YOUNG, HANS [SSNE 4689]

Surname

YOUNG, JUNG, JUNGH

First name

HANS, JOHAN, JOHN

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

BURGESS

Text source

John (Hans) Young was first a burgess, since 1621, and then a councillor of Gothenburg from 1624-1637. In the citizens list for 1639 his occupation was given as timber trader. Dalhede notes two individuals called Hans Jung in her database, although it seems likely they may be the same man who undertook shipments from 1641 through till 1675. If so he traded with Spain in 1641, with Amsterdam (1649, 1652, 1661), Copenhagen (1650), Hamburg (1651, 1652, 1653, 1654, 1656, 1657, 1658, 1665) and Aalborg (1655) and with London in 1675.

 

Sources: E. Långström, Göteborgs Stads Borgarelängd 1621-1864, (Göteborg, 1926), p.24; H. Fröding, Berättelser ur Göteborgs äldsta historia (Gothenburg, 1908), p.61; H. Almquist, Göteborgs Historia, (Gothenburg, 1929), pp.86, 320-321; E-B. Grage, 'Scottish merchants in Gothenburg, 1621-1850', in T.C. Smout, ed, Scotland and Europe 1200-1850, (Edinburgh, 1986), p.112; C. Dalhede, Handelsfamiljer på Stormaktstidens Europamarknad (3 vols., Partille, 2001)III, cdrom.

Service record

SWEDEN, GOTHENBURG

Arrived 1621-01-01

Departed 1637-12-31

Capacity BURGESS, COUNCILLOR, purpose CIVIC, MERCANTILE