Hooley

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20 Primrose St with Hooley & Jo(seph) G(odwin); Hooley calls 24.6.1805 / 23.7.1805 Sadler's Wells, with Hooley / 8.8.1805 Hooley calls / 6.1.1806 again / 19.6.1807 write to Hooley / 20.6.1807 Hooley calls / 21.6.1807 again / 16.7.1807 call on Hooley / 7.8.1807 Hooley sleeps 4 nights in S(kinner) S(treet) / 30.8.1808 Westminster Abbey, by water, with C Hooley / 10.11.1808 Hooley calls / 22.11.1808 theatre with miss Hooley / 21.12.1808 Astley's, Newcastle Street, w. M J, E C, C H & 5 / 28.3.1822 Hooley calls / 14.4.1822 call on Hooley / 20.12.1822 Hooley calls / 23.4.1824 again

In a letter dated 5.9.1805 from Mary Jane Godwin to James Wollstonecraft (Bodleian Abinger c9 f33-4) she wrote "the children all well, miss Hooley still with them". Charlotte dau of Robert & Sarah Hooley was bapt St Marylebone 9.1784 born 2.8.1784. Robert Hooley carpenter of High St Marylebone took an apprentice in 1791. He was insured at 37 East St, Manchester Sq, Sun Fire 1797. He was a witness on 21.11.1801 at the Old Bailey of events in the Bedford Arms, South St, Manchester Sq. He voted for Mainwaring & Byng in the 1802 Middlesex election on a freehold house at Chelsea Hospital, his address was 14 North St Marylebone. He was buried 19.10.1820 at St George in the East, Stepney, of Chapel St. Charlotte Hooley was a schoolmistress at 3 Frederick Street, Marylebone in the 1841 census age 50 and the 1851 census age 66 unmarried, she died 1858 Jan-Mar. It was presumably Charlotte rather than her father who accompanied the Godwins and Luzena Smith to Sadlers Wells in 1805, so Godwin used plain Hooley for both of them, presumably it was the father who came to Primrose St in his role as carpenter, but it could have been either of them who slept 4 nights at Skinner St in 1807. The C H of 21.12.1808 was likely Charlotte Hooley, she had been to theatre with the children a month before. The calls of 1822 and 1824 were probably Charlotte, her father had died, and perhaps she was already running a school.