CHAMBERS, HANS [SSNE 890]

Surname

CHAMBERS, CHALMERS, KAMMER

First name

HANS, JOHN

Text source

John/Hans Chalmers/Chambers is listed as a Scottish burgess in Danzig in 1621, from Edinburgh. He may be the same man who was in favour with King Sigismund III of Poland and formed part of a Scottish mercantile community who moved with the king from Cracow to Warsaw at this time. He may be the same man as listed by Fischer as being resident in Warsaw or Crakow in 1651

C. Ozog, "Scottish Merchants in Poland 1550-1750" in Journal of the Sydney Society for Scottish History, vol.3 (1995), p.62; T. Fischer, The Scots in Eastern and Western Prussia (Edinburgh, 1903), p.195; see also A.F. Steuart, Papers relating to the Scots in Poland (Edinburgh, 1915), p.109. With thanks to Andrew Wilson for his contribution and corrections to this entry.

Service record

POLAND-LITHUANIA, DANZIG (cRACOW)

Departed 1651-12-31

Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC