A-Z of Entries

Featherstone

mrs Featherstone 19.7.1800 at Mcnally's

Leonard Macnally Dict Irish Biog 1752-1820 his uncle was a merchant called Featherstone. A Leonard Macnally married Anna Maria Featherstone in 1803 or 1804


Fingal, Lord

L Fingal 17.8.1800 at (Robert) Darwin's, Shrewsbury

Arthur James Plunkett Dict Irish Biog 1759-1836 8th Earl of Fingall (and see Burke's Peerage)


Forbes

Forbes 7.11.1803 at Hamilton Rowan's / 24.1.1811 Forbes calls / 23.4.1820 Forbes at Hume's

Possibly George John Forbes, Viscount Forbes Hist of Parl 1785-1836, son of Earl Granard and nephew of Lord Moira, a Whig who went over to government around 1812 except on the Catholic question where he always supported Catholic relief. Possibly Charles Fergusson Forbes DNB 1779-1852 surgeon or his father William Forbes 1753-1818 surgeon will PCC 1818 his widow's will PCC 1825 Elizabeth Forbes formerly Buxton. The family were Independents from Coggeshall, Essex and Charles's sister Anna…


Frizel

Frizel 25.7.1800 at Hamilton's (in Ireland) / 4.8.1800 meet Frizel (on Godwin's way to from Dublin to Carlow)

 


George, C

C George 1.7.1800 on wherry to Dublin


Gilbert & Magee

Gilbert & Magee 17.6.1801 at Joseph Johnson's

John Magee DNB 1750? - 1809 and William Gilbert 1734-1821 Dublin printers & journalists (Dublin Evening Post)


Ginnis

Ginnis's 10.7.1800 at Mcnally's / 19.7.1800 at Lefanu's

Arthur Guinness DNB 1768-1855 son of Arthur Guinness 1724-1803 brewer who had six sons. Subscrs 1795 to Samuel Whyte (DNB 1734-1811) Samuel Guinness, Rev Hosea Guinness, and Whyte's former pupils Arthur, Edward, Richard, & Samuel Guinness junior. Dublin Trades 1797 Arthur Guinness & Son brewer / Richard Guinness gunmaker. Edward Guinness of Dublin = May 1790 Margaret dau of late James Blair.


Glennie

Glennie 18.7.1800 at Drennan's (in Ireland) / 4.10.1807 dr Glennie at North's with Currans

GD website has coded the first entry above to James Glenie DNB 1750-1817 whom Godwin met in 1793 but this seems unlikely, no evidence for connection in Ireland. Dr Glennie in 1807 may have been William Glennie, Doctor of Laws will PCC 1828. Some Irish Glennies in work notes below


Glover

Glover 6.7.1800 (calls at Curran's?) / 15.7.1800 at Curran's / 22.7.1800 at Burton's / 27.7.1800 dines at Curran's & sleeps / 31.7.1800 again / 1.8.1800 again (all in Ireland)

 


Gore

Gore 29.12.1799 at Lanesborough's / 19.1.1800 again / 21.1.1800 Goire at John King's

An Irish landed family, from Hist of Irish Parliament there was John Gore 1735+-1814, Hon Richard Gore 1735/40 - 1807 (this one perhaps the best candidate for dinner at King's as his estate was hard-pressed), William Gore 1744-1815, and William Gore 1767-1832. Edward Gore was custos brevium at £600 p.a. from 1782-1800. Francis Gore was Lt Governor of Grenada 1791. Boyle's Court Guide of 1800 had Thomas Gore 6 Queen St Mayfair / Miss Gore 17 Lower Brook St / Christopher Gore Esq 20 Cumberland Place,…


Granard, Lady

la. Granard 21.6.1799 at John King's. In Godwin's 1796 list for 1799 / 17.11.1799 lady Granard at King's / 29.12.1799 Granard at King's / 5.1.1800 again / 19.1.1800 at Lanesborough's / 21.1.1800 at King's / 26.1.1800 again / 26.3.1800 again / 8.7.1800 Granard calls (in Ireland) / 12.7.1800 Granard dines (in Ireland, presumably at Curran's) / 9.8.1800 la Granard at la Moira's (in Ireland)

George Forbes 1760-1837 6th Earl Granard (his will PCC 1837 general, died at Paris, his stepmother (d.1820) married Rev Samuel Little) married 10.5.1779 Lady Selina Frances Rawdon, 4th dau of John…


Grange

Grange 1.7.1800 on Holyhead coach / 6.7.1800 3 Granges call (in Ireland)

see Batley


H S

8.10.1806 call on Curran (talk of H S) / 25.10.1807 Curran calls, talk of C M

John Philpot Curran (DNB 1750-1817) seems to have had a number of mistresses in his life, see my entries for Hughes, Maria, for Dixon (mrs Dixon) and for W Place (mrs Fitzgerald). Godwin sometimes used initials for convenience, but particularly for children, and also for women, perhaps especially when mentioning their name was a socially delicate matter. They could also have been abbreviations for some politically sensitive subject. For possible identity of C M, see Mercier, Charlotte. Godwin later…


Hall, (Ireland)

Hall 4.8.1800 at Burne's, Carlow


Hamilton, Misses

miss Hamilton 9.8.1800 at La Moira's (in Ireland) / 25.10.1803 miss Hamiltons at H Rowan's / 4.11.1803 miss Hamilton & Rowans dine / 7.11.1803 miss Hamiltons at H Rowan's / 14.1.1805 adv A Hamilton at Rowan's / 19.5.1805 miss Hamilton at H Rowan's / 16.6.1805 mrs Rowan, mrs Beresford & miss Hamilton call / 20.6.1805 mrs H Rowan, mrs Beresford & 2, miss Hamilton, Plowdens & Northcote at tea

Archibald Hamilton Rowan DNB 1751-1834 was born Archibald Hamilton and obliged to adopt the surname Rowan in order to receive an inheritance though his son appears to have reverted…


Hartley

Hartley 13.7.1800 at Grattan's / 14.7.1800 again / 18.7.1800 at Drennan's

Perhaps James son of Travers Hartley Dict Irish Biog 1723-1786 Dublin merchant. / Dublin Trades 1797 James Hartley merchant, William Hartley haberdasher & silk merchant / Henry Hartley barrister = Apr 1798 Lady Louisa Lumley dau of Earl of Scarborough (Irish marriages).


Hawthorn

mrs Hawthorn 15.11.1804 at H Rowan's / 28.1.1805 Hawthorns at H Rowan's / 30.1.1805 again / 10.7.1805 meet Hawthorns / 4.3.1806 Hawthorns at Rowan's / 11.3.1806 meet Hawthorn / 23.5.1806 Hawthorns at S Beresford's / 10.12.1806 theatre with Hawthorn / 31.1.1807 Hawthorns call / 4.2.1807 dine at Hawthorn's / 16.2.1807 Hawthorns call / 29.5.1807 M Hawthorn dines / 21.9.1807 call on mrs Hawthorn with M(ary) J(ane) / 2.1.1808 Hawthorns call / 7.1.1808 dine at Hawthorn's / 1.2.1808 Hawthorn calls / 4.2.1808 dine at Hawthorn / 29.5.1808 Hawthorn calls

As friends of Hamilton Rowan these…


Heard

Heard 10.10.1799 adv at Curran's

 


Higgins

Higgins 25.7.1800 at Hamilton's

GD website has coded this entry to Godfrey Higgins DNB 1773-1833 but I couldn't see any Irish connection for this Yorkshire squire. Perhaps Francis Higgins DNB 1746-1802 owner of Freeman's Journal, Dublin & informer, or William Higgins DNB 1763?-1825 chemist, in Dublin from 1791. Subscrs 1798 to D E O'Conor Matthew H missionary Limavaddy co. Derry, Dr H, Frankford, Kings Co. / Godfrey H of Higginsbrook, Derry = Oct 1808 Eliza dau of James Hamilton of Lurgan Louth (note venue on 25.7.1900 though GD website has coded this perhaps correctly to the…


Hinckes

Hinckes's 18.7.1800 at Drennan's