A-Z of Entries

genl Conway 9.7.1800 adv at Lady Moira's. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1800 / Conway 12.7.1800 at Curran's

John Henry Count Conway, colonel 5th regt Irish Brigade 7.10.1794 disbanded 1798. General Conway subscr 1798 to D R O'Conor

19.11.1793 Cooke at Jennings and Cook 20.1.1794, 21.3.1794 and 19.12.1794 there. Also Cook 21.5.1794, 19.7.1794 at Holcroft's and 30.7.1794 adv Hart St; all linked to the Jennings/Reveley/Foulkes Bloomsbury set. In the Law Lists George Cooke was partner to John Foulkes at 14 Hart St, Bloomsbury from 1795 to 1797. Then there was Cook 25.12.1794 and 19.5.1795 at Foulkes; Cooke 7.8.1795 and 22.8.1795 at Foulkes; Cook 7.9.1795 at Foulkes; Cooke 2.10.1795 at Montagu's; and Cooke 21.12.1795, 29.1.1796 and 4.2.1796 at Foulkes, which demonstrates that Godwin's exact spellings cannot be relied on…

mrs Cotton, Cookham 29.11.1799 dine with her

Cookham presumably the place in Berkshire, and her was surely mrs Cotton. Both are underlined (i.e.unidentified) in GD website

conge of Cooper & Marguerite 1.4.1802 / 23.3.1805 call on Morgan with Philips adv Cooper / 30.10.1805 Cooper at Joseph Johnson's / 31.8.1806 Cooper at Philips / 17.4.1807 again / 1.6.1808 call on Cooper with M(ary) J(ane) / 9.12.1809 call on T Cooper / 29.1.1810 call on Theobald & Ward adv Cooper / 20.3.1810 call on Cooper, OSSH / 22.3.1810 call on Cooper / 14.9.1810 M (from Cooper) / 26.10.1810 call on Cooper, bb / 21.11.1810 call on Theobald & Cooper / 23.11.1810 call on Cooper, S S H, & Ward / 14.5.1811 call on Ward & Cooper / 9.8.1811 seek Cooper / 3.11.1813 call on…

5.3.1797 E C at Holcroft's / 11.3.1797 E C adv at Mansel's / 26.3.1797 E C at Holcroft's (these E C entries have not been coded to her person record on GD website, although E C 26.2.1797 and all E P C entries have been). Holcroft's and Mansel's are venues where she was more fully named on other occasions

Her letters Abinger c.1 f117-20 c.2 f3-8, c.3 f31-2 & c.4 f3. In 1792/3 she was governess to the Heatons at Denbigh, and from 1794 to the Kingstons at Oak Hill in Barnet and at their town house in Stratford Place. Godwin noted 2 Kingstons at her funeral (see Kingston, John).…

1.2.1796 mrs C at Holcroft's / 21.2.1796 again / 26.8.1796 mrs C calls / 25.11.1796 adv at miss Mansel's / 23.10.1797 at theatre / 14.12.1797 at theatre. All these clearly her but missed in GD website / 18.5.1798 M C dines may also have been her

Godwin's cousin Grace Mary dau of Daniel & Priscilla Ray of High St Gravesend baptised St George Gravesend 18.4.1741. Her mother was Priscilla Hull (sister of Godwin's mother Ann) who married Daniel Wray at St Mary Wisbeach, Cambs on 11.7.1740. See also the will of their brother Richard Hull (Nat Arch PROB11/1071). Grace Mary Ray married…

mrs T C at H(olcrof)ts 1.4.1804

This should be added to person record on GD website for Cooper, Joanna, as she was named ( and so coded on GD website) as mrs T Cooper earlier in the same day's entry

5.4.1796 call on JC (missed in GD website)

Godwin's cousin John Robinson Cooper, son of Thomas Cooper, surgeon East Indies deceased, apprenticed on 5.6.92 for 7 years to Thomas Spilsbury, printer of Snow Hill. Premium of £32 10s. paid by John Dorset, gent. (Stationer's Company apprentices no 7687)  see Godwin, Joseph. In the 3 months before this indenture Godwin called on Dorset 5 times and on Spilsbury once, then Dorset called once on Godwin. John Cooper makes 5 appearances in the diary, 3.1.1792; 5.6.1792; 19.3.1796; 5.4.1796; and 23.7.1796.

14.11.1795 C at John King's / 8.1.1796 C dines / 1.2.1796 Fenwick & C dine / 18.10.1803 C dines

All clearly Thomas Cooper but missed in GD website

4.7.1794 with Godwin's mother / 5.7.1794 at or after March's / 13.7.1796 dine at Sewel with Flower & Copland / 20.7.1796 March's; Waddy, Copland, &c / 3.10.1803 call on Copland & Woodhouse / 5.10.1803 4 Coplands & Woodhouse at tea / 6.10.1803 meet Copland & Woodhouses / 9.6.1829 Sothrens & Coplands call

In (Abinger c.3 f127) Godwin's mother wrote that Mr Cubit died a few weeks after his 2nd marriage, left most to Mr Copland's family. Godwin's elder brother John was apprenticed in 1767 to Samuel Cubitt grocer of Norwich. Samuel Cubitt married 19.6.1797 at St…

Copley jr 25.4.1797 calls (& Barnes)

John Singleton Copley DNB 1772-1863 "a mighty Jacobin". According to Farington's Diary iv 1411 he was cured of his democratic principles by going to America

Copperthwaite 26.3.1800 at John King's

11.8.1807 call on Corbet, w. T(homas) T(urner) : Bow Street, w. Corbet & T(homas) T(urner), warrant / 12.8.1807 Bow Street, Lep(ar)d, Humphrys, H(odgkin)s, Corbet, M(arshall) & T(homas) T(urner)

The only (living) Corbetts in Godwin's diary, from the context very likely an attorney, so probably William Corbett of 2 Field-st Grays Inn. He was baptised 30.5.1768 holborn son of Kean & Sophia of Bartletts-bldgs, and articled 1786 to his uncle Richard Corbett of Bartletts-bldgs.

Corkian 1.7.1800 on Holyhead coach & wherry to Dublin

Maybe a person from Cork, or a rare surname probably a variant or an error for Corkran/Corcoran

Cornel calls 1.6.1803

I thought this would have been Thomas Cornell bookseller 4 Bruton St Berkeley Sq or one of his family but his will PCC 1793 and that of his widow Ann both mentioned no children or relations named Cornell. According to an advert in the Morning Chronicle in 1803 a Mr Cornell was a respectable hosier at 22 Bridge St  Westminster, his name was Thomas from electoral roll 1806. Cornell & Lowry were auctioneers & appraisers of 55 New George St & nr Florida gardens kensington in 1790. According to British Book Trades Index, a William Cornell was apprenticed…

30.5.1796 Hume & miss Corney at supper at Joseph Fawcett's /

The children of Joseph and Alexia Hume as registered in the dissenter's registry some years after their births all have Thomas Corney given as the maternal grandfather. This miss Corney may have been a sister or aunt of Alexia, but as I have not been able to find any record of the marriage of Joseph Hume and Alexia Corney, I suspect miss Corney was Alexia herself. The eldest daughter of Joseph & Alexia Hume, Amelia was born at Newington Green on 4.10.1794. Alexia Hume was buried 6.8.1828 aged 54, of Kensington…

Coronatski 8.3.1789 at Holcrift's with Lisakovicz

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1778, in 1794 version added in small letters along with Lister 

Richard Corrie Esq of Ware Hertfordshire subscribed to dissenting publications in 1774, 1777 & 1779. Godwin's first attempt at ministry was at Ware in 1778. Richard Corrie of Hertford Esq subscribed to Wakefield's New Testament 1791 and he was probably the Richard Corrie of Islington from 1799 who died there 1807 in his 82nd year, will PCC 1807, his widow died 1824 Islington age 90. He is distinct from Richard Corrie of Wellingborough, Northants, on committee against Test & Corporation…

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1787, also in 1794 version / 5.9.1810 dine at Aldis's, w. Corry

Isaac Corry (Dictionary of Irish Biography 1753-1813) called to bar 1779, MP for Newry, took government office from 1787. He could have been the 1810 diner at Aldis's, he was no longer an MP after 1807 and according to History of Parliament online he died in reduced circumstances in 1813, but he was still listed in the court section of Holdens directory 1811 at Kensington-gore. Equally it could have been Thomas Charles Stewart Corry MP for co. Monaghan whose London address was 3 Gt Cumberland-…

call on Cosway 20.3.1802

There were few people of this surname in London so it is reasonable to suppose that this was Richard Cosway DNB 1742-1821 artist but it was a one-off appearance in Godwin's diary