A-Z of Entries

19.1.1807 Free at tea with Binham, T(homas) T(urner)

Only time this surname appeared in Godwin's diary. As the Quaker-born Binham was a minor accountant and Turner was a very junior attorney, it's unlikely this was anyone as grand as the banker Peter Free (died Brighton 2.11.1850 in 80th year  Standard 5.11.1850). Nor perhaps the other two of that surname in the court section of Holdens 1811 directory, A Free esq 19 Sackville-st & Stamford Brook, H'smith, and Geo Free esq 33 Brunswick-sq (who I couldn't further identify). In the trades section there were just two more, B T Free…

MILL VOTERS 1802:  John Freeman of Isleworth (2 shares)

John Freeman bur 7.5.1826 Isleworth

see Batemans Buildings in London Addresses dataset

John Freeman 7 Batemans Buildings ratebooks / Morning Post 19.2.1776 & 20 more ads up to 8.6.1776 all in Morning Post except 2 in Gazetteer, all for money broking &c by Mr Freeman 7 Batemans Buildings / probably the same as John Freeman prosecuted Middlesex Sessions April 1783 for a fraud on Thomas Cussans. According to Thomas Martyn's King of the Swindlers, he was of Hay Hill, Worcestershire and Cleveland Court off St James Place, and had been solicitor to Mr Guest the High Bailiff of Birmingham

MILL VOTERS 1802:  Jonathan Freeman of Richmond

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

Thomas Freeman ratebooks 51 Poland St 1789-95 / Thomas Freeman surveyor Poland St voted Hood 1790 / ( Holdens 1810 Thomas Freeman Esq 71 Lambs Conduit St ) / SunFire 1781 Thomas Freeman surveyor Piccadilly 

SWEDENBORGIANS: New Jerusalem Chapel bapt 28.7.1790 Virtue Freeman

A rare name so perhaps the Virtue Freeman bapt 6.11.1761 Luton of George & Phillis, married 14.10.1794 at Luton Robert Dixon, their children George bapt 19.8.1795, Dianna bapt 6.2.1799, John & Francis bapt 10.3.1805 all at Luton, Virtue Dixon bur 11.1.1824 Luton, Robert Dixon bur 1.5.1826 Luton. Presumably another Virtue Freeman = Luton 8.10.1797 Thomas Kingham and a Virtue Kingham was buried 29.1.1828 at Luton age 75. There was also a Virtue Freeman bapt 22.4.1720 Luton of George & Elizabeth but she was…

mrs Fremow 22.5.1794 at miss Godwin's

Samuel Fremoult beer brewer 1784 St George's Bridge St Norwich voted Hobart & Harbord 1784 / Hobart 1786 & 1787 / Windham 1794. died 18.2.1797 age 86

Samuel Fremoult jr appr 1756 to Elisha le Hague attorney Norwich, voted Hobart & Harbord 1784 / Hobart 1786 & 1787 / Hobart 1790 / Hobart 1796. Henry Wells appr to Saml F jr attorney Norwich 1790

Joel Fremoult throwsterer Norwich voted Hobart 1786 / gent voted Hobart 1787

Rev Fremoult rector of Wotton Kent marr Mrs Marsh of Boughton (Gents Mag 15,7,1760) will…

27.2.1795 French at Frend's / 21.10.1804 meet / 9.6.1805 at Tooke's / 25.11.1823 meet.

Ben Ross Schneider, "Wordswoth's Cambridge Education" suggests this may be Richard Forrester French, admitted Trinity Hall 1787, because he is the only contemporary French in Alum Cantab, and if he is not a Cambridge man he is the odd one out at the meeting of 27.2.1798, (though nor were Holcroft and Godwin Cambridge men). In fact there is another possible French in Alum Cantab, William James son of James French schoolmaster admitted Trinity 1784, schoolmaster of Bow d. 1808. Richard F French…

SWEDENBORGIANS:  Margery Georgina Grace French bapt New Jerusalem Chapel 24.3.1801.  Intellectual Repository for the New Church 1826 p.438 obituary (by S Noble) of Mrs Margery Georgiana Greece French, died 12.12.1826 at her lodgings in Lisson Green in her 78th year "widow of a clergyman of the Church of England, from whom she had been separated, for many years before his death, under circumstances of the most trying and painful nature".

Marjory dau of John Sangster & Isobel Milne bapt 22.8.1749 Montrose / Thomas French bach = St Pancras 4.10.1784 Marjory Sangster sp botp banns…

see Poland Street in London Addresses dataset

Joseph Frewen 35 Poland St ratebooks 1779-86 / SunFire 1782 Joseph Frewen cheesemonger 35 Poland St / Joseph Frewen bach = St Marylebone 20.11.1780 Mary Hewitt sp botp / children William bapt 11.8.1782, George bapt 18.11.1783, Jane Elizabeth bapt 7.6.1786 St James / Andrews' directory 1789, 1790 Joseph Frewen cheesemonger 136 Oxford St / Joseph Frewin 11 Old Cavendish St Land Tax 1792-1805 / Joseph Frewen wid = St Marylebone 24.5.1813 Ann Emblin wid botp by lic wits Ann Paris, Richard Parkins / Joseph Frewen from Monkwell St, City of…

MILL VOTERS 1802:  Richard Frewin of Isleworth

Richard Fruin bur 18.2.1810 Isleworth age 83 by coroners warrant / bapt Isleworth of Richard Fruin & Mary 8.8.1803 Mary 31.10.1804 John / Land Tax Isleworth 1780 Mr Frewen £2 rent landlord Featherstone 1783 £3 rent landlord Reeve / 1861 census Heston Richard Fruin age 60 superannuated police constable born Isleworth

30.1.1806  sup at Lamb's w. Fricker & miss Stodart

This was George Fricker, younger brother of Sara (Mrs Coleridge) and Martha (Mrs Southey) bapt 2.6.1784 St James, Bath of Stephen & Martha Fricker, bur 27.6.1813 Crosthwaite, Cumberland. He died while staying with the Southeys. Coleridge wrote to him in London in1806 encouraging him to visit the Lambs

9.8.1809 write to Frizac

M. Frizac Hotel de Grande Bretagne près l'Hotel le Brun Rue St Honoré Paris, written on flyleaf of Godwin's diary vol. xv (begun Feb 1809). On a different leaf from Burr's contacts

Frizac, Tableau historique et figuratif des changements politiques survenus en Europe dépuis 1789 jusqu'en 1808

Frizel 25.7.1800 at Hamilton's (in Ireland) / 4.8.1800 meet Frizel (on Godwin's way to from Dublin to Carlow)

M Fromont at theatre 15.5.1797 (& Dibbin).

Charlotte Maria Fromont was Henry Dibbin's stepsister baptised at Thatcham on 4.10.1778. She appears in Godwin's diary on 15.5.1797 at the theatre with Dibbin (though this could possibly be his mother) and supped at Godwin's with Dibbin on 10.11.1798. She took her father's side in the Chancery dispute (see Dibbin, Henry) and never married, dying on 20.9.1866 (Nat Probate Calendar). In 1861 she was living at Thatcham Farm, described as a farmer of 300 acres employing 10 men and 6 boys. Her companion and housekeeper was another spinster…

Frost at 16 Pepper St, Lomans Pond, Southwark was an address for LCS signatures 12.11.1795, and the president of Div 15 of the LCS on 18.9.1797 was called Frost (see Thale). Nearest but unlikely identification I found was John Frost pawnbroker of Tooley Street Southwark will proved PCC 21.1.1799. Though both in St Saviour's parish, Tooley Street and Lomans Pond were not particularly close.

HCR diary 22.2.1821 Robinson sat for his portrait to Jacob Strutt, mentioned Mrs Strutt's brother Frost of Hull

Charles Frost (DNB 1782-1862)

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: John Frost original member 1780 Upper Charlotte St, Rathbone Pl. Marked as "declined" in 178? list but active later without being proposed again

BONNEY DIARY: 31.7.1794 saw Frost (once Bonney moved to Newgate on 24.10.1794 Frost was mentioned more often) Frost 27.10.1794 / 29.10.1794 / 1.11.1794 / 3.11.1794 / 11.11.1794 / 13.11.1794 / 14.11.1794 / 15.11.1794. Bonney had been the clerk of John Frost

AMENDMENTS TO OXFORD DNB: John Frost 1750-1842

CURRENT TEXT "born in October 1750. His parentage remains unknown and little about his…

see Crutchley & Fry

HCR diary 17.5.1841 "Ellen seems to be recovering herself - she is under the protection of Mrs Fry!"

This was very likely Elizabeth Fry (DNB 1780-1845). Mrs Aders' daughter Ellen Ley (1804-1867) had previously been arrested for theft (see HCR diary 7.1.1840)