KINNAIRD, JAMES [SSNE 6655]

Surname

KINNAIRD

First name

JAMES, JACOB

Title/rank

Nationality

SCOT

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Social status

Education

Religion

Text source

James Kinnaird was noted as a burgess of Gothenburg from 1621, when the town received its privileges. He formed part of an extensive Scottish mercantile community settled there. There was another James Kinnaird [SSNE 1124] who also settled in Gothenburg around this time (1628?) - they may have been the same person. One of these men subsequently became a master of the mint.

H. Almquist, Goteborgs Historia (Gothenburg, 1929), p.320; T. Fischer, The Scots in Sweden (Edinburgh, 1907), p.12.

Service record

SWEDEN, GOTHENBURG

Arrived 1621-01-01

Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC, MERCANTILE