SPALDING, JAKOB [SSNE 4813]

Surname

SPALDING

First name

JAKOB, JACOB, JAMES

Text source

Jakob Spalding was the son of the Scot Andrew Spalding [SSNE 6717] who had moved to Mecklenburg in the early seventeenth century. Jakob was born in 1625 and called to Sweden by his uncle, John/Johan [SSNE 4677]. Jakob became a merchant in Gothenburg and then a councillor in Norrkoping in 1649. His name appearedin the Gothenburg shipping registers only for the year 1654 when he sent two loads to England and one load to Scotland. He died on 16 October 1676. Spalding was married twice, first to Ingrid von Brobergen (1636-1663) on 16 September 1653 and secondly to Dorothea Dreijer (d.1723) on 30 November 1664. He had at least three sons and one daughter, Christina (1656-1721) [SSNE 6875]. His sons were Anders (1659-1698) [SSNE 714]; Johan (1669-1738) [SSNE 4926] and George (1671-1726) [SSNE 4814]. In the margin of Svenska Adelns Ättartavlor in Riksarkiv someone has suggested that the merchant Henrik Spalding [SSNE 6107] was also his son. Jakob also had a brother Johan [SSNE 6867] who served as consul in Plau in Mecklenburg

Swedish Riksarkiv, Förteckning över Momma-Reenstierna Samlingen, part C: brev till Bröderna Momma-Reenstierna ingångna skrivelser, section 2, brev till Jacob Momma-Reenstierna - E2521, 53, 6 letters 1655-6 and 1668; Swedish Riksarkiv, Borje Cronbergs Samling Kammarkivet, 1673 27/9 (1); Eduard Spalding, Geschichtliches, urkunnden, stamm-tafeln der Spalding in Schottland, Deutschland und Schweden: Während der letzten sechs jahrhunderte, speciell der Deutsche zweig der familie (Greifswald, 1898), Appendix IV, Family tree for Jacob Spalding in Sweden; G. Elgenstierna, Svenska Adelns Ättartavlor, vol. 7, p.371; L. Fontaine, History of Pedlars in Europe (Oxford, 1996), p.14; W. Berg, Samlingar till Göteborgs historia Christina Kyrkas böcker, vol.1, p.14; E-B. Grage, 'Scottish merchants in Gothenburg, 1621-1850', in T.C. Smout, ed. Scotland and Europe, 1200-1850, (Edinburgh, 1986), p.113; C. Dalhede, Handelsfamiljer på Stormaktstidens Europamarknad (3 vols., Partille, 2001)III, cdrom; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.134.

Service record

SWEDEN, GOTHENBURG

Departed 1649-12-31

Capacity MERCHANT, purpose CIVIC

SWEDEN, NORRKOPING

Departed 1676-12-31

Capacity COUNCILLOR, MERCHANT, BURGESS, purpose CIVIC