CRAWFORD, JAMES [SSNE 6713]

Surname

CRAWFORD, KRAFFERT, CRAFOORD

First name

JAMES

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

BURGESS

Text source

James Crawford was a merchant burgess of Stockholm c.1604. It was probably this man whose wife was amongst the godparents at Erik Cahun's [SSNE 7289] child's baptism at St Nikolai church in September 1620.

 

Sources: Stockholm Stadsarkiv, St Nikolai kyrkas döpbok från och med 1611 till och med 1622, p.53; C. Dalhede, Handelsfamiljer på Stormaktstidens Europamarknad (3 vols., Partille, 2001), II, p.423; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.192.

 

Service record

SWEDEN, STOCKHOLM

Arrived 1604-01-01

Departed 1620-12-31

Capacity MERCHANT BURGESS, purpose MERCANTILE, TRADE, COMMERCE