KINGO, JOHN THOMAS [SSNE 5353]

Surname

KINGO

First name

JOHN THOMAS

Nationality

SCOT

Region

CRAIL, FIFE

Text source

John Thomas Kingo was born in Scotland, but later moved to Denmark where he worked as a silk weaver in Slangerup and Elsinore. He was the father of Thomas Kingo, Bishop of Odense.

Allgemeines Kunsterlexicon Internationale Kunstlerdatenbank; Bent Rying et. al. (eds.), Denmark, an official handbook (Copenhagen, 1970), p.609; T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, pp.65-66; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.115.

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, ELSINORE, SLANGERUP

Arrived 1590-01-01

Departed 1650-12-31

Capacity WEAVER, ARTIST, purpose COMMERCE. MISC.