A-Z of Entries

Colnaghi's

7.9.1809 seek Zoust, at Colnaghi's, w. M(ary) J(ane)

Colnaghi family DNB (per.c.1785-1911) art dealers. Godwin & his wife were seeking a print of Shakespeare's head by Gerard de Soest (or Zoust). GD website has wrongly transcribed it as Colmaghi's


Colnet

30.8.1806 Four Boadens dine; adv. E Joyce, C Colnet, Essex & Sheffields / 13.9.1806 boat to Richmond with E Colnet (& Godwin's family & close friends) / 14.1.1807 Sarah Taylor & 3 Colnets dine / 2.3.1807 theatre with M(ary) J(ane Godwin), E C & 4 / 29.6.1807 dine at M(argaret) Jones's, (with Godwin's family) & Miss Colnet (chairing Sir F(rancis). B(urdet)t) / 8.8.1807 M J, E C, F(anny Imlay) & C(harles Clairmont) dine / 30.8.1807 adv. C Colnet at dinner / 3.9.1807 boat with M J, E C, C, J(ane Clairmont) & W(illiam Godwin) / 8.9.1807 Greenwich with M J, E C…


Columbine

10.2.1796 Columbine at mrs Robinson's / 29.9.1796 at theatre / 27.10.1796 again / 27.1.1797 at mrs Robinson's / 19.2.1797 there / 12.3.1797 there / 18.6.1799 at Reynolds'  talk of Merry, Colombine etc / 11.2.1801 Columbine at theatre / 10.7.1801 Colombine at theatre

Perhaps Edward Henry Columbine DNB 1763-1811 naval officer (Captain Nov 1802) will PCC 1811 son of Edward Columbine RN, his will PCC 1788?. There were also Columbines in Norwich (Rev Paul, F, F jr, David jr, Peter jr & Thos all subscr to Norwich Public Library 1796). In 1798 Peter Columbine married Elizabeth (1771-99…


Combe, Charles

31.12.1797 Carlisle, Dr Combe call - in Godwin's 1796 list at end of 1797 as Combe (Hor) / 2.1.1798 at Joseph Johnson's with Carlisle / 3.1.1798, 4.1.1798, 6.1.1798, 7.1.1798, 9.1.1798 (calls &c) / 27.7.1798 at Nicholson's / 24.8.1798 adv at Northcote's, meet Combe ph / 26.1.1799 calls / 8.12.1799 meet / 3.5.1800 adv at Nicholson's / 24.1.1802 3 Combes & Carlisle at Nicholson's / 28.5.1802 send to Combe / 31.5.1802, 7.6.1802, 11.6.1802, 17.6.1802 (calls &c) / 15.9.1802 call on (at Newbury) / 8.10.1802 calls / 9.10.1802 tea at his / 31.10.1802 Carlisle & Combe call / 2.11.…


Compter

25.10.1794 Compter. Joseph Gerrald had just been moved from Newgate to the Giltspur Street Compter, perhaps to make room for Bonney (see 23.10.1794 mrs Tomkins above).
 


Comrie, James

1.7.1808 call on Comrie / 2.7.1808 write to Comrie / 30.8.1813 seek Comrie & W Morgan / 31.8.1813 seek Comrie / 1.9.1813 / 2.9.1813 seek Comrie: call on Walkden / 3.9.1813 call on Comrie

Perhaps son of William Comrie of Greenwich his will PCC 1778 left one shilling to wife Susanna residue to children James & Elizabeth / James Comrie of Fleet-st articled to George Coombe of Carey-st 1780 / James Comrie married by license 22.3.1788 Mary dau. of Christopher Hill at Holborn / James Comrie & John Fowler Dyson, attornies, 3, Staple Inn (1791) / Henry Hill apprenticed to James…


Comte de Barde

6.8.1808 dine at Knowles's (comte de Barde)

Francois Isidore Le Roy 1742-1811 Comte de Barde fled to England 1792. His eldest son, Armand Nicholas Le Roy 1772-1845, Comte de Barde, page of Louis XVI, married 1.7.1806 Marylebone to Adèle de Sainte-Hermine. One of the witnesses was the Duc de Coigny 1737-1821. Perhaps Knowles had some gossip about them?


Condell, Henry

17.10.1788 at Shield's thoroughly musical gathering this must be Henry Condell (DNB 1757-1824) musician, & at Holcroft's 21.3.1792

Doane's 1794 Henry Condell St Alban St
 


Conference

Churchil: Night, Conferences, Farewel 13.1.1792 / 4.3.1792 Read the Conference / 3.12.1793 Independence, Farewel, Conference / 23.1.1794 sup at Reveley's, a conference / 14.3.1794 Churchil's Conference & Farewel / 9.6.1798 Conference / 26.6.1798 Conference / 1.7.1798 Conference; read Adept p37 / 3.7.1798 Read Adept p.90: conference / 5.10.1809 call on Johnson twice; conference / 6.8.1811 Conference, W B / 24.10.1811 sup at Bedford (conference) / 1.3.1816 Conference; Fitzgerald, pp.20 / 21.12.1824 conference, M J & Baldwin

Above are all the instances of the word conference in…


Conolly

Conolly 21.4.1794 at Thelwall's


Conrad

11.6.1806 dine at Johnson's w. Conrad

Not a clear identification but a rare surname
John Frederick Conrad bach = St Dunstan i t West 2.8.1789 Ann Catharina Vocker sp banns sigs wits John Webster, Elizabeth Kramer
1790 Conrad weaver Norton Folgate
Holdens dir 1805, 1811 Mr John Conrad Queens-row Islington
John Frederick Conrad bur Bunhill Fields 9.3.1836 age 77


Consitt, Francis

Consit 21.6.1799 at John King's / 24.6.1799 adv at theatre / 27.6.1799 meet / 17.7.1799 call on (not in) / 24.8.1799 calls / 26.10.1799 at King's / 29.20.1799 meet / 24.12.1799 call on (not in) / 29.12.1799 at Lanesborough's / 5.1.1800 at King's / 26.1.1800 again / 9.2.1800 again / 15.2.1800 adv at opera / 21.2.1800 meet / 16.3.1800 at King's / 27.4.1801 at (RA) exhibition / 2.5.1801 meet / 24.7.1801 adv at theatre / 5.9.1801 meet / 24.10.1801 meet

Mr Consitt 17 Bury St, St james 18.3.1795, 12 New Burlington St 14.3.1796, 7.1.1797, 6.3.1799, 12.10.1799 Lectures in Philosophical…


Conway

genl Conway 9.7.1800 adv at Lady Moira's. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1800 / Conway 12.7.1800 at Curran's

John Henry Count Conway, colonel 5th regt Irish Brigade 7.10.1794 disbanded 1798. General Conway subscr 1798 to D R O'Conor


Cooke, George

19.11.1793 Cooke at Jennings and Cook 20.1.1794, 21.3.1794 and 19.12.1794 there. Also Cook 21.5.1794, 19.7.1794 at Holcroft's and 30.7.1794 adv Hart St; all linked to the Jennings/Reveley/Foulkes Bloomsbury set. In the Law Lists George Cooke was partner to John Foulkes at 14 Hart St, Bloomsbury from 1795 to 1797. Then there was Cook 25.12.1794 and 19.5.1795 at Foulkes; Cooke 7.8.1795 and 22.8.1795 at Foulkes; Cook 7.9.1795 at Foulkes; Cooke 2.10.1795 at Montagu's; and Cooke 21.12.1795, 29.1.1796 and 4.2.1796 at Foulkes, which demonstrates that Godwin's exact spellings cannot be relied on…


Cookham

mrs Cotton, Cookham 29.11.1799 dine with her

Cookham presumably the place in Berkshire, and her was surely mrs Cotton. Both are underlined (i.e.unidentified) in GD website


Cooper

conge of Cooper & Marguerite 1.4.1802 / 23.3.1805 call on Morgan with Philips adv Cooper / 30.10.1805 Cooper at Joseph Johnson's / 31.8.1806 Cooper at Philips / 17.4.1807 again / 1.6.1808 call on Cooper with M(ary) J(ane) / 9.12.1809 call on T Cooper / 29.1.1810 call on Theobald & Ward adv Cooper / 20.3.1810 call on Cooper, OSSH / 22.3.1810 call on Cooper / 14.9.1810 M (from Cooper) / 26.10.1810 call on Cooper, bb / 21.11.1810 call on Theobald & Cooper / 23.11.1810 call on Cooper, S S H, & Ward / 14.5.1811 call on Ward & Cooper / 9.8.1811 seek Cooper / 3.11.1813 call on…


Cooper, Elizabeth Priscilla

5.3.1797 E C at Holcroft's / 11.3.1797 E C adv at Mansel's / 26.3.1797 E C at Holcroft's (these E C entries have not been coded to her person record on GD website, although E C 26.2.1797 and all E P C entries have been). Holcroft's and Mansel's are venues where she was more fully named on other occasions

Her letters Abinger c.1 f117-20 c.2 f3-8, c.3 f31-2 & c.4 f3. In 1792/3 she was governess to the Heatons at Denbigh, and from 1794 to the Kingstons at Oak Hill in Barnet and at their town house in Stratford Place. Godwin noted 2 Kingstons at her funeral (see Kingston, John).…


Cooper, Grace Mary

1.2.1796 mrs C at Holcroft's / 21.2.1796 again / 26.8.1796 mrs C calls / 25.11.1796 adv at miss Mansel's / 23.10.1797 at theatre / 14.12.1797 at theatre. All these clearly her but missed in GD website / 18.5.1798 M C dines may also have been her

Godwin's cousin Grace Mary dau of Daniel & Priscilla Ray of High St Gravesend baptised St George Gravesend 18.4.1741. Her mother was Priscilla Hull (sister of Godwin's mother Ann) who married Daniel Wray at St Mary Wisbeach, Cambs on 11.7.1740. See also the will of their brother Richard Hull (Nat Arch PROB11/1071). Grace Mary Ray married…


Cooper, Joanna

mrs T C at H(olcrof)ts 1.4.1804

This should be added to person record on GD website for Cooper, Joanna, as she was named ( and so coded on GD website) as mrs T Cooper earlier in the same day's entry


Cooper, John Robinson

5.4.1796 call on JC (missed in GD website)

Godwin's cousin John Robinson Cooper, son of Thomas Cooper, surgeon East Indies deceased, apprenticed on 5.6.92 for 7 years to Thomas Spilsbury, printer of Snow Hill. Premium of £32 10s. paid by John Dorset, gent. (Stationer's Company apprentices no 7687)  see Godwin, Joseph. In the 3 months before this indenture Godwin called on Dorset 5 times and on Spilsbury once, then Dorset called once on Godwin. John Cooper makes 5 appearances in the diary, 3.1.1792; 5.6.1792; 19.3.1796; 5.4.1796; and 23.7.1796.