mrs Beresford 7.11.1803 at Hamilton Rowan's / 3.2.1804 again / 12.2.1804 dines / 8.4.1804 calls / 30.4.1804 at hers / 22.5.1804 at H Rowan's / 2.9.1804 Beresfords at H Rowan's / 14.9.1804 mrs Beresford calls / 11.3.1805 mrs Rowan, Jane, mrs B call / 28.3.1805 A & F Rowan, S Beresford & miss Eastwick dine / 25.4.1805 2 Beresfords & 4 Rowans at tea & sup / 4.6.1805 6 jr Rowans & 2 Beresfords dine / 16.6.1805 mrs Beresford calls / 20.6.1805 mrs Beresford & 2 at tea / 19.7.1805 Beresfords call / 14.11.1805 mrs Beresford at theatre / 14.1.1806 Beresford & 2 Rowans dine / 17.1.1806 Beresfords at Rowan's / 20.1.1806 S Beresford at Rowan's / 13.5.1806 mrs Beresford dines / 23.5.1806 dine at S Beresford's / 19.6.1806 Beresfords at Rowan's / 20.6.1806 miss Beresford adv at Joseph Johnson's, Purser's Cross / 24.10.1806 mes Beresford & Snow call / 25.1.1807 meet Beresfords / 28.1.1807 2 S Beresfords at theatre / 24.5.1807 mrs Beresford calls / 26.5.1807 S Beresford adv at Joseph Johnson's / 29.5.1807 mrs Beresford & son dine / 4.2.1808 2 Beresfords at Hawthorns / 2.3.1808 Beresfords call / 23.3.1808 mrs Beresford calls / 9.8.1808 again / 14.12.1808 meet mrs Beresford / 11.1.1809 again / 18.1.1809 sup at hers / 25.1.1809 call on her / 14.2.1809 call on her for M(ary) J(ane) / 25.2.1809 dine at S Beresford's / 11.3.1809 Beresfords call / 18.11.1812 mrs Beresford calls / 27.12.1818 S Beresford calls / 29.12.1819 S Bereford dines / 1.1.1819 dine at S Beresford's / 13.1.1819 mrs Beresford dines / 18.2.1819 2 Beresfords at Snow's / 24.2.1819 Beresfords call / 18.3.1819 miss Beresford dines / 18.5.1819 mrs Beresford & son dine. mrs Beresford sleeps / 31.5.1819 Beresford calls / 25.1.1820 Beresfords at mrs Hersey's, (Addlestone Surrey); sleep at Beresford's, 3 nights (see Godwin's letter Bodleian Abinger c43 f31-2) / 12.2.1820 write to mrs Beresford / 15.3.1820 she dines / 17.3.1820 she calls / 19.2.1821 again / 26.2.1821 mrs & miss Beresford dine / 13.4.1821 Beresfords call
Sidney sister of Archibald Hamilton Rowan (DNB 1751-1834) married 11.12.1780 St Katherine Cree London Rev. Benjamin Beresford (the dramatic story of their elopement and the subsequent disputes is told in The Desire to Please by Harold Nicolson p45-54). He was bapt Ribbesford Worcs 13.10.1749, and a sister Elizabeth there 1752, children of James Beresford schoolmaster (will PCC 1797 malster of Bewdley Worcs all mathematical instruments to son Benjamin) and his wife Betty (will PCC 1807 widow of Bewdley dau Elizabeth Birch, son Benjamin, dau Sarah). James Beresford had married Betty Dugard at Claines Glos 26.8.1748. Elizabeth Beresford married Henry Jacob Burch 6.12.1784 St Marylebone, he was a miniature painter of 66 Newman St 1794 (Sun Fire). Sarah Beresford married 22.4.1808 Knightly Adams (an interesting character, try a newspaper search). Benjamin Beresford matric St Mary Hall Oxford 1772, rector of St Mary's Bedford from 1779, later British chaplain in Moscow, he apparently died 24.4.1819 in Berlin where he was tutor to Queen Luise of Prussia (see Philip Allison Shelley, "Benjamin Beresford, Literary Ambassador" PMLA 51 (1936) 476-501). His widow Sidney died in 1827 at 12 Gt Quebec St, Montagu Square. The children of Benjamin and Sidney Beresford were Sophia born c1782/3 in Germany or at Lille, France (per different censuses) died unmarried Hastings 1875 / Harriot born 7.6.1789 bapt 1.7.1789 St Geo Martyr Southwark, she was perhaps the "Harriot Merrick" living on Ham Common mentioned in the 1825 codicil to her mother's will. Familysearch has a Harriet Beresford buried Surrey 11.1.1834. (Another Harriet Beresford born about 1815 married as a spinster 13.10.1840 at St Mary Lambeth Richard Stephens Taylor, solicitor of Holborn) / Hamilton Sydney born Ripon Yorks c.1792 married 1st 1810 at Dublin Elizabeth dau of Archibald Hamilton Rowan (their dau Anne born Linkinhorne Cornwall c 1820), he was later of Minthaw Aberdeen and married 2nd Louisa Brown 1.6.1836 at Bolney Sussex and his will PCC 1847 clerk of Brailes buried 26.5.1847 at St Mary Islington age 55 of Spencer Terrace. Sidney Beresford's will was dated 19.8.1824 at Addlestone, Surrey (see GD entry 25.1.1820 above) and a codicil dated 12.9.1825 at Boulevard de Helder, Paris (which explains why Godwin didn't see her after 1821) was witnessed by Samuel & Mary Truman (see Truman). Mrs Beresford was probably Sidney in every case, though could have been her daughter in law Elizabeth after 1810. S Beresford could have been Sidney, her daughter Sophia or her son Hamilton Sidney, or even Benjamin's sister Sarah before she married in 1808. Miss Beresford was probably the eldest daughter Sophia. Plain Beresford may have been Sidney, her husband Benjamin before 1819, or her son. It is possible that none of the entries referred to Benjamin Beresford who may have lived abroad apart from his wife. His daughter Sophia was with him in St Petersburg in 1814, where they both signed a marriage register. Thanks to Dave Burnett of Alberta for some of this information.