Godwin Diary

17.7.1796 tea Melton with Harwood & Vickery adv David Jones

17.7.1796 Vickery dines (? at Col Harwood's in Norfolk) tea Melton, with Harwood & Vickery / 18.7.1796 Weybourn camp with H(arwood) & Vickery

Caryer Vickery surgeon of Holt, Norfolk (UBD 1791) took apprentice 1794. Married Catherine Munning 12.6.1786 Kingston, Surrey,  Caryer Hawkins V bapt 1.6.1787 at St Geo Queen Sq son of Caryer & Catherine of Lambs Conduit St, Thomas Munnings V bapt 4.11.1811 at St Andrew Holborn son of Caryer & Catherine of Grays inn, Carye V of Thomas St bur 27.1.1837 age 75 at Lambeth St John, his will PCC 1837

15.7.1796 mes Temple & Arthur at Raven's

Thomas Arthur married Jane Reeve at Foulsham 1764

15.7.1796 mes Temple & Arthur at Raven's / 8.1.1797 mes Temple at King's / 17.9.1804 call on Jo(seph) G(odwin) & H(olcrof)t (or Harriet?) : Curran calls n(ot in). adv. Temples / 1.10.1824 call on Lemon, SPO adv  Upcot, Temple / 19.10.1831 dine at Uwins with miss Temple

Temple was a fairly frequent surname among Norfolk farmers. Of the later four entries in London, that of 1804 may have been the Norfolk connection Temples if they were visiting Joseph Godwin, the diary entry seems ambiguous as to where the "adv" was.

13.7.1796 dine at Sewell with Flower & Copland

The GD website codes this to Benjamin Flower, as far as I can tell, simply on the basis of the surname. Flower was a fairly common surname among Norfolk farmers. See Sewell, Benjamin and Copland, John Dawson

13.7.1796 drive with Copland to Caston : Peasant

This was a long drive, Caston is 30 miles from Dalling, it's near Thetford and right next to Thompson where Colonel William Harwood inherited a property. They also must have driven back as Godwin supped at Dalling. I can find no record of an inn at Caston known as the Peasant. Peasant does occur as a surname but is rare. For Copland see Copland, John Dawson. See also Sewll, Bartholomew, and Flower

12.7.1796 mrs Beacroft adv at mrs J Taylor's

Thomas Beecroft of Saxthorpe Hall, Norfolk married 1785 Judith Dixon, her will PCC 1842 widow of Norwich, execs friends Thomas Hudson banker of Norwich & Richard Taylor of Charterhouse Square (son of Mrs J Taylor above). They had two daughters but he died aged 33 on 1.6.1787. He was the son of John Beecroft d.1779, bookseller of Paternoster Row, from a Norwich family..

Subscr to Norwich Public Library 1796 Mrs Beecroft / subscr to Wm Enfield's Sermons 1798 Mrs Beecroft

11.7.1796 Scott at Barnard's / mrs D Scott 6.9.1805 at T Barnard's (both at Norwich)

Joseph Scott, manufacturer (Jewson, Jacobin City p104). Subscr to Norwich Public Library 1796 Thomas Scott, J Scott jr, Mrs Scott deceased. 1784 Bailey's Directory John Scott & Sons, Magdalen St, Norwich / Robert Scott, surgeon, Fish Gate, Norwich. PCC wills John Scott merchant Norwich 1796 / Thomas Scott merchant & manufacturer Norwich 1816

10.7.1796 Pocklington at Tho. Harvey's / 20.7.1796 Pocklington dines (probably at Alderson's): gardens with A & Pocklington

9.7.1796 Gunning dines (in Norwich, perhaps at Alderson's) / 13.7.1796 Gunning at March's / 19.6.1797 dine at Gunning's, Ickleton

Henry Gunning DNB 1768-1854. Ickleton is just south of Cambridge, where Gunning was bedell. Gunning married Susan Bertram in 1794 at Lakenham, just south of Norwich. He was an advanced whig in politics (DNB)