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The following manuscripts and books have been consulted and the writer is indebted to their authors and custodians:

Primary Sources (Manuscript or Microfilm copies of Manuscript)

British Library:

Oriental and India

Journals and Logs of East Indiamen:

1702 – 1834 (L/MAR/B):

Office Collections:

L/MAR/B/531A,

Journal of Cruttenden,

1 Nov 1762 – 29 Sep 1764

L/MAR/B/531B,

Journal of Cruttenden,

14 Nov 1765 – 3 Aug 1767

College of Arms:

Grants 11.114, MS 5D14.223

Corporation of London Records

Alphabets of City of London Freedom

Office:

Admissions

City of London Freedom Admission Papers:

ELJL/308/1, Edward Woolstoncraft

Newgate Prison, ventilators (MSS 54.8)

Dorset Archives Service:

Baptismal Register of Abbey Church of St Mary,

Sherborne (MIC/R/672, PE/SH:RE 2/1)

Britannia, daughter of Edward and

Eliza Turner, 12^th June 1815

Guildhall Library,

Corporation of London:

Bonds and Allegations, London Marriage

Licences:

Ms10091/106A1078, Edward Bland

Wollstonecraft to Lydia Cooke,

3^rd November 1761

Baptismal Register of St Botolph, Bishopsgate:

Ms 4516/2, Charles, son of Edward

and Jane Woolstonecraft,

22^nd August 1715

Ms 4517/1, Edward Bland, son of

Charles and Britannia Wollstonecraft,

 29^th March 1736

Ms 4517/2, Mary, daughter of Edward

John and Elizabeth Wollstonecraft,

20^th May 1759

Burial Register of St Botolph, Bishopsgate:

Ms 4517/1, Jane Wolstoncraft,

 24^th January 1732

Mary Wollstonecraft,

 8^th February 1746/47

Ms 4517/2,

Edward Wollstonecraft,

5^th February 1765

Baptismal Register of St Katherine by the Tower

(Ms 9668):

Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and

Elizabeth Wollstonecraft,

 11^th November 1781

Edward, son of Edward and Elizabeth

Wollstonecraft, 23^rd November 1783

Marriage Register of St Katherine by the Tower

(Ms 9665):

Edward Wollstonecraft to Mary

Cranwell, 15^th January 1732/33

Marriage Register of St Mildred, Bread Street

(Ms 3466):

Edward Bland Wollstonecraft to

Lydia Cooke, 3^rd November 1761

Baptismal Register of St Nicholas, Cole Abbey:

Lydia, daughter of Edward Bland and

Lydia Wollstonecraft,

 11^th October 1762

Britannia, daughter of Edward Bland

and Lydia Wollstonecraft,

14^th August 1765

Records of the Worshipful Company of

Weavers:

Apprenticeships, Turnings Over and

Freedoms:

MS 4656/5 to MS 4656/7

MS 4657A/5

MS 4657/5

Hampshire Record Office:

Bonds and Allegations, Bishop of Winchester,

1783:

21M65/E14/1783, Joseph Turner to

Lydia Wollstonecraft

London Metropolitan Archives:

Bishop’s Transcript of Burials in St Martin in

the Fields Burying Ground (XO 100/478)

Index to Process Register of Indictments for the

Middlesex Sessions of the Peace (XO 71/006)

Marriage Register of St George, Camberwell

(XO 89/040):

Thomas Godfrey Turner to Hephzibah

 Amelia Drummond, 17^th June 1844

Office of National Statistics:

General Register Office: Certificates of

Registration:

September 1840, Strand I 389,

Marriage of Richard Mason to

Lydia Turner

Public Record Office:

Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office:

Pleadings before 1714, Bridges (C 5):

C 5/521/31, Marin v Woolstonecraft

Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office:

Pleadings 1758 to 1800 (C 12):

 C 12/2242/33, Ruttson v

Woolstonecroft

Court of Chancery: Examiners’ Office:

Town Depositions (C 24):

C 24/1616, Wilcox v Hills

Chancery: Entry Books of Decrees and Orders

 (C 33):

C 33/258,

Marin v

pp 385,

Woolstonecraft

421, 602,

C 33/260, p 16

C 33/384, pp 11, 70,

Ruttson v Woolstonecroft

Court of Common Pleas: Articles of Clerkship

and Affidavits of Execution (CP 5):

CP 5/85, Item 15 and CP 5/110,

Item 95

Census Returns (HO 107):

1851 Census: HO 107/1500, f 86

Court of King’s Bench: Plea Side: Affidavits of

Due Execution of Articles of Clerkship, Series

1(KB 105):

KB 105/4/6958

Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Related

Probate Jurisdictions: Administration Act Books

(PROB 6):

PROB 6/183, Administration of Estate

of Edward Wollstonecraft

Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Related

Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers (PROB 11):

PROB 11/753, Quire 58,

Will of Mary Wollstonecraft

PROB 11/906, Quire 271,

Will of Edward Wollstonecraft

PROB 11/1265, Quire 95,

Will of Edward Bland Wollstonecraft

PROB 11/1395, Quire 261,

Will of Edward John Wollstonecraft

PROB 11/1468, Quire 34,

Will of James Wollstonecraft

PROB 11/1773, Quire 121,

Will of Britannia Wollstonecraft

PROB 11/2129, Quire 383

Will of Edward Holdsworth Turner

General Register Office: Registers of

Clandestine Marriages and of Baptisms in the

Fleet Prison,King’s Bench Prison, the Mint and

the May Fair Chapel (RG 7):

RG 7/258, f 59,

Marriage of Edward Wollstonecraft to

Mary Bird

Treasury: Entry Books of Warrants relating to

the Payment of Money (T 53):

T 53/40, p 290

City of Westminster Archives

Baptismal Register of St Mary, Marylebone

Centre:

(LMA 89/MRY1/1009):

Edward Holdsworth, son of Joseph

and Lydia Turner, 4^th January 1789

Programmes and Playbills for the Theatre Royal,

Drury Lane

Printed Sources in Specific Locations

The British Library:

Humanities:

Heitman, Francis B,

Historical Register and Dictionary of the

United States Army

(Washington DC, Govt. Printing Office, 1903)

Oriental and India

Farrington, Anthony,

Office Collections:

A Biographical Index of East India Company

Maritime Service Officers 1600 – 1834

(London, British Library, 1999)

Farrington, Anthony,

Catalogue of East India Company Ships’

Journals and Logs, 1600 - 1834

(London, British Library, 1999)

Hardy, Horatio Charles,

Register of Ships of the East India Company,

1760 - 1812

(London, Black, Parry and Kingsbury, 1811)

Family Tree Magazine:

Vol XVI, No 3:

Giles, Keith, The Dancing Master

Vol XVI, Nos. 5 & 6:

Herber, Mark, Clandestine Marriages in the

Chapel and Rules of the Fleet Prison

1680 - 1754

Guildhall Library,

Gentleman’s Magazine, August 1795, P 706

Corporation of London:

Burn, John Southerden, The Fleet Registers,

Comprising the History of Fleet Marriages,

2^nd edition (London, Rivington, 1834)

Old Bailey Sessions Papers, 1740, Number VIII,

Part II, Pages 277, 278

London Metropolitan Archives:

Morris, Corbyn, Observations on the past

growth and present state of the City of

L ondon (London, 1751)

Littledale, Willoughby A, Transcription of

Registers for Christchurch, Newgate Street

(The Harleian Society, 1895)

Society of Genealogists:

Australian Dictionary of Biography,

entry written by M D Stephen

(Australian National University of Canberra)

Boyd’s Marriage Index

Burke, Sir Bernard, General Armory of

England,Scotland, Ireland and Wales (1884)

The Bernau Index

Genealogists’ Magazine, Vol 26 No 12,

December 2000

Wareing, John, Some willing and unwilling

emigrants to Virginia in 1657

The Great Card Index

Moens, William J C FSA (Extracted by)

Hampshire Marriage Licences granted by the

Registry of the Bishop of Winchester, 1689 to

1837 (London, Harleian Society, Vol 35, 1893)

Using the Library at the Society of

Genealogists (Society of Genealogists, 1999)

City of Westminster Archives

Alexander, Jean, Transcript of Burials at St

Centre:

Martin in the Fields Burying Ground, Camden,

Town 1806 – 1856 (1985)

Indices to 1851 Census

Printed Sources, General:

Bell, Walter George, The Great Fire of London

in 1666 (London, Bodley Head, 1951)

Bevan, Amanda, Tracing Your Ancestors in the

Public Record Office

(The Public Record Office, 1999)

Borer, Mary Cathcart,

An Illustrated Guide to London

(London, Hale, 1988)

The Story of Covent Garden

(London, Hale, 1984)

Botting, Douglas, and the Editors of Time-Life

Books, The Seafarers, The Pirates

(Alexandria, Va, Time-Life Books, 1978)

Cheney, Sheldon, The Theatre, Three Thousand

Years of Drama, Acting and Stagecraft

(London, Vision Press Ltd, 1952)

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,

Pedigree Resource File No 6,

International Genealogical Index, 1992

City of London, Bills of Mortality, 1665

(London, 1759)

Coldham, Peter Wilson, English Convicts in

Colonial America, Volume I, Middlesex

1617 – 1775

Consitt, Frances, The London Weavers’

Company (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1933)

Dasent, Arthur Irwin, Nell Gwynne, 1650 -

1687 (London, Macmillan and Co, 1924)

Evelyn, John, FRS, Diary

(London, George Routledge and Sons, 1906)

Gilmour, Ian, Riot, Risings and Revolution

(London, Hutchinson 1992)

Graunt, John, Natural and Political

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and made upon the Bills of Mortality

(London, 1662)

Green, John Richard,

A Short History of the English People,

pp 218, 381-406

(Macmillan and Co, 1888)

Hanks, Patrick and Hodges, Flavia,

A Dictionary of Surnames

(Oxford University Press, 1988)

Harvey, Richard, A Guide to the Genealogical

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Hogg, Peter L, Using Merchant Ship Records

for Family Historians

Hope, Valerie, The Worshipful Company of

Weavers of the City of London (1994)

Johnson, Captain Charles, A General History of

the Robberies and Murders of the Most

Notorious Pyrates, Volume I

(London, Rivington, 1724)

Lavery, Brian, Nelson’s Navy, The Ships, Men

and Organisation, 1793 - 1815

(London, Conway Maritime, 1990)

MacLean, Alistair, Captain Cook

(London, Collins, 1972)

Maddocks, Sydney, Spitalfields, from the

Co-partnership Herald (1932)

Marshall, Dorothy, Dr Johnson’s London

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Masters, Brian, The Mistresses of Charles II

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Pepys, Samuel, Diary - 1659 - 1669

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Plummer, Alfred,

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Sutton, Jean, Lords of the East,

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Titford, John,

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