Lovewell Luckett
| Lovewell Luckett | |
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| Person | Lovewell Luckett |
| Title | |
| First name | Lovewell |
| Middle name(s) | |
| Last name | Luckett |
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| Spouse of | |
| Widow of | |
| Occupation | Mariner |
| Secondary shorebased occupation | |
| Mariner occupation | |
| Associated with ship(s) | Owners Adventure |
| Training | Not apprentice |
| Is apprentice of | |
| Was apprentice of | |
| Had apprentice(s) | |
| Citizen | Unknown |
| Literacy | Signature |
| Has opening text | Lovewell Luckett |
| Has signoff text | Lovewell Luckett |
| Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
| Language skills | English language |
| Has interpreter | |
| Birth street | |
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| Res street | |
| Res parish | Saint Olave Southwark |
| Res town | Southwark |
| Res county | Surrey |
| Res province | |
| Res country | England |
| Birth year | 1635 |
| Marriage year | |
| Death year | 1666 |
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| Primary sources | |
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| Interrogatories page(s) | |
| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/71 f.578r Annotate |
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| Deposition date(s) | Feb 12 1657 |
| 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 | Whaling ship |
| Silver Ship litigation in 1650s | |
| Role in Silver Ship litigation | None |
Biographical synthesis
Lovewell Luckett (alt. Love Lucket) (b. ca. 1635; d. ca.1666). Mariner.
Resident in the parish of Saint Olave Southwark in 1657.
"Love Luckett" is recorded in the 1666 Surrey hearth tax records for Bermondsey with property of four hearths.
There is also a postmortem inventory for "Lovewell Lucket" of Redriffe, Surrey, dated August 3rd 1666[1]
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Twenty-two year old Lovewell Luckett deposed on February 3rd 1657.[2] He deposed on an allegation on behalf of Gosling in the case of "Batson against Gosling".
The case concerned a commercially unsuccessful whaling voyage to Spitzbergen, which had been financed by Richard Batson and others. Edward Gosling was one of the master's mates of the ship the Owners Adventure.
Luckett stated that he was one of the company of the Owners Adventure and had "the halfe stereage of a harponeeres shallop belonging to the sayd shipp committed to his care by the order and appointment of the sayd Damerell" (the master of the Owners Adventure).[3]
Comment on sources
1666
PROB 4/2965 Lucket, Lovewell, of Redriffe, Surrey 1666 3 Aug
1666 Hearth Tax, Bermondsey:
- ↑ PROB 4/2965 Lucket, Lovewell, of Redriffe, Surrey 1666 3 Aug
- ↑ HCA 13/71 f.578r
- ↑ HCA 13/71 f.578r
- ↑ [ADD REFERENCE]
