A-Z of Entries

Aris at Jennings' / 16.7 miss Aris at Newgate with Jennings's / 19.7 miss A at Holcroft's (with Reveleys) / 4.8 Aris's at Jennings' / 19.12 Aris adv at Jennings' / 28.12 Mrs Aris adv at Foulkes' / 25.2.95 & 2.3 miss Aris calls (& mrs Jennings) / 7.4 Aris's at Foulkes' / 11.5 at Foulkes' adv Mrs Aris, miss Winal, Donovan & miss Hts

I looked at a number of Aris families including the printers of Birmingham, and I researched in detail the family of Thomas Aris, governor of Cold Bath Fields prison, something of a hate figure for radicals in the late 1790s and 1800s, who…

meet Armety 12.3.1801

19.10.1810 dine at St Paul's, w. Bonnycastle,  Armiger &c

Probably Thomas Jeremiah Armiger 1781-1844 surgeon, directory 1805 Lothbury, directory 1811 Woolwich (where Bonnycastle was Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military Academy). In 1811 he became surgeon and accoucheur to the Eatern Dispensary, London and surgeon to the Duke of Kent. In 1827 he became a surgeon to the London Hospital

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

John Armitage ratebooks 9 Poland St 1782 / John Armitage upholder of Poland St voted Fox 1784, listed in Bailey's directory 1785 / (from Ancestry user-submitted tree John s of John & Mary Armitage b 4.4.1740 Westminster = 12.12.1769 at St Lawrence Jewry to Mary Bradbury, their children William John b 1770 d 1833, Charles b 1773, Mary Helen b 1776 = John Isaac & d 1828, Eleanor b 1778 = Thomas Stockdale & d 1842) / (John Armitage upholder Long Acre bankrupt 1776, premises for sale, certificate 1777 / 1781…

4.10.1793 Mrs Armstrong adv at Jennings / 6.10.1793 Armstrong at Holcroft's / 5.11.1794 at Perry's / 11.1.1795 at Holcroft's / 23.11.1795 at House of Commons / 3.1.1796 at theatre / 16.5.96 at Debrett's / 4.12.1796 at Holcroft's (& Ballandine) / 9.1.1797 at Debrett's.

May have been John Armstrong DNB 1771-97 who was listed by Anthony Pasquin as the theatre critic of the Morning Chronicle who would therefore have been in context at Perry's and the theatre, and probably wrote political reports as well, hence Debrett's and the House of…

see Poland Street number not known in London Addresses dataset

Wm Armstrong SunFire 1779 hairdresser Henrietta St, Cavendish Sq / Wm Armstrong SunFire 1781 hairdresser King St Golden sq / Wm Armstrong SunFire 1782 hairdesser Poland St / (Wm Armstrong SunFire 1785 Great Castle St, Oxford St / Wm Armstrong SunFire 1786 Titchfield St Soho) / SunFire 1789 John Chappell hairdresser Margate, other property near the Pier, Margate (Wm Armstrong, hairdresser) / will PCC 18.11.1817 William Armstrong hairdresser St Marylebone / Elizabeth dau of William & Elizabeth Armstrong bapt 17.7.1775…

James Armsworth of Twickenham /. Land Tax 1805 Harmsworth Twickenham. / Will PCC 1814 Matthew Armswoth or Harmsworth of Twickenham, wife Mary (formerly Hardy), due under will of John Davis Esq Matthew H = 16.6.1811 Isleworth Mary Hardy / James Harmsworth bach = 4.6.1769 Twickenham Rachel Rogers sp by banns

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

Charles Arnott 36 Poland St ratebooks 1787-9 / Charles Arnett tobacconist Poland St Bailey's directory 1790 / Charles Arnett tobacconist Oxford St voted Fox 1790 / Charles Arnatt tobacconist Oxford St voted Fox 1802 / Nat Arch C 13/24/8 Charles Arnett v John Smith Chancery suit 1803 (not seen) / Charles Arnott tobacconist Oxford St voted Paull 1806 / will PCC Charles Arnett tobacconist 355 Oxford St dated 10.9.1807 proved 7.2.1812 mentioned wife Mary sons Charles & Henry, daus Eulielia, Selina, Ann, Sarah, Mary, Elizabeth /…

Richard Arnold of Richmond bur 22.5.1832 Richmond age 77 of Michells Almshouses / Elizabeth of Richard & Elizabeth Arnold bapt 8.1.1788 Richmond / Eliz A bur 8.12.1816 there age 49 of Pensioners Alley / Charles Albion of James & Elizabeth Arnold bapt 22.11.1818 Richmond waterman Friars Lane

HCR diary 26.11.1826 at Lamb's - Arnold nephew of Ayrton and Moxon

                   24.12.1836 "to the Aders wher I found young Arnold and his wife - I had seen him at Ayrton's and Lamb's but was not aware how impertinent and rude a young man he is. I know not when I have seen so offensive a man. He is a nephew of the late Mrs Ayrton".

Thomas James Arnold (DNB 1803-1877) son of Samuel James Arnold (DNB 1774-1852) who was son of Samuel Arnold (DNB 1740-1802). William Ayrton (DNB 1777-…

in May and June 1798 Arnot appeared 19 times in Godwin's diary, lastly on 13.6.1798 ppc (pour prendre conge, a leavetaking), From 9.4.1799 to 17.3.1801 there were 17 mentions of letters to and from Arnot or his manuscripts and journals, also in this period there were four mentions of Capt Arnot (15.12.1799 to 30.12.1799) and on 12.6.1800 mrs Arnot & Lucy call. Then from 3.11.1802 to 15.12.1802 Arnot appeared 15 times and again from 13.6.1803 to 12.8.1804 he appeared 40 times, most of these were calls. On 20.7.1805 seek Dickins (pro Arnot). Then from 4.8.1810 to 30.12.1811 Godwin wrote…

Henry Arnot at Swedenborgian conference 1791committee, Keighley

15.7.1796 mes Temple & Arthur at Raven's

Thomas Arthur married Jane Reeve at Foulsham 1764

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

William Arthur 23 Poland St (Kings Arms) ratebooks 1777-81 / will London Consistory Court of William Arthur victualler of St James dated 29.10.1779 mentioned wife Elizabeth son Richard proved 6.11.1779 (he died 1.11.1779) witness John Woodley / William Arthur = St James 19.6.1776 Elizabeth Patchen botp by banns wits John Phillips, Jno Lomas / Richard son of William & Elizabeth Arthur born 6.2.1779 bapt St James 21.2.1779 / see Warren, Alexander for his widow's marriage

Ash 15.11.1804 at H Rowan's / call on Ash 20.5.1808 / 21.5.1808 again / 31.5.1808 again / 7.6.1808 Ash calls / 14.6.1808 meet Ash / 18.6.1808 Ash calls / 9.7.1808 again / 8.8.1808 again / 24.9.1808 again / 22.10.1808 again / 25.10.1808 meet Ash / 15.3.1809 Ash calls / 11.9.1809 again / 16.5.1811 again / 2.8.1811 again

Dr Edward Ash died 29.3.1829 age 65 (Monk's Roll). Godwin wrote a description of his symptoms dated 21.5.1808 (Bodleian Abinger c10 f64-5) that gave Ash's address as Argyll St. Holdens directory 1811 Dr Ash, MD, 11 Argyle-st. Only the first entry above was likely to…

Ashburnham 29.7.1798 at Horne Tooke's / 11.3.1824 write to E of Ashburnham

John Ashburnham 2nd Earl of Ashburnham died 1812. This was perhaps his son George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl who died 1830, as Godwin was more likely to have written to someone he had once met. See his son George 1785-1813 Hist of Parl & Farington diary

Thomas Ashmore junior of King St, Cheapside proposed 7.3.1794 by Thomas Wardle 2nded Stewart Kyd. Sun Fire 1792 TA, TA jr, John Keeling & Nathaniel Laing 32 King St Cheapside warehousemen. Probably not the same as Thomas Ashmore gent of Swithins Lane Sun Fire 1780, banrupt merchant of Swithins La 1797 cert 1798 divs 1805, 1808, nor the same as TA Esq of Powis Pl = Liverpool 1819 will PCC 1856 of Bolton St Piccadilly. A Thomas Ashmore of Farringdon Ward without was listed in game certs 1809. Perhaps TA sr, warehouseman, was the TA bur 10.10.1800 Hackney age 68 and perhaps TA jr was…

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…

Askins 31.7.1797 at Sadler's Wells

Mr Askins (Highfill, Burnim & Langhans) a one-legged ventriloquist from Staffordshire at Sadler's Wells theatre from 1796

16.11.1809 call on Asperne

James Asperne bookseller 32 Cornhill from 1806 to 1822 (bbti)