DURIE, AGNES [SSNE 6249]

Surname

DURIE, SPENS

First name

AGNES

Nationality

SCOT

Religion

CALVINIST

Text source

Agnes Durie was the wife of Sir James Spens of Wormiston [SSNE 1642]. With him she had the children James, David and William, Cecilia, Isabella and another unammed daughter.

Sources: National Archives of Scotland RH9/2/231-242, 6 letters from James Spens to his family 1617-1632; Hartlib Papers, 60/5/1A-8B, Durie's Narrative of his German Travels, c.1632; Hartlib Papers, 20/11/15A-28B, Memo on Durie and Ecclesiastical Peace , 1631-1633; Svenska Adelns Ättartavlor, vol. 7, p.429; Swedish Riksarkiv, Anglica vols. 3, 4, 5 and 531 contain letters to and from Spens; H. Marryat, One Year in Sweden including a visit to the Isle of Gotland (London, 1862), pp.465-466; T. Fischer, The Scots in Sweden (Edinburgh, 1907), pp.215-267; J. Berg and B. Lagercrantz, Scots in Sweden, (Stockholm, 1962); Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), pp.283-284. Female.

Service record

SWEDEN, STOCKHOLM, ELBING

Arrived 1609-01-01

Departed 1631-12-31