4.1.1808 call on Hankey
This name only appears this once in Godwin Diary. The Hankeys were a major banking family in the City of London, providing several Lord Mayors. The main members still alive in 1808 were Robert (will PCC 1815), his son Augustus Robert (will PCC 1830) and his nephews Frederick and Thomson (both wills PCC 1855), William Alers who went bankrupt as a West India broker in 1831 and John Barnard. The main bank was in Fenchurch Street. There were also less grand shopkeepers: Thomas Hankey dealer in sticks 15 Marylebone St 1784, orange merchant and cane dealer 333 Oxford St 1790-1801 / John Hankey chemist 220 St John Street 1797, Hankey, Williams & Dimsdale wholesale druggists and drysalters 114 St John St 1811. This last perhaps the likeliest as close to Skinner Street