GOURLAY, THOMAS [SSNE 7148]
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Thomas Gourlay was a Scottish skipper who worked for the the joint stock company of Andrew Russell [SSNE 143], Patrick Thomson [SSNE 6475], James Thomson [SSNE 6332] and Robert Turnbull in Stirling. Gourlay signed a bill of Anchorage in May 1685 indicating that he had paid money out to the Scottish consul in Elsinore, Patrick Lyall [SSNE 1144]. On 23 May 1685, Patrick Thomson wrote to Andrew Russell indicating that he had been aboard his ship in Norrkoping. According to one letter of 11 July 1685, when Gourlay passed through Elsinore he stayed at the house of the Scottish merchant there, David Melvin [SSNE 1159].National Archives of Scotland, Russell Papers, RH15/106/574. Bill of Anchorage, 19 May 1685 and various letters of Patrick & James Thomson (1685); RH15/106/576/6. David Melvin to Andrew Russell, 11 July 1685; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), pp.81, 160.
Service record
- SCOTLAND, STUART KINGDOMS, ELSINORE
- Arrived 1685-05-15
- Capacity SKIPPER, purpose TRADE
- SCOTLAND, STUART KINGDOMS, NORRKOPING
- Arrived 1685-05-23
- Capacity SKIPPER, purpose TRADE
- SCOTLAND, STUART KINGDOMS, ELSINORE
- Departed 1685-07-15
- Capacity SKIPPER, purpose TRADE