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Robert Lichton in 1662 ; Robert Kininmund in 1679, and
others.1 Among the children baptised in that church, we
mention two of Kahuns or Kahunds (Colquhoun) in 1617
and 1620.2 Other Scotsmen preferred the Tyskan Kyrka,
or the German Church, for functions of the kind. Jacob
Porteous is married there in 1642, also Lieut.-Colonel
Robert Douglas to the widow of Captain William
Black-hall, and foolish old “ Doctor Jacobus Robertsonius a
Struan,” a few years before his death at the age of
eighty-four, led to the altar the daughter of Major Alexander
Seitserf, a young girl of seventeen! Here also with
unfailing annual regularity Albrecht Gerner has his many
children baptised, whilst we find that John Maclean (now
changed from Maclier to Maclin), a wine merchant, on a
similar festive occasion, had asked for godfathers
Town-Councillor Charles Feif and the Countess Hedvig Horn
(3rd October 1695).3
The characteristic trait of the Scot abroad of “ sticking
closely together,” which, as we have seen elsewhere,
became quite a reproach in the eyes of the offended
German tradespeople, reveals itself in Sweden as well.
As wives, godfathers, witnesses, or bailsmen, they prefer
their own people. Gradually, of course, this feeling died
out; the little Davids, Roberts, and Alexanders became
Erics, Gustafs, and Olafs. The surnames were also changed
to accommodate themselves to the Swedish ear and
spelling, and soon their Scottish blood was but a
recollection. They became good Swedes, paid their taxes, served
in the town-militia,4 and filled other public functions. They
1 See Wrangel, Vigselbok of St Nicolai Kyrka.
2 One of these children is probably the Kahun who died in Batavia in
1672, and whose inheritance caused such troublesome correspondence
between the magistrates and the Swedish claimants.
3 See Deutsches Kirchenluch von Stockholm.
4 In 1661 and 1674 we find Jacob Leyel, Walker, Guthrie, Buchan,
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