EDISLAY, GEORGE [SSNE 1104]
- Surname
- EDISLAY
- First name
- GEORGE, GEORGIUS
- Title/rank
- BURGESS
- Nationality
- SCOT
- Region
- NEWBATTLE, MIDLOTHIAN
- Social status
- BURGESS
Text source
George Edislay was listed in Posen, Poland in 1667 as a Scottish burgess from Newbattle. He had to provide a birthbrieve from Scotland and promise to convert to Catholicism within a year in order to become a burgess. Along with him were James Watson [SSNE 1103] and William Abercrombie [SSNE 1106]A.F. Steuart, Papers Relating to the Scots in Poland, 1576-1793 (Edinburgh, 1915), p.xxxii; T. Fischer, The Scots in Eastern and Western Prussia (Edinburgh, 1903), p.59, p.212.
Service record
- POLAND, POSEN
- Arrived 1667-01-01
- Departed 1667-12-31
- Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC