CHAMBERS, WILLIAM [SSNE 6454]

Surname

CHAMBERS

First name

WILLIAM

Nationality

SCOTTISH or ENGLISH

Social status

NOBILITY

Text source

William Chambers, the brother of James Chambers [SSNE 6453] had his noble status confirmed in Poland-Lithuania in 1673. According to Peter Bajer his coat of arms point to a Scottish rather than an English origin

B. Treliska, ed. Album armorum nobilium regni Poloniae XV-XVIII saec. (Lublin, 2001), p.1045. Thanks to Professor Waldemar Kowalski and Peter Bajer for this information. See also R. Frost, "Scottish soldiers, Poland-Lithuania and the Thirty Years' War" in S. Murdoch ed. Scotland and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (Brill, 2001), p.211.

Service record

POLAND-LITHUANIA,

Arrived 1673-01-01

Departed 1673-12-31

Capacity MISC, purpose MISC