BURNET, THOMAS [SSNE 5074]
Text source
Thomas Burnet was an Aberdonian who became a burgess of Cracow in 1617.
In 1617 Thomas Burnet provided his genealogy as certified by Letters of Patent from the Council of Aberdeen dated 21 June 1617, took the oath, paid 15 Hungarian gold pieces and a stone of gunpowder to become a citizen of Cracow.
It has not been determined whether he was related to John Burnet [SSNE 5072]
Sources: A.F. Steuart, Papers Relating to the Scots in Poland 1576-1793, (Edinburgh, 1915), p.40; Lib. Jur. Civ. Crac., 1612-1634, fo.94; Peter Paul Bajer, Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th-18th Centuries, (Leiden, 2012), p.118, n.2.
Service record
- POLAND, CRACOW
- Arrived 1617-01-01
- Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC/MERCANTILE