A-Z of Entries

Godwin Diary: Chatfield 8.6.1794 at Holcroft's

John Chatfield of Back Hill, Hatton Garden proposed member of Society for Constitutional Information 1.6.1792 by William Sturch 2nded Jeremiah Joyce

directories 1789-91 John Chatfield timber merchant 7 Back Hill, Land Tax 1788-99 Back Hill / SunFire 1780 John Chatfield & Thomas Wood timber merchants 4 Bains's Row, Cold Bath Fields / John Chatfield timber merchant St James Westminster took appr 1782 Jonathan Agate (Bessels Green Baptist, Orpington, Kent born 14.7.1764 son of William & Jane Agate, signed Friends to Liberty…

Philip Chancey of Austin Friars proposed Society for Constitutional Information 24.11.1780 by Joseph Parker 2nded Edward Bridgen

Philip Chauncy bapt 1718 St Peter Cornhill son of Charles / 1762 Philip Chancey Cornhill sub to James Penn's Tracts / 1768 Philip Chancey of Leadenhall St, Mercers Coy voted Harley, Ladbroke, Beckford & Trecothick (not Wilkes) / directory 1776 mercer Leadenhall St / Philip Chanucy regular subscriber to Protestant Schools in Ireland / will PCC 1783 Philip Chauncy mercer of Winkworth's Buildings, Austin Friars left £12.000 each to nephews William,…

Chawners 13.11.1794 at Foulkes'. The will of Ann Chawner of Kentish Town PCC 1810 dated 3.3.1809 mentioned Mrs Foulkes, and Philippa Foulkes (John Foulkes' wife) witnessed it. She also mentioned her sister Dorothy and niece Hester both of Hart Street, Bloomsbury. In Boyle's Court Guide 1792 Mrs Chawner was at 10, Hart Street, Bloomsbury, four doors from Foulkes.
 

Cheap 28.1.1798 at(Horne) Tooke's

31.3.1789 Chelsum at T Hollis' and 2.2.1790 there.

Rev James Chelsum DNB 1738-1801 though very much a Church of England man, was a member in 1788 for the Society for Abolition of the Slave Trade so would have had something in common with Hollis. The name Chelsum is very rare which adds to positive identification
 

9.3.1810 dine at St Paul's, w. Chenevix, &c / 26.2.1831 Chenevix calls

The 1810 entry seems likely to have been Richard Chenevix DNB 1774-1830 chemist who according to the DNB visited London in 1810.  The 1831 entry cannot have been him as he died in 1830 but was possibly one of his illegitimate sons George and Charles Smith who changed their surname to Chenevix after their father's death

Chennels 5.12.1794 at Foulkes' / 2.1.1795 at Dyer's.

Lydia Frances Chennels, schoolmistress of 73 Hatton Street (Sun Fire 1794) because Miss Chennill of Hatton St and George Dyer subscribed to the poems of Sarah Spence, and Mrs Spence was also present at Dyer's on 2.1.1795, along with the poet Edward Williams. Lydia was baptised 3.3.1771 dau. of Thomas & Ann Chennels at Edlesborough, Bucks and married Richard Sharp (not 'Conversation' Sharp) on 6.8.1796 at St Leonards Shoreditch. Children bapt St Andrew Holborn, Charles Chennels S 1798, Harriet Lydia S 1799, Henry Richard S 1800…

18.9.1810 call on Cherry / 26.12.1812 again / 8.1.1814 again

Perhaps the Rev.Thomas Cherry head master of Merchant Taylors School 6 Suffolk-lane Upper Thames-st, and vicar of Loose, Kent. Godwin may have been supplying him with educational books, or trying to.

Thale, Selections 13.1.1795 Cherton 38 Bethnal Green Road, signatures & subscriptions. No other trace of this person found

1.7.1809 Chervet calls

Claudius Chervet and James Fletcher merchants of Walbrook bankrupt 1806 (Nat Arch B3/846); Fletcher fled to Lisbon (Nat Arch HO42/81/133), Chervet gained his certificate early in 1807. Chervet v. Mercier Chancery bill 1810 (Nat Arch C13/515/15). Claudius Chervet & Charles Mercier printers Bartholomew-close bankrupt 1811. Claudius Chervet married Catherine Jones at Shoreditch in 1789 and their son Claudius was born 1790 but he was probably too young to have been Mercier's partner.In 1818 Chervet lived at Hunter-st, Brunswick-sq (Old Bailey Chervat)

MILL VOTERS Giles Chile of Isleworth

Giles Child bach = St Marylebone 21.9.1793 Elizabeth Tickner sp

William Child born 30.12.1788 of Wm & Catherine bapt 22.3.1789 New Jerusalem (perhaps William Child bach = 3.5.1779 Shoreditch to Catherine Green sp her mark wits Thos Boycott, Wm Brewer) / William Child of Joseph & Elizabeth bapt 19.6.1791 there (perhaps the William Child born 30.10.1751 bapt 10.11.1751 St James Piccy of Joseph & Elizabeth who was likely the Wm C pork butcher 6 Tyler St SunFire 1791 but probably not the William Child victualler of Mayfair will PCC 1813). See my entry for Attwell, William

John Child was in the list of 18 names that added their signatures…

See Castle Street East 1 to 15 in London Addresses dataset

No 11 Berners Street Land tax 1791-1807 John Diolott / Harris's List 1793 Mrs Chish-lme

According to the text of Harris's List she kept the first floor and was about 34 years old. Possibles: William Fenton bach otp = 5.12.1802 St Marylebone Catherine Chisholm (her mark) wid otp wit Wm Hope / Alexander s of Alexander & Catherine Chisholme of Blue Anchor Yard bapt 17.9.1797 St Mary Whitechapel / Alexander Chisholm = 9.3.1786 St Dunstan Stepney Catherine Dearness

Cholmley 31.10.1800 at Northmore's (& Welby & Gordons)

See Thomas Northmore DNB 1766-1851. His first wife who died 1792 was the sister of William Earle Welby 1768-1852, their father William Earle Welby 1734-1815 was the son of William Welby and Catherine nee Cholmeley whose brother Montague was father of Montague Cholmeley 1772-1831 who became MP for Grantham 1820-6 following William Earle Welby senior 1802-6 and junior 1806-20 (History of Parliament Online)

8.7.1808 write to Cholmondeley

George James Cholmondeley 1749-1827 known as the Earl of Cholmondeley between 1770 and 1815 doesn't seem to have been of the Whig persuasion so not a natural choice for Godwin to write to. Thomas Cholmondeley 1767-1855, MP for Cheshire 1796-1812 wasn't a Whig either, though in 1810 he married the daughter of a Whig, William Watkins Wynn.

There were also the following who I daresay were all Tories too. Hugh Cholmondeley, Dean of Chester will PCC 1816. George James Cholmondeley of Marylebone will PCC 1830. Rev Charles Cooper Cholmondeley will PCC…

William Choppin of 12 Gracechurch Street proposed member of Society for Constitutional Information 25.5.1792 by Bush 2nded Horne Tooke

William Choppin appr 1777 to Thomas Willis Skinners Company (Thomas Willis of Skinners Company chymist & druggist 342 Hermitage, Wapping 1780-91 Lime St 1796) / William Choppin of Skinners Co druggist of Gracechurch St (Univ Brit Dir 1791) Choppin & Butler druggists of Gracechurch St directories 1786-91 / 1796 William Choppin of Skinners Co voted Pickett & Combe, and John Choppin of Blacksmith's Co also voted in London elections, both of…

5.1.1810 call on Christian / 5.5.1810 write to Withers, Holt: call on Christian (Hope) / 6.5.1810 write to Withers, Holt /  7.5.1810 call on Hope, D C, w. Jo(seph) G(odwin) & T(homas) T(urner) / 8.5.1810 D C, w. T(homas) T(urner) / 9.5.1810 write to Withers, Holt / 14.5.1810 write to Withers, w. administrations

John Giles Christian proctor & notary 19 Great Knightrider-st, Doctors Commons (Holdens directory 1811) and Richard Hope 9 Great Knightrider-st, Doctors Commons (Post Office directory 1819). Christian's wife died age 57 in 1815 at Smallberry-green, nr Hounslow and he…

Edward Christian of Hare Court Buildings, Temple proposed Society for Constitutional Information 28.5.1784 by John Baynes 2nded Samuel Romilly

Edward Christian (DNB 1758-1822) subscribed 1787 to Works of John Jebb

see E Christie 8.6.1799 / 17.3.1800 meet E Christie / 26.3.1800 call on E Christie / 5.6.1800 call on Christie (incog) & Colman (do) / 19.6.1800 E Christie calls / 20.2.1801 meet E Christie²⁴ / 5.4.1801 call on R Christie / 16.6.1801 call on E Christie / 25.6.1801 call on E Christie...dine at Johnson's, with Christie / 20.6.1802 E Christie calls / 24.6.1802 E Christie dines / 28.6.1802 call on E Christie / 25.4.1803 E Christie adv at Fitzjames, (ventriloquist at Dulau's Library)

Perhaps Edward Christie baptised 1783 son of James Christie DNB 1730-1803 auctioneer and…

miss Christie 13.2.1794 at Mackintosh's /  16.2.1794 again (both times with Bell) / 28.2.1794 at Bell's

possibly a sister of Thomas Christie DNB 1761-96 son of Alexander C of Montrose & his wife Katherine nee Speid. He married Rebecca Thomson in 1792. He signed the declaration of Friends to Liberty of Press 1792. He was perhaps the Mr Christie who was proposed SCI 20.4.1792 by Frost 2nded Lockhart, and the Mr Christie of Devonshire Sq who sent £50 to the French 23.2.1793 (Thale). His sisters according to baptism records were Margaret 1765, Katherine 1767, Jean 1769 and Agnes…