Person record for Holcroft, Louisa (née Mercier)

Holcroft, Louisa (née Mercier)

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This person is mentioned in the diary a total of 369 times, but was not at home (N) 13 times, and was a venue (V) 141 times.

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Name: Holcroft, Louisa (née Mercier)
Gender: Female
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Thomas Holcroft married his fourth wife, Louisa Mercier in 1799. She was the daughter of Louis Sebastien Mercier, author of Tableau de Paris (1781-88). The last entry for 'Ht' - on 19 May 1809 is 'MJ to Hts' and refers to a visit to Louisa, née Mercier (Holcroft died 23 March 1809). Also 31 December 1809 is coded for Louisa and also for Fanny Holcroft, but not for Thomas Holcroft (then deceased). The DNB makes no mention of issue from Hocroft's fourth marriage, but Godwin refers to L Ht and sons in the diary from 1803. Also, the account of Holcroft's death in his Life refers to an incident where Holcroft asks his wife if they are her children making a noise on the stair. The Morning Chronicle for 25 March 1809 reported Holcroft's death and referred to him having left an amiable wife and six children under the age of 9 and two daughters from a previous marriage (repeated in Jackson's Oxford Journal).

Louisa remarried on 5 March 1812. The DNB entry for James Kenney, Louisa's second husband, suggests that she came to the marriage with two daughters, as well as Holcroft's two daughters by a previous marriage. It suggests that she and Kenney had four further children. This is irreconcilable, both with the Morning Chronicle's account, and with Godwin's own listing of L Ht and sons. Godwin's diary has their wedding (L Ht marries) at 27 March 1812, whereas the DNB entry is for 5 March. Godwin also refers to L Kenney and sons on 20 July 1813, which suggests continuity with L Ht.

After the wedding, however, L Ht is used to refer to her daughter, also Louisa. This can be seen from entries where L Kenney appears with L Ht (e.g. 20 Feb 1816).

The diary also refers to Harwood Holcroft,, probably one of those sons, named in gratitude after Col. Harwood who was a close friend to Hocroft as well as being his son-in-law (married to Holcroft's daughter Ann)

MS. Abinger c. 44, fols. 10-11: 22 January 1810
MS. Abinger c. 19, fols. 17b-c: 1810
Morning Chronicle, 25 March 1809
Jackson's Oxford Journal
DNB
Thomas Holcroft, The life of Thomas Holcroft, continued by William Hazlitt, ed. by Elbridge Colby, 2 vols (London: Constable & Co., 1925)

This table lists the people this person is most frequently noted with in the diary.

Name	Number of Meetings
Kenney, James	105
Holcroft, Thomas	85
Godwin, Mary Jane (Clairmont) (née de Vial)	73
Lamb, Charles	16
Lamb, Mary Anne	12
Marshall, James	11
Morton, Thomas	11
Nicholson, William	11
Holcroft, Thomas	11
Godwin, William	10
Imlay, Fanny (Godwin)	9
Foulkes, John	9
Harwood, Colonel William	8
Holcroft, Fanny Margaretta	8
Morton, Edw	7
Morton, John Maddison	7
Turner, Thomas	6
Mercier, Charles André	6
Poole, John	6
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (née Godwin)	6
Curran, John Philpot	6
Clairmont, Clara Mary Jane (Claire)	5
Cooper, Thomas (Abthorpe)	5
Robinson, Henry Crabb	5
Opie, John	5
Alderson, Amelia (Opie)	4
Clairmont, Charles	4
Wolcot, Dr John (pseudonym Peter Pindar)	4
Collier, John Dyer	3
Curran, William Henry	3
Dawe, George	3
Lubé, Denis George	3
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton	3
Rowan, Sarah Jane (née Dawson)	3
Northcote, James	3
Botwright,	3
Collier, John Payne	3
Curran, Amelia	3
Hogan,	3
Taylor, Richard	3
Hill, (Thomas)	3
Holcroft, Louisa	3
Badams, John	3
Stoddart, John	3
Clementi, Muzio	2
Hopwood,	2
Hume, Joseph	2
Dawe, Mary Margaret (Wright)	2
Booth, David	2
Burney, Martin Charles	2
Topping, Mrs	2
Chalmers, Alexander	2
Adams, Dr Joseph	2
Holcroft, Sophia (Cole)	2
Burney, Captain James	2
Barry, James	2
Tobin, James Webbe	2
Montagu, Basil	2
Knapp, Leonora	2
Elwes, Sarah	2
Phillips, Sir Richard (Philip Richards)	2
Godwin, John	2
Reynolds, Richard	2
Pilcher,	2
Buchan, Dr Alexander Peter	2
Lofft, Capel	2
Lofft, Sarah (neé Watson)	2
Cole,	2
Smith,	2
Holcroft, Ann (Harwood)	2
King, John (Jacob Rey)	1
Uwins, David	1
Constable, Archibald	1
Manning, Thomas	1
Ballantyne, John	1
Payne, John Howard	1
Boswell, Sir Alexander (first baronet)	1
Mergez, Georges Nicholas	1
Newton, John Frank	1
White,	1
Hamilton,	1
Pickersgill, Henry William	1
Cunningham, Allan (Hidallan)	1
Ayrton, William	1
Westmacott, Richard	1
Picken, Andrew	1
Miller,	1
Knowles, James Sheridan	1
Carlyle, Thomas	1
Orme, Cosmo	1
Carlyle, John Aitken (Jack)	1
Godwin, Nathaniel	1
Reynolds, Richard	1
Fairley, John	1
Mackintosh, Sir James (of Kyllachy)	1
Hayward, Richard	1
Bannister, John	1
Barry, Major Henry	1
Boaden, James	1
Fell, Ralph	1
Batty, Robert	1
Jones, Louisa	1
Godwin, Hannah	1
Fenwick, Elizabeth (Eliza) (née Jaco, pseudonym Reverend David Blair)	1
Fenwick, John	1
Perry, Anne (née Hull)	1
Perry, James (Pirie)	1
Tobin, John	1
Banks, Thomas	1
Aickin, James	1
Surr, Thomas Skinner	1
Smart,	1
Mercier, Charles	1
Aldis, Lady Mary Frances (née Berridge)	1
Aldis, Charles	1
Wroughton, Richard (Rotten)	1
Hammond, Elton (Hamond)	1
Morgan, John	1
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor	1
Baxter Family,	1
Collier, Jane (Payne)	1
De Boinville, Chastel	1
Boinville, Harriet	1
Hume, Alexia	1
Heywood, Samuel	1
Carlisle, Sir Anthony	1
Wollstonecraft, Everina	1
Davy, Sir Humphry	1
Owen, Robert	1

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