Braddock, Misses

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21.6.1794 miss Braddock at Fenwick's / 25.3.1795 Fenwicks & miss H Braddock dine / 16.7.1797 mes Fenwick & Braddock adv at Godwin's / 7.8.1797 E Braddock / 26.10.1797 same / 19.11.1797 Braddock / 21.12.1797 E Braddock / 7.1.1798 Braddocks, 8.1.1798 same, 11.1.1798 same, 17.6.1798 same, 9.4.1799 E Braddock, 19.5.1799 same / 3.6.1799 Milton Gallery adv Fenwick's & E B / 7.7.1799 E Braddock, 10.9.1799 E & H Braddock, 22.12.1799 Braddocks / 9.5.1800 E Braddock / 19.4.1804 same / 20.4.1804 same / 2.6.1804 same / 4.6.1804 same / adv Braddock jr 25.8.1807.

Mostly in company of Fenwicks. On 26.4.1760 at St Anne Limehouse George Braddock of that parish married Mary Pierce widow of St George Middlesex there, they baptised three daughters there Elizabeth in 1761, Ann in 1762 and Henrietta in 1764, their father's trade being given as shipwright or mariner and their address as Princes Square. The will of Mary Pierce (PCC 1764) dated 1762 named her daughter-in-law Mary wife of George Braddock and her daughter Elizabeth, and a codicil dated 1764 named Mary Braddock widow and her daughter Ann. In subscriber lists there was a miss Eliza Braddock of Princes Square 1781, a miss Braddock Axminster 1791 and a miss Braddock Exeter 1793. On 29.7.1795 J Tucker wrote a somewhat flirtatious letter to Godwin, from Whitestone (near Exeter) and sent by the hand of Thomas Cooper, in which she mentioned Mrs Cole's and Miss Braddock's conversations on Godwin's reasons for not employing a servant, adding that Miss Braddock "enumerated your virtues with something of enthusiasm" (Ms Abinger c.2 f106-7). There is (according to Lissa Paul, whose book on Eliza Fenwick should soon be published) an unpublished fragment of a letter from Eliza Fenwick to Mary Hays on 30.8.1799 where she said that Miss Braddock had opened a very little shop in Woodstock Street, Oxford Road. On 26.7.1800 Eliza Fenwick wrote a letter from New Park, Axminster (Wedd, The Fate of the Fenwicks letter X); the will of John Harvey Pierce of New Park Axminster Devon (PCC 1818) mentioned his half sister Henrietta Braddock now living at Thomas Gisborne's, tobacconist of Whitechapel. In the 1851 census Edward Pierce age 51 nurseryman born Axminster Devon was living at Hendford Hill, Yeovil with his aunt Henrietta Braddock aged 86 born London. Her death was registered in the last quarter of 1852 at Yeovil. The Braddocks do not seem to have had a brother so the Braddock jr may mean Henrietta

 

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1752 George B watchman of the Chatham Yard