SKENE, DAVID [SSNE 1034]
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David Skene was the son of Robert Skene of the Mill of Potterton, Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire (a former burgess of Aberdeen who had settled in Belhelvie by 1572) and his first wife Isobel Forbes, daughter of Davie Aedie, burgess of Aberdeen.
David Skene migrated to Poland as a young man and become a burgess of Posen in 1586. His brother, Robert Skene [SSNE 5609] followed suit and became a burgess of Posen in 1593. That same year it seems David Skene returned to Scotland as a bond dated 7 June 1593 was served on David Skene of the Mill of Potterton, delivered in person in 1596, and followed by a horning dated 11 June 1597.
Another bond exists, from 1606, in which David Skene of the Mill of Potterton was the principal, with his brothers Robert and Andrew as cautioners.
David Skene married twice, firstly to "Udnie's sister", with whom he had two sons, and secondly in 1606 to Claris Seaton, with whom he had three children.
The parish records of St Sebald's church in Nuremberg state that a David Skin from Scotland, resident of Posen in Poland, died in the town on 15 May 1605.
Sources: T. Fischer, The Scots in Eastern and Western Prussia (Edinburgh, 1903), p.204; W.F. Skene, Memorials of the family of Skene of Skene (Edinburgh, 1887), pp.124-6; A. Grosjean and S. Murdoch, Belhelvie a Millenium of History, (Aberdeen, 2001) p.22; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.233; Kirchenburch St Sebald-Nurnberg, Bestattungen, 1588-1606, f. 252v (courtesy of Govind Sreenivasan).
Record updated by Dr Kathrin Zickermann.
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- Arrived 0000-01-01
- Departed 0000-01-01
- POLAND, POSEN
- Arrived 1586-01-01
- Departed 1593-12-31
- Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC