Valentine Pyne (bef. 1649 - 1691)

Born before 1649 in Ottery St Mary, Devon, England

Husband of Anna (Smith) Pyne — married 25 Jun 1689 in St Martin Outwich, London, England

Descendants

Died 11 Feb 1691 after age 42 in Stepney, Middlesex, England

Biography

Occupation: Sea captain in trade with India; mariner; commander of ship New Berkeley Castle (1691) Marriage allegation 25 June 1689, Valentine Pyne, St Leonard Foster, London, 40, bachelor, and Anne Hide, Bethnal Green, widow, County Middlesex, license to marry at St Martin Outwich (Parish), London. (St Leonard Foster Parish is St Leonard Foster Lane Parish.)

Will, Stebonheath (now Stepney), Middlesex, 13 January 1691.

Sea Captain in trade with ?India," particularly at Bantam, Sumatra, Indonesia.

Marriage allegation, 1689, Anne, widow of - - Hide, in the presence of Nathaniel Smith. Nathaniel Smith and others witnessed Valentine Pyne?s will.

Sources

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=gregvdw&id=I27364

From:: http://www.academic-genealogy.com/ancientgenealogyjudah.htm#143 https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:MX68-V5S Family Information: geography (location): Select and Remarkable Epitaphs on ... - Google™ Books [Select and Remarkable Epitaphs on Illustrious and Other Persons, in Several Parts of Europe, with Translations of such as are in Latin and Foreign Languages, and Compendious Accounts of the Deceased, Their Lives and Works], page 184, Christ Church London: Captain Valentine Pyne, born at St. Mary Antrey [Ottery St. Mary] in Devon, in the Year 1691 [date of his death], went to India, where he spent the best Part of his Life in Trade with the Natives; by whom, particularly the King of Bantam, he was highly respected and beloved for his Integrity, Modesty, and other good Qualities. Being forced to return, by the Unkindness of some of his country men, he arrived in England in the Year 1688; and after three Years Stay, besides other Compensations, he was by the East India Company made Commander of one of their best Ships, the new Berkeley Castle. His Ship being ready to sail, he fell sick, and died on Feb. 11, 1691, lamented by all that knew him, aged 43 Years, leaving issue by his Wife Ann, only one Daughter, Mary, aged two Years. . . .