BLACK, JOHAN [SSNE 7476]
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John (Johan) Black was a Scotsman who lived and worked in Stockholm in the latter decades of the seventeenth century.
From 1690 onwards he was recorded as working in the Stockholm tobacco trade. He began his activities as a tobacco spinner working for Patrick Thomson [SSNE 6475]. He was registered as living in the "eastern quarter" of Gamla Stan, thus likely somewhere near the Skottgränden area. He had 3 servant girls, 2 of whom were named Annika and the third was called Kerstin.
In 1692 John Black was working for Anthoni Cleophas, another active member of the tobacco industry in Stockholm. John Black contributed 3 daler copper coin to the business. Cleophas died in 1693, however.
John Black was married to Lillias Harvits (possibly Harwich?) and they had five children baptised in Nikolai Kyrka: Johannes born in 1690, William born in 1692, Maria born in 1694, two unbaptised children who died in July 1697, Gertrud born in 1698, and another unbaptised child who died in 1699.
Sources: Stockholm Stadsarkiv, (Storkyrkan) Nikolai församling dopböker, 1623-1717, I, p.359. Walter Loewe, Tobaksspinnarna och tobaksfabrikanterna i 1600-tals Stockholm (Stockholm, 1993), p.110, 146.
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- SWEDEN, STOCKHOLM
- Arrived 1690-01-01
- Departed 1699-12-31
- Capacity TOBACCO SPINNER, purpose TRADE, MERCANTILE