LYALL, MARIA [SSNE 7552]

Surname

LYALL, LEYEL, LEIJELL, LEIJEL, LYELL

First name

MARIA

Nationality

SCOT

Text source

Maria Lyall (1647-1740) was the daughter of James Lyall of Arbroath [SSNE 4934] and Barbara Martha Dress (1632-1694). She married Sven Möhlman (1636-87), and had a son Jacob (1685-1761), who inherited the Leijel fortune when his uncle Adam [SSNE 836] died. After the death of Möhlman, she was married on 12 Aug 1706 to Peter Schnack (born Nyköping in 1632, died in Stockholm on 31 July 1713). Maria was his 4th wife. Schnack (or Snack) was governor of Gotland County in 1710, and had been a councilor at the court of Queen Christina in 1653. Schnack was enobled on 3 May 1688 and introduced into the Riddarhus in 1699 under number 1132. 

 

Sources: Carl von Linné 'Nemesis Divina' (1770), p.287; Anders Anton von Stiernman, Matrikel öfwer Swea rikes ridderskap och adel Anders Anton von Stiernman (Royal Press 1755), pp.827-828; Vilhelm Fredrik Palmblad, Biographiskt Lexicon öfver namnkunnige svenska män (Uppsala, 1847), pp.74-76. 

 

See also: Riksarkivets ämnessamlingar. Personhistoria https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0069813_00300#?c=&m=&s=&cv=299&xywh=457%2C2765%2C3616%2C2085

 

Female. 

 

We thank Peter Leyel for updating these references.

Service record

SWEDEN,

Arrived 1657-01-01

Departed 1740-10-02

Capacity MISC, purpose MISC