KENNOWAY, EDWARD [SSNE 6296]

Surname: KENNOWAY, KENNENIE, KENNEWIE
First name: EDWARD
Nationality: SCOT

Text source

Edward Kennoway lived in Danzig. On 16 July 1671 (f.1)he wrote to his brother noting that he had received the latter's first letter in Danzig in 1669. These mentioned his own earlier letters from Danzig and Konigsberg. John Purdie had been with Kennoway in Danzig but had since returned to Scotland. The letter also mentioned David Maxwell who had met with Purdie and was now in Danzig and also Kennoway's other brother James. On 5 April 1672 Edward sent another letter (f.2) mentioning brother James to John and also that he had written home via Maxwell. Between June 1672 and May 1673, Edward sent John another six brief letters which are brief and complain about the lack of letters from John. A longer letter was sent to John in June 1673 (f.9) noting that Edward had been in Stockholm and had got himself into "a laberinth of misery" in Sweden. He would have been better off had he had Patrick Maxwell's recommendation to any merchant there. By July 1673 (f.10) Kennoway was in London from where he wrote to John looking for help in establishing a venture between Stockholm and Danzig

National Records of Scotland, Kinross House Papers, GD 29/2068/1-11; NRS GD29/1478. Edward Kennoway to Adam Broun, 28 December 1675; See also same collection, GD 29/1959, 1668-1675, 35 more papers from the same man to his brother James during his "Danzig Apprenticeship". Elsinore, Some of these are addressed from Queensburgh, the Scots name for Konigsberg; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.143.

Service record

SCOTLAND, DANZIG, KONIGSBERG: Arrived 1668-01-01; Departed 1673-05-22; Capacity MERCHANT, purpose MERCANTILE, COMMERCIAL
SCOTLAND, STOCKHOLM: Arrived 1673-06-01; Departed 1673-06-30; Capacity MERCHANT, purpose MERCANTILE, TRADE
SCOTLAND, LONDON: Arrived 1673-07-04; Capacity MERCHANT, purpose TRADE, MERCANTILE
SCOTLAND, ELSINORE: Arrived 1675-12-01; Capacity MERCHANT, purpose TRADE, MERCHANT, COMMERCE