TAYLOR, JAMES [SSNE 1256]

Surname
TAYLOR,TELLER, TILLER, THELLER
First name
JAMES, JACOB
Nationality
SCOT
Social status
ROYAL SERVICE

Text source

James Taylor was a Scottish burgess of Helsingor. He paid taxes ( 3rd fjerding) in 1628, 1637, and 1645 for himself and his wife, Bodil Jacobsdatter. He was a taxerborger (tax assessor) in 1628, and a tax collector in 1637. He had in 1664 two seats in St Olai, his wife one - Margrete Thomesdatter, who 24/1/1637 inherited from her late brother James Thomson

T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.248. (LAS. Helsingor Radstue no.106: Tegnebog 1626-41, fol. 7v., no. 107: Tegnebog 1626-66, fol. 85v., 90r.)

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, ELSINORE
Arrived 1628-01-01
Departed 1664-12-31
Capacity TAX COLLECTOR, purpose CIVIL SERVICE