INNES, JOHN [SSNE 6115]

Surname

INNES

First name

JOHN

Nationality

SCOT

Text source

John Innes left Scotland as a religious refugee in 1580. He settled in Emden in Ostfreisland where he died in the early 1600s. John had a son called Johan who was born in Emden in 1600. He changed his name to Ennes and left for Sweden in the 1630s where he became a merchant in Helsingborg. He died in 1658.

B. A. Ennes, Biografiska Minnen af Konung Carl XII:s Krigare (Stockholm, 1818), p.195.

Service record

OSTFRIESLAND, EMDEN

Arrived 1580-01-01

Departed 1610-12-31

Capacity RELIGIOUS REFUGEE, purpose MISC, REFUGEE