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Martha Castle (b. Batten)
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Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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4 Annotations
First Reading
Phil • Link
Daughter of Sir William http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… and Lady Elizabeth http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo… .
in aqua scripo • Link
According to L&M, she be the Step daughter of Sir William, a product of his first wife { L&M} She be a spinster of 26. Accounts for not telling the current Battens the situation of "living in Sin" A son Robert [not proven] Takes over the family Ship business in 86.
birth 1637?
Second Reading
Bill • Link
Martha Batten, aged twenty-six, was married to William Castell, of Redereth Wall, co. Surrey, shipwright, widower, aged thirty-four. The marriage licence is dated July 2nd, 1663 (Chester's "London Marriage Licences," ed. Foster, 1887, col. 254).
---Wheatley, 1893.
Louise Hudson • Link
Aqua scripto, she wasn't a spinster, she was a widow.