BROWNE, HENRY [SSNE 6642]

Surname

BROWNE, BROUN, BRUN, BROWN, BRAUNJOHAN

First name

HENRY, HENRIK, HENRIE

Text source

Henrie Browne is mentioned in a letter of decreet from the Scottish admiralty as having sent a letter to John Spalding “A knowne merchand in Dunkirk” [SSNE 4941]. Browne 'at Gothenburg' was married to the said Spalding’s sister, Anna [SSNE 6416]. In fact, Henrie was none other than Kommisar Henrik Braunjohan, merchant and councillor in Gothenburg and married Anna on 7 January 1668.

Sources: National Archives of Scotland, AC7/3, Register of Decreets, 1672-1673, ff.202-221. 4 October 1672. Captain Patrick Gordon against Andreas Nielson, The Fortune; Eduard Spalding, Geschichtliches, urkunnden, stamm-tafeln der Spalding in Schottland, Deutschland und Schweden: Während der letzten sechs jahrhunderte, speciell der Deutsche zweig der familie (Greifswald, 1898), Appendix V, Family tree for Johan Spalding in Gothenburg; Svenska Adelns Ättartavlor, vol. 7, p.371; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.226.

Service record

SWEDEN, GOTHENBURG

Capacity MERCHANT, purpose TRADE, COMMERCE, MERCANTILE