LITHGOW, WILLIAM [SSNE 5215]

Surname

LITHGOW

First name

WILLIAM

Title/rank

TRAVELLER

Nationality

SCOT

Region

CLYDESDALE

Text source

William Lithgow, from Clydesdale in Scotland, visited Poland in 1616, and provided an account of the Scots resident in that country. He noted that in Cracow, Warsaw and Lublin he met many of his compatriots, many of them merchants, and described Poland as "a Mother and Nurse, for the youth and younglings of Scotland, who are yearely sent hither in great numbers". Lithgow noted "thirty thousand Scots families" living in Poland.

Sources: A.F. Steuart (ed.), Papers Relating to the Scots in Poland 1576-1793 (Edinburgh, 1915), pp.ix-x; W. Lithgow, The Totall Discoveries of the Rare Adventures and Painefull Perigrinations, (Glasgow, 1906), pp.367-8; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), pp.132-169.

Service record

SCOTLAND, POLAND, POLAND

Arrived 1616-01-01

Departed 1616-12-31

Capacity TRAVELLER, purpose MISC