A-Z of Entries

Blunt, John

John Blunt of Great Ayliff Street, Goodmans Fields proposed SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION 8.11.1782 by Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield 2nded Joseph Brown. Not sure if this was the same John Blunt as the coal factor and ship broker of 9, Coal Exchange, Thames St in 1782 and later of 1 Cross St, Thames St, if not the same they were in a similar line of business, see Nat Arch ADM 106/1246/424 where Nathaniel Bulmer shipbuilder of South Shields asked John Blunt of 6, Great Alie Street (another way of spelling Ayliffe Street) to tender the hull of a ship built by him at Hull (not seen…


Boardman

23.3.1809 Boardman calls

Only once in Godwin's diary.

Joseph Boardman gent of Kingsland, Mx will PCC 1817 dau Cicely Garnons widow of Rev John Garnons curate of All Hallows Barking & lecturer of All Hallows London Wall will PCC 1790, son Joseph Boardman of the Bank, gent; SunFire 1793 glazier of 19 Stewart-st Spitalfields & 63 Kingsland, 1803 at Mr Pace's Old-st; buried 2.12.1817 Bunhill Fields age 84 from Dalston / Thomas Holloway Boardman painter & cooper St Botolph Aldgate will PCC 1818. Several victuallers in London, and plenty of this name in Lancashire and…


Boddington, Samuel

Samuel Boddington proposed Socy for Const Info by Richard Price 19.3.1790 2nded Thomas Brand Hollis. West India merchant History of Parliament 1766-1843. See Godwin Diary website entry which I haven't examined though there is some uncertainty about distinguishing between Samuel and John Boddington. SB of Enfield subscr 1786 to Peacock's 6 Princesses, SB Hackney 1790 subscr to Hazlitt's Discourses, SB of 17 Mark Lane subscr 1791 to Socy for Prmoting Religious Knowledge among the Poor, SB = 24.2.1792 Grace dau of William Ashburner of Surat, honeymoon in Paris, SB Southgate subscr 1795 to…


Boham, Chistopher Frederick

Christ. Fred. Boham of New Brentford

UBD 1791 CFB gingerbread maker, Brentford


Boisgelin

Boisgelin 29.12.1799 at Lanesborough's / 5.1.1800 at John King's / 19.1.1800 at Lanesborough's / 21.1.1800 at John King's / 26.1.1800 again / 9.2.1800 again / 16.3.1800

Boisgelin has been identified on 17.11.1799 on the GD website but all the above subsequent entries have not been coded to him


Boissier, Robert

see Batemans Buildings in London Addresses dataset

Robert Boissier ratebooks 16 Batemans Buildings summer to Xmas1787 / John Boissier bach age 21+ = St James Picc'y 22.10.1761 Elizabeth Mellors sp 18+ with consent of her father FrancisXMellors of Shersey, Surry, farmer by Abp lic / John Boissier wid = St James Picc'y 22.6.1778 Ann Fairbrother sp age 40+ botp by Abp lic


Bolton

Bolton 25.4.1804 at Carlisle's / 3.11.1807 call on Bolton (then Pickering) / 4.12.1807 call on Pickering adv Bolton / 3.5.1812 Boltons at John Poole's

Possible : Boyle's 1800, Holdens 1811 John Bolton 11 Greek St Soho surgeon to St Anne's parish voted Hood 1788 & 1790, Paull 1806, Burdett & Romilly 1818 his will PCC 1821


Bolton, Thomas

Thomas Bolton of Richmond plumped for Burdett

Thomas son of George Bolton bapt Richmond 26.7.1772 / TB bach of Richmond = 18.1.1795 Isleworth Elizabeth early sp otp (licence dated 19.1.1794) / TB bur Mortlake 9.2.1795 / Criminal Register Apr 1803 TB age 27 born Surrey goldsmith arrested for theft died in Newgate last September before trial / TB age 67 from Workhouse bur Richmond 27.9.1833


Bolton, William

Wm Bolton of Kingston

See Bolton, Thomas / will PCC 1794 of WB publican of Epsom dated 19.5.1790 mentioned wife Sarah sons William & James / Land Tax redemption 1798 Gigg Hall, Kingston WB, prop Mrs Legh


Bolton, William (Isleworth)

Wm Bolton plumped for Burdett

see Bolton, William (Kingston) and Bolton, Thomas


Bond

SOCY for CONST INFO : George Bond Esq of the Temple proposed 7.2.1783 Alured Shove 2nded Samuel Shore. In 1792 he was a signatory to the Friends of the People and to the Friends of the Liberty of the Press. DNB 1750-1796. See Ride, Ann in Greater Soho dataset for more on his personal life.

GODWIN DIARY:  Bond 8.12.1790 at Holcroft's, with Fenwick and Bishop. May be George Bond as above, or the singer below if Bishop (QV) was the musician

Nicholas B Esq Boyle's 1792 44 Sloane St / John B singer Worcester & London (Highfill, Burnim & Langhans)  / Oliver B (Trials…


Bond (on sir R Corbet)

14.9.1810 Bond (on sir R Corbett) calls

Sir Richard Corbett will PCC 1815 claimed to be the heir to Sir Richard Corbett 4th baronet will PCC 1774 but the books of baronetcy say the 4th baronet died unmarried and the baronetcy became extinct with him. The claimant was a son of Charles Corbett, a bookseller who went bankrupt and was therefore excluded from the estate in the 4th baronet's 7th codicil.. Public Ledger 14.3.1810 reported the claimant's Chancery case against Archdeacon Corbett formerly Joseph Plymley, and the case by archdeacon Corbett that the claimant should not be…


Bond, Benjamin

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


Bone

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…


Bonham, John

John Bonham junior of Hammersmith proposed 25.10.1793 by Charles Sinclair 2nded Thomas Holcroft. John Bonham was the oldest son of Francis Warren Bonham by his first wife Mary Ann Leslie, born about 1769 probably in Ireland and matric at Merton College Oxford 1785. F W Bonham Land Tax Hammersmith 1791-99, his will PCC 1810 of Bath. John Bonham the younger of Hammersmith and Arthur Bedford were prosecuted for an assault by Ruth Ann Barnes and Elizabeth Thornton of Turnham Green who relinquished their prosecution at Middlesex Sessions in January 1793 (London Lives) (probably in return for a…


Bonney, John Augustus

GODWIN DIARY 4.1.1795 &c

John Augustus Bonney of Percy Street, Rathbone Place proposed 8,4.1791 by John Frost 2nded Joseph Adams. Born 1763 youngest son of Thomas Bonney rector of Ockham, Surrey 1710-1764 (son of Charles Bonney d.1744 woolstapler of Reading and his wife Elizabeth nee Armington d.1756) and Grace d.1776 dau of Chrstopher Key, receiver-general. Apprenticed 31.3.1779 to John Frost (DNB 1750-1842) attorney of St Pancras for 5 yrs premium £200. Married 23.9.1787 St Pancras Mary Johnson widow, wits Charles Tomkins, Tom Hague. She was probably born Mary Hague about 1762…


Bonnor

3 Bonnors 7.3.1802 at Perry's

Two people of this name in DNB either could have been at Perry's. Charles Bonnor DNB d1829? actor & civil servant and Thomas Bonnor DNB 1743-1807x12 draughtsman & engraver. Other Bonnors Thomas B paymaster of 15th foot will PCC 1801 mentioned Marianna B spinster of Gloster, John B of GPO London, Thos B of Pentonville engraver, William Gillies of Throckmorton St corn merchant and his wife Charlotte Hester / PCC 1823 Thomas Bonnor late of Spring Gardens Westminster and now of Lindsay Pl Chelsea / PCC 1833 Jane B wife of John B of Doughty St, St…


Bonnycastle, John

In Godwin's 1796 list for 1796 but not coded to his person record in GD website

4.8.1807 dine at Johnson's, w. Bonnycastle & son, &c / 29.12.1808 Hommey, & misses Bonnycastle & Yeates call / 7.1.1809 Knowles & miss Bonnycastle dine / 20.1.1809 dine at Johnson's, w. Bonnycastle & fille, &c

Charlotte born 1788 Lewisham = 1813 Henry Gritten, Lt. Royal Marine, wits. M F Hommey, W Hommey. Bonnycastle's only daughter, he had three sons Richard Henry, Capt. Royal Engineers, Humphrey born 1795, Charles b. 1796. Bonnycastle's wife was Bridget Newell (not…


Bonomi, John

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

John Bonomi architect Bailey's Directory 1785 2 Poland St. See Howard Colvin's Dictionary of Architects


Bonsor

5.2.1810 call on Bonsor / 9.2.1810 again / 2.11.1813 again / 1.8.1823 again / 18.8.1823 seek Bonsor / 10.8.1823 again / 22.8.1823 call on Bonsor / 2.10.1823 again / 28.10.1823 again / 5.4.1825 Guildhall; Bonsor &c / 25.5.1825 call on Bonsor

Joseph Bonsor printer & stationer 132 Salisbury-sq, Fleet-st (1768-1835 bbti)