places

There are 11 geographical categories:

  • Australia
  • Devon (England)
  • France
  • Ireland
  • Kent (England)
  • Liverpool (England)
  • London (England)
  • Newcastle-upon-Tyne (England)
  • New York (USA)
  • Poughkeepsie (USA)
  • Virginia (USA).

The list below shows the pages and posts in each of these categories.

Australia

  • French household: members (The household after William’s death: 8 and 9) family and household
  • George Smith retires family and household
  • George Smith’s coachcrash family and household
  • William’s obituaries with notices of other deaths: 2 (Significant others: George Smith) obituaries and wills
  • William’s wills obituaries and wills

Devon (England)

  • 1804: Buffaloes, Toxophylites and Volunteers
  • 1811: A noble lord absconds
  • Beckford’s letters to Charlotte Courtenay, scandals and reputation
  • note| Balls and fêtes leisure and luxury
  • Powderham: homes and estates
  • Powderham 1755-1800: homes and estates
  • Powderham 1800-1835: homes and estates
  • Powderham 1835-1855: homes and estates
  • William and the Churches patronage and peerage
  • William’s obituaries with notices of other deaths: 1 and 2 obituaries and wills
  • William’s wills obituaries and wills

France

  • ‘Marie Courtenay’ and the new Afterword family and household
  • French household: members family and household
  • French household: records family and household
  • Migrations scandals and reputation
  • William’s obituaries with notices of other deaths: 1 obituaries and wills
  • William’s wills obituaries and wills

Ireland

  • Migrations (1811 January 17 Morning Post; 1818 February 28 Niles’ Weekly Register) scandals and reputation
  • William and the Churches patronage and peerage
  • William’s obituaries with notices of other deaths: 1 and 2 obituaries and wills
  • William’s wills obituaries and wills

Kent (England)

  • 1783: Isabella Courtenay and her niece
  • Lady Honywood’s Memorial family and household
  • William’s obituaries with notices of other deaths: 1 (Brothers-in-law: sir John Honywood) obituaries and wills

Liverpool (England)

  • Migrations (1811 February 25 Morning Chronicle; 1811 June 6 Exeter Flying Post) scandals and reputation

London (England)

  • 1782: Charlotte and the calash bonnet
  • 1783: Isabella Courtenay and her niece
  • Captain Gawler’s dismission family and household
  • Migrations (1811 March 13 Bury and Norwich Post; 1811 June 17 The Globe) scandals and reputation
  • note| Balls and fêtes leisure and luxury

Newcastle-upon-Tyne (England)

  • 1783: Isabella Courtenay and her niece

New York (USA)

  • 1814: A house on the Hudson
  • Claremont homes and estates
  • Migrations 1811-1821 scandals and reputation

Poughkeepsie (USA)

  • Claremont homes and estates
  • Migrations (1814 March 19 letter from William; 1818 September 10 New York Evening Post) scandals and reputation

Virginia (USA)

  • Migrations (1811 April 27, The Globe; 1813 June) scandals and reputation

Images

“Albion rose from where he labourd at the Mill with Slaves / Giving himself for the Nations he danc’d the dance of Eternal Death”.

William Blake: London, 1794. Songs of experience, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/william-blake-39/blakes-songs-innocence-experience.

  • Thomas Bewick: traveller drinking from his hat, tail-piece 1797. Grata sume, the inscription on the rock, means take welcome. There is a tradition that the figure is Bewick himself. Wikimedia Commons.

Page history

  • 2023 March 27: first published online.