John Wallraven

John Wallraven

John Wallraven
Person	John Wallraven
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First name	John
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Last name	Wallraven
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Occupation	Chirurgion
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Training	Not apprentice
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Has opening text	John Walraven
Has signoff text	John Wallraven
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Language skills	English language
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Res parish	Saint Botolph Algate
Res town	London
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Res country	England
Birth year	May 28, 1630
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Death year	1689
Probate date	November 13, 1689
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Deposition start page(s)	HCA 13/70 f.17v Annotate
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Deposition date(s)	Dec 7 1654
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Has infobox completed	Yes
Has synthesis completed	No
Has HCA evidence completed	No
Has source comment completed	No
Ship classification
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Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
Role in Silver Ship litigation	None

Biographical synthesis

John Wallraven (alt. Walraven) (b. ca. 1630; d. ca. 1689). Chirurgion.

Chirurgion on the ship Your Servant (Master: Robert Davies), which sailed in 1652 from London to the Western Islands in the dominion of Portugal.

Resident in 1654 in the parish of Saint Botolph without Algate.

Second son of the brewer Peter Wallraven. An entry in the register of the Merchant Taylors' School gives his date of birth as May 28th 1630, and states that he enrolled in the school in 1645-46. His younger brother, Matthias Wallraven, the third son of Peter Wallraven, enrolled in the same year in the Merchant taylors' School. His birth date is given as March 16th 1636. Both boys birth places are given as Botolph Algate."

There is a will of John Walraven (sic), chirurgeon, of Rotherhithe, Surrey, proved on November 13th 1689.

A grant of denization was made to Peter Wallraven, brewer, in 1634. He is described as born in foreign parts.

Peter Walraven (sic) appears in the list of Inhabitants of London in 1638 in the parish of Saint Botolph Aldgate. His rental is listed as £3.

There is a will of a Peter Walraven (sic), brewer, of Rotherhithe, Surrey, proved on October 24th 1679. There is another will for a Peter Walraven (sic), brewer, of Rotherhithe, Surrey, proved on October 24th 1680.

Brewing appears to have remained in the family, with a will proved on August 16th 1706 of a Peter Wallraven, rewer of Saint Mary Rotherhithe, Surrey.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Twenty-four year old John Wallraven deposed on December 7th 1654 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined "On the behalfe of [BLANK IN MANUSCRIPT] May and Rowland Searchfeild of London merchants, touching the death of Richard Dorrington merchant at Ponte Vedra."

John Wallraven stated that Richard Dorrington went merchant on the ship, intending to travel to Lisbon. The ship was seized by an Ostend man of war and carried to Viego in Galicia, where Richard Dorrington was turned out on shore. Dorrington worked to recvover the ship and lading, but fell sick and died of fever in the house of Mr Samuel Travers, an English merchant in Ponte Verda. Wallraven stated that he saw the body before the coffin was closed, Dorrington's body "interred in the said Mr Travers his lemmon garden neare the citie of Ponte Vedra in the said moneth of March 1653 new stile. and was one of four pall bearers who helped carry the corpse to the grave."

Comment on sources

1634

"1634. Nov. 7. Grant of denization to Peter "Wallraven, brewer, Henry Lichfield, Leonard Bremas, Andreas Beusch, Gerrard Telhurst, Cornelius Cornelison, Warner Pinn, Bartholomeus Anthony, and Anna Maria, daughter of Francis Longston, all born in foreign parts. [Bocquet]".

1638

"ST. BOTOLPH, ALDGATE.

M.S. p. 373a.

The Names, Rents, Tithes, of St. Botolph without Aldgate, London, which parish consists of the ward of Portsoken within London and of East Smithfield in the Countie of Middlesex.

...Mr Romball Jacob a great Brewhouse with his dwelling £40...

...Peter Walraven £3..."

1645-6

"Dec. 1637. John Wallraven, second son of Peter y brewer, b. in Botolph Aldgate, 28 May 1630.

Matthias Wallraven, third son of the same, b. in same parish, 16 Mar. 1636.""

1679

PROB 11/361/136 Will of Peter Walraven, Brewer of Rotherhithe, Surrey 24 October 1679

1680

PROB 11/364/173 Will of Peter Walraven, Brewer of Rotherhithe, Surrey 24 October 1680

1689

PROB 11/397/236 Will of John Walraven, Chirurgeon of Rotherhithe, Surrey 13 November 1689

1706

PROB 11/490/31 Will of Peter Wallraven, Brewer of Saint Mary Rotherhithe, Surrey 16 August 1706