AMENDMENTS TO OXFORD DNB:
JOHN FLAXMAN (1755-1826)
CURRENT TEXT "his marriage in 1782 to Ann Denman"
SUGGESTED CHANGE <his marriage at St Anne's Soho on 6th June 1781 to Ann Denman>
January 2015 the DNB has adopted my suggested change but not credited me in the references
RICHARD DAGLEY (d.1841)
CURRENT TEXT "Dagley, Richard (d.1841), genre painter and engraver, was an orphan and was educated at"
SUGGESTED CHANGE <Dagley, Richard(1761-1841), genre painter and engraver, was born on 30 December 1761 and baptised on 29 January 1762 at St Margaret's, Westminster, son of Samuel Dagley, citizen of London in the Curriers' Company, and his wife Ann. His father was buried at St Andrew Holborn on 12 February 1762, and his mother married Roger Peck in 1765. On 8 March 1770 he was admitted to>
EDWARD WILLIAMS 1781-1855
CURRENT TEXT "his wife, Mary Ward (b. c.1764)"
SUGGESTED CHANGE <his wife, Mary Ward (c.1764-1832)>
NOTES she was buried Mary Sandbach at St James Piccadilly on 14.9.1832 her will PCC 1833. See her brother James Ward above for her baptism
JAMES WARD 1769-1859
CURRENT TEXT "the middle of five children"
SUGGESTED CHANGE <the fourth of five children>
NOTES the five children were each baptised at a different church: William at St John Zachary 26.9.1762, Mary at St Michael Paternoster 17.2.1764, Ann at St James Garlickhithe 12.4.1767, James at Allhallows the Great 12.11.1769, Sarah at St Martin Vintry 7.11.1773
see Newman Street 1 to 9 in London Addresses dataset
Warde 6 Newman Street Land Tax 1799 / Farington diary p 1249 mentioned that Ward had taken Villeneuve's house in Newman St
WILLIAM WARD 1766-1826
CURRENT TEXT "he married the artist Maria Morland,"
SUGGESTED CHANGE <he married the artist Maria Morland (1764-1832),>
NOTES Maria Ward of Winchester Row St Marylebone age 54 buried 5.3.1832 at Paddington Green St Mary. Her son Martin Theodore Ward exhibited from Winchester Row in the 1820s (Graves, RA,& British Institution). The age given is 14 years too young, but it stll seems a very likely identification.
CURRENT TEXT "Martin Theodore Ward (c.1799-1874), painter, was William Ward's eldest son."
ROBERT POLLARD 1755/6-1839
SUGGESTED ADDITION <In 1794 he was suspected of membership of Republican societies by Alexander Cumming of Pentonville, watchmaker and informant of Alexander Brodie, MP.>
NOTES Nat Arch HO42/29/210
SUGGESTED ADDITION <Three of his unmarried daughters were described as needleworkers in Islington in the 1841 census, but by 1851 as annuitants.>
GEORGE KEATING 1762-1842
CURRENT TEXT "Alicia (1782/3-1816),"
SUGGESTED CHANGE <Alicia nee Emsworth (1782/3-1816) whom he had married at St George Hanover Square on 12 September 1803, and>
FRANCIS JUKES 1745-1812
CURRENT TEXT "Ryland that January."
SUGGESTED CHANGE <Ryland that January. (In the Society of Artists catalogue the exhibitor was listed as J Jukes. The prints were after Chatelin (DNB 1710-1759), and a James Jukes had married Frances Chatelain at St Anne Soho on 31 May 1778.)>
CURRENT TEXT "He died in 1812, probably in March."
CHRISTIAN JOSI 1768-1828
CURRENT TEXT "marrying in 1795 Carolina Susanna"
SUGGESTED CHANGE <marrying on 13 February 1796 at St George Hanover Square Carolina Susanna (1773-1828)>
NOTES St Pancras burial 23.9.1828 Carolina Susa Josi age 55
JAMES HOPWOOD 1745x1754-1819
CURRENT TEXT "Hopwood died in London on 29 August 1819 and was survived by his sons James Hopwood the younger (b.c.1795) and William Hopwood (1784-1853), both of whom were born in Beverley and followed"