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Scotland / Re: Looking for my ancestor Christian Robson of clan Gunn (I think!)
« on: Tuesday 12 October 10 17:03 BST (UK) »
Sorry about posting in Swedish. Here is a translation of my earlier posting (with minor corrections)!
all the best
Maria Robsahm
Robertson came to Sweden around the turn of the 16th to 17th century. By then he was already PhD and MD and it is assumed that he settled in Stockholm to make a living, as did many of his fellow scotsmen who arrived in Sweden at the time.
On February 15th 1614 Robertson was appointed personal physician to King Gustavus Adolphus, three years after he had been installed as court physician. He was by then accompanying the King to Livonia [roughly present-day southern Estonia and northern Latvia], and he made many overseas journeys with the king.
He received several gifts of estates and land both in Sweden and in Livonia. This indicates partly that his work was appreciated and also that he was able to get financial rewards. It was often said about him that he was very driven concerning everything that had to with money.
Fisher wrote of him that he was ‘greedy and constantly applied for new royal gifts’.
On 23 Novermber 1623 he gained the privilege of establishing a new pharmacy in Stockholm, one of the very first in the Swedish capital. It is still in existence. In 1626 or 1627 he hired a help to run the business for him, probably because he was with the King at war and no longer was staying in Stockholm.of
A few years later he sold the pharmacy probably because the ongoing conflict with his countryman Ralle Sanderson. Even though Robertsson seems to have easily fallen into conflict with fellow citizens of Stockholm he continued to be in the Kings good trust and he was knighted in 1630.
In the 1620’s Robertson married Margaret Blomen, and during their 20-year marriage they had four children, a son Adolf and daughters Christina Jacobina, Elisabeth and Maria Eleonora. Margareta Blomen died in 1646 and Robertson married Anna Seitserf. She was born in the summer of 1650, so the bridegroom was aged 84 and the bride was 15 years old. Robertson died in 1652.
all the best
Maria Robsahm
Robertson came to Sweden around the turn of the 16th to 17th century. By then he was already PhD and MD and it is assumed that he settled in Stockholm to make a living, as did many of his fellow scotsmen who arrived in Sweden at the time.
On February 15th 1614 Robertson was appointed personal physician to King Gustavus Adolphus, three years after he had been installed as court physician. He was by then accompanying the King to Livonia [roughly present-day southern Estonia and northern Latvia], and he made many overseas journeys with the king.
He received several gifts of estates and land both in Sweden and in Livonia. This indicates partly that his work was appreciated and also that he was able to get financial rewards. It was often said about him that he was very driven concerning everything that had to with money.
Fisher wrote of him that he was ‘greedy and constantly applied for new royal gifts’.
On 23 Novermber 1623 he gained the privilege of establishing a new pharmacy in Stockholm, one of the very first in the Swedish capital. It is still in existence. In 1626 or 1627 he hired a help to run the business for him, probably because he was with the King at war and no longer was staying in Stockholm.of
A few years later he sold the pharmacy probably because the ongoing conflict with his countryman Ralle Sanderson. Even though Robertsson seems to have easily fallen into conflict with fellow citizens of Stockholm he continued to be in the Kings good trust and he was knighted in 1630.
In the 1620’s Robertson married Margaret Blomen, and during their 20-year marriage they had four children, a son Adolf and daughters Christina Jacobina, Elisabeth and Maria Eleonora. Margareta Blomen died in 1646 and Robertson married Anna Seitserf. She was born in the summer of 1650, so the bridegroom was aged 84 and the bride was 15 years old. Robertson died in 1652.