Lewis Byker

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Lewis Byker
Person Lewis Byker
Title
First name Lewis
Middle name(s)
Last name Byker
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Occupation Grocer
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Training Not apprentice
Is apprentice of
Was apprentice of
Had apprentice(s) John Knight
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Res parish Saint Peter upon Cornhill
Res town London
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Res country England
Birth year 1593
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Death year September 1664
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Deposition start page(s) HCA 13/70 f.338v Annotate
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Deposition date(s) Jul 9 1655
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Silver Ship litigation in 1650s
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Biographical synthesis

Lewis Byker (alt.Biker) (b.ca.1593; d.1664). Grocer.

Evidence from High Court of Admiralty

Lewis Byker, a sixty-two year old Grocer of Saint Peter Cornhill, London, deposed in the High Court of Admiralty on Jul 9th 1655. The title of the case was "Titus Complaine against John Brandlyn and others" and concerned goods shipped from London on a hoy named the Primerose to the Ipswich apothecary Titus Complaine.

Lewis Byker testified to the quantity and value of goods which he had laden on board the Primerose for Complaine's account. They consisted of a chest of sugar, a hogshead of tobacco, and a barrel packed with "loose sugar, cinnamon, cloves, pepper and liquorice", in addition to a scarfe "packed up in the same barrell." The total value of the goods, wares and merchandizes amounted to £72-11 s- 01 d.[1]

He signed his deposition "Lewis Biker", with an "i" not a "y" in his surname.[2]

Lewis Byker's apprentice at that time was John Knight. Knight made an earlier deposition, dated May 20 1655, in the same case. Though made a month and a half prior to Byker's deposition, Knight's deposition is placed after Byker's own deposition in the same volume of Admiralty Court depositions. The case is the same though described in the preamble to Knight's deposition as "Titus Complaine against John Brandlin John Blomfield and Alexander Scott." Knight was examined upon a libel on the behalf of Complaine.

Knight states in his deposition that acting "by the direction of Louis Biker his master" he brought goods on several occasions on board the hoy, then lying at Dice Key, and that they were properly received by the hoy's master.[3]

Comment on sources

Records of Parish of Saint Peter's Cornhill


Christenings

"1637/1638 Febru: 2 John, sonne of Lewis Biker Grocer"[4]

"1640 June 24 Mary daughter of Lewis Byker Grocer"[5]

"1644 September 28 Lettis daughter of Lewis Biker grocer"[6]

"1647 April 2 Elizabeth Peeter left at Mr Bikers Dore"[7]

"1649 June 22 Hanna Daughter of Lewis Biker Grocer"[8]

Burials

"1643 October 4 Mary daughter to Lewis Byker grocer pitt in ye north Ile
1643 October 14 John Sonne of Lewis Biker grocer pitt in ye north Ile"[9]

"1650/1651 March 7 Richard Biker mercer pit in the Library"[10]

"1657 Decembr 22 Ann: Daughter of Mr Lewis Biker pit in ye Chansell...
...1658 June 5 Thomas Spensely son to Mrs Biker pit in ye library"[11]

"1660 October 25 John sonn of Mr Lewis Byker in Chaunscell"[12]

"1664 Septemb: 15 Lewis Biker Grocer pitt in the Chancell"[13]

"Fn. The Registry from February 16, 1646, to June 4, 1651, is subscribed Mr Lewis Biker, churchwarden."[14]


Other records


Definitely related to Lewis Byker

"John Byker, eld. son of Lewis, grocer, b. in Peter's, Corn-hill, 3 May, 1643...."[15]

"Nathaniel Sedgwick -son of ...., London, brewer, apprenticed to Lewis Biker 2 April 1644"[16]

"BYKER, JOHN 1655-57; b. 8.8.1642/8; bapt. at St. Peter's, Cornhill; s. of Lewis (grocer), of Gracious Street; buried 25.10.1660 at St. Peter's, Cornhill."[17]

Lewis Biker is listed as a warden of the Grocers company in 1660[18]
- "Date of Election, 1660 (21st July); Wardens, Ellis Cunliffe, Esquire, Lewis Biker, Richard Rogers, Nicholas Alvey, David Davison, Esquire (excyused serving, he being an Alderman, on paying a fine of £50)[19]

Reference is made to an "inventory of Lewis Byker, grocer, 1664" in Alice M.C. Le Mesurier, 'The orphans' inventories at the London city Guildhall'.[20]

Possibly related to Lewis Byker

C 22/509/2 Biddulph v. Byker. Between 1558 and 1714
  1. HCA 13/70 f.338v
  2. HCA 13/70 f.339r
  3. HCA 13/70 f.361r
  4. Granville W.G. Leveson Gower (ed.), A register of all the christninges, burialles & weddinges within the parish of Saint Peeters upon Cornhill, beginning at the raigne of our most soueraigne ladie Queen Elizabeth (London, 1877), p.87, viewed 27/07/2016
  5. Granville W.G. Leveson Gower (ed.), A register of all the christninges, burialles & weddinges within the parish of Saint Peeters upon Cornhill, beginning at the raigne of our most soueraigne ladie Queen Elizabeth (London, 1877), p.88, viewed 27/07/2016
  6. Granville W.G. Leveson Gower (ed.), A register of all the christninges, burialles & weddinges within the parish of Saint Peeters upon Cornhill, beginning at the raigne of our most soueraigne ladie Queen Elizabeth (London, 1877), p.90, viewed 27/07/2016
  7. Granville W.G. Leveson Gower (ed.), A register of all the christninges, burialles & weddinges within the parish of Saint Peeters upon Cornhill, beginning at the raigne of our most soueraigne ladie Queen Elizabeth (London, 1877), p.91, viewed 27/07/2016
  8. Granville W.G. Leveson Gower (ed.), A register of all the christninges, burialles & weddinges within the parish of Saint Peeters upon Cornhill, beginning at the raigne of our most soueraigne ladie Queen Elizabeth (London, 1877), p.92, viewed 27/07/2016
  9. Granville W.G. Leveson Gower (ed.), A register of all the christninges, burialles & weddinges within the parish of Saint Peeters upon Cornhill, beginning at the raigne of our most soueraigne ladie Queen Elizabeth (London, 1877), p.200, viewed 27/07/2016
  10. Granville W.G. Leveson Gower (ed.), A register of all the christninges, burialles & weddinges within the parish of Saint Peeters upon Cornhill, beginning at the raigne of our most soueraigne ladie Queen Elizabeth (London, 1877), p.205, viewed 27/07/2016
  11. Granville W.G. Leveson Gower (ed.), A register of all the christninges, burialles & weddinges within the parish of Saint Peeters upon Cornhill, beginning at the raigne of our most soueraigne ladie Queen Elizabeth (London, 1877), p.210, viewed 27/07/2016
  12. Granville W.G. Leveson Gower (ed.), A register of all the christninges, burialles & weddinges within the parish of Saint Peeters upon Cornhill, beginning at the raigne of our most soueraigne ladie Queen Elizabeth (London, 1877), p.212, viewed 27/07/2016
  13. Granville W.G. Leveson Gower (ed.), A register of all the christninges, burialles & weddinges within the parish of Saint Peeters upon Cornhill, beginning at the raigne of our most soueraigne ladie Queen Elizabeth (London, 1877), p.215, viewed 27/07/2016
  14. Granville W.G. Leveson Gower (ed.), A register of all the christninges, burialles & weddinges within the parish of Saint Peeters upon Cornhill, beginning at the raigne of our most soueraigne ladie Queen Elizabeth (London, 1877), p.258, viewed 27/07/2016
  15. XXXX, A Register of the Scholars Admitted Into Merchant Taylor's School: From A. D. 1562 to 1874, Comp. from Authentic Sources and Ed. with Biographical Notices, vol.1 (London, 1992), p.?
  16. [http://sedgwickuk.org/uk/library/guilds/grocer.html Genealogy website, Sedgwick.org, UK Sedgwicks - Library - Guilds and Apprentices Grocers Company, Extracted from the Society of Genealogists library records on the British Origins site], viewed 04/08/2016
  17. XXXX, Merchant Taylors' School register, 1561-1934, vol.1 (London, 1936), p.?
  18. [XX]
  19. W.W. Grantham (ed.), List of the wardens of the Grocers' Company from 1345 to 1907 (London, 1907), p.29, viewed 04/08/2016
  20. Alice M.C. Le Mesurier, 'The orphans' inventories at the London city Guildhall', The Economic History Review, vol.a5, iss.1, Oct. 1934, pp.98-101; DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.1934.tb00863.x, The Economic History Review, vol.a5, iss.1, Oct. 1934, pp.98-101; DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.1934.tb00863.x