HEBORN, ALEXANDER [SSNE 7357]

Surname

HEBORN, HEPBURN, HEBRON, HEBRUNN

First name

ALEXANDER, SANDER, SANNER

Nationality

SCOT

Text source

An Alexander Hepburn first appears in the Stockholmsstads tankeboker in 1573. He was possibly a military man engaged with the Scottish troops serving in Sweden at the time. There are further references to Alexander Hebron in 1608, 1610 - noted as a Scottish merchant - and in 1616. Whether these are two separate men or the same individual is yet to be clarified. The merchant appears to have moved to Abo (Turku) in Finalnd 1616 where he married Katarina (aka Karin) Thomasdottir Traill (a daughter of Thomas Trail who had arrived in the area c.1600 . Hepburn died in February 1630.

 

A letter from him, and another from Katarina Traill, his widow, and dated in Abo is found in RA Oxenstiernasamlingen E621.

Veli-Pekka Toropainen, Skottirotta ja Ruotsin koira - Turun ulkomaalainen porvaristo vuosina 1600-1660 (Genos, 2003), p.209; Curt Haij, 'Skottar i Stockholm under 1600-talet', unpublished list of names, Hintze biblioteket, Genealogiska Föreningen, Sundbyberg, Stockholm.

Thanks to Ardis Dreisbach for this information; Sylvi Möller: Suomen tapulikaupunkien valtaporvaristoja sen kaupankäyntimenetelmät 1600-luvun alkupuolella (Helsinki 1954). Thanks to Bengt Rostedt for this last reference.

Service record

SWEDEN, STOCKHOLM

Arrived 1572-11-30

Departed 1616-05-12

Purpose MISC

SWEDEN, ABO, FINLAND

Arrived 1616-01-01

Departed 1630-02-10

Capacity MERCHANT, purpose TRADE, COMMERCE