NEAVE, MARIA [SSNE 6272]
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Mary Neave/ Maria Näf was one of three daughters of James Neave [SSNE 4218] and Karin Hampe, daughter of a Stockholm merchant Jakob Hampe and his wife Dordi. Maria inherited some property from her mother after her death in 1603. On 5 January 1606 she married Johan Skytte [SSNE 4754] who had been the tutor to crown prince Gustav II Adolf. Queen Christina, Karl IX's wife, paid for the wedding and the crown prince gave a speech on Maria's behalf. She had 9 children with Johan, of which 7 survived: Vendela [SSNE 6282], Anna [SSNE 2775], Maria [SSNE 7269], Johan [SSNE 6280], Bengt [SSNE 4842], Heldina and Jakob [SSNE 4920]. She held various properties in and around Stockholm. On 16 May 1647, Maria made a letter of donation dated in Stockholm. In it she detailed that a stone house she had had constructed on Västerlånggatan (in Gamla Stan) which she had made over to her son Hans Kyle and his late wife, Maria's daughter Vendela and their descendants; thus she specified that her granddaughter Maria Kyle should be assigned the house as her inheritance. Further, Maria specified that her half share in their late father's (Johan Skytte) house was to go to her daughter Anna Skytte, which lay at the South gate into Stockholm.
Maria Neave died in 1649 and her funeral oration was held in Uppsala on 13 January 1650.
Sources: Swedish Riksarkiv, Depositio Skytteana A:5, E5412. Johan Skyttes handlingar: Maria Jakobsdotter Näf’s ”Gåvobrev” (Letter of Donation), 16 May 1647 ”Gåvobrev” (Letter of Donation), 16 May 1647; Swedish Riksarkivet, Palmskiöldska Samlingen, vol.227, p.25.
B. Schlegel and C. A. Klingspor, Den med skoldebref forlanade men ej a Riddarhuset introducerad Svenska Adelns Ättar-taflor (Stockholm, 1875) p.201; T. Berg, Johan Skytte, (Stockholm, 1920), pp.112-113; L. Ericson, Historien om Johan Skytte – Borgarsonen som blev kungens lärare, Populär Historia 1/99; J.Berg and B. Lagercranz, Scots in Sweden (Stockholm, 1962), p.18; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), pp.59, 99.
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HouseinStockholm
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- SWEDEN,
- Departed 1650-01-12
- Capacity MISC, purpose MISC