1.4.1809 R Cloud sups
Only mention in Godwin's diary. Evening after Holcroft's funeral. A rare name so the person below is a possible, would have been aged 16, no obvious connection to Godwin.
Thomas Cloud will PCC 1809 smith, farrier and coachmaster of Hammersmith, wife Mary, sons James, George Richard, Richard, Henry, William & Edward. In 1874 Richard Henry Cloud took administration of the effects (under £20) of his father Richard Cloud of Hammersmith Gate, Fulham who died 14.1.1859, and then of the unadministered effects (under £200) of his grandfather Thomas Cloud who died 11.8.1809. Richard Cloud coachman age 48 was living in King-st Hammersmith in 1841 census. In 1820 he had provided carriage hire for Queen Caroline (Nat Arch TS11/106/318/2/27) and in 1823 he was an insolvent debtor (Public Ledger 1.3.1823). He remained a prisoner until 1832 and paid a dividend in 1843. In 1846 he won a week's wages 18/- by taking an employer to court who had discharged him as a driver without notice. In 1857 he was fined 20/- for careless driving of an omnibus.