A-Z of Entries

R Johnson was in Godwin's 1796 list between Pope 30.11.1793 and Tresham 14.12.1793, and in 1794 version (and Joseph Johnson was strangely absent from 1796 list). Richard Johnson (History of Parliament) 1753-1807 of 104 Pall Mall was a 'nabob' MP, son of Dr Johnson of the Hague, he married 1.3.1792 Sophia daughter of John Courtenay MP, and his sister Mary (1740-1827) married Alexander Blair (died 1816). His most frequent guests were the Courtenays and Mackintosh, the Blairs appear twice as does una Italiana, and most of Godwin's visits are for tea. Johnson first came to Godwin's, along with…

8.10.1794 Johnsons at Bird's / 9.10.1794 at his / 10.10.1794 / 25.6.1795.

Robert Augustus Johnson 1745-1799, member of Lunar Society (see Birmingham Archives letters to Matthew Boulton) married Anna Rebecca, youngest sister of Lord Craven (she married 1st at Binley Warwicks 10.6.1766 Edward Ludford Taylor and 2nd at Ogbourne St George, Wilts 21.1.1773 RAJohnson). See Bodleian Ms. Don. c. 191, 192, 195 & b.40/1-2.

Born Olney, Bucks son of Rev Woolsey Johnson & wife Jane, brothers George William, Charles Woolsey; sons Robert Henry (matric Brasenose Oxford 1799 age 17),…

28.9.1795 sup at mrs Johnston's with miss Godwin; Young & Campbell / 28.3.1796 Johnston adv at C Moore's / 16.4.1796 again / 7.5.1796 at opera / 23.10.1797 Douglas, Johnston at theatre /2.11.1797 Johnston calls / 6.1.1800 mrs Johnston adv at O Fancourt's / 1.12.1800 Johnston's sup at S Elwes / 10.5.1811 seek Martineau & E Johnston / 27.6.1834 Johnston at Gaskel's / 30.6.1834 Gaskels & Johnston sup

The entry of 23.10.1797 very likely referred to Henry Erskine Johnston who made his London debut in the play Douglas at the theatre that night. Godwin wrote him a letter of…

21.6.1795 Johnstone's at Richard Johnson's

30.11.1793 Johnstone at Wright's. In a row with three other performers. Hewardine and Pope were in Godwin's 1796 list for 1793 and in the 1794 version; Dignum wasn't in the list, but J H Johnstone may be the Jonstone next to Baddeley (another actor) both crossed out in the 1796 list for 1787, and also in the 1794 version.

Probably the actor and singer John Henry Johnstone DNB who died 28.12.1828
 

Joice 24.2.1801 calls / 1.4.1801 call on Joice (adv Dyer) / 26.6.1801 meet Joyce / 7.7.1801 tea Joyce's / 20.7.1801 Joices call / 14.8.1901 Joyces & Dyer call / 29.8.1801 tea Joyce's / 2.10.1801 Joice's call / 30.10.1801 tea Joice's / 9.11.1801 dine at Joyce's

The first 8 entries on Jeremiah Joyce's person record (DNB 1763-1816) in the GD website were spelt Joice ( from 19.5.1793 to 11.5.1794) then there were 7 spelt Joyce, then one on 30.11.1799 spelt Joice. The above entries were all in 1801 but the GD website has only coded those spelt Joyce to his person record and left the…

call on Ponsonby, Joinville 3.8.1800

I've found no references to this as a surname in Ireland or England but it was an aristocratic and historic name in France. It may have been the name of Ponsonby's residence near Dublin, as Godwin was on his journey to Carlow via Castle Browne

9.3.1794 at Wimbledon (Tooke's) with Joyce / 15.4.1794 Joyce, Jones, Stanhope call / 2.6.1795 at Reveley's adv Jones / 8.10.1795 at Thelwall's adv Jones T C(k)d / 18.10.1795 at Holcroft's adv Ritson, H Richter, Sharp, C(ooper) &Jones / 1.3.1796 Godwin calls on E Mansel, Cooper, Jones / 4.3.1796 Cooper & Jones dine at Godwin's / 7.4.1796 with Northcote, talk of T Jones / 16.4.1796 at Perry's, D Jones / 17.7.1796 at Melton (Norfolk) with Harwood & Vickery adv David Jones / 18.6.1797 sup at Jones's, Cambridge with Woodhouse / 10.5.1798 Sadler's Wells, with Jones / 12.6.1798 adv at…

17.7.1796 tea Melton with Harwood & Vickery adv David Jones

The will PCC 1769 of John Jones merchant of Fakenham Norfolk mentions the marriage of his son David to Frances dau of Thomas Adkin of Gt Yarmouth. They were married at St Andrews Yarmouth on 22.1.1767 and their children baptised at Fakenham were David b1767 (buried Yarmouth s of David & Frances 8.4.1790) / Thomas Adkin b1769 / Dinah Frances b1770 / Harriett b1773 (?=John Race 29.5.1794 Norfolk). Thomas Adkin Jones son of Thos Jones & Ann was born 18.12.1799 and bapt 18.11.1800 St James Piccadilly. David Adkin…

30.11.1795

Louisa Jones daughter of Arthur & Ann Jones was baptised 13.8.1773 at Bath Abbey. Arthur Jones had married Ann Crosby on 4.10.1766 at Bath Abbey and in his will dated 8.9.1794 and proved 27.1.1795 (Nat Arch PROB11/1254) he called himself woollen draper of Bath, and mentioned 2 sons, Richard (in business at Frome who had "made improper use" of money) and Thomas; and 4 daughters Elizabeth, Margaret, Louisa & Frances. At St Dionis Backchurch, London on 4.7.1801 Louisa Jones, "spinster of this parish" married Henry Dibbin, bachelor of St Michael Bread Street,…

9.5.1797

Margaret Jones daughter of Arthur & Ann Jones was baptised 15.9.1772 at Bath Abbey. For her family see Jones, Louisa. On 4.3.1798 Godwin saw E & M Jones at Bath, clearly Margaret and her older sister Elizabeth. Their father died in 1794 and didn't mention their mother in his will. We can assume that the "Jones's" of 9.5.1797, 5.3.1798, 10.3.1798, 12.3.1798 and 14.3.1798 are these 2 sisters plus possibly their sister Frances and/or their brothers. Elizabeth Jones' will of 1804 (Nat Arch PROB11/1417) made it clear she was particularly close to her sister Margaret.…

miss Jones 13.11.1799 at E Reynolds'

Because of the Reynolds' theatre connection this may have been Miss Jones singer (Highfill Burnim & Langhans fl 1778? - 1815?) or Elizabeth Jones actress (Highfill Burnim & Langhans born c 1769 died 1803)

Mr & Mrs Jones 17.1.1790 at Mrs Webb's / 20.4.1790 again / 25.12.1791 again / 18.12.1791 call on Mrs Jones / 18.10.1792 write to Mr Jones

This first set of Jones entries in Godwin's diary all seem to refer to one couple, friends of the Webbs. They may just possibly be Arthur Jones (died 1794) linen draper of Bath and his wife, whose daughters appear often later in the diary (see Jones, Louisa & Jones, Margaret). The Webbs were Bristol merchants trading to the West Indies.

Another possibility is William and Margaret Jones of Pall Mall parents of WJAdair (see Adair,…

9.6.1798 R Jones & Langley dine / 17.3.1799 R Jones calls (not in) / 12.5.1799 again / 19.5.1799 adv Jones's at dinner (where Louisa jones was) / 9.6.1799 R Jones calls (not in) / 14.7.1799 R J adv at dinner (where Louisa Jones was) / 28.7.1799 R Jones calls / 15.8.1799 again / 1.9.1799 R J calls; tea R Jones's / 27.10.1799 meet R Jones / 20.3.1800 again /  26.5.1800 adv at Opie's / 2.9.1801 R Jones sups / 5.9.1801 meet R Jones / 17.5.1804 again / 19.10.1805 again / 23.5.1807 R Jones at M Jones's

Richard Jones brother of Louisa & Margaret Jones, mentioned unfavourably in his…

25.11.1809 call, L Mayor's Ct, Jones

William Jones was one of the four attorneys of the Lord Mayor's court, which was above the Royal Exchange (Holdens directory 1811)

25.4.1796 mrs Jordan's night

Dorothy Jordan DNB 1761-1816. Mrs Jordan's benefit was that night at Drury Lane, she acted Juliet in Romeo and Juliet

19.5.1792 'news of J S Jordan confirmed' (crossed through) / 4.9.1792 write to Jordan

Jeremiah Samuel Jordan, printer of Paine's Rights of Man, trading 1790 to 1809, freedom of City of London by patrimony 1791, bankrupt 14.11.1795. Tried as publisher of 2nd part of Rights of Man Nat Arch TS11/726 (Kings Bench Prison 1792-4) and of Gilbert Wakefield's Reply &c TS11/456 (Kings Bench Prison 17.7.98- Feb1799). Committed to Newgate for a misdemeanour by Lord Kenyon Sept 1798, age 35 dark complexion 5ft4 born St Giles bookseller, tried Kings Bench 11.1.1799 sentenced to 1 year in…

call on Joslyn (Doctors Commons) 2.3.1804

There were two proctors in Doctors Commons called George & Henry Gostling, but that would have been a rather extreme mishearing. More likely this was Thomas Joslyn who had signed the marriage licence of Godwin and Mary Jane Vial in 1801, and he also signed some other adjacent marriage licences. He must have been a clerk of the Consistory Court which was in Knight Rider St where Doctors Commons was, and maybe the term was used for the general area. I think Godwin may have been on the trail of the marriage of Thomas West and Lucy Dallas (…

23.9.1809 call on Joy / 16.11.1809 call on Cradock & Joy / 30.12.1812 again

William Joy bookseller Ave Maria-lane 1807, Cradock & Joy publishers 3 Ave Maria-lane, 32 Paternoster-row from 1809 to 1815 (bbti) thereafter Baldwin, Cradock & Joy. SunFire 1810 Charles Cradock & William Joy 32 Paternoster-row booksellers. Morning Chronicle 18.5.1813 at Forcett Mr Charles Cradock of Paternoster-row to Miss Clerk, only daughter of William Clerk, Esq of Barforth Hall, nr. Richmond, Yorks. William Joy left the partnership in 1826 and carried on at 66 St Pauls Churchyard

30.8.1806 4 Boadens dine: adv. E Joyce, C Colnet, Essex & Sheffields

This was the first time a Colnet appeared in Godwin's diary, and Caroline Colnett would have been only about 12 years old, though she may have come to see her older sister Emily who may have been present unmentioned if she was there to help with the children (see Colnet). Essex and the Sheffields seem to have been neighbours of Godwin's in the Polygon. E Joyce was quite likely of the family of Jeremiah Joyce (see my entries for him, his brother Joshua, and Joice, and see his person record on GD website).…