Edward Ryder
| Edward Ryder | |
|---|---|
| Person | Edward Ryder |
| Title | |
| First name | Edward |
| Middle name(s) | |
| Last name | Ryder |
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| Spouse of | |
| Widow of | |
| Occupation | Long cutler |
| Secondary shorebased occupation | |
| Mariner occupation | |
| Associated with ship(s) | |
| Training | Not apprentice |
| Is apprentice of | |
| Was apprentice of | |
| Had apprentice(s) | |
| Citizen | Unknown |
| Literacy | Marke |
| Has opening text | Edward Ryder |
| Has signoff text | ER |
| Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
| Language skills | English language |
| Has interpreter | |
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| Birth province | |
| Birth country | |
| Res street | Shadwell |
| Res parish | Stepney |
| Res town | |
| Res county | Middlesex |
| Res province | |
| Res country | England |
| Birth year | 1626 |
| Marriage year | |
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| Primary sources | |
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| Interrogatories page(s) | |
| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/72 f.40v Annotate |
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| Deposition date(s) | Jun 6 1657 |
| How complete is this biography? | |
| Has infobox completed | Yes |
| Has synthesis completed | No |
| Has HCA evidence completed | No |
| Has source comment completed | No |
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| Silver Ship litigation in 1650s | |
| Role in Silver Ship litigation | None |
Biographical synthesis
Edward Ryder (b. ca. 1626; d. ?). Long cutler.
Resident in 1657 in Shadwell.
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Thirty-one year old Edward Ryder deposed on June 6th 1657 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation
Edward Ryder was called as a witness in a dispute over the extraction of gravel from the bed of the River Thames near Mr Ewen's ballastwharf in Greenwich.The source of his knowledge is that "those fower yeares last past, hee this deponent (having often occasion to passe over the same by water to Gravesend and Greenwich and other places which lye belowe the same) thereby knoweth that during that tyme there hath bin and is a shelve or banke of Gravell in the River of Thames opposite to the wharfe of the arlate Mrs Ewen the complainant in this suite, where on, hee hath as hee passed to and froe, observed an seene that lightermen have used to worke and take up ballast."[1]
Ryder was keen to make clear that "hee is noe lowe water man, nor imployed for takeing up of ballast, nor hath any share in any lighters nor is any way related to any of th interrogate Pryors lighters or any other lighters".[2]
