Mary Goris

Mary Goris

Mary Goris
Person	Mary Goris
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First name	Marie
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Last name	Goris
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Widow of	Solomon Goris
Occupation	Widow
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Training	Not apprentice
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Has opening text	Marie Goris
Has signoff text	Mary Goris
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Language skills	English language
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Res parish	Saint Botolph Billingsgate
Res town	London
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Res country	England
Birth year	1602
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Deposition start page(s)	HCA 13/53 f.221v Annotate, HCA 13/70 f.695r Annotate
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Deposition date(s)	Jun 29 1637, Nov 19 1655
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Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation	None

Biographical synthesis

Marie Goris (alt. Gooris) (b.ca.1602; d.?). Widow of Solomon [alt. Salomon] Goris (b. ca. 1602; d. ?1648 or 1649), London merchant. Daughter of London merchant John Fortrye, of Huguenot origins. The Fortrye family (anglicisation of De la Foreteyre) moved from Lille to Canterbury in Kent in 1567.

Resident in parish of Saint Botolph Bishopsgate in 1655, but formerly in "Gratious streete London", where her son Harman Goris was born, and then in Dukes Place in a house named Hennage house [alt. Heneage house; Heneadge house], where she lived with her husband and son till her husband's death. Duke's Place was located in Aldgate Ward in the east of the city of London. Secondary sources state that Duke's Place consisted of former monastically owned land on which stood the London town palace of the Abbott of Bury Saint Edmunds. The eastern part of the town palace was given by Henry VIII to the Duke of Norfolk and became known as Duke's Place, The western half of the palace was given Sir Thomas Heneage and became known as Heneage House. The lane dividing the two halves was named Heneage Lane, where the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue was founded. Heneage House abutted three streets - Heneage Lane, Bevis Marks, and Berry Street.

The deposition of London merchant Peter VandePut states that Harman Goris was "an Englishman borne" and that he was the son of Solomon Goris and Mary ffortie (alt. Fortrye), daughter of John ffortie. VandePut states that Solomon Goris was living in Dukes Place when he died some six or seven years before his deposition, so in 1648 or 1649. A genealogical source, referring to the depositions of Marie Gooris and Peter VandePut, states that Mary ffortie was "Mary De La Forterie (b. 1601) and that her son Herman Gooris was born ca. 1629.

Genealogical sources state that Solomon Goris was brother-in-law to John Lethieullier, through John's marriage to a sister of Mary Fortrye.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

June 1637

Thirty-five year old Solomon Goris deposed in the High Court of Admiralty on June 29th 1637. He described himself as a merchant of "Henwch house in the city of London".

Solomon Goris stated he had received a letter from a Guillemo Berquer in December 1636, who dwellt in Seville in Spain. The letter, dated November 23rd 1636 (new style) advised Goris that bags of Spanish wool had been laden on a ship named the ffortune of Dover (Master: Cornelius Newporte). The wool was to be delivered at Dover to Samuel ffortrey, a London merchant and Solomon Goris, or their assignes. Goris was to follow the orders of "Jaques Van Groll alias Jacques Scott of Roane merchant". However, the ffortune of Dover was subsequently cast away on the coast of Sussex.

Goris made clear that he and Samuel ffortrey were partners together, and that they had both sent diverse goods to the Seville based Guillemo Berquer over the last two or three years.

November 1655

Marie Goris deposed on November 19th 1655 in the High Court of Admiralty. She was examined on an allegation on behalf of Hendrick Mathias and others, who were claimants in the case of "The Lord Protector against the Hare in the ffeild".

Comment on sources

1643

"Richard's Sequestration.

Whereas Mr. Solomon Goris was indebted to Sir Peter Richard, by two several Bills of Exchange, of the Dates of the Thirteenth and the Twentieth of March last, the Sum of Eight hundred and Sixty-five Pounds Eighteen Shillings and Nine-pence Sterling: And whereas, by an Order of the House of Commons, of the One-and-twentieth of June last, Direction was given to the Committee for Accompts, for sequestring of the Estate of the said Sir Peter Richard, to the Use of the Commonwealth; which hath been done accordingly; and thereupon the said Mr. Goris hath paid the said Sum of Eight hundred and Sixtyfive Pounds Eighteen Shillings and Nine-pence, for the Use aforesaid: It is now Ordered, by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that the said Solomon Goris shall be saved harmless, and indemnified, against the said Sir Peter Richard, and all other Persons, concerning the same: And they declare the same to be an acceptable Service, and will save him harmless therein."

Early C17th

"DE LA FORETERYE.

In my Chapter I. I mentioned the first De la Forterye, a native of Lille, refugee in Canterbury in 1567, and his son, Nicolas, (fn.2) merchant in London. I also noted a
refugee in London, who was a native or had been an inhabitant of Thiel until 1567, when he arrived among us, namely, Nicolas Furtrye, with a daughter, Margaret, and a son, Samuel. From the Christian names of the two families I conclude that they were nearly related ; but I believe that the English refugee family sprang from the Canterbury refugee John, and from his son Nicolas, and from his grandsons (sons of Nicolas) John, Samuel, and Peter, who anglicised their surname into Fortrye.

(fn. 2) Nicolas was supposed to have been born in 1567, and to have married Margaret, daughter of William Thieflfries, of London.

(1) John Fortyre married, first, Anne, daughter of Jean de Francqueville and Anne Le Maire, and secondly, Marie Biscop. In 1633 we find mention of his three sons, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and three daughters, Mary, Sarah, and Jane. In that year, Abraham, merchant of Aldgate Ward, was the head of a family, his wife's maiden name being Jane Vandeput, and had a daughter, Jane, and two sons, John (aged about three years), and Abraham (aged about eight months) ; but after 1633this family disappear from view, and we have no record of the marriages or deaths of Isaac and Jacob. Turning' to their sisters, we find that Mary was the wife of Solomon Goris, and Sarah seems to have been unmarried. Jane we have already met with as the wife of John Lethieullier. So that her representatives also represent John Fortrye, namely, the descendants of Sir Edward Hulse, Baronet (who died in 1816).

(2) Samuel Fortrye was in 1634 a merchant in London of Walbrooke Ward ; his wife was Katherine, daughter of John de Latfleur of Henault. In that year their son Samuel was twelve years old, and there were two daughters, Katherine and Mary. But I know nothing about them, except that genealogists say that the male line survived for a time in Leicester, and that it is collaterally represented in the English peerage.

(3) Peter Fortrye 1 was a merchant of London in Aldgate Ward in 1633, and married, about 1600, Lea, daughter of Laurence Des Bouverie. He was styled Peter De la Forteri, or Fortrye, of London, and of East Combe, Kent. I have not the date of his death, but his wife died in 1659. He had one son and heir, James, and a daughter, Lea (who died in 1678), wife of Edward Adye of Barham ; (also, another daughter, Susanna, Mrs. Bulteel, of whom I shall speak when I come to her husband's family). James became James Fortrye, Esq., of Wombwell Hall, North-fleet ; he married Mary, daughter of Edward Allanson, of Bromley; he died in 1674, the father of the next squire of Wombwell Hall"