GELLATLY, JAMES [SSNE 645]

Surname

GELLATLY, GELLETLIE, GELENTIN, GELLENTIN

First name

JAMES

Title/rank

BURGESS

Nationality

SCOT

Region

DUNDEE

Social status

BURGESS

Text source

James Gelletlie was a Scottish burgess of Danzig in 1587. He came from Dundee and in 1591 Charles Ramsay [SSNE 6608] and Janotta Duncan [SSNE 6609] arrived from his home city to work for him. He was probably related to Hans/John Gelletlie [SSNE 641]

T. Fischer, The Scots in Eastern and Western Prussia (Edinburgh, 1903); A. Bieganska, The Learned Scots in Poland (From the Mid-Sixteenth to the close of the Eighteenth Century) in 'Canadian Slavonic Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 1, March 2001, p.16.

Service record

POLAND-LITHUANIA, DANZIG, DANZIG

Arrived 1587-01-01

Departed 1592-12-31

Capacity MERCHANT BURGESS, purpose CIVIC, TRADE, MERCANTILE