Godwin Diary

Kyan

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Kyan 16.8.1800 on post coach Chirk to Shrewsbury

Perhaps John Howard Kyan DNB 1774-1850, his father John Howard Kyan of Mount Howard, Ballymutagh, co. Wicklow who died 1804, or Esmonde Kyan DNB 1750-1798. Not everyone Godwin met accidentally got into the DNB but a remarkable number did and Kyan is not a very common name even in Ireland

Darwin, Robert Waring

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dine at Darwin's 17.8.1800

Robert Waring Darwin 1766-1848 in his son Charles Darwin DNB 1809-1882 lived at Shrewsbury where Godwin had slept the night before. The GD website has coded this entry to Erasmus Darwin, his father, who lived in Derby

Butler, Eleanor

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La E Butler 15.8.1800 call on, Llangollen

Lady (Charlotte) Eleanor Butler DNB 1739-1829. Godwin's letter to James Marshall (Bodleian Abinger c6 f37v) explained that he had an introduction from Mrs Grattan to the 'ladies of Llangollen'

Edwards, William

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Breakfast at Edwards's 14.8.1800 / 19.8.1800 call on mrs Edwards (in London)

Cotman, John Sell

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dine Conway, walk to Llanrwst, sleep, adv. Cotman 13.8.1800

John Sell Cotman DNB 1782-1842 landscape painter. DNB says he was on sketching tour in Wales at this time

Virgo

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parson, v. Virgo 13.8.1800 on mail coach

 

Longford's negre

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Longford's negre 13.8.1800 on mail coach

Perhaps a black servant of Thomas 3rd Baron Longford 1768x1778-1835 succeeded to peerage 1792, married 1817 (Burke's Peerage)

Marshal, S

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S Marshal 12.8.1800 on boat from Dublin / 13.8.1800 on mail coach

Irish marriages Samuel T Marshall of Timolin Limerick = Nov 1798 dau of late Garret Fitzgerald of Shannon Grove / will PCC 1823 Samuel Marshall serjeant at law & HMJustice for Cheshire, Flint, Denbigh & Montgomery

Garret

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Garret 12.8.1800 on boat from Dublin / 8.7.1831 Almeyda Garret at (Joshua) Robinson's / 1.8.1831 Almeyda Garrets at Mary Shelley's

Bourke, Joseph

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dean Bourke 12.8.1800 on boat from Dublin

Joseph Bourke 1771-1843 dean of Ossory, 3rd son of 3rd Earl Mayo = 1799 Mary dau of Sackville Gardiner (see Burke's Peerage)