ALCORN, GILBERT [SSNE 6832]

Surname

ALCORN, ALDCORNE

First name

GILBERT

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Nationality

SCOT

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Text source

Gilbert Alcorn was a Scottish merchant of Rotterdam. He was already in Rotterdam in 1650 as that year in December he, along with other members of the Rotterdam Scottish community, attested that a fellow Scotswoman (Janet Nesbit) was dishonest and untrustworthy. Alcorn sometimes suffered at the hands of this community himself as when Alexander Bisset and his family assaulted Alcorn on the Scots dike at Rotterdam in March 1656. However he probably held a position of some importance in the town. In August 1658 he was requested by Jacob Finney, a pilot, to pursue the Rotterdam Admiralty for his overdue wages. On 23 May 1660 he received a receipt from Major Murray, brother of the laird of Polmaise, on behalf of Andrew Russell [SSNE 143] for 436 gilders which had been sent over by the laird of Polmaise with Andrew Russell.

National Archives of Scotland, RH15/106/113, receipt by Major Murray to Gilbert Aldcorne; D. Catterall, Community without Borders, Scots migrants and the changing face of power in the Dutch Republic, c.1600-1700, (Brill, 2002),pp.66, 106, 226, 338-339.

Service record

THE NETHERLANDS, ROTTERDAM

Arrived 1660-01-01

Departed 1660-12-31

Capacity MERCHANT, purpose MERCANTILE, TRADE