ELMSLIE, GEORGE [SSNE 5094]
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George Elmslie was an Aberdonian who became a burgess of Cracow.
On 16 February 1608 George Elmslie from Aberdeen supplied his birthbrieve from Aberdeen dated 6 March 1598, took the oath and paid 8 florins to become a citizen of Cracow. As his wares had been burnt at the Warsaw Diet, the Lords relieved him of 18 florins 16 grosz, a musket with fittings and half a stone of gunpowder.
This is likely the same man who testified that Patrick Orem[SSNE 5132] was the son of Thomas Orem [SSNE 5133] and Susanna Hoydt.
Sources: A.F. Steuart, Papers relating to the Scots in Poland 1576-1793, (Edinburgh, 1915), pp.45-46; Lib. Jur. Civ. Crac. 1555-1612, fo.1046; Peter Paul Bajer, Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th-18th Centuries, (Leiden, 2012), p.118, n.2.
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- POLAND, CRACOW
- Arrived 1608-02-16
- Departed 1623-12-31
- Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC/MERCANTILE