DUNDIE, WALTER [SSNE 8493]
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Walter Dundee was a Scottish merchant active in Stockholm in the latter decades of the sixteenth century.
On 3 September 1575 Walter Dundee, along with a skipper named Peter Wolterson (noted as "of Fleland", perhaps a typo for "Zeeland" in the Netherlands?), came before the Stockholm magistrates to state that the skipper had sold a ship, named Losman's boat, to Dundee in the presence of Walter Larenson, Cornelis van Bergen, Johan Porter, and Randolph Tytdken. The sale had cost Dundee 980 daler, which included the furnishings on board the boat. Dundee had so far paid the skipper 180 daler and the rest was waiting for the skipper with a burgess in Danzig named 'Hans Kilfans' (probably John Kilfaun). However, if this fell through the boat was to return to the skipper who was not obliged to return the 180 daler to Dundee.
As yet this appears to be the only mention of this man. His name and period of activity is suspiciously close to that of Blasius Dundie's [SSNE 768] first appearance in Stockholm. We have no information whether there was any familiar relation between these two. It is equally possible that they are one and the same individual and that 'Wolter' is a mis-transcription for 'Blasius' or that the secretary simply put the wrong name down.
Source: Stockholmsstads tänke böcker 1568-1575, (Stockholm, 1941) pp.606-7. For John Kinfauns see Peter Paul Bajer, Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th-18th Centuries, (Leiden, 2012), p.119, n.4.
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- SWEDEN, STOCKHOLM
- Arrived 1575-01-01
- Departed 1575-12-31
- Capacity BURGESS, purpose MERCANTILE, CIVIC