Edinburgh to Sweden 1592
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Hakan17Pet
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Edinburgh to Sweden 1592
My uncle has done some serious family research over in Sweden and ran into problems round about 1592 - A gentleman traveled from Edinburgh to Sweden - the family name is cassillis or possibly castle. the first name is Jacob or Peter. I am just wandering if there is anywhere where I can find more information about this individual as he went on to be put in charge of the king's horses, carriage and coaches.
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eilthireach
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Cassels/Cassells (stress on first syllable) with the variant Cassilis (pronounced the same) is an old name and there was also an earldom (Earl of Cassilis) created within the Scottish peerage in 1509.
Your Peter might also have been recorded as Patrick, and Jacob would have been known as James in his native Scotland but as Jacob on the continent.
There are two books that might give some historical background which might help in your search:
The Scots in Sweden. Being a contribution towards the history of the Scot abroad ... / by Th. A. Fischer [pseud., i.e., Ernst Ludwig Fischer]; edited, with an introductory note, by John Kirkpatrick ... With a portrait, etc Edinburgh: O. Schulze & Co., 1907 278p.
It has been a good many years since I saw this book and cannot remember the exact contents. Your Cassilis was probably not mentioned specifically, but you might be lucky. The book has been scanned by Google and is available online: http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id= ... TI#PPR4,M1
(The author also wrote a similar work on the Scots in Germany).
Scots in Sweden / by Jonas Berg and Bo Lagercrantz. With ... an essay by Frans G. Bengtsson. (Published for the exhibition Scots in Sweden at the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh ... 1962. Translation: R. Patrick A. Hort.) [The exhibition organized by the Nordiska Museet and the Swedish Institute, Stockholm. With illustrations, including facsimiles.]. Stockholm: Nordiska museet, 1962 101p.
This is available on electricscotland:
http://www.electricscotland.com/history ... /index.htm
... but doesn't, so far as I can see, mention Cassilis
Perhaps the national or local archives in Sweden are more likely to have any documents that might mention Peter/Patrick and James? A quick search in the catalogue of the National Archives of Scotland produced nothing from around that time (apart from material relating to the Earls of Cassilis), but, of course, they could be mentioned in passing in other documents. If, as you say, he was put in charge of the king's horses, carriage and coaches, then he must surely have been a member of the royal household and would have been formally employed, would have been on their books, so to speak, and so would at least have been mentioned in the accounts of the royal household? And if the account books have survived, they will surely be in the national archives or royal library ... ?
Your Peter might also have been recorded as Patrick, and Jacob would have been known as James in his native Scotland but as Jacob on the continent.
There are two books that might give some historical background which might help in your search:
The Scots in Sweden. Being a contribution towards the history of the Scot abroad ... / by Th. A. Fischer [pseud., i.e., Ernst Ludwig Fischer]; edited, with an introductory note, by John Kirkpatrick ... With a portrait, etc Edinburgh: O. Schulze & Co., 1907 278p.
It has been a good many years since I saw this book and cannot remember the exact contents. Your Cassilis was probably not mentioned specifically, but you might be lucky. The book has been scanned by Google and is available online: http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id= ... TI#PPR4,M1
(The author also wrote a similar work on the Scots in Germany).
Scots in Sweden / by Jonas Berg and Bo Lagercrantz. With ... an essay by Frans G. Bengtsson. (Published for the exhibition Scots in Sweden at the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh ... 1962. Translation: R. Patrick A. Hort.) [The exhibition organized by the Nordiska Museet and the Swedish Institute, Stockholm. With illustrations, including facsimiles.]. Stockholm: Nordiska museet, 1962 101p.
This is available on electricscotland:
http://www.electricscotland.com/history ... /index.htm
... but doesn't, so far as I can see, mention Cassilis
Perhaps the national or local archives in Sweden are more likely to have any documents that might mention Peter/Patrick and James? A quick search in the catalogue of the National Archives of Scotland produced nothing from around that time (apart from material relating to the Earls of Cassilis), but, of course, they could be mentioned in passing in other documents. If, as you say, he was put in charge of the king's horses, carriage and coaches, then he must surely have been a member of the royal household and would have been formally employed, would have been on their books, so to speak, and so would at least have been mentioned in the accounts of the royal household? And if the account books have survived, they will surely be in the national archives or royal library ... ?