Gillman

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HCR diary 5,4,1823 musical party and supper at Aders' "This party I had made for them. Wordsworth, Monkhouse and the ladies, the Flaxmans, Rogers, Coleridge, Mr & Mrs Gillman were my friends. Besides the Reeces and other musical party"

                  16.6.1826 "Mrs Mont: and Mrs Aders met at Gillman's - they shook hands. Ich dachte dass Mad Aders sich herabliess - sie wäre gewiss froh wenn Mrs M: sie besuchen wollte"

      letter 20.11.1829 Mrs Aders in London to HCR in Italy "We have had our house newly painted, and during a fortnight of the time we were at Highgate, Coleridge never was so interesting, and the love he shewed for us was so touching that my very heart seems to disolve when I look back and think of it - and as to dear Mrs Gillman she seemed only happy in making us so, entre nous she read me a letter from Mrs Coleridge on the subject of her daughters marriage, full of (flounces?) bonnet fine company display! welladay! that she should be the wife of Coleridge - that woman has a heart of stone, a well of adamant which any other heart must wreck upon yet this is not according to my system of inward christianity, to judge any one amiss, I may be wrong and misrepresenting her, if so pray God forgive me"  "Mrs Gillman is not very well, and gone with a lady to Ramsgate"  "you know I supose that James Gillman spent his vacation at Heidelberg, and it is surprising in the short time what good it has done both his understanding and health"

HCR Diary 30.1.1833 "a call on Mrs Aders - young Gillman was with her - I did not stay"

                   11.10.1833 at Aders "Young Gilman there: His father is recovered"

                     18.3.1835 "calling at the Aders next I found them in trouble - Mrs Riley their neighbour last night attempted her life - a shocking incident. Miss R is a very interesting girl - I hope the future wife of James Gilman"

                     19.7.1835 at Aders, Savage Gardens "the Charleses with A: and James Gilman who I like"

                     27.9.1836 in the bankruptcy of Aders "I find that Gillman takes out a friendly commission"

                     9.11.1836 "I then went to the Aders but had little conversation as young Gilman and Longdale were there"

                   30.11.1841 called on "Mrs De Morgan about Mrs Aders. I found her impression unfavorable - and even Mrs Gilman it seems is less friendly - perhaps it may be she is tired out"

James Gillman 1782-1839 surgeon and his wife Ann nee Harding 1779-1860, married 18.7.1807 St George Hanover Sq. See Samuel Taylor Coleridge (DNB 1772-1834) and The Gillmans of Highgate online at archive.org. They had two children James born 8.8.1808 died 1877, married at Paris 16.2.1837 Sophia Riley (QV* for her and her parents), and Henry Anthony born 20.11.1813 died 31.5.1858. Mrs Mont was the wife of Basil Montagu (DNB 1770-1851), Anna Dorothea (1773/4-1856) who had known Mrs Aders since at least 1805 but disapproved of her marriage to Aders and would not visit her. Robinson used German for slightly scandalous matters in his diary, the German above just suggests that Mrs Aders would be delighted if Mrs Montagu would visit her. The marriage of Mrs Coleridge's daughter Sara Coleridge (DNB 1802-1852) took place on 3.9.1829. I can find very little about  Henry Gillman, even The Gillmans of Highgate, written by his nephew, just gives his date of death and says he was unmarried. He went to Eton and was studying in Paris in 1830 under Mr Mathurin (Coleridge's letters). See my entry for Chance (QV*)