ANGUS, ANDREW [SSNE 5068]

Surname

ANGUS, ANGUSS

First name

ANDREW

Title/rank

BURGESS

Nationality

SCOT

Region

ABERDEEN

Text source

In 1596 Andrew Angus from Aberdeen presented a birthbrieve from Aberdeen dated 8 July 1596, took the oath and paid 5 florins to be admitted citizen of Cracow. Peter Paul Bajer give the year of admission as 1597, and notes that Andrew Angus came from Balgove, near Tarves in Aberdeenshire.

Sources: A.F. Steuart, Papers Relating to the Scots in Poland, Edinburgh, 1915, p.39; Lib. Jur. Civ. Crac. 1555-1612, fo. 828; Peter Paul Bajer, Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th-18th Centuries (Leiden, 2012), p.118, n.3.

Service record

POLAND, CRACOW

Arrived 1596-01-01

Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC/MERCANTILE