UDNIE, JOHN [SSNE 5142]

Surname

UDNIE, UDNY

First name

JOHN

Title/rank

BURGESS

Nationality

SCOT

Region

ABERDEEN

Text source

John Udny of Selbie (Selby), near Keith hall, was an Aberdeenshire burgess of Cracow in 1598.

In 1598 John Udny, a Scottish trader, provided a birthbrieve dated Aberdeen 15 June 1594, took the oath, paid 10 Hungarian gold pieces and became a citizen of Cracow. John Mora (SSNE 5143) and Albert Kyn (SSNE 5114) guaranteed that Udny would marry or buy land within a year against the penalty of paying 100 Hungarian gold pieces. 

Sources: A.F. Steuart, Papers Relating to the Scots in Poland 1576-1793, Edinburgh, 1915, p.56; Lib. Jur. Civ. Crac. 1555-1612, fo.860; Peter Paul Bajer, Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th-18th Centuries (Leiden, 2012), p.119, n.3.

Service record

POLAND, CRACOW

Arrived 1598-01-01

Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC/MERCANTILE