HUME, ROBERT [SSNE 2678]

Surname

HUME, HOME

First name

ROBERT

Title/rank

ENSIGN

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

Robert Hume was an ensign in Swedish service from 1628-31. A man of this name went on to serve in the Army of the Solemn League and Covenant in 1644 in Loudoun's Glasgow Foot.

 

Sources: Stockholm Krigsarkivet, Muster Roll, 1628/6-8,10-15; 1629/5-10,12,14,16,18,19; 1630/23; 1631/12,15; A list of the Several Regiments and Chief Officers of the Scottish Army quartered neer Newcastle (London 1644); Ed. Furgol, A Regimental History of the Covenanting Armies, 1639-1641 (Edinburgh, 1990), 162-163.

English Civil War

 

See also a reference to a letter of his here: Riksarkivets ämnessamlingar. Personhistoria https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0069733_00170#?c=&m=&s=&cv=169&xywh=2868%2C1891%2C2306%2C1330

Service record

SWEDEN, JAMES RAMSAY

Arrived 1628-01-01, as ENSIGN

Departed 1631-12-31, as ENSIGN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY