THOMSON, JACOB [SSNE 7580]
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Jacob Thomason 'kopparslagare' became a burgess of Stockholm in 1678 and clearly had an interest in the copper industry. This was not James Thomson [SSNE 6332] of Russell, Thomson, Turnbull and Baird. In one letter to Russell dated 5 April 1684 from Stockholm, James Thomson of Stirling made it quite clear that there was another man of the same name operating within the Thomson-Russell network. He stated ‘Since the 8 October [1683] I have not had a lyne from my brother nor non in Scotland. I have written to James Thomson several tymes and he answered me not lykways’. James Thomson certainly sent respects to him and his family (as well as his own sister) through Russell. A further letter from 26 April again mentioned the other James Thomson as well as this man's brother-in-law who was with Russell in Rotterdam.
Sources: Stockholm Stadsarkiv: Borgare i Stockholm. Register 1651-1688, p.259; NAS, Russell Papers, RH15/106/531. James Thomson to Andrew Russell, 5 April and 26 April 1684; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.185.
Service record
- SWEDEN, STOCKHOLM
- Arrived 1678-03-08
- Capacity COPPER MERCHANT/MANUFACTURER, purpose MERCANTILE, COMMERCE, TRADE, INDUSTRY