LIVINGSTONE, JOHN [SSNE 7134]

Surname

LIVINGSTONE, LIVINGSTON

First name

JOHN

Title/rank

MINISTER, REV.

Nationality

SCOT

Text source

John Livingston was a Scottish minister and Presbyterian refugee in Rotterdam. He moved to the Dutch Republic in 1663 and was followed there by his family. His sons became merchants in the city while his daughter Janet [SSNE 7133] married the famous Scottish merchant, Andrew Russell [SSNE 143]. His sons were James [SSNE 7130], William [SSNE 7131] and Robert [SSNE 7132]

D. Catterall, Community Without Borders: Scots migrants and the changing face of power in the Dutch Republic, c.1600-1700 (Leiden, 2002), pp.344-5; Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.112.

Service record

THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, SCOTLAND, ROTTERDAM

Arrived 1663-01-01

Departed 1672-12-31

Capacity MINISTER, purpose ECCLESIASTICAL