PATTILLO, MARGARET [SSNE 6495]
- Surname
- PATTILLO, PATILLO, PATULLO (married STRANG)
- First name
- MARGARET, MARGARETHA
- Nationality
- SCOT
- Region
- FIFE OR PERTHSHIRE
Text source
Margaret Pattillo was the wife of William Strang [SSNE 807]. He was a Scot who was made a burgess of Stockholm in 1649 and who was engaged in the iron trade. There are numerous records relating to Strang in the Swedish archives. From these letters it emerges that William Strang was also a burgess of Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic and certainly had many trading links with other Scots, although one of these letters erroneously implies that William might have been English. This has been disproved by the information found in Reid's history of Forfar which recounts William Strang's gifting of a bell to the burgh in 1656. William was the brother of Robert Strang [SSNE 3606], noted as a native of Forfar and a burgess of Stockholm, who had initiated the project of gifting a bell to the kirk and burgh of Forfar. After Robert's death in April 1651 his brother, William, took over the project. On 2 August 1657 William sent a letter to the Forfar magistrates in reply to one received from them dated 2 June and in which, in an act of charity, he decreed that the proceeds from the use of the bell should be divided amongst the poor of Forfar. Margaret Pattillo is known to have married William and with him had sons, David [SSNE 4927] and William [SSNE 6643] who were born in Sweden. After William's death Margaret was counted among Stockholm's most important shipowners.
For reference to Widow Margaretha Strang as a shipowner see Leos Müller, The Merchant Houses of Stockholm, c.1640-1800 (Uppsala, 1988), p.182; For her marriage with William Strang see A. Reid, The Royal Burgh of Forfar a local history (Paisley, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Forfar, 1902), p.136, pp.417-8. T. Fischer, The Scots in Sweden (Edinburgh, 1907), 215-267; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), pp.166, 211. Female.
Service record
- SWEDEN, STOCKHOLM
- Arrived 1649-01-01
- Departed 1679-12-31
- Capacity SHIP OWNER, MERCHANT, purpose MERCHANT, MARITIME, TRADE, COMMERCE