GARDNER, JAKOB [SSNE 4922]

Surname

GARDNER, GARDINER, GAIRDNER, GÄRDENÄR, GIERDNER, GIERNER, GERNER, GERDNER, GERDENER, GERDENN, JERN, JERNER, JERDNER

First name

JAKOB, JACOB, JAMES

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

BURGESS

Text source

Jacob Gardiner [SSNE 4922] was a burgess of Stockholm. Jacob Gardiner had a brother, William [SSNE 6709], who was a burgess in Åbo in Finland. He also apparently was the brother of Robert Gardiner [SSNE 6710] another burgess of Stockholm, and indeed of one 'Albreckt' (Albert?).

Other Gerdners/Gardners/Gardiners in Sweden and Finland:

Robert Gardiner [SSNE 2300] and William Gardiner [SSNE 2301] served as officers in the Swedish-Finnish army at this time, and so far no definitive links to either the Stockholm or Åbo Gardiners have been found. 

There is also a Jacob Garden [SSNE 4681], who was a burgess in Gothenburg.

One letter contains the signatures of a Jacob and a James Gardiner [SSNE 4937] can be found beside each other so they should be two separate individuals: 'One particular letter of Jacob Merser [SSNE 4839] was co-signed by William Merser [SSNE 4923], Jacob Gardiner [SSNE 4922], Ignatius Menner, Jurgen Garden Junior [George, SSNE 4924], James Gardiner [SSNE 4937], Robert Smidt [SSNE 4938]. It is not clear what the relationship, if any might be.

Jacob Gardiner was a "Skeppsreddare" and a burgess, but the archive does not say of which town, most probably Stockholm. He wrote two undated letters to Axel Oxenstierna which can be found in Riksarkiv. A letter to Queen Christina from Jacob mentions that his brother is already dead [c.1644?]. Jakob is mentioned in another letter from 22/07/1644 by Robert [?]. Jakob himself wrote further letters to Queen Christina on 22 July and 6 August 1647 where he mentions a dispute with Albrekt/Albert Smidt, the date 29 November 1644 and the sum of 13,204 Rixdaler.

This may be the same Jacob Gerdner/Gerner noted several times in Stockholm city records. He swore the burgess oath in Stockholm on 10 May 1619. The Stockholmsstads tänke böcker list 'Jacob Järnn' in 1620 for the first time as an innkeeper in Gamla Stan, and he appears listed as such every year until 1637.  He was also registered as a tax-payer residing in the town in 1628 and 1631, at a house on what is today called Brända Tomten.

In 1627 Jacob Gardiner, along with Jöran (George) [SSNE 7352] Gerdner, are noted as involved in a case against Scottish merchant William Mitchell [SSNE 7351].

In 1628 Jacob Gardiner appears as one of two Stockholm burgesses who had lent fellow burgess Thomas Glenn [SSNE 6132] 1500 daler. This issue reappears in the city records for 1632.  

Sources: Swedish Riksarkiv,Biographica Microcard, E01412 4/7; Biographica Microcard, E01642 4/8. Letters signed by Jakob Merser in November 1648; SRA, Register Over Brevskrivare i Enskilda Samlinger; Oxenstierna Samlingen Skrivelser till Axel Oxenstierna B:1; Svenska Riksradets Protokoll, vol.2, p.216; Stockholmsstads tänkeböcker, 1619, p. 49; Frans de Brun, 'Vinstugor och värdshus i Stockholm i början av 1600-talet', Samfundet St Eriks Årsbok 1922, ed. Gustaf Upmark, (Stockholm, 1922), p.46; F.U. Wrangel, Stockholmiana I-IV, (Stockholm, 1912), pp.229-233 Curt Haij, 'Skottar i Stockholm under 1600-talet', unpublished list of names, Hintze biblioteket, Genealogiska Föreningen, Sundbyberg, Stockholm. Thanks to Ardis Dreisbach for this information.

 

See also various correspondence in Riksarkivets ämnessamlingar. Personhistoria https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0069653_00167#?c=&m=&s=&cv=166&xywh=-735%2C638%2C7641%2C4406

Service record

SWEDEN, STOCKHOLM?

Arrived 1619-05-10

Departed 1648-12-31

Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC, INNKEEPER, NAVAL?