A-Z of Entries

see Batty, Robert

Battine 27.5.1799 at John King's

Perhaps William Battine DNB 1765-1836. Boyles 1800 Dr William Battine 34 Soho Sq, Doctors Commons, Kings Advocate in Admiralty

mrs Batyy 10.5.1795 at Holcroft's with Amelia Alderson / 17.5.1795 again. Alderson was staying in London with the Battys. No doubt Mrs Batty was present on many other occasions coded to her husband Robert Batty, but these are the only two entries for mrs Batty in Godwin's diary

Ann Braithwaite born 18.9.1757 dau of Daniel & Elizabeth, bapt St Luke Old St, her sister Elizabeth Proctor Braithwaite born 26.1.1768 bapt St Nicholas Acons

Robert Batty otp = Ann Braithwaite of Amwell, Herts by Archbishop's licence 31.8.1786 St Jas Picc'y wits Henry Wigstead, Eliz Proctor…

Battie calls 14.12.1804 / 17.12.1804 Batty, L S calls / 30.12.1804 call on Jo(seph) G(odwin) adv Batty (£35) / 31.12.1804 call on Batty / 27.5.1805 call on Batty, P Street

The second, third and fourth entries above are coded on GD website to Robert Batty DNB 1762/3-1849 physician but there is reason to think these five entries could all have referred to a different Batty. The last entry specified P Street, and John Batty was in the rate books for 12 Primrose Street by 1805. In 1804 the house was recorded as empty and in 1803 the tenant was William Waddams, whose will PCC was proved…

Battie at Morgan's 16.9.1794 / 17.3.1795 Godwin calls on Battie / 14.12.1804 Battie calls.

The first two are clearly same as Robert Batty - associated with miss Alderson each time. For the 1804 entry see Batty, John

Farington's diary Sunday 21.12.1794 Batty at Tooke's with Kyd and Pearson

Amendments to Oxford DNB

ROBERT BATTY 1762/3-1849

CURRENT TEXT "born at Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland."

SUGGESTED CHANGE <born at Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland, and baptised there 17 January 1762, son of John & Elizabeth Batty.>

SUGGESTED ADDITION (…

HCR diary 20.6.1818 a musical party at Aders "Two Germans - Baur (brothers?) performed on the violin and violincello in so exquisite a style as to delight everyone -such sounds were bought from the violincello as I have never heard". The two musicians walked back with Robinson and complained that the French appreciate merit in music but the English not.

The only Baur alive then in music dictionaries was Charles-Alexis Baur who was a harpist, so these remain a mystery to me

14.9.1789 Dr Bawd at miss Williams'

15.12.1794 Richter & Baxter discharged / 26.8.1804 Baxter at Tooke's / 12.10.1806 again

The above entries have been coded in GD website to Baxter family (Baxter of Dundee). The first should belong certainly, and the other two probably, to John Baxter (fl 1794-1816 in DNB London Corresponding Society act. 1792-1799)

Bayles 8.3.1801 adv at Godwin's dinner with M(arshall)

HCR diary 1.5.1842 Robinson saw Miss Bayley "interesting chat only I said too much about Mrs Aders etc."

No identification at present

Nat Arch TS 11/963 examination of Thomas Hardy, who mentioned Bayley a printer with 5 or 6 journeymen. Hardy answered questions freely but perhaps not honestly, to protect comrades. This could have been Thomas Bayley printer of Petticoat Lane, but no evidence he was sympathetic to LCS, and he was dead 3 years before Hardy's exam.

Thoms Bayley printer of Petticoat Lane will proved PCC 17.5.1791 mentioned dau Mary, son Thomas, wife Susannah; John, Sarah & Jane chn of John & Sarah Jones late of Whitechapel; Elizabeth & Charles chn of Elizabeth 1st wife of James Hicks now or…

Thomas Butterworth Bayley of Hope nr Manchester proposed 3.11.1780 by Thomas Bentley 2nded William Gillam. See Dictionary of National Biography 1744-1802

see Francis Place's Autobiography ed. Mary Thale p 88 (leather stainer & dresser)

William Bayley Soho ratebooks Little Newport St south 1781 £32 1787 £34
William Bayley leatherseller Newport St Soho  voted 1784 Hood & Wray 1788 Townshend 1790 Fox

John Bayley breeches maker Duchy Lane, St Mary le Strand voted 1788 Townshend

Wm Baylis of Isleworth

William Baylis bur 29.5.1835 Isleworth

John baynes of grays inn proposed 29.11.1782 by James Martin 2nded Samuel Shore. Dictionary of National Biography 1758-1787

William Baynes of Embsaykirk proposed 23.4.1784 by Jeremiah Batley 2nded Samuel Romilly. Embsaykirk (now generally Embsay) is near Skipton Yorks. See John Baynes DNB 1758-1757, William was probably his father. He died 1811 (Gents Mag 1811 vol2 p 663). A fine portrait of him c.1755 is on the BBC Your Paintings website. He subscribed 1787 to the Works of John Jebb

Beach's 10.3.1798 at Pump room Bath with Jones's

This may have been the family of the Bath portrait painter Thomas Beach DNB 1737-1806 who appeared in a 1784 directory as painter West-gate buildings Bath. There is a transcript of his diary at the West Country Studies Library at Exeter which might shed more light (GB/NNAF/P141256). There were also two spinster sisters of Bath, Elizabeth Beach will PCC 1785 and Anna Catharina Beach will PCC 1804 whose brother Thomas of Jamaica had died by 1778 leaving two sons Thomas and John Hynes who called themselves de la Beeche and a daughter…

call on Beadle 5.1.1805

Could have referred to a beadle (official of a parish, court, ward, city company or other institution) but it was also a surname, fairly common in Kent, and Godwin used a capital B. James Beadle advertised his Irish Linen & Sheeting warehouse at 9 Commerce Row, Gt Surrey St (on Surrey side of Blackfriars Bridge) in Morning Chronicle 22.6.1803 and insured it Sun Fire 1803. William Beadle of Dartford was a lottery winner in 1802. Thomas Beadle was at 13 Braziers Bldgs Fleet Mkt (Sun Fire 1803) and had a butcher's shop at 29 Fleet Mkf and lived at 9 Seacoal…

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

George Beardmore 39 Poland St (Crispin) ratebooks 1790-1  / some possibles in work notes below. Name common in Staffordshire

John Beaseley, Twickenham

Olive Beazley Syon Row Twickenham 1841census  independent means age 50