Simon Messenger
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Simon Messenger | |
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Person | Simon Messenger |
Title | |
First name | Simon |
Middle name(s) | |
Last name | Messenger |
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Occupation | Cooper |
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Training | Not apprentice |
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Was apprentice of | |
Had apprentice(s) | |
Citizen | Unknown |
Literacy | Signature |
Has opening text | Simon Messinger |
Has signoff text | Simon Messenger |
Signoff image | (Invalid transcription image) |
Language skills | English language |
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Res street | Shadwell |
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Res county | Middlesex |
Res province | |
Res country | England |
Birth year | 1618 |
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Deposition start page(s) | HCA 13/72 f.463r Annotate |
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Deposition date(s) | Nov 8 1658 |
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Has infobox completed | Yes |
Has synthesis completed | No |
Has HCA evidence completed | No |
Has source comment completed | No |
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Biographical synthesis
Simon Messenger (alt. Symon, Messinger) (b. ca. 1618; d.?>1666). Cooper.
Resident in Shadwell in Middlesex in 1658. Still resident in Shadwell at the time of the 1666 Hearth Tax returns, when "Simon Messenger" was recorded living in Shadwell with a property of four hearths.[1]
Evidence from High Court of Admiralty
Forty year old Simon Messenger deposed on November 8th 1658 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation on behalfe of Watson and Howe in the case of "Warren agains Watson and How".[2]
The case concerned the size of Virginia tonnage of tobacco relative to other commodities and to other sources of tobacco.
Comment on sources
1666 Hearth Tax: The Hamlett of Shadwell in the Parish of Stepney./ Upper Shadwell Northside./ Cutthroate Lane
- ↑ 'Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666, Stepney , Shadwell Hamlet (1 of 2)', 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/stepney-shadwell-hamlet-1, viewed 12/08/2016
- ↑ HCA 13/72 f.463r
- ↑ 'Hearth Tax: Middlesex 1666, Stepney , Shadwell Hamlet (1 of 2)', 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/stepney-shadwell-hamlet-1, viewed 12/08/2016