ROBERTS, WILLIAM [SSNE 8483]
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William Robertson was a Scottish burgess of Stockholm in the early seventeenth century.
On 3 May 1600 William Robertson appears before the Stockholm magistrates, testifying in a case lodged against a thief named Oluf Blanch. Robertson stated that Påvel Jung's servant boy had purchased some items from Oluf Blanch, who received 1 daler for one item and half (a mark or an öre?) for another item.
This is almost certainly the same William 'Rubbetz' who in 1602 appears on a list of Stockholm burgesses of the eastern quarter of Gamla Stan who paid 4 (daler? unstated) for grain.
In 1575 a skipper name William Robertson and another Scotsman, Hans Skotte (John Scott) a soldier were noted as passengers on board a Danish vessel which had been plundered and confiscated by Hans Arfvidson in 1571. There is no direct link between the two William Robertsons, but one is possible.
Source: Stockholmsstads Tänke Böcker 1568-1575, p.617; Stockholmsstads Tänke Böcker, 1569-1599, p.49; Stockholmsstads Tänke Böcker, 1601-1602, p.337.
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- SWEDEN, STOCKHOLM
- Arrived 1600-01-01
- Departed 1602-12-31
- Capacity MERCHANT, BURGESS, purpose COMMERCIAL, TRADE