FALCONER, ALEXANDER [SSNE 2177]

Surname

FALCONER

First name

ALEXANDER

Text source

Alexander Falconer was a Scottish officer in Swedish service, who had been directed from Polish service into Swedish service by his cousin, Francis Gordon [SSNE 1520]. He thereafter served as a lieutenant in William Baillie's [SSNE 1909] regiment from 1630-1

Swedish Krigsarkiv, Muster Roll, 1630/32,33; 1631/12-17; Swedish Riksarkiv, Oxenstierna samlingen, E604. Francis Gordon to Axel Oxenstierna, 14/24 May 1630; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.271.

Service record

SWEDEN, WILLIAM BAILLIE

Departed 1631-12-31, as LIEUTENANT

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

POLAND-LITHUANIA, ARMY

Departed 1630-04-30, as LIEUTENANT

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY