MRP: Christopher Oxenden
Christopher Oxenden
Editorial history
07/10/11, CSG: Created page
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Suggested links
See Sir John Gayer will (master of Christopher Oxenden)
See biographical profile of Sir George Oxenden (brother of Christopher Oxenden)
See biographical profile of Elizabeth Dallison (sister & administratrix of Christopher Oxenden)
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Biographical profile
Christopher Oxenden was a younger brother of Sir George Oxenden. Wheras George Oxenden went out to Surat at the age of thirteen as a personal servant of the Wingham minister, Christopher Oxenden was more conventionally apprenticed to Sir John Gayer, a prominent London merchant.
Due to Sir John Gayer's death in 1649, Christopher Oxenden's apprenticeship was interupted, and it is not clear whether he completed his apprenticeship with another master.[1] By 16XX Christopher had joined his elder brother in Surat.
George Oxenden returned from Surat to England in 165X, but Christopher's return was delayed through his capture and imprisonment by the Dutch. Christopher had been travelling as factor on the XXXX to XXXX, when his ship was engaged by the XXXX. He and a number of colleagues were captured and sent to the Dutch factory of Batavia on Java Maior. He was later transferred to Holland. Finally, in XXX, he was released and returned to London.
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