A-Z of Entries

see Courtenay, Kenneth

miss Coutts 16.5.1805 at Wake's

All three daughters of Thomas Coutts DNB 1735-1822 banker were married by 1800, I don't think he had any sisters. His brother James Hist of Parl 1733-1778 left one survivng daughter but I have discovered nothing more about her. PCC wills Patrick C 1808 (brother of Thomas DNB) Alexander Coutts merchant Princes St London 1804 / William C Harewood House, Yorks 1814 /  John C printer Cornhaill 1825 / Ann C spinster of Kensington 1855 mentioned uncle George C of Wellington Somerset (his will PCC 1852)

Coventry 25.1.1798 adv at theatre / 19.4.1816 Coventry at Boswell's (Edinburgh)

The first entry could be George William 6th Earl of Coventry 1722-1809. The second one maybe Robert Coventry teller of Bank Of Scotland died 1827, or his brother Andrew died 1838 whose children Rev George 1792.-1872 minister of St George's chapel York Place Edinburgh and Andrew advocate 1801-1877 are also possibles though the latter was probably too young

16.4.1798 call on Cowie

On GD website the above entry is not underlined as unidentified but there is no person record for Cowie. See letters Abinger c4 f18-19(8.5.1798), c4 f20-1(10.5.1798), c15 f20-1, c22 f86 (2.1.1798), c22 f96 (Wed - presumably 9.5.1798). Cowie appears to have been a business associate of Gilbert Imlay and also of R Sherman. Cowie and or Sherman must have been assignees of Moore & Co, carpet manufacturers, founded by Thomas Moore DNB 1700?-1788 and their attorneys must have been Rowland & William Maltby. Sherman referred to a letter from Mrs Godwin (Mary…

3.2.1796

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1796 (crossed out) but not coded in GD website to her person record

31.5.1808 call on Northcote; adv. E Cowper / 1.9.1817 again

Clearly a long term acquaintance of James Northcote DNB 1746-1831 artist. I considered a mistress of the bachelor Northcote but decided it was more probably Peter Leopold &c, the 5th Earl Cowper 1778-1837, (succeeded 1799) who perhaps enjoyed Northcote's famous conversation.

mrs Cox 11.7.1794 at Mrs Jennings with Hewardine / 13.12.1797 Coxes at Aldis's / 2.11.1799 call on Cox & Greenwood, with Fenwick / 23.8.1811 call on Cox & Co / 25.2.1819 call on Northcote adv mrs Kean, mrs Cox / 11.10.1825 call on Cox, Furnivals Inn / 12.10.1825 call on Cox / 12.4.1833 call on mrs Cox / 22.4.1833 again

Richard Cox (1718-1803) and Charles Greenwood (1748-1832) army agents later known as Cox & Co account for the 1799 and 1811 entries

Coxes at Aldis's might have been surgeons - William C surgeon will PCC 1835, Isaac (John) C surgeon will PCC 1836…

see Greenwood, John

Crabbs 13.4.1800 at Southgate's / 26.9.1803 H & F Crabb at Norman's (in Stowmarket, Suffolk) / 10.10.1803 see F Crabb (in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk)

see Southgate. Benjamin Crabb oilman 10 Lombard St 1781-90, 111 Holborn 1788-91. Edward Crabb oilman 10 Lombard St 1785-90. Benjamin Crabb will PCC 1804 oilman of Hatton Garden, Benjamin Crabb will PCC 1818 carver, gilder & looking glass manufacturer of King St, St Saviour Southwark

Jemima Crabb 1736-1793 mother of Henry Crabb Robinson DNB 1775-1867 was daughter of Denny  & Elizabeth Crabb of Wattisfield, Suffolk and…

16.11.1809 call on Cradock & Joy / 22.12.1809 call on Cradock / 11.7.1810 again / 30.12.1812 call on Cradock & Joy / 1.2.1814 call on Cradock / 4.1.1825 call on Baldwin & Cradock / 5.1.1825 call on Cradock / 2.2.1825 call on Baldwin, Cradock

Probably Charles Cradock bookseller with William Joy at 32 Paternoster-row, from 1816 Baldwin, Cradock & Joy at 47 Paternoster-row (bbti)

MILL VOTERS 1802 Thomas Cranfield of Hounslow Heath

9.10.1794 B Craven at Johnson's. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1794 as B Craven and in 1794 version as Berkeley Craven.

Berkeley Craven (will PCC 1836) brother of Lord Craven so brother in law to Robert Augustus Johnson. (see Godwin, Harriet) and Harriette Wilson's Memoirs
 

26.5.1807 call on Crawford (Seymour Street)

Identifiable because of the address as Henry Crawford 49 Upper Seymour-st Land Tax 1807. He married Elizabeth Venner at St Geo Martyr Queen-sq 20.2.1786. Their children Eleanor bapt 13.4.1793 St Geo Queen-sq / Jane bapt 1.8.1795 Marylebone / Martha bapt 23.2.1798 Ealing / Charles Venner born 1800 (Jackson's Oxford Journal 16.10.1847 Charles Venner Crawford formerly of Auditor's Office East India House died at Bristol) / Matilda Louisa bapt 1.12.1804 Marylebone. Old Bailey 28.5.1800 they had recently moved from Gunnersbury, Henry Crawford…

5.4.1793 Crawford at Nicholson's. In Godwin's 1796 list in 1793 and in 1794 version.

 Maybe Adair Crawford DNB 1748-95 physician and chemist; as a chemist likely to have been a friend of William Nicholson. He married Eleanor Stone (sister of William Stone who was tried for treason in 1796) on 22.5.1786 at Tiverton, Devon, and died at Lymington, Hants. His will PCC 1796 makes his brother Dr Alexander Crawford of Lisburn Ireland joint executor with serjeant James Adair (DNB 1743? - 1798), they had presumably a family connection in northern Ireland. His handwriting was sworn to by John…

16.4.1796 dr Crawford at miss Hays / 12.11.1796  Crawford there / 24.6.1804 Crawford at H Rowan's / 30.1.1805 again / 26.5.1807 call on Crawford, Seymour St / 29.11.1809 Crawford & mrs Boinville call / 19.4.1816 shop, Hepburn & Crawford / 24.10.1833 Crawford at Leicester Stanhope's

If Dr Crawford was a medical doctor he may have been John Crawford of Castle St Holborn who swore to the handwriting of Adair Crawford's will, February 1796. He was a brother of Adair Crawford, went to Baltimore 1796 and died in America in 1813 (see Dictionary of Irish Biography, entries for John…

Creaser 28.9.1800 on coach to Wimbledon

W Cree 2.7.1800 at Curran's, Rathfarnham / 4.7.1800 Cree there / 5.7.1800 Crees there

Probably referred to the family of Curran's estranged wife Sarah, daughter of Dr Richard Creagh. They married in 1774 and separated in 1794. According to Leslie Hale's book John Philpot Curran p136 they never saw each other again but Curran retained the respect of his father-in-law. Lloyds Evening Post of 14.10.1795 reports on a court martial of Lt William Creagh of the Royal Cork Militia who had assaulted a fellow officer after receiving an insult against a female relative (possibly Curran's wife…

Crespigny 16.11.1799 at theatre (& Mary Robinson) / 254.11.1799 at Mary Robinson's / 24.12.1799 again / 2.2.1800 again / 3.2.1800 again / 5.3.1800 at Coleridge's / 2.4.1800 at Mary Robinson's

Perhaps Philip Champion de Crespigny Hist of Parl d.1803 noted as a man of fashion and about 70 years old by 1800. His brother Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny born 1734 will PCC 1818 had "the honour of receiving the Prince Regent" (Burke's Peerage de Crespigny) at his Camberwell home (and so perhaps the most likely companion of the Prince's ex-mistress Mary Robinson) made a baronet 1805.…

16.1.1796 Crichton at Carlisle's / 18.10.1797 there / 15.4.1831 Museum; Crichton / 10.3.1835 at Skinner's, Sir A Crichton

(Sir) Alexander Crichton DNB 1763-1856 doctor of Westminster Hospital, Boyle's 1794 21 Leicester Sq, married Sept 1800 Frances Dodwell. The 1831 entry may refer to a work Godwin was consulting (see GD website te3382)

15.11.1794 at Lister's / 14.12.1794 calls on Godwin / 17.12.1794 at his / 29.12.1794  Godwin calls on / 16.5.1795 Crisps at Lister's / 6.12.1795 G calls on/ 20.12.1795 calls on G / 4.1.1796 G calls on / 14.2.1796 G calls on / 18.2.1796 calls on G / 10.3.1796 G calls on / 21.3. 1796 calls on G / 19.4.1796 G calls on  / 28.4.1796 at RA exhibition / 28.4.1800 at RA exhibition / 8.6.1800 meet. In Godwin's 1796 list near end of 1794.

John Crisp of Dorking will PCC 1803 left rings to five friends, including Dr Lister and Christopher Terry (his guest 17.12.1794). Probably the John Crisp…