STRANG, DAVID [SSNE 4927]
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David Strang was born in Sweden, the son of the Stockholm burgess, William Strang [SSNE 807] and his wife Margaret Pattillo Strang [SSNE 6495]. He wrote some letters from Amsterdam to the Momma-Reenstierna family in the 1670s. The letters contained in Biographica give an idea of a Scottish trading network and also directly links the Scottish trading community in a network covering Stockholm, Copenhagen and Amsterdam. Members included William Strang [SSNE 807], Johan Strangh [SSNE 8342], Jacob Strang [SSNE 8341], David Strang (this man), Alexander Waddell [SSNE 835], William Halliday [SSNE 787]. [Non Scots included Magnus de la Gardie and Jurgen Schot, burgess of Wismar].
Sources: Riksarkivets ämnessamlingar. Personhistoria https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0073901_00247#?c=&m=&s=&cv=246&xywh=2581%2C3059%2C3304%2C1811
Swedish Riksarkiv, Biographica Microcard, E01946 1/8. Letter to the Swedish king dated Haffnia [Copenhagen] 6 August 1675 and signed by Alexander Waddel. Reference here erroneously to 'engelska Willem Strang Amsterdams bogare' and 'svensk fodol David Strang'. Willem was from Forfar in Angus, Scotland. Other letters are dated Lubeck 1667 from Jurgen Schlot to David Strang while several from him from 1674 refer to Alexander Waddell and William Halliday; Leos Müller, The Merchant Houses of Stockholm, c.1640-1800 (Uppsala, 1988), p.87.
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- SWEDEN, AMSTERDAM, THE DUTCH REPUBLIC
- Arrived 1670-01-01
- Capacity IRON MERCHANT?, purpose MERCANTILE, TRADE
- SWEDEN, STOCKHOLM
- Arrived 1670-10-10
- Departed 1680-12-31
- Capacity MERCHANT, purpose CIVIC, MERCANTILE, TRADE