JACK, JAMES [SSNE 7210]

Surname

JACK

First name

JAMES, JACOB, JAKOB

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

BURGESS, MERCHANT

Text source

James Jack became a burgess of Gothenburg in 1654. He was most likely related to William Jack [SSNE 4686]. Dalhede's database of trade to and from Gothenburg in the seventeenth century lists James as one of the regular traders with Scotland between 1653 and 1666, those places specified were Anstruther in 1662, Leith in 1663 and Dundee in 1666. He also traded with Norway and France in 1653; Copenhagen in 1655; Aalborg in 1660; Danzig, Sardam and Malmö in 1661; Varberg in 1662; Bergen and Yarmouth in 1663; and Lisbon in 1666. This may be the same James Jack noted in the Stockholmsstads tankeboker in 1632 on 22 September, perhaps he first emigrated to Stockholm and then moved to Gothenburg? In 1658 a James Jack again appears in Stockholm records (Kamnarsratten) as involved in a case against Alexander Jack and Thomas Annands.

E. Långström, Göteborgs Stads Borgarelängd 1621-1864 (Gothenburg: 1926), 34; C. Dalhede, Handelsfamiljer på Stormaktstidens Europamarknad (3 vols., Partille, 2001), III, cd rom. Curt Haij, 'Skottar i Stockholm under 1600-talet', unpublished list of names, Hintze biblioteket, Genealogiska Föreningen, Sundbyberg, Stockholm.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 1632-09-22

Departed 1632-12-31

Purpose MISC

SWEDEN, GOTHENBURG

Arrived 1653-01-01

Departed 1666-12-31

Capacity BURGESS, MERCHANT, purpose CIVIC, TRADE, MERCANTILE