MESTERTON, ADAM [SSNE 7448]

Surname

MESTERTON, MAISTERTON, MAISTERTOUN, MESTERTOUN

First name

ADAM

Nationality

SCOT

Religion

LUTHERAN

Text source

Adam Mesterton was presumably related to (or a son of?) James Mesterton [SSNE 6696], although the records do not show a son named Adam.

In 1700 he is recorded as inhabiting a house which lies between Kråkansgränd and Bredgränden, leading down to Skeppsbron in Gamla Stan.

He is a close neighbour at this time of tobacco merchant Thomas Tottie [SSNE 6685], who lives at Skeppsbron 20, which corners onto Brunnsgränd, just two streets along from Mesterton.

There is a church record from Maria church parish noting that in November 1696 Thomas Cotti, a tobacco spinner, buried his wife in Adam Mesterton's grave. Loewe also gives Cotti's date of death as 1696. 

Sources: Stockholms Stadsarkivet, Maria Församling, Register över döda, 1681-1700, p.488; Ulla Joneborg, Diana 2 Clasons hus vid Brunnsgränd i Gamla Stan, (Stockholm, 1997), p.18. For Thomas Cotti see Walter Loewe, Tobaksspinnarna och tobaksfabrikanterna i 1600-tals Stockholm (Stockholm, 1993), p. 148.

HouseinStockholm

Service record

SWEDEN, STOCKHOLM

Arrived 1690-01-01

Departed 1700-12-31

Capacity BURGESS?, purpose TRADE?