OREM, PATRICK [SSNE 5132]
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Patrick/Peter Orem was an Aberdonian who became a burgess of Cracow in 1599.
In 1599 Patrick Orum provided his birthbrieve dated Aberdeen 7 February 1596, took the oath, paid 20 florins and was admitted a citizen of Cracow.
When King Sigismund of Poland granted some Scots the right to ply their trade in Poland in 1613, a Peter Orem was one of the 8 Scots listed. He may have been the same as Peter Orem who in 1623 called Christopher Karniorki, Syndic of Cracow, and George Elmslie [SSNE 5094] to testify that he was the son of Thomas Orem [SSNE 5133] and Susanna Hoydt.
Sources: A.F. Steuart, Papers Relating to the Scots in Poland 1576-1793, (Edinburgh, 1915), pp.8-9, 53, 54; Lib. Jur. Civ. Crac. 1555-1612, fo.866; Peter Paul Bajer, Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th-18th Centuries, (Leiden, 2012), p.118, n.2.
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- POLAND, CRACOW
- Arrived 1599-01-01
- Departed 1623-12-31
- Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC/MERCANTILE