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Analysis of the Clovelly Entries in Padstow Coastal Port Books (1602-1719)

Summary Statistics

Masters and Vessels

Portrayal of Communities of Masters

Portrayal of Families of Masters and their Vessels

The following set of simple - even simplistic - analyses have been produced in an attempt to discover patterns of captaincy of Clovelly vessels from the records that have been kept of their voyages to and from Padstow. The results highlight the fact that in many cases a given vessel was captained at different times not just by lots of different captains, but captains from many different families. However, there are a small number of cases where for all or much of the entire period covered, just one family provided the masters for a given ship on numerous occasions, and so can perhaps be assumed to have been its owners.

Summary Statistics

No. of voyages: 866

Including:

    From Neath: 466
    From Swansey/Swanzey: 260
    From Tenby/Tinby: 77

    For Bristol: 13
    For Chepstow: 5
    For Neath: 1
    For Aberthaw: 1

No. of different vessels: 36
No. of different masters' surnames: 65

Masters and their Vessels

The following table shows how many masters from evidently different families each vessel had. Allowance is made, in this and subsequent analyses, for what are presumed to be simply variant spellings, both of surnames and vessel names.

VesselNo. of
differently
named
masters
ADVENTURE9
ADVICE6
AGNES2
BEGINNING9
BETTY2
BLESSING3
DELIGHT2
DOVE7
ELIZABETH3
ELIZABETH & JOAN4
ENDEAVOUR3
FORTUNE2
FRIENDS ADVENTURE    2
GIFT2
HOPEWELL3
HUMILITY4
JOANNA4
JOHN2
JOHN AND MARTHA2
JOSEPH3
KATHERINE7
LAMB2
MARIGOLD11
MARY9
MAYFLOWER2
PROSPERITY2
PROSPEROUS2
PROVIDENCE5
RESERVE7
SEAFLOWER5
SPEEDWELL8
THOMAS & WILLIAM3
WILLIAM5
WILLIAM & ANN2
WILLIAM & JOHN3
WILLIAM & MARY4

This next table brings together the various masters sharing the same surname (and hence presumably from the same family), and lists how many times they were involved in voyages to or from Padstow, over what period of years, in which vessels.

SurnameVesselYearsNo.
AclandADVENTURE16832
AugerADVENTURE16931
BallBEGINNING17193
BarshHUMILITY16901
BassBETTY1695-16963
BassGIFT1660-16796
BassHUMILITY16903
BassKATHERINE16941
BasserDOVE16941
BeerBEGINNING17101
BestSEAFLOWER16811
BicstonSEAFLOWER16793
BrewerDOVE16972
BryantMARIGOLD17082
BurdenADVENTURE1675-16782
BurdenRESERVE16951
CanfordELIZABETH & JOAN16791
CaryPROSPEROUS16821
CarySEAFLOWER16811
ChaplaineHAPPY FORTUNE16931
ChaplemanADVENTURE16811
ChaplemanBEGINNING16903
ChaplemanENDEAVOUR1672-16816
ChaplemanHAPPY RETURN16934
ChaplemanJOANNA1705-170812
ChaplemanLAMB1674-169718
ChaplemanMARIGOLD1709-171615
ChaplemanMARY1682-169016
ChaplemanNEW MARIGOLD1712-17169
ChaplemanPROVIDENCE1703-17157
ChaplemanWILLIAM16601
CleverdonENDEAVOUR1708-17124
CleverdonMARY17041
DeanMARY17051
DeanSPEEDWELL17035
DonnallyWILLIAM & MARY17051
DyerFRIENDS ADVENTURE1695-16972
EllisADVENTURE16881
EllisMARY17051
EllisPHOENIX1708-17115
FollettDOVE16772
FollettELIZABETH16601
GiddayWELLFARE16901
GleasonJOHN AND MARTHA17171
GliddonJOHN AND MARTHA17171
HamblyJOHANNA17101
HamlynBETTY1711-17126
HamlynJOHANNA1710-17113
HardingRESERVE17041
HardnessPROSPERITY16971
HarperJOHN17053
HarperSPEEDWELL17081
HawkinsADVENTURE1717-17195
HawkinsKATHERINE16871
HawkinsSPEEDWELL17181
HeaderADVICE17041
HealDOVE1687-1690    4
HealJOAN16901
HealMARY1703-17034
HealPALM TREE1703-17055
HealPROVIDENCE1707-171314
HealWILLIAM & JOHN1694-16952
HeardGRACE1692-16922
HeardHUMILITY16882
HeardKATHERINE16932
HeardRESERVE17041
HenderADVICE1703-171228
HenderTHOMAS & WILLIAM17071
HendersonADVICE17041
HodgeAGNES16601
HodgeFRIENDS ADVENTURE1695-16973
HodgeHOPEWELL16933
HodgePROVIDENCE16923
HodgeSWANN16725
HodgeTHOMAS17081
HodgeWILLIAM17041
HodgeWILLIAM & MARY17041
HodgeWILLIAM & THOMAS1708-17115
HuxtableHOPEWELL16941
HuxtableKATHERINE17033
HuxtableWILLIAM & JOHN16971
LyleBEGINNING1692-16955
LyleBENJAMIN16932
LyleMARY1717-17183
LyleNEW MARY1717-171911
LylePROVIDENCE17152
LyleWILLIAM17061
MaddeckeMARIGOLD16941
MadgeADVICE1718-17193
MadgeBEGINNING17191
MadgeBLESSING16971
MadgeDELIGHT16921
MadgeMARIGOLD1707-17158
MadgeRESERVE1692-16945
MadgeWILLIAM & ANN1694-16978
MathewsADVICE17121
MathewsMARIGOLD17081
MathewsTHOMAS & WILLIAM17072
MayMARIGOLD17151
MeagerRETURN16931
MilesTHOMAS & WILLIAM17051
MinorMARIGOLD1717-17194
MumfordDOLPHIN17121
MumfordELIZABETH & JANE1692-171016
MumfordHOPEWELL1712-171916
MumfordJANE17041
MumfordMARIGOLD1690-169716
MumfordSUSANNA1703-171122
MumfordWILLIAM16601
NapruderHANNAH17031
NicholasSPEEDWELL17192
PalmerELIZABETH & JOAN16771
PalmerGEORGE17162
PalmerKING GEORGE17172
PalmerMARIGOLD17171
PalmerPROVIDENCE16901
PalmerRESERVE17032
PalmerWILLIAM1697-170313
PalmerWILLIAM & JOHN1695-17039
PearADVENTURE16841
PecherSPEEDWELL17092
PocketBEGINNING1674-167915
PocketDOVE1681-169737
PollardADVENTURE1674-16774
PollardADVICE17151
PollardDELIGHT1692-16932
PollardELIZABETH1674-168512
PollardFORTUNE1660-16744
PollardJOANNA17096
PollardKATHERINE1694-170912
PollardSUCCESS1703-171629
PollardWILLIAM & MARY17051
PowerDOVE16971
PrestJOSEPH1696-16975
PrestonSEAFLOWER16871
PrimeBLESSING16931
PrustJOSEPH1696-16973
PrustSEAFLOWER1687-168514
RandellAGNES17151
RandellBEGINNING16961
RandellBLESSING1690-171253
RandellELIZABETH1672-16964
RandellELIZABETH & JOAN1692-70416
RandellGIFT1660-167916
RandellJOHN & AGNES1715-17166
RandellJOSEPH1712-17134
RandellLAMB16601
RandellMARY17172
RandellMAYFLOWER1672-168710
RandellPROSPEROUS ENDEAVOUR17161
RandellRESERVE16973
RandellSPEEDWELL1708-17185
RansomPROSPERITY16971
RedmoreENDEAVOUR1672-16783
RedmoreJOHN16601
RedmoreKATHERINE1672-16776
SaundersMARY17061
SharpKATHERINE1692-16934
SharpMARIGOLD1704-17072
SharpMAYFLOWER17062
SharpWILLIAM & ANN16943
SkinnerBEGINNING1674-170640
SkinnerBLESSING16971
SkinnerDOVE1674-168716
SkinnerFORTUNE16721
SkinnerMARIGOLD1687-169312
SmithMARY17052
SouthwoodPILGRIM16885
SpencerSPEEDWELL1711-17124
WardRESERVE17051
Warmington   ADVENTURE1694-169616
WarmingtonBEGINNING1692-16972
WarmingtonHUMILITY16871
WarmingtonWILLIAM & MARY16972
WhitefieldSPEEDWELL17071

In the above table, the following stand out as cases in which, for all or much of the entire period in which references occur to a vessel, just one family provided the masters of the vessel, and did so on numerous occasions.

Surname        VESSEL
ChaplemanJOANNA
ChaplemanMARY
HenderADVICE
MumfordHOPEWELL
PalmerWILLIAM
PocketDOVE
RandellBLESSING
RandellMAYFLOWER
SkinnerBEGINNING

Portrayal of Communities of Masters

This figure is produced using CFinder, a tool for finding and portraying overlapping dense groups of nodes in networks. It has been applied to the above data, so as to try to illustrate the extent to which the Clovelly mariners formed a set of somewhat separate but overlapping communities. The lines in the graph join pairs of nodes that represent masters who have served in the same vessel. A "community" in such a graph is a group of nodes more densely connected to each other than to nodes outside the group. Not all masters are shown - just those that are involved in significantly-sized communities. (The Randell and Chapleman families are marked as having been associated, through their captaincies, with the largest number of different masters.

 

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Portrayal of Families of Masters and their Vessels

The following figure lists all the different families of masters (identified by similarity of surname), and indicates which vessels they were associated with.

 

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