SKENE, DAVID [SSNE 1034]
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David Skene was the son of Robert Skene of Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire. He was a Scottish burgess in Posen in 1586. Apparently he returned to Scotland as a bond was served on him in 1593. His brother, Robert, also became a burgess in Posen then. The parish records of the St Sebald church in Nuremberg state that a David Skin from Scotland, resident of Posen in Poland, died in the town on 15 May 1605.
T. Fischer, The Scots in Eastern and Western Prussia (Edinburgh, 1903), p.204; W.F. Skene, Memorials of the family of Skene of Skene (Edinburgh, 1887), p.125; A. Grosjean and S. Murdoch, Belhelvie a Millenium of History, (Aberdeen, 2001) p.22; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.233; Kirchenburch St Sebald-Nurnberg, Bestattungen, 1588-1606, f. 252v (courtesy of Govind Sreenivasan).
Record updated by Dr Kathrin Zickermann.
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- Arrived 0000-01-01
- Departed 0000-01-01
- POLAND, POSEN
- Arrived 1586-01-01
- Departed 1593-12-31
- Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC