GRISON, WILLIAM [SSNE 7596]

Surname

GRISON

First name

WILLIAM

Nationality

SCOT

Text source

William Grison settled as a merchant in Hamburg in the early 1640s where he paid taxes as a foreigner in 1641. On 31 October the same year he married in the German-Reformed church in Altona. The registrar noted that Grison originated from Veere, the Scottish staple in the Netherlands. Grison traded with Scotland, England, the Netherlands as well as the Iberian Peninsula. In addition, he tried to break into the transatlantic trade with the Caribbean from the early 1650s. Staatsarchiv Hamburg, Genealogische Sammlungen, 741-2, Die Fremden in den Rechnungsbuchern der Wedde und Kammerei; CSPD, 1651, p.51; Franz Schubert, Trauregister aus den altesten Kirchenbuchern Hamburgs, Vol. 6d; Martin Reissmann, Die hamburgische Kaufmannschaft des 17. Jahrhunderts in sozialgeschichtlicher Sicht (Hamburg, 1975). Entry by Dr Kathrin Zickermann.

Service record

HAMBURG,

Arrived 1640-01-01

Capacity MERCHANT

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