Holcroft, Anne

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7.8.1795 mes Ht & Richter call / 11.8.1795 Godwin calls on A Ht / 9.9.1795 Godwin calls on A H / 15.2.1796 Godwin calls on A H (but didn't see) / 3.9.1798 mrs Harwood dines / 7.8.1801 mrs Harwood calls / 9.2.1802 write to mrs Harwood / 24.5.1809 mrs & miss Harwood at tea / 10.9.1812 mrs Harwood on coach to Bristol / 24.8.1824 mrs harwood at tea / 16.4.1826 mrs Harwood at Lamb's

Around the time of the first three entries above Anne Holcroft was coming into conflict with her father Thomas. See Abinger c.3 f.17r letter from Amelia Alderson in Norwich to Godwin dated 5.2.1796 in which she said a letter received from London two days before informed her that Holcroft had turned his eldest daughter out of doors and that Godwin was the instigator of this cruel action. This Alderson could not believe but she had heard from respectable authority that Holcroft and his daughter had quarelled.

The GD website has coded A Harwood entries to her, but not mrs Harwood. Godwin recorded Col. Harwood's marriage on 3.4.1796, but the registers of St Mary Woolnoth, London recorded the marriage by license of William Tooke Harwood bachelor and Ann Holcroft spinster both of this parish on 25.6.1797 (witnesses Wm Slailand? Blake, Sarah Blake). In addition to the dates above and those coded for her in the GD website she may have been the plain Harwood of 1.3.1827, after her husband's death. Neither of their wills mentioned any children of their marriage, but there might have been one or more unbaptised and not surviving, note 13.11.1804 A Harwood & fille. Colonel Harwood's will PCC 1824 dated 3.2.1816 mentioned his wife Ann and his reputed daughter Mary Elizabeth wife of Charles Phillips surgeon of Camden Town. Ann Harwood renounced her executorship in favour of Robert Browne, a creditor of Harwood's, but was granted administration of his remaining goods on 6.6.1835 after Browne's death. Elizabeth Mary dau of William Harwood and Elizabeth was baptised 23.2.1786 at St Leonard's Shoreditch and married Charles Phillips at St Marylebone 18.9.1813. Their daughter Ann Harwood Phillips was baptised there 9.12.1814. Ann Harwood was buried on 27.2.1841 at Southwark Cathedral. In her will PCC 1841 dated 14.10.1839 late of 44 Russell Sq Brighton but now residing at 127 London Rd Southwark she left £15 a year to her half sister Fanny Margaretta and £200 to Miss Anne Harwood Phillips "some time since resident with me at Brighton to enable her to extricate herself from her present situation (of which I have been fully informed) by entering into some respectable and virtuous occupation and may God pardon her as freely as I now do". On 20.5.1843 at St George the Martyr Southwark Charles Gordon Maclean Esq bach age 22 married Anne Harwood Phillips sp age 26 wits Charles Maclean physician Charles Phillips surgeon