WATSON, HANS [SSNE 804]
- Surname
- WATSON
- First name
- HANS
- Title/rank
- PARSON
- Nationality
- SCOT
- Region
- GRONBY
- Social status
- ECCLESIASTICAL
- Education
- UNIVERSITY
- Religion
- LUTHERAN
Text source
Hans Watson was born in 1596. He was the son of Oluf Watson the Parson of Gronby 1594, who was dead by 1618, and Margrethe Hansdatter died 1623. Hans matriculated at the university of Copenhagen in 1613, and he studied at Wittenberg 1616-8. He was the parson of Gronby 1618. He died in 1650.T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.184; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.115.
Service record
- DENMARK-NORWAY, GRONBY
- Arrived 1596-01-01
- Departed 1612-12-31
- Capacity PARSON, purpose ECCLESIASTICAL
- DENMARK-NORWAY, COPENHAGEN
- Arrived 1613-01-01
- Departed 1613-12-31
- Capacity STUDENT, purpose ACADEMIC
- , WITTENBURG
- Arrived 1616-01-01
- Departed 1618-12-31
- Capacity STUDENT, purpose ACADEMIC
- DENMARK-NORWAY, GRONBY
- Arrived 1618-06-01
- Departed 1650-12-31
- Capacity PARSON, purpose ECCLESIASTICAL