James Stanier
| James Stanier | |
|---|---|
| Person | James Stanier |
| Title | |
| First name | James |
| Middle name(s) | |
| Last name | Stanier |
| Suffix | |
| Spouse of | |
| Widow of | |
| Occupation | Merchant |
| Secondary shorebased occupation | |
| Mariner occupation | |
| Associated with ship(s) | |
| Training | Not apprentice |
| Is apprentice of | |
| Was apprentice of | |
| Had apprentice(s) | |
| Citizen | Unknown |
| Literacy | Signature |
| Has opening text | James Stanier |
| Has signoff text | James Stanier |
| 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 | |
| Res parish | Saint Andrew Undershaft |
| Res town | London |
| Res county | |
| Res province | |
| Res country | England |
| Birth year | 1606 |
| Marriage year | |
| Death year | December 1663 |
| Probate date | December 29, 1663 |
| First deposition age | |
| Primary sources | |
| Act book start page(s) | |
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| Interrogatories page(s) | |
| Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/63 f.391r Annotate |
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| Act book date(s) | |
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| Allegation date(s) | |
| Interrogatories date(s) | |
| Deposition date(s) | Sep 5 1650 |
| How complete is this biography? | |
| Has infobox completed | Yes |
| Has synthesis completed | No |
| Has HCA evidence completed | No |
| Has source comment completed | No |
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| Silver Ship litigation in 1650s | |
| Role in Silver Ship litigation | |
Biographical synthesis
James Stanier (b. ca. 1606; m. Thomasin, date unknown; bur. Dec. 16 1663). Merchant.
Resident in 1650 and in 1654 in the parish of Saint Andrew Undershaft.[1]
James Stanier was buried in the parish church of Saint Helen Bishopsgate on December 17th 1663.[2]
His will was proved on December 29th 1663.[3]
Married Thomasine. Surname and date of marriage unknown. Thomasine was buried in the parish of Saint Helen Bishopsgate on November 19th 1676.[4] Her will was proved on January 7th 1676.[5]
Thomasin Stanier appears in the hearth tax returns for the parish of Saint Andrew Undershadft in 'Leadenhall Street north' and with a total of six hearths.[6]
Two separate engravings were made by Wenceslaus Hollar of James Stanier, dated 1643 and 1650.[7]
Robert Demetrius was James Stanier's bookkeeper, as Demetrius states in a deposition in the High Court of Admiralty dated July 27th 1659.[8]
Ezechiel Lampen was James Stanier's apprentice from ca. 1651 to at least May 1654, when Lampen deposed in the High Court of Admiralty on an allegation in "The clayme of the sayd Cornelius and Henry Hillewervin for their sylver in the Sampson.[9]
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Forty-four year old James Stanier deposed on September 5th 1650 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on interrogatories "Quoad navem the Peace da home".
James Stanier stated that John Cornelison Yonge John was the commander of the ship the Pease of Home and that the ship ran aground near Portland, and after refloating, ran aground again in Cornwall in 1648. At the second grounding the ship was allegedly "staved a peeces by the souldiers and countrey people". The ship's lading consisted largely of silk, with ninety odd bales belonging to "Cornelius Gysbertson von Gore and other merchants of Holland."[10]
A further Admiralty Court case in 1656 led to depositions "On the behalfe of Mr Stanier and others touching the Saint Phillip.[11]
A further Admiralty Court case in 1657 led to depositions "Touching goods in the Santa Maria John Van Lynen captaine". Twenty-eight year old London merchant Robert Demetrius stated that he was the bookkeeper of James Stanier, London merchant. ("That the last past master James Stanier of London merchant (with home this deponent liveth in the quality of booke keeper) did reeive letter from Mr Phillip Van Hulten of Amsterdam merchants, wherein the said Phillip Van Hulten adviseth the said Mr Stanier, that hee hath given order to his ffreinds at Marsellis for the ffreighting of a ship, to take on board all the goods that are or shalbe unladen out of the ship the Santa Maria at Tollon and to bring the same to Amsterdam, but by the way to touch at Cadiz in Spaine, there to dispose of a parcell of cacoa part of the said lading."[12]
Comment on sources
1663
"James Stanier, Merchant of this City, Dec. 16, 1663. And Thomasin, his Wife, Nov. 19, 1676."[13]
PROB 11/312/556 Will of James Stanier, Merchant of London 29 December 1663
1676
PROB 11/350/32 Will of Thomasin Stanier, Widow 07 January 1676- ↑ HCA 13/63 f.391r; HCA 13/69 Silver 12 f.5r
- ↑ John Stow, A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent (London, 1733), p.365
- ↑ PROB 11/312/556 Will of James Stanier, Merchant of London 29 December 1663
- ↑ John Stow, A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent (London, 1733), p.365
- ↑ PROB 11/350/32 Will of Thomasin Stanier, Widow 07 January 1676
- ↑ 'Hearth Tax: City of London 1666, St Andrew Undershaft ', in London Hearth Tax: City of London and Middlesex, 1666 (2011), British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/london-hearth-tax/london-mddx/1666/st-andrew-undershaft, accessed 15 October 2016
- ↑ James Stanier by Wenceslaus Hollar etching, 1643 5 1/2 in. x 3 3/4 in. (141 mm x 95 mm) plate size Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford (née Fleming), 1931 Reference Collection NPG D27905; [XX]
- ↑ HCA 13/73 f.730r
- ↑ HCA 13/69 Silver 12 f.5r
- ↑ HCA 13/63 f.391r
- ↑ HCA 13/71 f.391r
- ↑ HCA 13/73 f.730r
- ↑ John Stow, A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent (London, 1733), p.365
