MIRISSON, WILLIAM [SSNE 6465]

Surname

MIRISSON, MURISSON, MORRISON?

First name

WILLIAM

Title/rank

CAPTAIN

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

NOBILITY

Text source

William Murisson was the brother of Alexander [SSNE 6464] and like him he too was a captain whose status as nobleman in Poland-Lithuania was confirmed in 1676 as a reward for valour

B. Treliska, ed. Album armorum nobilium regni Poloniae XV-XVIII saec. (Lublin, 2001), p.1245. Thanks to Professor Waldemar Kowalski for this information. See also R. Frost, "Scottish soldiers, Poland-Lithuania and the Thirty Years' War" in S. Murdoch ed. Scotland and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (Brill, 2001), p.211.

Service record

POLAND-LITHUANIA,

Arrived 1676-01-01, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1676-12-31, as CAPTAIN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY