HEECQ, ANDRIES [SSNE 7965]

Surname
HEECQ, HAIGE, HAIG
First name
ANDRIES, ANDROW, ANDREW
Nationality
SCOT
Social status
SOLDIER

Text source

Andrew Haig was a musketeer serving under Captain Jan Janssen van Nieuwmegen. He named William Scott, sergeant to one Captain Hacket (most likely of the Scots-Dutch Brigade), his heir. 

 

Sources: Rotterdam Notarial Archive

http://www.stadsarchief.rotterdam.nl/archieven?mivast=184&mizig=365&miadt=184&milang=en&miview=ldt

GRONA (Nicolaas v.d. Hagen), 118/53/113. Testament, 23 March 1624.

Steve Murdoch, “The Repatriation of Capital to Scotland, a case study of seventeenth-century Dutch testaments and miscellaneous notarial instruments,” in Mario Varricchio (ed.), Back to Caledonia: Scottish Homecomings from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (Edinburgh, 2012), p. 41.

 

This entry created by Mr Jack Abernethy.

Service record

THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, ROTTERDAM
Arrived 1624-03-23
Capacity MUSKETEER, purpose MILITARY