A-Z of Entries

Long Smith calls 16.5.1821

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Mary Smith calls 25.9.1811 (& Curran) / 1.10.1811 M Smith calls / 31.10.1811 again / 1.11.1811 again / 2.11.1811 again / 4.11.1811 M Smith calls ppc (pour prendre conge = to say goodbye)

No idea yet who this was but it should emerge in time

miss Smith 7.4.1796 at Saloman's concert / 13.11.1798 meet miss Smith / 28.3.1801 miss Smith calls / 10.6.1802 again / 22.6.1802 L Hobby & miss Smith dine / 1.10.1803 miss Linnee Smith / 27.3.1804 miss Smith calls / 15.8.1804 miss Smith, m(adam)e Volsey & Jas W(ollstonecraf)t at tea / 17.6.1805 miss Smith adv at tea / 18.7.1805 call on miss Smith with M(ary) J(ane) / 20.7.1805 Luzena Smith dines adv tante / 23.7.1805 Sadler's Wells w. miss Smith, Luzena, Hooley &c / 8.9.1805 miss Smith at Pitchford's in Norfolk / 19.9.1805 miss & W Smith at tea / 20.9.1805 miss Smith dines…

mrs P Smith 4.3.1806 at Rowan's

Godwin didn't note Peter Smith in his diary till 17.6.1810 (see Smith, James) so this person was probably not his wife. At present I have no other idea who she was

N S Smith calls (monument M(ary) W(ollstonecraft) G(odwin) 5.3.1834

N S Smith translated Tacitus in 1820s (Allibone, Watt). Will PCC 1856 Nicholas Skottowe Smith assistant surgeon of Cork

Smith (New Inn) breakfasts 9.9.1814 / 10.9.1814 Smith (New Inn) au soir / 20.9.1814 Smith (New Inn) calls

From Law Lists directories and newspapers, Robert George Smith solicitor of New Inn, he died 15.3.1880 age 75 (Standard 20.3.1880) and his widow Lucinda died 1882. Robert George baptised at St Clement Danes son of Robert & Christiana Smith 3.3.1805 born 31.8.1804. It was presumably his father Robert that Godwin saw. Law List 1800 Robert & James Smith attorneys 36 Basinghall St

call on Smith, organist 6.5.1813

Most likely John Stafford Smith DNB 1750-1836 organist of Chapel Royal. Or perhaps Charles Smith DNB 1786-1856 organist of Croydon. Or Dr Clement Smith, organist of Richmond 1824 will PCC1827. Or Felix Smith organist of Watford 1816

call on Smith, printer 7.9.1828

From British Book Trades Index I reckon there were nine or ten different Smiths, printers in London 1825-30

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Samuel Smith proposed member 24.10.1783 by Jackson Barwis (by letter) 2nded Edward Bridgen

Samuel Smith 1727-1798 father of William Smith DNB 1756-1835. Samuel Smith age 27 bach = St Swithin London Stone 12.12.1754 Martha Adams of St John Southwark sp, dau of William Adams, Coopers Co. Pub Adv 27.1.1762 Sunday night (24.1.1762) died Mrs Smith, wife of Samel Smith, Esq of the Old Jewry. Morn Chron 3.7.1773 yesterday was married Samuel Smith Esq of Cannon St to Mrs Prockter of Clapham. Samuel Smith wid otp = Clapham 2.7.1773 Ann Prockter otsp…

5.7.1796 call on Smith, schoolmaster (in Norfolk), 6.7.1796 Smith dines

James Smith, master of the free Grammar school at Holt, Norfolk, will PCC 1794 left lands in Hindolveston and Foulsham (near to Wood Dalling, Godwin's family home) to his son James, who was not mentioned in the will of his mother Ann Smith PCC 1813, so quite likely dead by then

Sophia Smith at  Hume's 31.3.1811

No idea yet who this was but it may emerge later

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Thomas Smith 22 Poland St ratebooks 1788-1800 / SunFire 1792 Thomas Smith 22 Poland St tailor / there were tailors called Thomas Smith SunFire Old St 1780 Gracechurch St 1780, voting in Strand 1774 in St Martins La 1784 / those in St James parish were Swallow St voted Mountmorres 1774, Fox & Rodney 1780, King St voted Graham 1802, Cross St voted Hood & Paull 1806 / will PCC of Thomas Smith tailor of 3 Lascelles Pl, Broad St, St Giles dated 1.2.1820 mentioned copyholds in Leicestershire, proved 24.3.1821 by widow Ann

rev T Smith calls 3.10.1809 / 20.4.1810 Dulwich College, Smith librarian / 15.1.1835 rev Smith calls

Perhaps Thomas Jenyns Smyth son of John of London gent fellow of Brasenose Oxford 1782 till death, Senior Fellow of Dulwich College died 11.6.1830, Fellow of Dulwich for 47 years

GODWIN DIARY: M calls from Sharp & Smith 4.3.1808 / 13.4.1808 write to Smith; M(arshall) from Shp

Both Smith entries above have been coded in GD website to the generic Smith. They should clearly be coded to William Smith DNB 1756-1835. From February to April 1808 James Marshall was helping Godwin get a subscription from William Smith and Richard Sharp DNB 1759-1835 who each provided £50. The Shp in the second entry was clearly Sharp and should be coded to him

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: William Smith of Clapham proposed member 13.12.1782 by Jackson Barwis…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: William Smith of Sunderlandwick proposed member 3.1.1783 by John Cartwright (by letter) 2nded Richard Brocklesby

William 2nd son of Miles Smith of Soho was admitted Middle Temple 23.6.1766 the day after Miles Smith 1st son of same. Their father Miles Smith of Grays Inn married at Holborn 20.9.1755 Mary Steele of Hatton Garden (Lon Eve Post 27.9.1755) and their son Miles was born 2.9.1756 and bapt 18.9.1756 St Anne Soho. The Crompton family sold Sunderlandwick to Miles Smith of Westminster in 1756. Pub Adv 5.12.1755 Miles Smith chosen assistant…

son of W Smith 29.5.1833 at Rickman's / 18.11.1833 W Smith jr at Rickman's

perhaps William Adams Smith second son of William Smith DNB 1756-1835, bapt 1789 Clapham. From newspapers I gleaned he was a lifelong supporter of "Reform" and active in the RSPCA. He spent some years in Naples circa 1860. One genealogical website said he was Lt RN in 1813 and died 1870. There were 4 other brothers, Benjamin 1783-1860 who became MP for Sudbury in 1835, Frederick 1798-1882 Indian army, Samuel 1795-1880 a barrister  & Octavius 1796-1871Trin Coll camb, Distillery, model estate in Scotland…

28.1.1791 Col Smith at Paradise's. In 1796 list for 1788 next to J Adams, inserted above in 1794 version.

William Stevens Smith 1755-1816 private secretary to US ambassador John Adams whose daughter Abigail he married in 1786. His daughter Elizabeth married John Peter de Wint
 

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Mr Smithers proposed member 20.6.1788 by Joseph Towers 2nded (Jeremiah or John Lodge?) Batley

GODWIN DIARY: call on Smithers with Mary Jane 14.8.1802

Henry Smithers bapt 7.8.1762 St Michael Crooked Lane son of Joseph Smithers 1739-1830 and Martha (nee Keene). He married Sophia Papps 1783. Subscr to Southwark Charity school at Horslydown, 1781 Joseph Smithers of Lothbury, 1786 H Smithers St Mary Overy's, 1788 Mrs Sophia Smithers. Socy for Encouragement of Arts &c 1783 Henry Smithers, St Mary Overy. Keene & Smithers, coal merchant…

sir Robert Smyth 9.5.1797 at Joseph Johnson's / 18.5.1797 sir Rob Smyth at or after theatre / 22.5.1797 sir R Smyth calls / 23.5.1797 meet Smyth / 27.7.1798 sir Robt Smyth calls

Identified in GD website but the Smyth on 23.5.1797 has been left uncoded

call on mrs Snagg (with Marshall) 30.9.1797 / 23.8.1804 call on Everina at Snagg's adv Eliz Wt / 1.9.1804 call on Snagg for F & M adv Everina & Eliz / 15.4.1805 adv Fenwick, Snagg & young Rowans at dinner / 19.8.1805 Snagg calls

Given that Mary Wollstonecraft's sisters were at Snagg's in 1804 it seems likely that the call of 1797 related to Mary W's recent death. This was possibly Thomas Snagg (stage name Wilks) actor (Highfill, Burnim & Langhans 1748-1812) and his wife Sarah nee Lilly married 1782 died by 1806 when Snagg married again in Dublin. More info to follow…