Henry Marsh

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Henry Marsh
Person Henry Marsh
Title
First name Henry
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Last name Marsh
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Occupation Winecooper
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Training Not apprentice
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Literacy Signature
Has opening text Henricus Marsh
Has signoff text Hen: Marsh
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Language skills English language
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Res parish Saint Olave Hart Street
Res town London
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Res country England
Birth year 1622
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First deposition age 45
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Deposition date(s) Aug 2 1667
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Ship classification
Type of ship Shore based trade
Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation None


Biographical synthesis

Henry Marsh (b. ca. 1622; d. ?ca.1677). Winecooper.

Resident in the parish of Saint Olave Hart Street in 1667.

There is a will for Henry Marsh, "cooper", of London, proved on October 5th 1677[1]

There is also a will and a post-mortem inventory for a Samuel Marsh, "wine cooper", of Saint Mary at Hill, London, dated February and October 1684[2]

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

August 1667

Henry Marsh appeared in the High Court of Admiralty on August 2nd 1667. In the legal preamble he is described as "Henricus Marsh" in the parish of Saint Olave Hart Street, "wine cooper", and his age is given as forty-five. He signs his name "Hen: Marsh".

Marsh was examined on a libel and stated that he and a fellow wine cooper named John Willis had viewed and apprised a "parcel of wynes and vinigar laying in a cellar belonging to the Artillery Hoyse upon Horsey-down". There he found 73 tuns of french wine and three tuns, one and a half hogsheads of vinegar. Both the wine and the vinger were "much decayed and damnified". He duely valued the goods.[3]

The London merchant Isaack Stockman added that the wine and vinegar "were carryed on shore by this deponent and stored by his order and stowed in a cellar hyred for that purpose under the Artillery house upon Horsey-downe, and were there viewed and appreized by his contests John Willis and Mr Marsh wynecowpers".[4] Earlier, Stockman refers to John Willis and Henry Marsh as "two substantiall wyne cowpers".[5]

Comment on sources

PROB 11/355/100 Will of Henry Marsh, Cooper of London 05 October 1677

PROB 11/375/188 Will of Samuel Marsh, Wine Cooper of City of London 12 February 1684

PROB 4/7511 Marsh, Samuel, of [St Mary at Hill], London [wine cooper] 1684 7 Oct.
  1. PROB 11/355/100 Will of Henry Marsh, Cooper of London 05 October 1677
  2. PROB 11/375/188 Will of Samuel Marsh, Wine Cooper of City of London 12 February 1684; PROB 4/7511 Marsh, Samuel, of [St Mary at Hill], London [wine cooper] 1684 7 Oct.
  3. HCA 13/76, deposition of Johes Willis, of St Olave Hartstreet, London, wine cooper
  4. HCA 13/76 P1100440
  5. HCA 13/76 P1100440