PORTER, JOHN [SSNE 6516]

Surname

PORTER

First name

JOHN, JAN

Nationality

SCOT

Region

ABERDEEN

Religion

CATHOLIC CONVERT

Text source

John Porter emigrated from Aberdeen to Poland-Lithuania in the late 16th century. He apparently converted to Catholicism in order to gain his civic rights in Warsaw in 1591.

A. Bieganska, "Scottish Merchants and traders in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Warsaw", Scottish Slavonic Review, 5, (1985), p.22; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.91.

Service record

POLAND-LITHUANIA, WARSAW

Arrived 1591-01-01

Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC