Ryves, Brune

Summary

Father: Brune Ryves
Mother: Katherine Waldram

Birth: c1640
Birth Source: Marriage Licence

Death: after 1680
Death Source:

Spouse1: Judith Tyler, m. 3 Feb 1667/8, St Clement Danes, Middlesex

Narrative

Children of Brune Ryves:

1. Brune Ryves, b. c25 Aug 1669
2. Infant Ryves, d. c25 Aug 1669

He is mentioned in the will of his brother Joseph as "my loving Brother Brune Ryves" and also mentions his nephew Brune, son of this Brune.

Marriage Licence Abstracts from London:

• Ryves, Brune (Rives), of St. Paul, Covent Garden, merchant, bachelor, about 28, and Judith Tyler, of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, spinster, about 21, her father's consent - at St. Giles or St. Martin-in-the-Fields. 24 Jan. 1667/8

Marriage from St Clement Danes, Middlesex Parish Registers:

• (1667/8) February Brian Reeves and Judith Tyler 3

Brune's name was given incorrectly in his marriage record. But the children's baptisms would indicate the above marriage is for Brune.

Baptisms from St Clement Danes, Middlesex Parish Registers:

• (1669 August) Brune Ryves son of Brune and Judith uxor 25

Burials from St Clement Danes, Middlesex Parish Registers:

• (1669 Aug) Brune Ryves a child 25

From A list of several ships belonging to English merchants, published 1677:
August 8th. 1676.
The Hopewell, Valentine Archer Commander, was on the 12th, of May, 1674, met by French Privateer called la Renown, Monsieur le Monie Commander, who took out of her diverse Commodities of a considerable value, belonging to Brune Ryves and Richard Barker, who after much charge and trouble, got a Sentence in France for the Restitution of their Goods, but could never obtain Execution thereof notwithstanding their constant endeavours and application.

From Reliques of the Rives:
Brune Ryves, born about 1636, living 1680, was a merchant and shipowner of consider able means of London; engaged as early as 1660 in overseas trade in which year he had a passport for his ship, the Exchange, to go to sea (Cal. State Papers, 1660). In 1672 his goods in two ships were seized by the French when on their way to Bilboa in Spain (Cal. State Papers, 1672, page 272) and it was doubtless he of whom Capt. John Wyborne wrote in the same year from Portsmouth : "our victualling is in most strange confusion through the neglect of Mr. Ryves who has been here but never came on board and is gone to London again. I beseech you to send him down again to finish his business" (Cal. State Papers, 1672). He was named executor of his father's will in 1677; was the administrator of his brother, Thomas, in 1679; and was named in the will of his brother, Joseph, in 1680. According to his father's will he was married before 1677, probably about 1662; and, according to his brother Joseph's will (1680) he had a son: Brune.

Sources

Marriage1:  St Clement Danes, Middlesex Parish Marriage Combine (BM&B) Register 1653-1675, STC/PR/1/3
                      Archive.org - London marriage licences, 1521-1869, p1172

Childs, James Rives. Reliques of the Rives, p68
1680 Will - Joseph Ryves - Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Piece 363 (Bath), folio 36 reverse
St Clement Danes, Middlesex Parish Marriage Combine (BM&B) Register 1653-1675, STC/PR/1/3
Archive.org - (1677). A list of several ships belonging to English merchants, p40