MONKHOUSE, JOHN [SSNE 6486]

Surname
MONKHOUSE, MUNKHOUSE OF LOINMUIE
First name
JOHN, JAN
Title/rank
BURGESS
Nationality
SCOT
Region
ABERDEENSHIRE

Text source

John Monkhouse of Loinmuie (Luinen), Aberdeenshire was admitted a burgess of Cracow in 1595.

In 1622 John Monkhouse freely resigned his citizenship of Cracow and moved to Danzig.

Sources: C. Ozog, "Scottish Merchants in Poland 1550-1750" in Journal of the Sydney Society for Scottish History, vol.3, (1995), p.64; see also A.F. Steuart, Scots in Poland, p.53; Peter Paul Bajer, Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th-18th Centuries (Leiden, 2012), p.118, n.3.

Service record

POLAND-LITHUANIA, CRACOW
Arrived 1595-01-01
Departed 1621-12-31
Capacity BURGESS, purpose MERCANTILE
POLAND-LITHUANIA, DANZIG, DANZIG
Arrived 1622-01-01
Departed 0000-01-01
Capacity BURGESS, purpose MERCANTILE