AIDIE, ALEXANDER [SSNE 6510]

Surname

AIDIE, AIDY, ADIE, EADIE, AEDIE

First name

ALEXANDER, AL.

Text source

Alexander Aidie was a Scot from Aberdeen who emigrated to Poland-Lithuania in 1637 with his wife Helen Barclay. He became a merchant of Danzig. Their daughter Catherine [SSNE 6509] married Daniel Davidson [SSNE 960/967]. James Schairp, son of the Laird of Houston, wrote to his father from Danzig asking for help so that Mr Aidie [Eadie] in Danzig would employ the writer as his servant. That was either this man or James Aidie [SSNE 7080]. It was probably this Al. Aedie who contributed £535 in 1686 to the Marischal College restoration fund

T. Fischer, The Scots in Germany (Edinburgh, 1902), p.268; A. Bieganska, "Andrew Davidson (1591-1660) and his descendants" in Scottish Slavonic Review, 10 (1988), pp.7-18; National Archives of Scotland, GD 30/1453, 12 July 1679.

Service record

POLAND-LITHUANIA, DANZIG

Departed 1686-12-31

Capacity MERCHANT, purpose MERCANTILE