A-Z of Entries

9.12.1795 Fenwick, Dyson, White, Cooper, Powell & Russell call / 11.12.1795 Marshall & Russell call: signature / 13.12.1795 adv at Holcroft's Powell & Russell / 3.1.1796 adv at Holcroft's Powell & Russell / 10.1.1796 meet Russell / 11.1.1796 again / 21.7.1802 Russell grammarian calls

The first six entries were all in just over a month and separated from other Russel entries by several years. Three were with James Powell, the unsuspected government spy in the London Corresponding Society. Thale, Selected Papers of the LCS shows Russell from August 1795 to June 1796…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: James Savage of Maiden Lane, Wood St proposed member 11.4.1794 by Thomas Wardle 2nded Samuel Miller

GODWIN DIARY: 27.11.1795 Savage at Crown & Anchor / 8.12.1810 write to Savage / 29.5.1831 miss Savage at Cooke's

Thomas Wardle and Samuel Miller were both also noted by Godwin at C & A on 27.11.1795. James Savage was warehouseman at 28 Wood St Cheapside 1788-90 and was perhaps the witness at the Old Bailey in 1788 who said he stored articles of silk & twist and had been a servant one year previously. William son…

Thomas Shone 37 Mincing Lane joined "unnumbered division" (QV) 5.5.1794

William Shone vintner Mincing Lane SunFire 1778, 1782. 1784 £50 benefaction to Bridewell Royal Hospital, elected Governor. SunFire 1788 William Shone wine and brandy merchant 37 Mincing Lane.
William Shone will PCC 5.12.1789 wine merchant of Mincing Lane mentioned nephews William and Thomas Shone, niece Susannah Anderson (a minor), Miss Susanna Ardern & Miss Mary Browne niece and cousin german of my late wife, cousin Woodville or Woodfin son of mother's brother Rollidall, Malpas Cheshire "where I was…

see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset

Richard Simison 7 Poland St ratebooks 1793-7 / attorney Kings Bench & solicitor Chancery articled 1787 to Thomas Borne / Richard Simison bach otp = St Margaret Westminster 6.2.1791 Hannah Atkinson sp of Lambeth by lic wits Arthur Goodwin, B Goodwin, James Burford / Ann d of Richard & Hannah Simison bapt 12.1.1792 St James, Mary bapt 13.1.1793, Hannah bapt 27.5.1795, Richard bapt 24.11.1796, Margaret bapt 29.5.1798 / Mr Simison 7 Poland St agent for Yorkshire school ad in World 10.8.1793 / Oracle 28.2.1795…

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Charles Sinclair proposed member 18.5.1792 by John Horne Tooke 2nded John Frost. His first recorded attendance at a London Corresponding Society meeting was on 21.6.1792

GODWIN DIARY: 12.9.1794 S, sup with, This was most likely Charles Sinclair as his was the only name beginning with S appearing earlier in that day's entry

Charles Sinclair was an illegitimate nephew of Sir John Sinclair DNB 1754-1835. Parish register of Latheron Caithness 20.1.1769 George Sinclair son to Lybster had a child baptised got out of wedlock nam'd…

member of LCS Div 1 named as delegate then crossed out 4.10.1792 (Thale p22n62)

According to the letter of Alexander Galloway to Richard Hodgson in Paris 24.12.1801 (Nat Arch PC 1/3535 "Ben Binns is married to my old sweetheart Charlotte Tallboys, I am sorry to say they are much distressed". I found no record of this marriage. According to the Dictionary of Irish Biography entry for John Binns, his brother Benjamin returned to Ireland about 1803 and was a plumber at Bray, co. Wicklow, then joined his brother in Philadelphia about 1817.
So who was Charlotte Tallboys? Galloway was born in London. There was a Charlotte Ann Tallboys born 9.5.1779 and bapt 29.7.1779 at…

f 46r of Vol VII of Godwin's diary F V will have £5000 per annum H T

FV is Felix Vaughan and HT is John Horne Tooke

letter dated 25.8.1791 from Felix Vaughan in Geneva to John Richter at Sir Robert Herries, London, mentioned J H Tooke, Mr Carey at Paris and Mr Squire who might pay Richter money on Vaughan's account.(Nat Arch TS 11/953)



His will PCC 13.6.1799

Thomas Wade 25 Castle St, Falcon Sq joined 5.5.1794 "unnumbered division" (QV)

I found no good identity yet. Possibles:
1791 directory Thomas Wade grocer & tea dealer 28 Aldgate Within (SunFire 1792). 1795 & 1796 directory Thomas Wade grocer & tea dealer 48 Snow Hill (Old Bailey witness 29.5.1805)
Holdens 1799 directory Thomas Wade drug merchant 3 Gt St Helen's (bankrupt & cert 1802)
Holdens directory 1799 Thomas Wade wine & brandy dealer 4 Mill St Hanover Square (SunFire 1785, voted Hood 1788, will PCC 1807)
Star 2.10.1809 partnership dissolved…

John Williamson cordwainer Crown Court, St Mgt & St John Westminster voted 1790 Fox & Hood
rates 1791 Crown Court John Williamson £8 (next quarter Empty)
John Williamson Charles St 5.1.1792 Westminster Coroners jury
rates 1791 to 1793 Charles St, St Mgt & St John Westminster John Williamson John Williamson £24
Nat Arch TS 11/963 examination of spy F.P.Nodder, Williamson of Charles St Westminster active in arming society with Franklow
spy Nodder's report 21.4.1794 searched in vain for Williamson shoemaker of Charles St Westminster
handbill dated 19.6.1794…

Benjamin Worship of Great Yarmouth articled 4.7.1757 for seven years to William Worship attorney of the same place
Benjamin Worship bach otp = St Nicholas Gt Yarmouth 25.8.1764 Elizabeth Jay sp a minor otp by license witnesses Bartholomew Jay, Sampson Winn
William Worship bapt 26.6.1767 Gt Yarmouth s of Benjamin & Elizabeth
Maria dau of Benjamin & Elizabeth Worship born 20.11.1786 bapt 30.7.1787 Newington Surrey
Mrs Elizabeth Worship of Newington buried Locks Fields 6.11.1791 age 46
Nat Arch TS 11/956/3501 report from spy Metcalfe 2.4.1794 Mr Worship of Ball…

from Thale:

delegate of LCS Div 1 27.6.1793 John Young
present at LCS Div 11 13.3.1794 Young
president of LCS Div 13 14.8.1794 John Young
on LCS exec cttee 2.7.1795 Young
resigned as reporter to LCS exec cttee 9.7.1795 Young
chair of LCS exec cttee 4.8.1795
not re-elected to exec cttee 37.8.1795

from list of LCS Div 8 12.7.1792:

Young 24 Rupert Street joined Div 8 7.5.1792

24 Rupert Street Sun Fire 1786 William Elliot shoemaker, Meyrick Williams chandler 1787 William Berry chandler
     Rupert Street rates 1792 Robert Caldwell…