A-Z of Entries

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Ratebooks 3 Poland St 1792 David Gallier 1795 Ann Galliard. Jean David Galliard craim maker license 23.7.1777 married St James 25.7.1777 Ann Hilditch sp botp. Children Catherine Elizabeth bapt 1779, Charles John bapt 1781, John David bapt 25.1.1783 St James. Bailey's Directory 1784 & 1785 David Galliard crayon maker 227 Piccadilly. Ann Galiard bur Nantwich Cheshire 30.12.1826 age 74. John Galliard solicitor Nantwich, Cheshire wills 1824. John Baptist Galliard Land Tax 1806-16 Gerrard St Soho

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Elizabeth Gambarini 9 Poland St ratebooks 1774 / Elizabeth dau of Caroli Gambarini nobili Lucensis & Joanna Stradiotti nobili Dalmati bapt 1.11.1730 St Marylebone / see Highfill, Burnim & Langhans under De Gambarini / 1748 Lessons on the Harpsichord by Elizabeth Gambarini published with a portrait of her painted and engraved by Nathaniel Hone, in her benefit that year she sang and played her own composition on the organ. Benefits in 1752, 1760 and sale of her late father's pictures 1762 / Elizabeth Gambarini…

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Stephen Garibaldi ratebooks 9 Poland St 1787-9 / Highfill,Burnim & Langhans. He played bass viol and died 1790 at Calais . There were two "Covent Garden ladies" at this address in 1790 according to Harris's List so it's not clear whether he would have been their landlord

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Richard Gash 27 Poland St ratebooks 1800 / Richard Gash = St Anne Soho 9.8.1791 Elizabeth Baggarley botp banns / Richard Gash coachmaker Poland St voted Paull 1806 / London Met Arch BRA747/62 lease William Stone of Villiers St Strand merchant to Richard Gash 8.5.1809 yard in Horseferry Rd, Westminster and lofts, counting house and warehouse now erecting there for carrying on the trade of coachmaker, £155 p.a.

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Richard Chase Gedge Land Tax 1 Newman St 1796-7 / Bailey's Directory 1790 Richard Chase Gedge muslin warehouse 1, Newman St / Richard Chase Gedge linen draper 39 Oxford St directories 1759-1791 (39 Oxford St was the corner premises on the east side of Newman St)

Richard Chase Gedge born 21.1.1760 bapt 3.2.1760 of Peter & Alice St Michael at Plea, Norwich (their other children bapt there Robert Harvey 1754, Richard 1756, Peter 1758 (see Gedge. Peter in Godwin Diary dataset), William 1761, John 1764, Joseph 1766) / Alice…

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Lorenzo Giani 46 Poland St ratebooks 1796-1800 / Signor Giani dancer Kings Theatre 1791-6 (Highfill, Burnim & Langhans) may have been him / will PCC 1815 Lorenzo Giani Church St Middlesex Hospital dated 4.7.1815 mentioned son Augustus wife Bridget friend Vincent Vansshocht of Camberwell schoolmaster according to familysearch he married Bridget Jones 22.1.1807 St Anne Soho but haven't found original of this. Charles Lorenzo Giani son of Lorenzo & Bridget was bapt St Ann Soho 28.7.1806 (born 12.4.1801).…

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William Gibbs 19 Poland St ratebooks 1773-4 then Noel St / William Gibbs cabinet maker Poland St voted 1774 Percy & Clinton (the ratebooks and voting record may have spelt William Gibb (see below) as Gibbs) / (perhaps) children of William & Mary Gibbs bapt St James - William 1761 George 1774 / (perhaps) SunFire 1786 William Gibbs carpenter Robinsons Lane Chelsea / PCC 23.5.1833 William Gibbs of Chelsea / PCC 1794 Elizabeth Edden

William Gibb cabinetmaker otp = St James Piccy 14.12.1766 Catherine Rowlinson of…

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Francis Gibert 12 Poland St ratebooks 177 7-1804 / Francois Gibert (perfumer in Marr Lic) = St James 10.7.1771 Marie Francoise Rose Berthey / 1777 ad for AB dancing master c/o Gibert perfumer Poland St / ad 16.7.1782 mantua maker seeks place c/o Gibert perfumer 12 Poland St / ad 9.6.1784 Mr I.H.H. native of Switzerland seeks place travelling abroad / ad 7.3.1786 for lodgings in Paris / Bailey's 1788 Francis Gibert perfumer / ad 11.6.1789 T.L.P. seeks place as valet / ad 3.10.1795 ad for chemical liquor / ad 3.7.…

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No 8 Castle St East Land Tax 1784 Thomas Gibson / Harris's List 1788 Miss Br-wn 1789 Miss B-ks

The Covent Garden Ladies were in the gap for which we have no Land Tax Records 1785-1790. Thomas Gibson = 11.5.1776 St James Piccadilly to Lydia Louise Jullion / London Consistory Court will dated 13.8.1785 of Thomas Gibson builder of St Marylebone with brother James erecting building on corner of Weymouth St & Portland Pl mortgaged to John Elwes Esq, wife Louisa Lydia proved 17.9.1785 / Louisa Lydia Gibson widow…

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Thomas Gilbert Esq 50 Poland St ratebooks 1782-3 / perhaps Thomas Gilbert DNB 1720-1798. MP for Lichfield at this time but his town address was given in Royal Kalendar and similar publications through these years as Queen St, Westminster. A Thomas Gilbert junr, perhaps his son, was listed as a Clerk Extraordinary to the Privy Council in these years

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Thomas Gilbey 38 Poland St ratebooks 1784-90 / Thomas Gilby hairdresser Poland St voted Fox 1784 Hood 1790 / coroners jury 1790 Thomas Gilby hairdresser Poland St / Thomas Gilby Land Tax 1781, 1786 Three Colt St, Soho,  Land Tax 1782 Market St Marylebone / Thomas William s of Thomas & Ann Gilbey bapt 13.1.1793 St Geo Han Sq

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Daniel Gill 32 Poland St ratebooks 1763-80 / 1774 Daniel Gill sawyer voted Mountmorres & Mahon (SunFire 1809 DG carpenter 17 Little Warner St,  Cold Bath Fields) / Daniel Gill = St James 11.4.1757 Jane Cooper / children of Daniel & Jane Gill bapt St James Richard 1765 Elizabeth 1767 John 1769 Sarah 1774 Ann 1777

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Mr Giornivichi ad 51Poland St 1793 (ad 1794 at 45 Broad St) / see Highfill, Burnim & Langhans' Dictionary

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Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies 1793 Mrs G-frey 6 Newman St (age about 30, plump, price 1 guinea though half will do). This doesn't sound like the successful courtesan described below, though she was said to have started in a brothel in nearby Berners St, she seems to have already been "kept" in Charlotte St by 1790. This was the only example I found of an address featuring in Harris's List and Boyle's Court Guide in the same year and though this could be ascribed to Mr Vileneuve's profession of dancing master, it's also…

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Barthw Goulding 9 Newman St Land Tax 1797-8 / Bartholomew Goulding = Jun 1771 Mrs Maryman (Walker's |Hibernian Magazine) / Bartholomew Golding merchant 35 Ushers Quay Dublin directories 1766-1780, 2 Dyers Court, Aldermanbury, London directories 1781-7 / SunFire 1791 Bartholomew Golding, John Savill Mcnamara & John Keogh jr merchants 29 Queen St, Cheapside / Bartholomew Golding & John Saville Macnamara merchants Queen St bankrupt 1796 / SunFire 1798, 1804 Bartholomew Golding gent 9 Newman St / General Evening Post 28.7.1798…

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Thomas Goodwin 29 Poland St ratebooks 1774 / Daily Advertiser 28.4.1774 first floor to let Mr Goodwin's tallow chandler opposite the Pantheon, Poland St / St James Chronicle 10.11.1772 Thomas  Goodwin tallow chandler of Oxford St married at St Marylebone Miss Prosser of Wells St / Thomas Goodwin bach = 5.11.1772 Bridget Prosser sp wit Pryce Devereux Prosser (who was bapt 5.12.1753 Glasbury, Brecon, he  = St Marylebone 26.11.1782 Frances Pearce bach & sp botp banns , North Devon settlement examination June 1793 of Pryce…

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Cosmo Gordon was a Colonel in the Guards who wrote a letter, from 18 Poland Street on 3.9.1783 to Lt Col Frederick Thomas "demanding satisfaction" as the language of duels had it. The letter was part of the evidence in a subsequent court case, Lt Col Thomas having died from wounds received in the duel. Gordon was the 3rd son of William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen, and was found not guilty of murder on 17.9.1783 at Old Bailey. He was probably not  the Cosmo Gordon of St Nicholas Acons = 10.9.1779 Magdalen Gordon…

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George Grece 27 Poland St ratebooks 1788-9 / World 15.10.1788 ad for George Grece taylor and lady's habit maker 27 Poland St son of George Grece formerly of Pall Mall, taylor / Old Bailey 5.4.1769 Mr Grece, taylor in North Alley, York Bldgs, Hanoverian, his servant Christopher Copage / George Grace tailor Pall Mall voted Percy & Clinton 1774 / West Sussex Record Office PHA/8048 & 9374 George Grece tailor to 3rd Earl of Egremont / (SunFire 1787 George Grose taylor Dean St Soho) / 5.5.1789 George Greece Westminster…

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Robert Green 19 Poland St ratebooks 1800 / Robert Green carpenter Poland St voter 1819 / Robert Green = St James 13.9.1787 Bridget Jones botp by banns wit Thos Thatcher / Robert Green = St James 3.10.1783 Mary Plasted botp by banns wit Daniel Smith

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Priscil Gregory 8 Newman St Land Tax 1798-99 / SunFire 1786 Priscilla Gregory spinster 13 Old Compton St / SunFire 1787 Priscilla Gregory spinster 22 Dean St