LYALL, ADAM JACOBSSON [SSNE 836]

Surname

LYALL, LEIJEL, LEYEL

First name

ADAM JACOBSSON

Text source

Adam Jacobsson Leijel was the son of James Leijel [SSNE 4934] of Arbroath in Scotland. He was born in Stockholm in December 1658. He is probably the same Adam Leyel who became a burgess of Stockholm on 29 October 1670. By 1672 he matriculated at Uppsala University (07/12/1672) and later he became the factory owner of Hammarby Ironworks. He was eventually naturalised as a Swede on 28/05/1717 and introduced into the Riddarhus in 1719 under the number 1533. In an act of charity Adam endowed a poorhouse at Hammarby near Nora, and gave an endowment to the University of Uppsala. He died unmarried and childless in 1729. In his life he is accredited with various methods of ironworking. These methods were transfered to the Hallefors Silverworks of which his cousin, Adam Henriksson Leijell [SSNE 3772], became director in 1718. It was for this invention that he was ennobled. Adam established a stipend at Uppsala Academy. He had three important uncles in Sweden, David [SSNE 824], Adam [SSNE 6493] and Henrik [SSNE 3614]

 

Stockholm Stadsarkiv: Borgare i Stockholm. Register 1651-1688, p.150; Swedish Riksarkiv, Bergskollegium till K. Maj:t. 10/11/1698 and 17/12/1723; Svenska Adelns Ättartavlor, vol. IV, p.521; T. Fischer, The Scots in Sweden (Edinburgh, 1907), p.216; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), pp.189-191. See also correspondence: Riksarkivets ämnessamlingar. Personhistoria https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0069813_00347#?c=&m=&s=&cv=346&xywh=-1179%2C1496%2C8962%2C5168

 

Carl von Linné 'Nemesis Divina' (1770), p.287. We thank Peter Leyel for this last reference.

Service record

SWEDEN, STOCKHOLM

Departed 1729-12-31

Capacity BURGESS, FOUNDRY OWNER, IRON MERCHANT, purpose CIVIC, MERCANTILE, TRADE

SWEDEN, UPPSALA

Departed 1673-12-31

Capacity STUDENT, purpose ACADEMIC