A-Z of Entries

GODWIN DIARY: Heath (& Blake) at theatre 14.11.1805

see my entry for Blake, Arthur to whom the above entry is coded on GD website. More likely to have been William Blake DNB 1757-1827, Heath was a friend and fellow-engraver.

SWEDENBORGIANS: William Blake and his wife Catherine were among the 18 who signed the 1788 Swedenborgian New Church Conference along with the 77 printed names.

GREATER SOHO: see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

William Blake 28 Poland St ratebooks Xmas 1785-1790

CRABB ROBINSON DIARY:

The journal of John…

Samuel Blank bapt 12.10.1794 New Jerusalem

Benjamin Bond 1788 in printed list of 77 / BB PCC 1810 ironfounder Bristol / BB PCC 1835 St Marylebone / BB PCC 1838 Clapham buried Bunhill Fields 23.5.1838 age 76 from Blackman St Southwark / Holdens 1799 BB Esq South Lambeth / 1790, 1793 BB Connissioner of Land Tax London / Wakefields 1793 BB cabinetmaker Ratcliffe Highway

John Bostick of Bolton, Lancs Swedenborgian conference 5.9.1791

GODWIN DIARY:  24.5.1795 see Thos. Bowes

SWEDENBORGIANS:  15.10.1794 St Vedast Foster La TB otp bach = lydia bird otp sp wits Dl Richardson E Richardson. from the witnesses clearly the Swedenborgian who bapt with wife Lydia 2 children at Cross St chapel Hatton  Garden, Mary born 5.9.1797 in St Luke's bapt 24.9.1797 and Maria born 14.5.1799 of Pear Tree St Goswell St bapt 9.6.1799. probably the TB Goswell St land Tax 1804-1818 / New Jerusalem Magazine 1829 p93 died 21.1.1829 at her residence in St John St Clerkenwell in her 50th year Mrs Lydia Bowes (had been Swedenborgian 30 or 40…

John Bragg of Birmingham at April 1792 Swedenborgian conference appointed a Director of the Church

Isaac and Mary Brand 1788 on printed list of 77, 1792 letter to New Jerusalem Journal p165 signed Isaac Brand, Liverpool /  Isaac Brand bapt  31.7.1787 New Jerusalem / Mary Brand bapt 8.6.1788 there /  Elizabeth B of Isaac & Mary born 26.7.1790 bapt 15.8.1790 there / Ebenezer B of Isaac & Mary bapt 24.7.1791 there / Isaac Brand otp bach = 24.2.1788 St James Paddington by banns Mary Cobbing otp sp wits Saml Cobbing (see Cobbing, Samuel), Wm Bryan / SunFire 1794 Isaac Brand jeweller 7 Pear Tree Court Clerkenwell / Morning Post 13.11.1794 Isaac Brand watch jeweller 29 South Audley St…

Robert, Thmas & Charles Brant 1788 in printed list of 77 / Rev Robert Brant, Bristol  conference 1792 / Rev R B dissenting clergyman Bedminster 1795-1799

E W Brayley 3.11.1801 calls / 30.9.1817 send to Brayley / 9.9.1826 adv at Britton's / 12.9.1826 call on / 10.10.1828 again / 26.11.1828 again / 10.12.1828 again / 17.9.1829 call on Brayley (Forsyth) / 4.1.1831 call on Brayley, adv Britton / 11.10.1831 call on Brayley adv Heath senior / 7.6.1832 call on Brayley / 30.6.1832 again

Edward Wedlake Brayley DNB 1773-1854

SWEDENBORGIANS: Edward William Brayley (DNB 1801/2-1870) was a Swedenborgian, at least in 1824, which is not mentioned in his DNB article (Intellectual Repository 1824/5 p183)

Isaac & Robert Brooks bapt 12.8.1792 New Jerusalem 

Samuel Bucknall 1788 in printed list of 77 / Saml B bapt 22.6.1788 New Jerusalem / Samuel Bucknall of Stroud conference 1792-3 / Sami son of Edward B = 18.4.1790 Stroud Ann Clissold dau of Stephen C / Samuel Trowel Bucknall bur 17.11.1839 Redcliff, Bristol age 69

Joseph Bugby bapt 20.9.1794 New Jerusalem

this must have been Joseph Bugby whose obituary appeared in Dawn of Light 1825 p470. He converted from Calvinism to Swedenborg about 1790. He died 6.8.1825 at South Petherton, Somerset in 76th year and was reorted to have been a schoolmaster. Thanks to Graham Clark for this information and more of the following. He had several sons baptised at New Alresford, Hants including Joseph 1775, Jervoise 1781 and Samuel 1785. Joseph Bugby sacking manufacturer Alresford Hants bankrupt 14.8.1790. Wakefields 1794 Joseph Bugby, Thread Mills,…

SWEDENBORGIANS: Baptised at New Jerusalem Chapel, William Butter born 6.10.1770 bapt 23.10.1791 / Henry Butter of Wm & Mary born 15.11.1794 bapt 21.12.1794 / William Butter of Wm & Mary born 31.3.1796 bapt 15.5.1796 / Sarah Butter of Henry & Sarah born 1.1.1776 bapt 3.9.1797 / Sarah Butter of Wm & Mary born 8.11.1797 bapt 10.12.1797

Intellectual Repository 1824/5 p83, London Missionary & Tract Society, Mr A Butter, Academy, 88 Goswell Road / 1828 obituary of Mrs Anne Butter

Henry Butter (died 1784) = Attleborough, Norfolk 3.6.1768 Sarah Peachey (died 1793…

Abram Butterfield at Swedenborgian conference Keighley, Yorks 1791

Benjamin Carpenter was (along with William Blake the poet and his wife Catherine and Dorothy Gott) one of the additional signatories to the Swedenborgian conference 1789 (not in the printed list of 7.12.1788) and like the Blakes and Gott he appeared in no other Swedenborgian records. He was  quite likely  the Unitarian minister Benjamin Carpenter, born April 1752 near Bromsgrove, son of Philip Carpenter and Ann Lant who were married at Coventry 30.12.1740 and who baptised 11 children at the Indeprndent chapel in Bromsgrove. He was admitted to Daventry Academy 1768, married 24.6.1799 at…

Thomas Carter one of the additional signatories of the 1789 Swedenborgian conference (not in the printed list of 7.12.1788) who, like the poet William Blake and his wife and Dorothy Gott, appeared in no other Swedenborgian records. Really too common a name for me to make any intelligent guess to his identity

SWEDENBORGIANS: James Cayford son of James & Sibila born 2.11.1756 bapt 13.3.1796 New Jerusalem

James Cayford = 8.8.1753 St Michaels Bristol Sybilla Richardson. JC appr 1770 to Wm Reynolds citizen and joiner of London, JC took apprs 1787, 1793 (2), 1797,1806, James Birt Cayford = 8.4.1782 St Mary Aldermanbury to Elizabeth Campbell their children Harriot and Elizabeth bapt St Mary Whitechapel both buried as infants at St Mary Aldermanbury, another Elizabeth bapt 26.6.1785 St Andrew Holborn of Fetter Lane also buried as infant at St Mary Aldermanbury, Susanna born 1.3.1787 bapt 21…

John Chappel born 10.7.1771 of Samuel & Mary bapt 23.3.1794 New Jerusalem 

(John Chappel bapt 10.10.1771 Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire, son of Samuel probably not this one) / John Abraham Chappel bapt 7.8.1771 Bicester, Oxon son of Samuel / John Abraham Chappel = 25.10.1797 Northaw, Herts to Martha Knight / SunFire 1802 JC pork butcher 56 Snow Hill / John born 18.7.1798 bapt 8.4.1803 St Sepulchre, John son of John Abraham Chappell & Martha of St Sepulchre  bapt 28.7.1798 Cross Street Swedenborgian / Abraham bapt 26.10.1800 New Jerusalem / William born 27.12.1806 bapt St…

Benedict Chastanier, French surgeon 62 Tottenham Court Rd in list of Theosophical Society c1783 in Wm White's Emanuel Swedenborg vol 2 p599-600, publ 1786 London (in French) Tableau Analytique, a precis of Swedenborg's works. publ 1787 London (in French) Journal Novi-Jerusalemite, signatory (printed list) to 1788 conference, signatory to 1789 conference, bapt 12.4.1789 New Jerusalem, wrote articles (in English) New Jerusalem Journal 1792, wrote letter to 1792/3 conference

Benedict Chastanier elector Grafton St Soho 1774 /  Public Ledger 22.5.1776 Duran's Bougies from Paris for all…

William Child born 30.12.1788 of Wm & Catherine bapt 22.3.1789 New Jerusalem (perhaps William Child bach = 3.5.1779 Shoreditch to Catherine Green sp her mark wits Thos Boycott, Wm Brewer) / William Child of Joseph & Elizabeth bapt 19.6.1791 there (perhaps the William Child born 30.10.1751 bapt 10.11.1751 St James Piccy of Joseph & Elizabeth who was likely the Wm C pork butcher 6 Tyler St SunFire 1791 but probably not the William Child victualler of Mayfair will PCC 1813). See my entry for Attwell, William

John Child was in the list of 18 names that added their signatures…