HAMILTON?, JAMES [SSNE 7536]

Surname

HAMILTON?, HUMMELTHUN

First name

JAMES, JACOB

Nationality

SCOT OR GERMAN

Text source

Jacob Hummelthun was one of the foreign merchants in Åbo in the early seventeenth century. The author of the article from which this information is drawn has noted him as a German, although his name is clearly Hamilton. 

Source: Veli-Pekka Toropainen, Skottirotta ja Ruotsin koira - Turun ulkomaalainen porvaristo vuosina 1600-1660 (Genos, 2003), p.210

Service record

SWEDEN, ABO, FINLAND

Arrived 1624-01-01

Departed 1625-11-18

Capacity MERCHANT, purpose TRADE, COMMERCE