MACKLAILAND, SAMUEL [SSNE 4672]

Surname

MACKLAILAND, McCLELLANE, MCLELLAND, McCLELLAND

First name

SAMUEL

Nationality

SCOT

Region

EDINBURGH

Social status

BURGESS

Text source

Samuel McClelland from Edinburgh became a merchant burgess of Bergen in 1702. In 1707, along with Robert Honyman of Grahamsay, he submitted a claim for the salvage of the ship The Golden Fir Tree of Bergen which had been wrecked off the rocks of Gramsay in Orkney.

 

Sources:

Nattional Records of Scotland, GD 106/325. February 1707.Draft (incomplete) of Submission by Robert Honyman of Grahamsay and Samuel McClellane, merchant in Bergen anent claims for salvage by the Admiral Depute of Orkney and said Robert H. of cargo of the ship called the "Golden Fir Tree" of Bergen which was wrecked on the rocks of the Island of Gramsay dated at Kirkwall - Feb. 1707; with Draft Decreet Arbitral following thereon by Robert McClellane of Barclay and William Liddell of Hammer, Arbiters.

N. Nicolaysen, Bergens Borgerbog 1550-1751 (Oslo, 1878), p.130

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, BERGEN

Arrived 1702-07-27

Departed 1707-12-31

Capacity MERCHANT BURGESS, purpose CIVIC, MERCHANT, COMMERCE, TRADE