TAYLOR, BORICK [SSNE 7157]

Surname

TAYLOR, TAILOUR

First name

BORICK

Nationality

SCOT or ENGLISH

Text source

Borick Tailour worked as one of the 'English' merchants in Hamburg in 1686. In September that year, David Melville Earl of Leven [SSNE 5000] briefly stayed with him while in exile. The fact he was prepared to help Melville suggests he was a hard core Protestant, though by Leven's own hand it is clear he could not give him any more help than hospitality

National Archives of Scotland, Russell Papers, RH15/106/609. Leven to Andrew Russell, 30 August (Helmstad) and 14 September (Hamburg) 1686; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.112.

Service record

STUART KINGDOMS, ENGLAND, HAMBURG

Arrived 1686-07-01

Capacity MERCHANT, purpose TRADE, COMMERCE