish Catholics Godwin had consulted on 26.11.1827 & 27.11.1827. For various Irish Butlers see work notes below

La E Butler 15.8.1800 call on, Llangollen

Lady (Charlotte) Eleanor Butler DNB 1739-1829. Godwin's letter to James Marshall (Bodleian Abinger c6 f37v) explained that he had an introduction from Mrs Grattan to the 'ladies of Llangollen'

23.11.1795 adv Butler at Montagu's / 4.12.1795 Butler vdm at Montagu's / 24.12.1795 sup at Butler's with Montagu / 5.3.1796 Butler at Montagu's / 11.4.1796 meet Butler / 19.4.1796 Godwin calls on Butler (not in) / 20.4.1796 meet Butler & Montagu / 7.5.1796 at opera Butler / 23.9.1796 meet Butler vdm / 25.2.1797 again / 17.4.1797 again / 16.8.1798 again / 1.6.1805 again

All the entries connected with Montagu or with 'vdm' added (an abbreviation for a clergyman, like Rev) I presume were one person, while Augustus Butler is identifiable either by having been at his stepfather…