MESTERTON, LAURENCE [SSNE 6527]

Surname

MESTERTON, MESTERTOUN, MAISTERTOUN, MASTERSON, MAISTERSON

First name

LAURENCE, LAWRENCE

Nationality

SCOT

Text source

Laurence Maisterson embarked from Wexford, Ireland with 200 men headed for Polish service in 1621. 

Sources: 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.204; Some information on the Scottish Mesterton family in Sweden can be found in Eric E. Etzel, 'Notes on Swedo-Scottish Families' in Scottish Historical Review, vol. IX (1912), p.271.

Service record

STUART KINGDOMS, POLAND-LITHUANIA

Arrived 1621-01-01

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY