WATSON, ROBERT [SSNE 7264]

Surname

WATSON, WATTSON

First name

ROBERT

Nationality

SCOT

Text source

Robert Watson appeared on the Gothenburg shipping register for 1689 when he sent cargo to Dundee. He may have been related to Alexander [SSNE 7265].

Sources: C. Dalhede, Handelsfamiljer på Stormaktstidens Europamarknad (3 vols., Partille, 2001), III, cdrom; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.246.

Service record

SWEDEN, GOTHENBURG

Arrived 1686-01-01

Departed 1686-12-31

Capacity MERCHANT, purpose TRADE, MERCANTILE