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ancestor of a number of well-to-do merchants in
Stockholm and Gefle. His grandson, Carl, became Swedish
Consul-General in London, and was known for his
philanthropic efforts on behalf of the Swedish Church,
the Bible Society, and the Society of Friends of
Foreigners in Distress. In honour of his jubilee a gold
medal was struck at the expense of Swedes and
Norwegians in London. He died in 1870, at the ripe old age
of eighty-nine years.1
Thomas Cunnigam was a silk-merchant; W. Strang
dealt in cloth. Quite a number of these settlers were
small u Kramers.” Among the handicraftsmen were several
Scottish goldsmiths: two Clercks, A. Lockhart, H. Feif,
and his sons. David Chalmers was a tailor, one of the
many Macliers a wine-merchant (Källarmästare), Robert
Turner a ship-builder (1674), and James Halliday a
brewer, who received permission in 1676 to brew a
certain quantity of malt. Of the Jordan family a number
were bakers and brewers, whilst two of the Mastertons
were rope-makers in Nyköping. Glovers seem to have
been wanted badly in Stockholm in the XVIIth century,
for in 1688 one Patrick Thompson laid quite an elaborate
plan before the Magistrates of bringing a number of
Scotch glovers “ who worked well in lamb-skins.” The
town treasury was to provide the means and pay for
each master-glover 100 Thaler, for each “ pojke,” i.e.
apprentice, 4 Thaler. I have tried in vain to discover
what became of the plan.
Most of these Scotch inhabitants and citizens of
Stockholm owned house-property. In quite a number of cases
so-called u Fastebref ” (charters of seizin) were given
them; for instance, in 1655, Alexander Buchan is granted
1 See Svenika, Ättartal, 1890, and for Jordan and Masterton, Af
Klercker’s Gctieal. Sami., in the Royal Library, Stockholm.
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