A-Z of Entries

John Wright of Milk Street proposed Society for Constitutional Information 27.4.1792 by Michael Pearson 2nded John Horne Tooke (elected but deceased)

John Wright born 12.2.1762 died 12.5.1792 buried 15.5.1792 St Lawrence Jewry. Lowndes directory 1787 John Wright wholesale hosier Milk St, 1788-191 William & Samuel Wright wholesale hosiers 20 Milk St, Kent's directory 1791 John Wright warehouseman 22 Milk St. His father Thomas Wright along with William Wright, manufacturers of hose, Derby, Bailey's 1784. According to an Ancestry user-submitted tree his father was Thomas Wright…

Rev Wright of Ipswich proposed Society for Constitutional Information 27.4.1787 by Thomas Brand Hollis 2nded John Baynes

Rev John Wright, Ipswich subscribed 1796 to Habakkuk Crabb (DNB 1750-1794). Not found in Surman Index or Oakes Diaries, no newspaper mentions found. John Wright = Sudbury, Suffolk 22.11.1763 Mary Key. Her will dated 31.12.1784 Mary wife of Rev John Wright of Ipswich mentioned indenture of 14.3.1770 father John Key, cousin John Eaton eldest son of late cousin Elizabeth Eaton who was dau of aunt Mary Snell, cousin Thomas Smith son of Daniel & Susan Smaith…

see Poland Street 1 to 9 & 49 to 62 in London Addresses dataset

6 Poland St ratebooks 1780-9 Mrs Wright (poor). The note poor may imply she was let off paying the rates. This does not necessarily mean she was living in greater poverty than some of her neighbouring householders.  Others marked as poor in the ratebooks were Joseph Bennett at 20 Poland St and John Heslop at 25 Poland St. The name Wright was very common but two burials around the time her tenancy ended were Elizabeth Wright adult bur St Martin in the Fields 21.3.1789, Sarah Wright adult bur 3.9.1789 St James

see Poland Street 19 to 44 in London Addresses dataset

William Wright 23 Poland St (Kings Arms) ratebooks 1785-6 / a very common name, three William Wright  victuallers voted 1784 Westminster, Shug Lane St James voted Hood & Wray, Haymarket voted Fox (and SunFire 1779 there), Oxendon St, St Martin i t Fields voted Fox, also in 1780 wine merchant Tothill St voted Fox, in 1790 victualler Peter St, St Margaret & St John voted Fox, in 1818 Audley St St Geo Han Sq voted Burdett & Kinnaird. In SunFire 1777 victualler Billericay, Essex, 1777 wine merchant Barnaby St, 1777…

30.11.1793 sup at, Wrights (with 13 others) / 17.12.1794 evening at Merry's, Wrights

no Wright appears in the diary till 1796, and such a large company with several well known actors/singers (Hewardine, Pope, Dignum, Johnstone) suggests a public venue, as does the plural form without apostrophe. There was a Wright's coffee house in York Street Covent Garden in the 1760s frequented by actors, and a Wright's coffee house in Soho Square from 1796 (Law List), a Francis Johnson Wright brandy merchant of the Strand (who voted Tooke 1790) and a David Wright brandy merchant Bridges St…

HCR diary 14.11.1827 dined "at Aders - Dr Wurm and Dr Hensler were there and also Mr & Mrs Masquerier" "Dr Wurm an anti-Goethe-ist to a degree that tried Aders and my good nature"

Marquardt II p 113 n 318 Christian Friedrich Wurm 1803-1859 and see de.wikipedia. He was in England between 1825 and 1827

George Wyatt of Eastwood, nr Rochford, Essex proposed Society for Constitutional Information 23.11.1792 by John Towill Rutt 2nded John Horne Tooke

According to an Ancestry user-submitted tree George Wyatt was born at Beckney, Essex 17.9.1757 and married Mary Bell in 1779

30.12.1795 Wybournes at Newton's / 14.1.1796 Wybourne adv at Newton's

William Winnall of Stourbridge attorney 1764 took appr John Wybaurn 5yrs premium £50 / James W attorney 1787-93 Craigs Court / John Wybourn attorney 1, Craig's Court, Charing X 1794 / voted Hood 1790 Fox 1796 / freemason (& Thos W)1799 / mrs W wife of solicitor Craigs Court died 25.2.1811 / Miss S Wybourn of Craigs Court = C Adams Esq of East India House 16.2.1815 St Martins / Leeds Mercury 16.9.1815 Mr Wybourn 5gns to support Daniel Lovel, Liberty of the Press / 5.12.1819 Mr W of Craigs Court solicitor died…

L Wycombe 20.3.1794 talked of at J Hollis' / 9.1.1802 L Wycombe at Curran's / 13.1.1802 dine at Wycombe's (with Curran &c) / 20.1.1802 call on Wycombe (not in)

Lord Wycombe was John Henry Petty 1765-1809 Hist of Parl, eldest son of Lord Shelburne and MP for Chipping Wycombe 1786-1802, succeeded his father 1805

see Poland Street 10 to 18 & 45 to 48 in London Addresses dataset

Francis Wylde 15 Poland St ratebooks 1780-1782 / 1779 Francis Wylde mantua maker St James took appr Dorothy Ingry / SunFire 1780 Francis Wilde gent Poland St / Francis Wild gent Poland St voted Fox 1784 / will PCC 1792 Francis Wild of Bishopsgate, Surrey

20.10.1810 mrs Wyman calls / 22.10.1810 Wyman calls / 5.11.1810 mrs Wyman calls / 11.12.1810 again / 1.1.1811 again / 15.1.1811 call on Wyman (not seen) / 4.3.1811 Wyman calls / 5.3.1811 mrs Wyman calls

These entries can be read as Godwin wavering between using mrs or not for one female, or as alternating between a male and a female Wyman, in this case perhaps a widow and her stepson (see below)..

Only London entry for Wyman in Holdens directory 1811 Francis Wyman calenderer 71 Queen-st Cheapside. (A calenderer smoothed paper or cloth by pressing it through rollers).

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dine at Hatton, with Wynns 15.6.1797 / 9.11.1805 dine at Holland's with Wynne & Allen

Samuel Parr had vanished from Hatton to give space to his newly Gretna Green married daughter Sarah and his son-in-law John Wynne. Wynne's younger brother Julius was 15 years old at the time. See Godwin's letter Abinger c40 f182-3. The 1797 entry should also be coded to Sarah Parr's person record on GD website

11.12.1810 theatre, w. M(ary) J(ane), Isabella & X.Y.Z.

X.Y.Z. was a new farce thought to be the production of Colman (Morning Chronicle 12.12.1810). Isabella (or the Fatal Marriage) was a play by Thomas Southerne DNB 1660-1746 adapted from a novel by Aphra Behn. On the GD website there is a play record for it tagged to 13.2.1796 but not to most of the other dates on the record.

Yarley calls 20.5.1798

A one-off call but a rare name, though it could have been a spelling of Yardley. See work notes below

Yarnolds 13.2.1805 at R Taylor

I found no connection between Richard Taylor DNB 1781-1858 printer and any Yarnolds, which was a name from Worcestershire and the Welsh borders while Taylor's family was from Norwich, and no Yarnolds in British Book Trades Index. Some London Yarnolds in work notes below

Yates 4.9.1798 at Joseph Johnson's / 4.9.1808 at Bonnycastle's / 29.12.1808 Hilton, Hommey & misses Bonnycastle & Yeates call / 27.4.1813 Yates adv at theatre / 2.8.1816 mrs Yates at Hume's / 21.4.1830 Yates (at Cooke's?) / 8.3.1834 mrs Yates at Gaskel's / 11.4.1835 again

John Yates DNB 1755-1826 married Elizabeth Bostock (nee Ashton) 1749-1819, their son Joseph Brookes Yates DNB 1780-1855. Unitarian family based in Liverpool / Rev Richard Yates DNB 1769-1834 or his brother Rev William Yates 1774-1830 schoolmaster of Shacklewell. I'm not inclined to think any of these were…

P(hebe) G(odwin) & miss Yates at tea 15.7.1803 / 6.5.1804 Forsyth, Yates & P G dine / 5.8.1804 Yates's & miss Clarke dine; adv Jo(seph) G(odwin) / 9.8.1804 meet H(annah) G(odwin) & Yates / 15.4.1805 P G & Yates dine / 12.11.1805 miss Yates & P G dine / 17.12.1805 call on Jo G; adv miss Clarke

The GD website has coded the Yates entries above to a person record but it is blank and states No appearances in diary found. Probably one of Hannah Godwin's millinery assistants, see my entry for Godwin, Hannah

Holdens 1811 Eliz. Yates dressmaker 38 King-st…

call on Yearsley (not in) 12.3.1798 (in Bristol)

Ann Yearsley DNB 1753-1806

Thomas Yeates of the Strand proposed Society for Constitutional Information 21.12.1781 by John Jebb 2nded Richard Brocklesby

Thomas Yeates hatter & hosier Villars St Strand 1774, 30 Strand 1779-1785, York House, Strand 1785-1791 (?will PCC 1816, 1837?)

Thomas Yeates (DNB 1768-1839) was according to DNB appointed secretary to the SCI in 1782 and removed from post in February 1784 after failing to manage the Society's finances. According to the SCI books he resigned as secretary on 28.11.1783 and was made an honorary member, then on 6.2.1784 he was rude to Richard…

17.12.1810 T(homas) T(urner) sups. (adv. Sir James Yeo)

James Lucas Yeo DNB 1782-1818 naval officer (knighted 21.6.1810, set sail again Feb 1811). What Godwin meant by an adv in brackets after a full stop at the end of a day's entry is anybody's guess. Maybe Sir James came up in conversation, paraded past the window or knocked on the wrong door by accident?