WITHMAN, ADAM [SSNE 6492]

Surname

WITHMAN, VICTHMAN, WICHTMAN, WYCHMAN

First name

ADAM

Text source

Adam Withman was a Scotsman from Edinburgh who emigrated to Poland-Lithuania in the late 16th century. He became a burgess of Warsaw in 1571 (one of only 3 Scots to gain that right) at which point he had promised to buy a house in the town. In 1574 he was called to the town court because he had baptised his son in a non-Catholic faith. He had not yet fulfilled his promise, but when he reaffirmed that promise the case against him was dismissed

A. Bieganska, "In search of Tolerance, Scottish Catholics andPresbyterians in Poland", in Scottish Slavonic Review, 17 (1991),p.40-1; A. Bieganska, "Scottish Merchants and traders in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Warsaw", Scottish Slavonic Review, 5, (1985), p.20.

Service record

POLAND-LITHUANIA, WARSAW

Departed 1574-12-31

Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC, MERCANTILE