CARMICHAEL, JAMES [SSNE 5462]
- Surname
- CARMICHAEL, KARMICHEL
- First name
- JAMES, JACOB
- Nationality
- SCOT
Text source
James Carmichael, citizen and merchant of Cracow, was one of several Scottish merchants in Poland ordered to liquidate his estate on behalf of the "King of England" in February 1651. He had liquidated his estate worth 6000 Imperial thaler by 1 March 1651 when he was charged with not paying the tithe. He subsequently took the oath and paid a tithe of 600 thaler. He was an elder of Cracow when he was buried on March 28 1678, having taken ill on Christmas day. He may be the same as the Jacob Carmichel [SSNE 5077] who married Anne Dixon in 1642. This is probably the same Carmichael whose house was attacked in 1647 at the hands of a local mob due to the fact that he was a dissenter and author of 'Disputatio ethica' published in Leipzig in 1673A.F. Steuart, Papers Relating to the Scots in Poland 1576-1793 (Edinburgh, 1915), pp.80-81, pp.113-114; A.B. Pernal and R.P. Gasse, The 1651 Polish Subsidy to the exiled Charles II, Oxford Slavonic Papers, vol xxxii (Oxford, 1999), p.20, p.35; Z. Guldon and L. Stepkowski, Szkoci i Anglicy w Koronie w polowie XVII wieku, Kieleckie Studia Historyczne, ii (1977); C. Ozog, "Scottish Merchants in Poland 1550-1750" in Journal of the Sydney Society for Scottish History, vol.3, (1995), p.65; A. Bieganska, " In search of Tolerance, Scottish Catholics and Presbyterians in Poland", Scottish Slavonic Review, 17 (1991), p.46; A. Bieganska, The Learned Scots in Poland (From the Mid-Sixteenth to the close of the Eighteenth Century) in 'Canadian Slavonic Review, Vol. XLIII, No. 1, March 2001, p.7.
Service record
- POLAND, CRACOW
- Arrived 1651-03-01
- Departed 1678-03-28
- Capacity MERCHANT AND ELDER, purpose CIVIC/MERCANTILE