Peter Hunnisett

Luke & Mary Ramm
of Cley-next-the-sea

Luke Ramm, son of Henry and Mary, was baptised in Salthouse, Norfolk, on 7^th April 1759.

Mary Howard, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth, was baptised in Cley-next-the-sea on 26^th January 1755.

Mary had an illegitimate daughter baptised in Cley-next-the-sea and Luke was named as the father.

Luke Ramm married Mary Howard in Cley-next-the-sea on 26^th February 1782. They had a further eight children baptised in Cley:

Mary died aged 62 and was buried in Cley on 13^th July 1817. Luke then married Frances Stamp, a 52-year-old spinster, in Cley on 28^th October 1818.

Luke died aged 67 and was buried in Cley on 4^th April 1826.

In 1841 Frances was still living in Cley where she was buried on 6^th January 1843, aged 77.

Of Luke's and Mary's children:

• Mary married Robert Platten, a mariner from Salthouse, in Cley on 20^th December 1810 and they are known to have had three children baptised in Cley:

  Ann

  4 Oct 1811

  Mary

  2 Nov 1813

  Henry

  24 Mar 1817

  They were still living in Cley when Mary died in 1859.

• Sarah married John Thompson in Cley on 4^th August 1801. John appears to have been a mariner although by 1841 he was a publican in Blakeney where they had six children baptised:

  Howard

  23 Nov 1812

  Henry Luke

  8 Feb 1815

  Robert

  13 Apr 1817

  Charles

  16 May 1819

  George Thomas

  6 Aug 1820

  Edward

  27 Jan 1822

  There may have been earlier children but their baptisms have not been traced. Sarah was widowed by 1851 when she was staying with her sister Mary in Cley. In 1861 she was living alone in Blakeney and she died in 1870.

• James, a mariner, married Elizabeth Bear in Cley in 1815.
• Howard married Elizabeth Platten in Cley on 13^th October 1807 and they had two sons, James in 1809 and Robert in 1811, but both died in infancy. The 1851 and 1861 census records show Howard as a ship owner, Elizabeth and Howard both died in 1862 and their headstone stands in Cley churchyard.

• John, a mariner, married Sophia Massingham in Cley on 28^th March 1815 and they had two children baptised in Cley:

  James

  14 Mar 1816

  Sophia

  7 Nov 1817

  buried 1 May 1820

• Maria married Henry Jackson Plattin in Marylebone, Middlesex, on 20^th May 1817 and they had 5 children baptised, the first in Cley and the rest in Wells:

  Marianne

  27 Mar 1818

  Howard

  9 Jan 1822

  Wyndham Richard

  8 Apr 1824

  Anne Maria

  16 Nov 1826

  Sophia Mary

  25 Aug 1828

  Henry died, aged 41, and was buried in Wells on 5^th November 1828. Maria then married Anthony Warren in Wells on 23^rd Aug 1830 and they had a further 4 children baptised there:

  Anthony James

  21 May 1831

  buried 28 Aug 1831

  Frederick

  9 Dec 1832

  Edwin

  27 May 1834

  buried 31 Aug 1834

  Henry

  15 May 1835

  buried 12 July 1835

  Maria, aged 40, died on 11^th June and was buried in Wells on 15^th June 1836.