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Henry Richardson Sommerscales, borgermester[1, 2]

Mann 1584 - 1664  (~ 79 år)

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Person

Navn
Henry Richardson Sommerscales  [3]

Suffiks
borgermester

Kallenavn
"Henry Sommerschield" "Henrich Engelsmand"

Kjønn
Mann

Fødsel

 Settle, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom location_on

Dåp

 28 Sep 1584 Giggleswick church location_on

Begravelse

 29 Mar 1664 Domkirkegården, Nidarosdomen, Trondheim location_on

Skifte

 6 og 7 Jul 1664 Trondheim location_on
«Avdøde Henrich Sommerschel, forr. borgermester og overformynder, en dtr.'s um. sønn, nemlig Ellin Henrichsd.'s sønn Henrich Henrichsen Ravert 274 Rd. Før avdøde h.'s skifte 13/4-63, alle b. mynd. og avdød dtr. (Bet. H.H.Ravert 200 og vergen Lor. Brøchmand 100 Rd.)».

Yrke

 Rådmann og borgermester i Trondhjem. Handelsborger og kjøbmand, skipper og trelasthandler.
I 1625 blev han av borgermester Christopher Biørnssøn efter lensherre Thage Thotts befaling tilforordnet å gi bestemmelser om gravsteder og stole-stader i Domkirken.
Henrich Engelskmand nevnes allerede 13 Aug 1626 som "overkjøbmann" i Trondhjem. Han omtales senere som borgermester. Han drev trelastforetning, skipsrederivirksomhet og eksport og import av forskjellig art, og nevnes hyppig i Trondhjem Lehns tollregnskaper i årene før og efter 1630.

Død

 Trondheim location_on

Person ID

 I52133

Sist endret
26 Jul 2021
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Familie
Anna Rorig
76 år
f.1584, Giggleswick, England location_on
d.1660, Trondheim location_on

Barn

+1. Cannillechen Hendrichsdatter Sommerschield
d.1669
+2. Stinchen Henrichsdatter Sommerschield
46 år
f.ca 1625, Trondheim location_on
d.Apr 1671, Trondheim location_on
 3. Eline Henrichsdatter Sommerschield
36 år
f.før 1626, Trondheim location_on
d.1662, Trondheim location_on
 4. Hilchen Henrichsdatter Sommerschield
61 år
f.1627, Trondheim location_on
d.1688
 5. Henrich Henrichsen Sommerschield
42 år
f.1632, Trondheim location_on
d.1674
+6. Elisabeth Henriette Henrichsdatter Sommerschield
50 år
f.1632, Trondheim location_on
d.25 mai 1682, Trondheim location_on
 7. Richard Henrichsen Sommerschield
f.1633, Trondheim location_on

Famile ID

F15302

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Sist endret 

22 Okt 2017

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Hendelseskart

Link til Google Maps Begravelse

Domkirkegården, Nidarosdomen, Trondheim

Link til Google Maps Skifte

Trondheim

Link til Google Maps Død

Trondheim

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  • Henry was at some time living in Lincolnshire, probably with his Uncle Robert at Gainsborough. Robert's son Henry and this Henry both went to London in 1605. The Gainsborough Henry went to Grays Inn and this Henry was apprenticed to John Toy (possibly Taylor) of Bassinghall, a merchant taylor.
    On the 9th September 1609 there was a case before the High Court of Admiralty (HCA 13/40) where he was a witness in the case of Richard Nottingham a shop keeper over the Kings Bench in Southwark versus Andrew Pawlyn who had incurred debts regarding a ship's cargo. In his evidence Henry says he was born in the town of Settle and had lived in London for four years, before that he lived in Lincolnshire and in Settle. He says he is 22 years old, unmarried and dependant upon that which his father "will bestow upon him". If he was 22 then he was born in 1587 or 1588 and not 1584.
    A Henry was baptised in Gainsborough on the 15th December 1587 the son of Robert [he is the son of "Robert" and not "Robert gent." as are all other children of Robert of Gainsborough, he was too important to let this slip but in any case another Henry, the son of Robert of Gainsborough gent was baptised in 1590]. There was a Henry the son of Robert of Settle who, from Robert's will, seems to have been born in 1593 although there is no entry in the registers. Both Roberts were dead by 1609 so Henry would not be waiting for his inheritance. The lives of both the other Henries are also clear. It must be assumed that Henry is the son of Richard of Settle and that his age is misrecorded or given in error.
    He is in the High Court of Admiralty again in October 1612, this time giving evidence about the profits to be made importing deal boards from Norway. (HCA 13/42). The next year he is in the customs accounts for Trondheim when Jacob Albrethsson skippered a ship of 60 lester (tonnage) freighted by Henry Somerscales which arrived in Trondheim on the 22nd November. There are records of his trading from Amsterdam around this time also.
    His ship left Trondheim on the 10th January 1614 but was taken by English pirates. Henry and the pirates were then captured by the Spanish and he was held in custody on a Spanish galleon. A London merchant heard of his plight and wrote to Sir John Digby our ambassador to Spain explaining that Henry was not a pirate and asked to have him released.
    Henry was released but went to Norway where he bought a small ship (a Kreiger) on 18th August 1614. There are some records from Trondheim showing that he was settled there in 1620 when one of his servants was fined 1 daler for trading with Arne Olufsen. Again in 1639/40 when Claus Tollefsen of Bjugn had mistakenly taken his nets and in 1646/47 Henry bailed out Esten Sivertsen and Birrette Pedersdotter who had been jailed for sleeping together.
    Henry and Anna had six children: Eileen, Stinchen; Hilchen; Elizabeth, Richard and Henry from whom has descened a veritable dynesty of Nowegian Sommerschilds which will have their own site. However, and of interest, there were other English people settling in Norway at this time. Alexander Sampson of Trondheim was one (from Reading), he married as his second wife one of Henry's daughters. Two of his daughters married English migrants: George Reeds married Ellen and Henry Nunne married Gisken Sampson. Two generations later the familiar name of Hammond crops up when Thomas and John Hammond married sisters Sarah and Sophie Bridgman (descendants of Hieronymous Brugmann from Holstein, Germany and the Sampsons). [4]