Henry Bowyer

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Henry Bowyer
Person Henry Bowyer
Title
First name Henry
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Last name Bowyer
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Occupation Merchant
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Has opening text Henry Bowyer
Has signoff text Henry Bowyer
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Language skills English language
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Res parish Saint Olave Old Jewry
Res town London
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Res country England
Birth year 1613
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Deposition start page(s) HCA 13/70 f.72r Annotate
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Deposition date(s) Jan 24 1655
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Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
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Biographical synthesis

Henry Bowyer (b. ca. 1612; d. ?). Merchant.

Resident in 1654 in the parish of Saint Olaves Old Jury.

Henry Bowyer was probably related to the merchant Thomas Bowyer, who was buried in February 1659 in the parish church of Saint Olave Old Jury.[1] This Thomas Bowyer was presumably the Thomas Bowyer, grocer, of London, whose will was proved on March 3rd 1659.[2]

Possibly related to the Bowyer family of Denham Court. See pedigree of Bowyer family of Sussex in William Berry (1830).[3]

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Forty-two year old Henry Bowyer deposed on January 24th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation of 17 articles in the case of "ffrederick and others against Keate and others".[4]

Comment on sources

1659

"2. Carduus Benedictus. The advantage of affliction, & c. A Sermon at the funerals of Mr. Tho. Bowyer merchant who died 8 Febr. 1659, & was buried 22 of the same moneth in the parish church of St. Olaves Jury. On Jam. I. 12. Ded. to Mr. Henry Bowyer, merchant. Lond. 1659. 4to."[5]

PROB 11/288/593 Will of Thomas Bowyer, Grocer of London 03 March 1659

1675

PROB 11/348/503 Will of Henry Bowyer, Gentleman of Saint Sepulchre, City of London 11 October 1675
  1. Anthony A. Wood, Athenae Oxienses, vol.3 (Oxford, 1817), p.898
  2. PROB 11/288/593 Will of Thomas Bowyer, Grocer of London 03 March 1659
  3. William Berry, County Genealogies: Pedigrees of the Families in the County of Sussex (London, 1830), pp.134-135
  4. HCA 13/70 f.72r
  5. Anthony A. Wood, Athenae Oxienses, vol.3 (Oxford, 1817), p.898