SMIDT, ROBERT [SSNE 4938]

Surname

SMIDT, SMITH, SMYTHE

First name

ROBERT

Text source

Robert Smith was a Scot who arrived in Sweden by 1641. He countersigns a letter signed by many other Scots in 1648. He was also noted as having been operating in Germany purchasing weapons. This is perhaps the same Robert Smith who obtained a feu in Rysse lane in Stockholm for 282 in the second half of the seventeenth century. In 1685 Alexander Strachan buried his wife in her father's grave. She was named Christina Smith, daughter of Robert Smith.

Swedish Riksarkiv, Biographica Microcard, E01412 4/7; 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]; Swedish Riksarkiv, Carl Gustaf's Arkiv i Stegeborgssamlingen, Robert Smythe, Burgess and Merchant in Stockholm, no date; T. Fischer, The Scots in Sweden (Edinburgh, 1907), p.32; Stockholms Stadsarkivet, Maria Församling, Register över döda, 1681-1700, p.672; National Archives of Scotland, GD172/1773-1774.

Service record

SWEDEN, STOCKHOLM

Departed 1680-12-01

Capacity BURGESS, MERCHANT, ARMS DEALER, purpose CIVIC, TRADE