Robert Cooke
| Robert Cooke | |
|---|---|
| Person | Robert Cooke |
| Title | |
| First name | Robert |
| Middle name(s) | |
| Last name | Cooke |
| Suffix | |
| Spouse of | |
| Widow of | |
| Occupation | Shipwright |
| 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 | Robert Cooke |
| Has signoff text | Rob Cooke |
| Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
| Language skills | English language |
| Has interpreter | |
| Birth street | |
| Birth parish | |
| Birth town | |
| Birth county | |
| Birth province | |
| Birth country | |
| Res street | Limehouse |
| Res parish | Stepney |
| Res town | |
| Res county | Middlesex |
| Res province | |
| Res country | England |
| Birth year | 1614 |
| Marriage year | |
| Death year | |
| Probate date | |
| First deposition age | 44 |
| Primary sources | |
| Act book start page(s) | |
| Personal answer start page(s) | |
| Allegation start page(s) | |
| Interrogatories page(s) | |
| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/72 f.460r Annotate |
| Chancery start page(s) | |
| Letter start page(s) | |
| Miscellaneous start page(s) | |
| Act book date(s) | |
| Personal answer date(s) | |
| Allegation date(s) | |
| Interrogatories date(s) | |
| Deposition date(s) | Aug 13 1658 |
| 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 | Shore based trade |
| Silver Ship litigation in 1650s | |
| Role in Silver Ship litigation | None |
Biographical synthesis
Robert Cooke (b. ca. 1614; d. ?). Shipwright.
Resident in 1658 in Limehouse in the parish of Stepney.
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Forty-four year old Robert Cooke deposed on August 13th 1658 in the High Court of Admiralty.[1] He was examined on an allegation in the case of "Bland Bathurst and Company against the Exeter Merchant and against Woodfin and company".[2]
Robert Cooke stated that he knew the ship the Pilgrim, which had returned to the River Thames after a voyage about three years back. The ship was brought into the dock of the Limehouse shipwright Mr Abraham Graves (alt. Greaves) to be repaired. Cooke stated that "upon search of her (this deponent being one who was imployed by the sayd Graves to search her and to repayre her defects did finde that shee wanted Okeham in her seemes and butt heads and that shee was much worme eaten and soe worme eaten that there was a necessity of sheathing her which was accordingly done this hee the better knoweth for that hee helped to search her and to calke her".[3]
