FORBES, DAVID JANSEN [SSNE 4544]

Surname
FORBES
First name
DAVID JANSEN
Nationality
SCOT
Region
ABERDEEN
Social status
BURGESS

Text source

David Forbes became a burgess in Bergen, Norway in February 1622. A burgess of Bergen with the same name appears in the Court Books of Stavanger in 1665 and may have been him or a relative. His crime had been to cheat on measurements on market days.

N. Nicolaysen, Bergens Borgerbog 1550-1751 (Oslo, 1878), p.44; A. E. Erichson (ed.) Samlinger til Stavanger bys historie, vol. I (Stavanger, 1903), p.330.

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, BERGEN
Arrived 1625-02-22
Departed 1665-12-31
Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC