Contents
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Illustrations

Charts and Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Initial Stages

2 The Wollstonecraft Connection

3 Records at the Guildhall Library

4 Edward John's Family

5 Edward's Will

6 Edward Bland, Merchant Adventurer

7 Links with the Rutson Family

8 Poor Britannia!

9 Edward Wollstonecraft, Weaver and Citizen of London

10 Marin v Wollstonecraft

11 Entertained in the House of Nell Gwynn

12 The Chancellor's Decree and Order

13 Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Home

Details

Synopsis

Comments

             

             

            List of Figures

             

             

            1

             

            Details from marriage certificate of Richard Mason and Lydia Turner

            7

            2

             

            Extracts from the International Genealogical Index relating to family

             

            of Joseph and Lydia Turner

            10

            3

             

            Copy of Great Card Index slip showing burials in Camden Town

             

            Cemetery of Turner family members

            12

            4

             

            Details from 1851 Census for family of Richard and Lydia Mason

            15

            5

             

            Extracts from the International Genealogical Index relating to family

             

            of Thomas Godfrey and Hepzibeth Turner

             20

            6

             

            Descendants of Edward Holdsworth Turner

            20

            7

             

            Note of entry in Boyd’s Marriage Index relating to marriage of

             

             

             

            Joseph Turner to Lydia Wollstonecraft

            22

            8

             

            Extracts from the International Genealogical Index relating to family

             

            of Charles and Britannia Wollstonecraft

            22

            9

             

            Descendants of Edward Bland Wollstonecraft

            27

            10

             

            Descendants of Charles Wollstonecraft

            32

            11

             

            Descendants of Edward Wollstonecraft

            36

            12

             

            The Wollstonecraft Family Crest

            37

            13

             

            Descendants of Edward John Wollstonecraft

            37

            14

             

            Officers and seamen amongst the crew of the Cruttenden, 1763

            63

            15

             

            Officers and seamen amongst the crew of the Cruttenden, 1765

            67

            16

             

            Descendants of Rutson

            79

            17

             

            Details of apprenticeship for William Cranwell

            80

            18

             

            Details of apprenticeship for Edward Woodstock Rutson

            80

            19

             

            Details of apprenticeship for Joseph Newsom

            80

            20

             

            Britannia Wollstonecraft’s note begging for pardon

            84

            21

             

            Numbers of people tried at the Old Bailey before Sir John Salter

             

             

             

            to 18th October 1740

            85

            22

             

            Copy of names given in Treasury Money Book of ninety-nine felons

             

             

             

            shipped aboard the Harpooner on 1st January 1740/41 bound

             

             

             

            for Rappahannock, Virginia

            89

            23

             

            Prisoners recorded in burial register for Christchurch, Newgate

             

             

             

            Street, and amongst those transported

            90

            24

             

            Chart comparing numbers of burials of prisoners with non-prisoners

             

             

             

            in Christchurch, Newgate, 1740

            90

            25

             

            Chart comparing burials in Christchurch, Newgate Street, and St

             

             

             

            Botolph Bishopsgate, 1735 to 1744

            91

            26

             

            Chart showing total burials in London, 1735 to 1750

            92

            27

             

            Chart showing percentage of deaths from fever in London, 1735 to

             

            1750

            92

            28

             

            Chart showing numbers of burials, 9 weeks ended 10th October 1665

            98

            29

             

            Total burials for areas of London in the year 1665

            98

            30

             

            Details of apprenticeship for Edward John Wollstonecraft

            104

            31

             

            Details of apprenticeship for Walter Read

            104

            32

             

            Details of apprenticeship for John Wilson

            104

            33

             

            Details of apprenticeship for Thomas Dowell

            104

            34

             

            Details of apprenticeship for Edward Woolstonecraft

            105

            35

             

            Copy of list submitted with Answer showing money due from

             

             

             

            Abraham Marin to Richard and Anne Webster

            124

            36

             

            Chart comparing ages and numbers of those who died

             

            in London, 1740

            131

                   

            37

             

            Extract from General Bill of Mortality showing ages and numbers of

             

             

             

            those who died in London, 1740

            131