William Godwin's Diary

Holcroft, Louisa

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This person is mentioned in the diary a total of 25 times, but was not at home (N) 1 time, and was a venue (V) 2 times.

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1813

30  July  1813 30  November  1813

1816

20  February  1816 23  June  1816 30  July  1816 11  August  1816

1818

24  July  1818

1824

3  August  1824 11  August  1824

1828

16  June  1828

1829

1  January  1829

1830

10  March  1830 16  August  1830 2  September  1830 (NV) 14  October  1830 14  October  1830 (V)

1831

25  March  1831 11  August  1831 15  August  1831

1832

4  September  1832

1834

4  April  1834 8  April  1834 10  May  1834 19  December  1834

1835

1  July  1835

  • Name: Holcroft, Louisa
  • Gender: Female
  • Birth Date: 24  June  1801
  • Death Date:

Daughter of Thomas Holcroft and Louisa Mercier, baptised with her three brothers and sister shortly before Holcroft's death in March 1809. Married John Badams at St Pancras on 30 December 1828 (Carlyle Letters). According to Thomas Carlyle, Badams was an alcoholic and the marriage was not a happy one. Badams died in 1833. Badams knew the Carlyle's wel. In a postscript to one of Carlyle's letters to Margaret A. Carlyle on 1 May 1835, Jane Carlyle wrote: 'Carlyle has not told you a piece of news we heard yesterday, so curious as to be worth recording—Mrs Badams who a year and half ago made such outrageous weeping and wailing over the death of her Husband is on the eve of a second marriage (has been engaged for months back) to a French-man who is—her own half-nephew!!! the son of a Sister who was daughter of the same Father by a former wife! such things it seems are tolerated in France—to us here it seems rather shocking— Such is the upshot of all poor Badams's labours and anxieties and sacrifices of soul and body in amassing money! Himself lies killed with Brandy and vexation in a London churchyard and the wreck of his wealth goes to supply the extravagancies of a rabble of mongrel French who have neither common sense nor common decency.'

Indeed, it seems that Louisa did marry Barham Cole Mergez (her father's grandson!) - but the marriage seems to have taken place at Whippingham, Hants on 15 October 1835. The last entry referring to her in Godwin's diary is to 'L Baddams calls (Mergez)'.

  • MS. Abinger c. 77, fols. 29-32: 6 January 1825
  • The Carlyle Letters Online, http://carlyleletters.dukejournals.org

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

Name Number of Meetings
Kenney, James 5
Badams, John 4
Holcroft, Louisa (née Mercier) 3
Morton, Thomas 3
Morton, Edw 2
Holcroft, Thomas 2
Holcroft, Fanny Margaretta 2
Morton, John Maddison 2
Hill, (Thomas) 1
Godwin, William 1
Carlyle, Thomas 1
Carlyle, John Aitken (Jack) 1
Godwin, Mary Jane (Clairmont) (née de Vial) 1
Hofland, Thomas Christopher 1
Wordsworth, William 1
Carlisle, Sir Anthony 1
Lamb, Charles 1
Marshall, James 1
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (née Godwin) 1
Lamb, Mary Anne 1
Lobrot, Marie Ann 1

Holcroft, Thomas

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This person is mentioned in the diary a total of 155 times, but was not at home (N) 4 times, and was a venue (V) 1 time.

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1803

14  April  1803

1813

4  January  1813 21  July  1813

1818

26  August  1818 4  September  1818 9  September  1818 24  September  1818 25  September  1818 11  October  1818 19  October  1818 22  November  1818

1819

8  January  1819 15  January  1819 19  January  1819 28  January  1819 31  January  1819 8  February  1819 23  February  1819 3  March  1819 14  March  1819 16  March  1819 18  March  1819 26  March  1819 12  April  1819 13  April  1819 16  April  1819 17  April  1819 18  April  1819 2  May  1819 19  May  1819 25  May  1819 31  May  1819 3  June  1819 14  June  1819 (N) 17  June  1819 (V) 18  June  1819 24  June  1819 27  June  1819 13  July  1819 19  July  1819 23  July  1819 24  July  1819 25  July  1819 29  July  1819 6  August  1819 13  August  1819 20  August  1819 25  August  1819 13  September  1819 20  September  1819 (N) 28  September  1819 8  October  1819 10  October  1819 15  October  1819 29  October  1819 9  November  1819 10  December  1819 27  December  1819

1820

19  January  1820 29  January  1820 30  January  1820 11  February  1820 19  February  1820 3  March  1820 8  March  1820 10  March  1820 14  March  1820 22  March  1820 25  March  1820 1  April  1820 2  April  1820

1823

5  September  1823 9  September  1823 26  September  1823 2  October  1823 16  October  1823 17  October  1823 20  October  1823 21  October  1823 30  October  1823 5  November  1823 7  November  1823

1824

16  April  1824 5  May  1824 12  May  1824 2  June  1824 16  June  1824 18  June  1824 7  July  1824 12  July  1824 14  July  1824 18  July  1824 25  July  1824 3  August  1824 12  August  1824 8  September  1824 1  December  1824 15  December  1824

1825

15  March  1825 28  March  1825 3  July  1825 24  July  1825 25  August  1825 17  September  1825 7  October  1825 16  October  1825 27  November  1825

1826

26  February  1826 15  June  1826 7  July  1826 18  July  1826 22  July  1826 24  July  1826 22  August  1826 6  September  1826 12  September  1826 15  September  1826 18  September  1826 18  October  1826 26  October  1826 14  November  1826 16  November  1826 30  November  1826 3  December  1826 11  December  1826 12  December  1826 28  December  1826

1827

11  January  1827 18  January  1827 1  February  1827 11  August  1827 2  December  1827

1828

19  October  1828 18  December  1828 24  December  1828

1829

3  May  1829 30  June  1829

1830

6  April  1830 29  September  1830 11  December  1830 15  December  1830 25  December  1830

1831

25  March  1831 8  December  1831

1832

5  January  1832 17  September  1832 19  September  1832 27  September  1832 7  October  1832 (N)

1833

24  April  1833 (N) 16  May  1833

1834

2  August  1834

1835

3  February  1835 10  February  1835 24  November  1835

  • Name: Holcroft, Thomas
  • Gender: Male
  • Birth Date: 9  January  1803
  • Death Date:

One of Holcroft's sons by Louisa Mercier, his fourth wife, baptised in 1809, along with his brothers and sisters. See Harwood Holcroft.

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

Name Number of Meetings
Kenney, James 20
Godwin, William 14
Holcroft, Louisa (née Mercier) 13
Pilcher, 8
Holcroft, Harwood 7
Morton, Thomas 6
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (née Godwin) 5
Lamb, Mary Anne 3
Lamb, Charles 3
Morton, John Maddison 3
Morton, Edw 3
Poole, John 3
Uwins, David 2
Hudson, John Corrie 2
Hill, (Thomas) 2
Godwin, Mary Jane (Clairmont) (née de Vial) 2
Hazlitt, William 2
Holcroft, Louisa 2
Rosser, Henry (Blanche) 1
Booth, David 1
Skeffington, Sir Lumley St George 1
Stanhope, Lincoln (Edwin Robert) 1
Gent, Thomas 1
Wordsworth, William 1
Hofland, Thomas Christopher 1
Hume, Joseph 1
Stewart, John (Walking Stewart) 1
Smith, 1
Uwins, Thomas 1
Collier, John Payne 1
Barham, Richard Harris 1
Reynolds, Richard 1
Turner, Thomas 1
Rickman, John 1
Ogilvie, James (Ogilvy) 1
Hepburn, John 1
Taylor, John 1
Curran, William Henry 1
Curran, Amelia 1
Godwin, John 1
Landseer, Charles 1
Holcroft, Fanny Margaretta 1
Boinville, Harriet 1