A-Z of Entries

Samuel Acton of Distaff Lane joined "unnumbered division" (QV) 26.3.1794. Probably the newly free engraver, see below

Samuel Etheridge Acton apprenticed 1747 to Robert Marram, Pewterers Co. premium £21
Samuel Etheridge Acton bach = St Margaret Lothbury 25.12.1764 Ann Wright sp botp by Archbishop's licrnse wits Wm Acton, Ann Wright
Samuel son of Samuel Etheridge & Anne Acton bapt 19.4.1773 St Mary Aldermary
trades directories 1776 to 1791 Samuel Acton coal merchant 9 Distaff Lane, Friday St
trades directory 1777 Samuel Acton merchant 82 Watling St
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proposed member of Society for Constitutional Information 30.11.1792 by Christopher Hull, seconded by John Balmanno, rejected (one of a very few) Nat Arch TS11/962 / signed Declaration of Friends to the Liberty of the Press 1792/3 / steward at general meeting of London Corresponding Society 20.1.1794 (Thale p105) / witness in treason trials 1794 address Hare Court, Temple / steward of Friends of Freedom 1795, 1796 / on the outbreak of open rebellion in Ireland he was arrested 31.5.1798 at the Inner Temple on suspicion of high treason (along with Valentine Lawless, Richard Curran, Traynor…

John Ashpinshaw at conference 17.4.1789 / John Ashpinshaw otp bach = 8.12.1757 by lic St Botolph Aldgate Sarah Locke sp of St Helen London minor / John A of John & Sarah, Castle St, St Mary Whitechapel bapt 14.6.1761 /  Lydia A of John & Sarah, Kirby St, St Andrew Holborn bapt 10.2.1771 /  will PCC 13.10.1798 John A whitesmith of Leather Lane Holborn dated 1..7.1795 wife Sarah sons Joseph, Thomas / Rev John Aspinshaw of Notts d.1851 his son? /  SunFire 1834 John A 3 New Russel St, Bedford St, Commercial Rd, gent / In Thale p302, 410n, 429 there was an Aspinshaw in the London…

John Bacon 44 Watling St joined 28.5.1794 the "unnumbered division" (QV)

No good identification yet.
SunFire 1790 John Bacon & William Steddall merchants 19 King St, Cheapside
Holdens directory 1805 John Bacon 19 King St Cheapside Irish linen warehouse
SunFire 1809 John Bacon 19 King St Cheapside
Morning Post 18.8.1801 Capt John Bacon, Hon. Artillery Co.

44 Watling St
Daily Advertiser 27.10.1778 Mr Elmer 44 Watling St (Stephen Elmer of Farnham, Surrey 1770 Society of Artists 1776 Royal Academy. Trades directory 1784 Richard Elmer merchant)…

John Ballard = Chelmsford, Essex 27.5.1765 Sukey Lobb botp
Sukey Lobb born 1745 was the daughter of Richard Lobb and his wife (and first cousin) Frances née Greene. Richard was the son of Stephen Lobb 1676-1720 chaplain of Penzance Castle and his wife Gratiana née Pendar. Frances was the daughter of John Greene of Chelmsford and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen Lobb (DNB d.1699) and sister of Stephen Lobb of Penzance Castle and of Theophilus Lobb (DNB 1678-1763). Sukey's mother Frances had a sister Elizabeth Greene who married James Buckland (1712-1790) in 1734, and a brother…

4.9.1794 Henry Banks tailor gave evidence to LCS for John Groves (accused of being a spy and acquitted but later revealed to have been a spy)

Henry Banks tailor Crown Court, Bow Street    SunFire 1787
         do.                Martletts Court                     voted 1788 Hood
         do.                      do.                                  SunFire 1790, 1791
         do.                      do.                                  voted 1790 Hood & Tooke
         do.                      do.                                  voted 1796 Fox…

Richard Bannister, Popes Head Alley joined 21.5.1794 the "unnumbered division" (QV)

Hugh Bannister (died 1790) = Pulford, Cheshire 8.1.1737 Elizabeth Fox (died 1780). Their children John (appr 1758 to a skinner), Richard (appr 1762 to Jeffrey Edwards of Chester flaxdresser 7 yrs premium £9 father Hugh Bannister yeoman), John, Elizabeth
Old Bailey 1771 witness Richard Bannister servant to Mr Curll pawnbroker Fox Court
Old Bailey 14.1.1777 witness Richard Bannister servant to Mr Brown pawnbroker Long Acre
Old Bailey 19.2.1777 witness Richard Bannister belonging to…

15.12.1794 Richter & Baxter discharged / 26.8.1804 Baxter at Tooke's / 12.10.1806 again

The above entries have been coded in GD website to Baxter family (Baxter of Dundee). The first should belong certainly, and the other two probably, to John Baxter (fl 1794-1816 in DNB London Corresponding Society act. 1792-1799)

Nat Arch TS 11/963 examination of Thomas Hardy, who mentioned Bayley a printer with 5 or 6 journeymen. Hardy answered questions freely but perhaps not honestly, to protect comrades. This could have been Thomas Bayley printer of Petticoat Lane, but no evidence he was sympathetic to LCS, and he was dead 3 years before Hardy's exam.

Thoms Bayley printer of Petticoat Lane will proved PCC 17.5.1791 mentioned dau Mary, son Thomas, wife Susannah; John, Sarah & Jane chn of John & Sarah Jones late of Whitechapel; Elizabeth & Charles chn of Elizabeth 1st wife of James Hicks now or…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Anthony Beck saddler of Oxford Street proposed member 31.1.1794 by John Williams 2nded Francis Weldon

GODWIN DIARY: 30.1.1796 Beck adv at Inchbald's

Not the context we would most expect to find him in but this Beck at Inchbald's could have been the SCI member above / 5.7.1773 St Marylebone bapt Anthony son of Richard Beck & Mary / SunFire 1777, 1779 Richard Beck sadler Oxford St  (Rd B coal merchant Grosvenor St St Geo Han Sq voted Fox 1780, 1784) / 1791 (St Thos Hospital admissions Anthony Beck 229 Oxford St / (Thale) London…

Bedder 2.2.1795 at Thelwal's / 8.4.1796 at Thomas Fawcett's / Godwin calls on 2.2.1813.

Mr Thomas Bedder of 6, St Thomas Apostle and Thomas Bedder jr both contributed to the London Corresp Socy Nov 1794 collection for state prisoners' families. Thomas Bedder of St Martin Ongar married Ursula Stanley of St Mary Aldermary at St Clement Eastcheap 4.1.1763, took an apprentice as member of Butchers Company in 1773 and was buried 4.7.1802 at St Mary Aldermary age 64. Thomas Bedder of Long Acre was buried at St Martins in the Fields 14.11.1831 age 66

Charles Bessell 30 Charing Cross joined "unnumbered division" (QV) 5.5.1794

George Bessell born 21.9.1761 bapt 28.9.1761 St Martin i t Fields son of John George & Frances
Charles Bessell born 25.2.1767 bapt 11.3.1767 St Martin i t Fields son of John & Frances
Lutheran Church Savoy 21.3.1796 died Johann George Gottlieb Bessell age 63 born Reine in Brunswg
June 1798 Charles Bessell clerk in War Office salary £100 per annum
SunFire 1800 Charles Bessell at Colyer Wood near Morton, Surrey, gent
Morning Post 4.12.1804 Capt. Charles Bessell chairman of…

Thomas Blizard St Mary Axe joined 16.5.1794 the "unnumbered division" (QV)

See Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Thomas Blizard 1772-1838 and his relative Sir William Blizard 1744-1835.

William Blizard bach = Barnes, Surrey 13.7.1736 Elizabeth Robinson sp by banns
William Blizard will PCC 2.1.1745 (1744 old style) surgeon of Lambeth mentioned eldest son Robert, wife Martha, Epsom, son William, Hotham Suffolk, dau Harriott dated 26.10.1743
John Blizard = Petersham 18.9.1760 Susanna Cho(w)les
Mary Blizard bapt Petersham 13.3.1763 of John & Susanna (…

31.1.1795 at Powel's / 16.10.1801 calls / 11.8.1802 call with M(ary) J(ane)on E Bone / Godwin calls on 27.9.1809 / adv at Place's 14.7.1813.

John Bone, bookseller and muslin cleaner, member of London Corresp Socy, went bankrupt with William Hone in 1810. Bone & Hone booksellers &c 331 Strand. At 180 Fleet St (Holden's 1802) which was the address of J S Jordan, who published 1808 Bone's weekly journal The Reasoner. The Making of the Modern World database has no.13 online, the Bodleian have a copy, not seen by me, See work notes below

Elizabeth d c1830 wife of Henry…

The four paragraphs below don't have to be the same person, but the name was rare so they may be, and same trade between first and last para

Aaron Booth bapt 20.4.1766 Selston Notts son of Joshua & Mary (née Leiven), older brother Caleb Booth 1764-1846 in 1841 census at Selston, (son?) a framework knitter, Thos Saxton joiner of Alfreton, Derbys took appr Aaron Booth 17.5.1780 for 7 years. (Alfreton just 3 miles from Selston)

Aaron Booth = St Geo Han Sq 1.2.1789 MargaretXBrookshaw botp banns wit Thos Rice

TS 11/965/3510A  30.4.1794 Wickham (secretary of state's)…

William Buiton, Camomile St joined 21.5.1794 the "unnumbered division" (QV)

No good identification found yet.

Henry Chapman 68 Chiswell Street joined 28.5.1794 the "unnumbered division" (QV)

No good identification yet. Neighbour of Thomas Fawcett (QV) who joined the same day.

Henry Chapman merchant of Savage Gardens bankrupt 1799
Gloucester Journal 21.7.1800 Henry Chapman of the Barrack Office = Miss Ann Davies of Lambeth
SunFire 1790 Henry Chapman 8, Hercules Buildings, Lambeth
SunFire 1790 Elizabeth Chapman 58 Chiswell St spinster Other occupier William Ewster gent  (58 Chiswell St also connected with Hon. Artillery Co.)
Chancery 1811 plaintiffs Thomas…

HO 42/30/75 f193-4 anonymous letter to prime minister William Pitt. Peter Charman friend of John Richter had 60 pikes in his father's house, George St, York Buildings

Peter Charman jeweller York Buildings voted 1774 Cotes, SunFire 1777 Duke St, York Bldgs, 1780 & 1784 Villiers St voted Fox, 1788 George St voted Townshend, 1790 & 1796 George St voted Fox. Will PCC 7.11.1812 of George St, York Bldgs mentioned wife Elizabeth.

Children of Peter Charman & Elizabeth his wife bapt St Martin i t Fields: Martha 1773, Martha 1775, Mary 1777, Henry 1778, Elizabeth 1780, Mary…

Thale, Selections 13.1.1795 Cherton 38 Bethnal Green Road, signatures & subscriptions. No other trace of this person found

Thale Selections page 291,  27.8.1795 N Clayton in list of names wishing to establish a Division at the Fountain, Virginia Row, Shoreditch

William Satcher of Spitalfields cordwainer took appr Nathaniel Clayton 7 yrs from 25.6.1777 premium £6
Nathaniel Clayton otp bach = Shoreditch 23.6.1794 SarahXFowkes otp sp banns wits Richard & Sarah Hughes
Sarah Mary dau of Nathaniel & Sarah Clayton of Saunders Gardens born 21.5.1795 bapt Shoreditch 21.7.1795

page 299, 3.9.1795 Clayton admitted to sitting of LCS General Committee

page 325n   13.11.1795 …