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, had a daughter Mary by her first husband, and she was buried 23.2.1804 at St Giles Camberwell. Bonney was declared bankrupt in 1800 as a money-scrivener of Percy St, Rathbone Place. He married 2ndly as widower of Grays Inn Elizabeth Taylor sp of St Marylebone at St Andrew Holborn 12.7.1804 wits Mary Ann Bramwell & Maria Sophia Taylor. Their children Augusta Jane born 6.5.1802, (note she was baptised as dau of Elizabeth before Mary Bonney died) Francis Augustus Burdett 1804-1877 Augusta born 2.4.1805 William Wolfe 1806-1883 Clementina born 12.11.1808 Thomas born 4.5.1813. He died 30.12.1813 and was buried 5.1.1814 at St James Piccadilly.
BONNEY'Ss prison DIARY was published in Nicholas Roe's The Politics of Nature 2nd ed 2002 with an appendix identifying many of the names in it. The Bonney Diary dataset on this website will cover some identifications not made in that appendix.