KESSELME, CLARA [SSNE 8283]
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Clara Kesselme was a Dutch woman and widow of one Sergeant ‘Fleck’ of the Scots-Dutch Brigade. During the Highland War (1689-92), a civil war that erupted in Scotland in the aftermath of the 1688 Revolution and 1689 Scottish Convention of Estates, the Scots-Dutch Brigade was involved in opposing the Jacobite challenge to the newly crowned King William and Queen Mary. On 27th July 1689, Sergeant Fleck was killed at the battle of Killiecrankie. Clara petitioned the Scottish Privy Council for funds so she could return to the Dutch Republic after her husband’s death. The Council granted her four Rijksdaalders on 16th September 1689 to facilitate this.
Sources:
Henry Paton (ed.), Records of the Privy Council of Scotland, Volume 14, 3rd Series (Edinburgh, 1933), Order for a precept of four rex dollars to Clara Kessline, 13th September 1689, p. 274.
National Records of Scotland, E7/5, Treasury Register, 1688-1689, 16th September 1689, f. 207.
This entry written by Mr Graeme Millen.
Keywords: Widow, female
Service record
- SCOTLAND, THE DUTCH REPUBLIC,
- Arrived 1689-07-27, as WIDOW
- Departed 1689-09-16, as REPATRIATED
- Capacity PETITIONER, purpose WIDOW