SANDILANDS, GEORGE [SSNE 6659]

Surname

SANDILANDS, SANDERLAN, SANDALA, SANDHLANDH

First name

GEORGE, JÖREN

Nationality

SCOT

Text source

George Sandilands (known as Jören Sandala, and various other versions) was a member of the Scottish community in Stockholm in 1573 when he was noted in Stockholmsstads tankeboker along with Andrew Keith [SSNE 1534].

In 1575 George Sandilands was noted as Colin Maxwell's [SSNE 6660] "right-hand-man". Maxwell had been taken to court regarding his ship, the "Gyllene Dufva", which David Scott [SSNE 6601], his wife's mother and several others had invested in. Sandilands was ordered by the town magistrates to respond to David Scott's case. This may be the same man as George Sandilands who had taken a banner/flag at Nyköping in 1568 and who on 2 October that year received 100 "peningar" for it.

Sources: J. Almquist, Stockholms stads tänkeböcker 1568-1575, (Stockholm, 1941), p.404; Swedish Riksarkiv, Ämnessamlingar, strödda historiska handlingar, vol.6. Curt Haij, 'Skottar i Stockholm under 1600-talet', unpublished list of names, Hintze biblioteket, Genealogiska Föreningen, Sundbyberg, Stockholm. Thanks to Ardis Dreisbach for this information.

Service record

SWEDEN, STOCKHOLM

Arrived 1568-01-01

Departed 1575-12-31

Capacity MISC, purpose MISC