HCR diary 17.2.1822 "dined late at Sievekings. The Aders, Jenkins and Benickes there - a very agreeable evening"
7.11.1836 at Benecke's re: Mr Aders "I found that A: had obtained from Souchay a promise of £100 but he had represented to S: that he wanted £2000!!!"
9.11.1836 at Aders "I mentioned that Mrs W Benecke had told me the other evening that Matilda Becher obtained from her (Ch. Souchay made the advance) £200 for Mrs Leigh" (see Becher QV*)
22.2.1838 Benecke "I requested Mr B to send direction to Mrs B to pay Gotzenberger back his money and take the drawings he has now completed and I will write to both"
17.4.1838 "called next on Benecke and from him learned that Mr Ch. Souchay is alarmingly ill so that Char S is gone to Frankfurt. I am to send to Mr B: by Mrs W Ben: who goes off soon"
23.12.1838 "dined with the Benecke's at Denmark Hill for the first time with them .... I .... found the Souchays from Manchester there"
2.12.1839 "Camberwell friends" "Mrs W Benecke and I lunched with the Baldwins and Miss Lawrence"
4.9.1840 "on to Aders whom I took leave of as well as Benecke"
29.7.1841 "letters, one from Mrs Aders inclosing 4 tickets £5 each for a raffle of her paintings. I sent two to W. Benecke with an apologetic letter"
30.7.1841 "letters - one to Benecke inclosing one of Mrs Aders tickets for a raffle of her tickets £5"
4.8.1841 re: Benecke "By the bye I succeeded in getting him to take two tickets of Mrs Aders raffle"
10.8.1841 re: Benecke "I got £10 from him for 2 tickets 10 & 12 of Mrs Aders"
8.3.1844 "Wrote a letter to Souchay to go to him with Mrs Aders' picture which I am to forward through Benecke on Monday. This I ought to have done before"
9.3.1844 "at Benecke's about the picture for Mrs Souchay which he will forward"
Levin Anton Wilhelm Benecke (1776-1837) born Hannover, merchant in Hamburg fled to England 1813 with his son Friedrich Wilhelm (1802-1865), became partner with Dr Heyne in a chemical factory in Deptford. Heyne went to India as a missionary and Benecke ran the factory with the help of his brother Friedrich Benecke (1774-1841) a chemist. (Marquardt II p82 n236 / p83 n239). His first wife was Dorothea Henrietta Maria Paxmann, they had four children. By 1814 he was married to his second wife, Louise (nee Falcke) (1782-1876) daughter of the Burgermeister of Hannover (Marquardt II p84 n240). Benecke's son Friedrich Wilhelm married Henriette Elizabeth Souchay (1807-1893) in October 1826 (Marquardt II p103 n293). They were the W Benecke and Mrs W Benecke in HCR diary above. Levin Benecke's daughter Carolina Mathilde (born 1801) married on 11.4.1832 at Heidelberg the painter Johann Heinrich Carl Koopmann (1797-1894) (Marquardt II p335). Levin Benecke's son Victor (born 1809) married Emmeline Schunk (Marquardt II p369 n221). Alfred Benecke, who was baptised 4.5.1818 at Deptford, son of Friedrich Benecke the chemist and his wife Wilhelmina Elizabeth, married in 1850 Adelhard or Adelaide Souchay, daughter of Charles Souchay who was the brother of Mrs W Benecke. For the even more complex intermarriages of the Schunks and Souchays see their entries in this dataset.