A-Z of Entries

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

William Wright 23 Poland St (Kings Arms) ratebooks 1785-6 / a very common name, three William Wright  victuallers voted 1784 Westminster, Shug Lane St James voted Hood & Wray, Haymarket voted Fox (and SunFire 1779 there), Oxendon St, St Martin i t Fields voted Fox, also in 1780 wine merchant Tothill St voted Fox, in 1790 victualler Peter St, St Margaret & St John voted Fox, in 1818 Audley St St Geo Han Sq voted Burdett & Kinnaird. In SunFire 1777 victualler Billericay, Essex, 1777 wine merchant Barnaby St, 1777…

30.11.1793 sup at, Wrights (with 13 others) / 17.12.1794 evening at Merry's, Wrights

no Wright appears in the diary till 1796, and such a large company with several well known actors/singers (Hewardine, Pope, Dignum, Johnstone) suggests a public venue, as does the plural form without apostrophe. There was a Wright's coffee house in York Street Covent Garden in the 1760s frequented by actors, and a Wright's coffee house in Soho Square from 1796 (Law List), a Francis Johnson Wright brandy merchant of the Strand (who voted Tooke 1790) and a David Wright brandy merchant Bridges St…

HCR diary 14.11.1827 dined "at Aders - Dr Wurm and Dr Hensler were there and also Mr & Mrs Masquerier" "Dr Wurm an anti-Goethe-ist to a degree that tried Aders and my good nature"

Marquardt II p 113 n 318 Christian Friedrich Wurm 1803-1859 and see de.wikipedia. He was in England between 1825 and 1827

George Wyatt of Eastwood, nr Rochford, Essex proposed Society for Constitutional Information 23.11.1792 by John Towill Rutt 2nded John Horne Tooke

According to an Ancestry user-submitted tree George Wyatt was born at Beckney, Essex 17.9.1757 and married Mary Bell in 1779

30.12.1795 Wybournes at Newton's / 14.1.1796 Wybourne adv at Newton's

William Winnall of Stourbridge attorney 1764 took appr John Wybaurn 5yrs premium £50 / James W attorney 1787-93 Craigs Court / John Wybourn attorney 1, Craig's Court, Charing X 1794 / voted Hood 1790 Fox 1796 / freemason (& Thos W)1799 / mrs W wife of solicitor Craigs Court died 25.2.1811 / Miss S Wybourn of Craigs Court = C Adams Esq of East India House 16.2.1815 St Martins / Leeds Mercury 16.9.1815 Mr Wybourn 5gns to support Daniel Lovel, Liberty of the Press / 5.12.1819 Mr W of Craigs Court solicitor died…

L Wycombe 20.3.1794 talked of at J Hollis' / 9.1.1802 L Wycombe at Curran's / 13.1.1802 dine at Wycombe's (with Curran &c) / 20.1.1802 call on Wycombe (not in)

Lord Wycombe was John Henry Petty 1765-1809 Hist of Parl, eldest son of Lord Shelburne and MP for Chipping Wycombe 1786-1802, succeeded his father 1805

see Poland Street 10 to 18 & 45 to 48 in London Addresses dataset

Francis Wylde 15 Poland St ratebooks 1780-1782 / 1779 Francis Wylde mantua maker St James took appr Dorothy Ingry / SunFire 1780 Francis Wilde gent Poland St / Francis Wild gent Poland St voted Fox 1784 / will PCC 1792 Francis Wild of Bishopsgate, Surrey

20.10.1810 mrs Wyman calls / 22.10.1810 Wyman calls / 5.11.1810 mrs Wyman calls / 11.12.1810 again / 1.1.1811 again / 15.1.1811 call on Wyman (not seen) / 4.3.1811 Wyman calls / 5.3.1811 mrs Wyman calls

These entries can be read as Godwin wavering between using mrs or not for one female, or as alternating between a male and a female Wyman, in this case perhaps a widow and her stepson (see below)..

Only London entry for Wyman in Holdens directory 1811 Francis Wyman calenderer 71 Queen-st Cheapside. (A calenderer smoothed paper or cloth by pressing it through rollers).

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dine at Hatton, with Wynns 15.6.1797 / 9.11.1805 dine at Holland's with Wynne & Allen

Samuel Parr had vanished from Hatton to give space to his newly Gretna Green married daughter Sarah and his son-in-law John Wynne. Wynne's younger brother Julius was 15 years old at the time. See Godwin's letter Abinger c40 f182-3. The 1797 entry should also be coded to Sarah Parr's person record on GD website