A-Z of Entries

Warren, Alexander

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Alexander Warren 23 Poland St (Kings Arms) ratebooks 1782 / Alexander Warren = St James 15.9.1781 Elizabeth Arthur botp by banns wit Rd Barnett (see Arthur, William for her first husband the former publican) / Ann Charlotte bapt 30.1.1785 Elizabeth bapt 12.8.1787 of Alexander & Elizabeth Warren / possibly the Alexander Warren bur 10.6.1803 Chelsea Hospital / possibly the Alexander Warren bur 19.11.1820 St Geo Han Sq age 75 of Chapel St / an Elizabeth Warren was bur 1826 St Geo Han Sq age 62 of Pimlico but if the age was…


Warrington

Warrington 31.12.1800 at Mary Robinson's funeral, Old Windsor

Rev William Warrington vicar of Old Windsor Berks see Dictionary of Welsh Biography, dramatist and historian (1735-1824) will PCC 1828, St James Chronicle 5.3.1789 Rev William Warrington chaplain to the Earl of Bessborough presented to vicarage of Old Windsor. Not found in Alum Ox or Cantab, or Foster's Index Eccles 1800-40. William Warrington = Prestwich, Lancs 28.4.1761 Dorothy Lever. See will of her mother Dame Dorothy Robinson PCC 1789. Godwin took the Exeter mail with James Marshall the night before and supped at…


Warton, Thomas

22.1.1789 at Robinson's / 24.1.1789 at Hamilton's with almost the same company. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1788 as Tho Warton and as Warton in 1794 version.

Thomas Warton DNB 1728-1790


Warwick

2.6.1810 Warwick calls

Holdens 1811 directory: James Warwick jeweller & seal maker 10 King-st Goswell-st / John Warwick seal engraver 145 Strand (will PCC 1828) / Wm Warwick working jeweller, engraver &c Tooks-court, Castle-st, Holborn / Wm Warwick goldbeater 120 Fetter-lane (SunFire 1824) / John Warwick vellum maker 28 Silver-st Falcon-sq / Warwick coal merchant 4 Theobalds-rd (John SunFire 1834) / John Warwick hop merchant 5 Three Crown-sq Borough / Guy Warwick Esq conveyancer 9 Lincolns Inn New-sq / Wm Warwick Esq 2 Queens-bldgs Brompton / Mr Wm Warwick Brabant-court / Mr…


Waterhouse

sup at Ipswich: coach with King, Waterhouse & capitaine 11.9.1805

William Waterhouse at the Swan with Two Necks Lad Lane, London was a stagecoach proprietor (Morning Chronicle 24.11.1800, Holdens 1811, Caledonian Mercury 24.8.1818). John Waterhouse of Ipswich was presumably his relation and was named in a newspaper of 1807 as the victim of a theft, and in 1826 as selling off "superspeed" horses that had served on the Norwich Mail & Yarmouth Telegraph. He appeared in the 1841 census at Tavern St Ipswich as a coach proprietor age 65, also in an 1844 directory there. His will…


Wateridge

wateridge 11.11.1793 at Perry's & 8.2.1795 there, both times with Calland

Joseph (or John) Wateridge of King St Covent Garden haberdasher 1779, 1784

John Wateridge of Spring Row, Kentish Town died 1823 aged 81


Watford

call, on Masters, Watford 25.9.1798

Underlined as unidentified person in GD website but clearly refers to the place where Masters lived, Godwin had stayed at Joseph Fawcett's, Hedge Grove, Edgware the previous night


Wathen

Wathen 19.5.1793 see Wharton, John


Watkins

Watkins 1.6.1805 at Philips

Perhaps John Watkins DNB fl1786-1831 whose Universal Biographical & Historical Dictionary was printed in 1800 for Richard Phillips, a second edition came out in 1808


Watkinson

call with M(ary) J(ane) on Watkinson 13.9.1805 / 11.12.1809 call on Watkinson / 20.8.1810 Watkinson at examination of Sir R(ichard) P(hillips) / 5.10.1810 Watkinson adv at Raine's / 8.10.1810 call on Watkinson / 22.10.1810 write to Blackhall. Watkinson calls / 2.11.1810 call on Watkinson / 17.11.1810 again / 8.5.1811 Watkinson adv at Raine's / 26.8.1814 seek Russell & Watkn

Rev Robert Watkinson born 18.10.1775 died 21.2.1869 (see Boase & Alum Cantab) was assistant master at Charterhouse school 1799-1826 and housemaster there 1805-1826. His address in Holdens 1811 was given…


Watley

Watley 28.12.1794 at Foulkes' (with Hutchinson), & Watley jr 21.6.1795, 17.7.1795, 7.8.1795 there & Watley 8.5.1796 at Foulkes' (with Hutchinson).

Joseph Clifford Whatley attorney at Fairford, Glos in 1800 Law List, agent J Foulks (Foulkes was agent for only 3 or 4 out of hundreds of country attorneys) may well be Watley jr; a John Whatley married Elizabeth Clifford at Leyton, Essex in 1778. The Rev George Kemble Whatley of Hones Green, Wokingham, Berks (will PCC 1840) subscribed to Robert Robinson's Researches 1792 and Winterbotham's America 1795
 


Watson

mrs Watson 1.5.1796 at John King's, between mrs Grattan & miss Edgworth / 25.6.1799 Watson at Sarah Elwes / 9.7.1799 Watson adv at Sarah Elwes' & mrs Sims & mrs Holcombe / 11.11.1802 general Watson at Raphael Smith's / 27.12.1810 call on Watson with T(homas) T(urner) / 9.6.1817 trial of Watson senior / 16.6.1817 Watson acquitted  / 14.12.1817 Watson of the Stuart Papers adv at Hayward's / 18.1.1818 Watson adv at Hayward's / 19.4.1819 dr Watson calls / 26.4.1819 call on dr Watson

The first three entries above were possibly the same woman but it seems more likely the…


Watson

HCR diary 14.2.1821 "I went after nine to the Aders - I found Miss Flaxman and Miss Denman, a Frenchwoman agreeable as a Frenchwoman can be - and the young Watsons"

                    18.2.1821 at the Aders "the Watsons there"

                    25.2.1822 Mrs Aders on night of coronation 19.7.1821 "was called by Miss Watson into the back drawing room to see a ball or luminous body which had ben let off at Hampstead"

                    9.12.1823 "at 7 I went to Aders - found Mrs Aders and Miss Watson and had an unusually agreeable visit - a friendly gossip about…


Watson, George

2.7.1794 at Barnard's / 11.7.1796 there

Mr George Watson of Norwich Socy for Const Inf "wealthy miller & Baptist" (Trials for Treason & Sedition 6.483). He married Mary Barnard 28.10.1779 at St George Colegate. Bury & Norwich Post died 5.10.1827, buried 9.10.1827 Saxlingham Thorpe aged 69. Subscribed 1788 to Wm Gordon's America. His mill and home were at Saxlingham, he was a member of St Mary's Baptist church Norwich (Norfolk Chronicle 5.1.1793,; Jewson p 29,38, 98, 138)

1761 John Burton appr to George W Saxlingham miller / George W buried 7.9.1761 Saxlingham…


Watts, George

George Watts chymist of the Strand proposed Society for Constitutional Information 4.5.1792 by Frederick Charles Walsh 2nded John Horne Tooke

George Watts (Lowndes 1784) chymist 469 Strand. An unusually well-sourced Ancestry user-submitted tree (Adams/Homeyard) shows he was born 18.4.1755 Chard Somerset son of William (died 1788) and Dinah (nee Vivers). His brothers Charles died 1822 and Gilbert Henry died 1830, his grandfather Henry died 1770. Another Ancestry user-submitted tree (RTDeaton) which I haven't checked and the two trees seem unaware of each other, suggests his…


Watts, William

5.8.1792 tea at Watts's / 21.7.1794 Watts's at Reveley's / 25.7.1794 at Reveley's adv Banks's & Watts's / 21.9.1794 at Holcroft's adv Ritson, miss Cooper & miss Watts / 22.10.1794 call on Watts / 1.1.1795 W Watts calls / 21.2.1795 at Holcroft's with Richters & Watts's / 1.7.1798 meet Watts / 8.12.1800 again / 28.5.1801 call on Watts / 28.7.1806 Thomas Turner sups; adv Watts, eng / 12.9.1814 Watts calls / 14.3.1815 call on Watts (Sion College) / 22.12.1819 Thomas Turner & Watts call / 18.10.1823 Watts calls / 25.11.1825 at Reynolds's adv Sinclair & 2 Watts / 23.11.1827…


Weale

miss Weale 1.1.1801 breakfasts & dines (? at Mary Elizabeth Robinson's, Englefield Green) / 3.3.1811 Weele at mrs Topping's / 14.8.1811 Wele at Topping's / 17.6.1812 Weale calls / 7.12.1812 Weale at E Topping's / 21.7.1813 again / 26.12.1817 Weale calls / 4.1.1818 Weale dines / 2.2.1818 sup at Weale's / 19.4.1818 Weale (& Carlton) call / 22.4.1818 sup at Weale's (& Carlton) / 3.5.1919 Weale dines / 29.5.1818 adv Weale at dinner / 16.8.1818 Weale sups / 29.12.1818 adv Weale at dinner

William St Clair in The Godwins and the Shelleys speculates that Weale, being someone…


Webb, (Ireland)

Webb 13.7.1800 call on / 20.7.1800 dine at Webb's / 21.7.1800 sup at Webb's / 13.1.1802 at Wycombe's (& Curran)

 


Webb, Francis

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1773 F Webb

Francis Webb DNB 1735-1815. General Baptist minister and a steadfast radical whig, the DNB article states he was Deputy Searcher at Gravesend 1766 -77. In Godwin's autobiographical notes (on microfilm Duke MF 75 Bodleian Library) directly after his examination by Stafford, an Arian, he wrote "F Webb - T Pade - Hulls", and a bit later "Disputed with mrs Hull at cards - rewrite her poem".  Richard Hull (will PCC 1780 of Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex) was the brother of Godwin's mother Ann. He married Grace widow of Pierce Dixon and sister of the…


Webb, Hammersmith

Webbs Hammersmith 25.12.1794 at Foulkes'.

There were plenty of Webbs in Hammersmith, including chairmakers John of Fulham died 1795, his sister Martha and nephew Henry of the Creek, Hammersmith, and tobacco pipe maker Edward Webb of Shepherds Bush, and a Thomas Webb gentleman who died 1803 and his wife Mary. Why were they at Foulkes' on Christmas day?