Robert Marten

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Robert Marten
Person Robert Marten
Title
First name Robert
Middle name(s)
Last name Marten
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Occupation Mariner
Secondary shorebased occupation
Mariner occupation Foremastman
Associated with ship(s)
Training Not apprentice
Is apprentice of
Was apprentice of
Had apprentice(s)
Citizen Unknown
Literacy Marke
Has opening text Robert Marten
Has signoff text Simple marke
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Language skills English language
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Res town Acton near Ipswich
Res county Suffolk
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Res country England
Birth year 1608
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Deposition start page(s) HCA 13/73 f.421r Annotate
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Deposition date(s) Dec 1 1659
How complete is this biography?
Has infobox completed Yes
Has synthesis completed No
Has HCA evidence completed No
Has source comment completed No
Ship classification
Type of ship Coal ship
Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation None


Biographical synthesis

Robert Marten (b. ca. 1608; d. ?). Mariner.

Foremastman of the ship the Mary Rose of XXXX (Master: Robert Marriot).

"The premisses hee deposeth seeing the same being a foremast man of and aboard the Mary Rose".

Resident in 1659 in Acton near Ipswich in the county of Suffolk.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Fifty-one year old Robert Marten deposed on December 1st 1659 in the High Court of Admiralty.[1] He was examined on an allegation on behalf of ffrancis Cole and others in the cause of "Nicholas Bradley Robert Marriot and others owners of the John of Ipswich against the Mary Rose and against ffrancis Cole and others".[2]

The case concened the coal ship the John of Ipswich coming foul of a second coal ship, the Mary Rose just after Michaelmas 1658 near Tinmouth haven.

Comment on sources

  1. HCA 13/73 f.421r
  2. HCA 13/73 f.416v