Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth, 16th-18th centuries : : the formation and disappearance of an ethnic group / / by Peter Paul Bajer.

• Superior document: The northern world, v. 57
• Author: Bajer, Peter Paul.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Northern world ; v. 57.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (616 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In the period between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries a considerable number of Scots migrated to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Some sojourned there for some time, while others stayed permanently and exercised commercial business and crafts. The migration stopped in the eighteenth century, and the Scots who remained in Poland seem to have lost their ethnic identity. This book offers an examination and assessment of this migration: numbers of migrants; patterns of settlement; laws regulating Scottish presence in Poland-Lithuania; their commercial, academic, religious and military activities; their social advancement into the Polish nobility; their assimilation and then the eventual disappearance as a distinct ethnic group in Poland-Lithuania.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction A New Perspective on Scottish Migration to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries -- 1 Scottish Migration to Poland-Lithuania from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries: The State of Present Scholarship and the Sources -- 2 Motives for Scottish Migration: The Socio-Political Situation in Scotland and in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth -- 3 The Influx: The Scale of Migration of Scots to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth -- 4 The Migrants and their Motives: The Social Make-Up of the Scottish Migration and Spheres of Commercial Activity -- 5 The Life of Scottish Migrants in Poland-Lithuania -- 6 The Kirk: Scots in the Reformed Parishes—Defining Identity -- 7 Successful Integration: Scotsmen and the Polish Nobility -- Conclusion Scottish Migration to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries Redefined -- I List of Scottish and English Contributors to the 1651 Polish Subsidy -- II Scottish Names Appearing in the Baptismal and Marriage Records of St Peter and St Paul Church, Gdańsk 1640–1649 -- III Scottish Names Appearing in the Baptismal and Marriage Records of St Elizabeth Church, Gdańsk 1640–1649 -- IV Scottish Names Appearing in the Baptismal and Marriage Records of the Reformed Church in Königsberg 1640–1649 -- V Reiestr Auditorów albo Słuchaczów Zboru Wielkanockiego y Lucianowskiego -- VI Scottish Names Appearing in the Baptismal and Marriage Records of the Reformed Church in Wielkanoc/Lucianowice 1640–1649 -- VII Scottish Names Appearing in the Baptismal and Marriage Records of the Reformed Church in Wilno 1640–1649 -- VIII Scottish Names Appearing in the Baptismal and Marriage Records of the Reformed Church in Kiejdany 1640–1649 -- IX Reiestr Auditorów Zboru Kieydańskiego (1697) -- X Citizens of Kiejdany 1658–1735 -- XI Scots Admitted to Civic Rights in Lwów 1557–1754 -- XII British Diplomats in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1580–1700) -- XIII British Officers and Troops under British Command in Poland-Lithuania (1570's–1790's) -- XIV Polish Nobility of British Origin 16th–18th Centuries -- XV Families of Polish Nobility of British Origin 16th–18th Centuries -- Bibliography -- Index of Places -- Index of Persons.