FORBES, PETER [SSNE 969]
- Surname
- FORBES
- First name
- PETER, PATRICK?
- Title/rank
- BURGESS
- Nationality
- SCOT
- Region
- ABERDEEN
- Social status
- BURGESS
Text source
Peter/Patrick Forbes of Mounie (Mowney), near Daviot, Aberdeenshire, was admitted burgess of Cracow in 1670.
He may be the same as the man below:
Peter Forbes was a Scottish burgess of Danzig in 1685. He was from Aberdeen. It may be this man who supplied £280 for the Marischall College Aberdeen restoration fund in 1684.
Sources: For Forbes of Mounie see: Peter Paul Bajer, Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th-18th Centuries (Leiden, 2012), p.119, n.3; For Forbes in Danzig see T. Fischer, The Scots in Eastern and Western Prussia (Edinburgh, 1903), p.196; T. Fischer, The Scots in Germany (Edinburgh, 1902), p.268.
Service record
- POLAND-LITHUANIA, CRACOW
- Arrived 1670-01-01
- Departed 0000-01-01
- Capacity BURGESS, purpose MERCANTILE
- POLAND, DANZIG
- Arrived 1685-01-01
- Departed 1685-12-31
- Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC