GUTHRIE, WILLIAM [SSNE 830]

Surname

GUTHRIE

First name

WILLIAM

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

BURGESS

Text source

William Guthrie, the son of his namesake [SSNE 798], became a burgess in Stockholm on 20 October 1660. William was appointed as the interpreter for the Scottish and English languages by the Magistrates of Stockholm on 7 July 1680. He was also a Public Notary. He may have been the same as William Guthrie noted in the Gothenburg shipping registers as freighting goods to Leith in 1667. If this man was the father of Jakob Gutherie the soldier, then his wife's name was Margareta Dargeman. Their son was born in 1685 and went on to become a major in the army.

Stockholm Stadsarkiv: Borgare i Stockholm. Register 1651-1688, p.77; T. Fischer, The Scots in Sweden (Edinburgh, 1907), p.216, p.266; A. Lewenhaupt, Karl XII:s Officerare Biografiska anteckningar (2 vols., Stockholm, 1920), I, p.254; C. Dalhede, Handelsfamiljer på Stormaktstidens Europamarknad (3 vols., Partille, 2001)III, cdrom.

Service record

SWEDEN, STOCKHOLM

Arrived 1659-01-01

Departed 1690-12-31

Capacity BURGESS, NOTARY, purpose CIVIC, LEGAL