Old Photograph Victoria Street Dyce Scotland

Old photograph of children on Victoria Street in Dyce, Scottish Gaelic: Deis, an area of the city of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Dyce is the site of an early medieval church dedicated to the 8th century missionary and bishop Saint Fergus, otherwise associated with Glamis, Angus. Alexander Chalmers was born in 1645, in Dyce.He emigrated to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1659, at the age of 14. He eventually settled in the city of Old Warsaw, now part of Warsaw, Poland. There he married Krystyne Legowna and they both engaged in the textile trade. They both became citizens of the city in 1672. Some sources list the name of his spouse as Christina Lang instead. He also began using Polonised version of his name, which was Aleksander Czamer. In 1676, King John III Sobieski confirmed the rights of the eight Scottish merchants who served his court, including Chalmers. He was also a leader of the Scottish community in Old Warsaw. He owned the Falkiewicz Tenement building located at 28 Old Town Market Place, and the Shoemakers Tenement, located at 10 Wąski Dunaj Street. In 1690, the city authorities decided to grant Alexander and his wife, Christina Lang, a piece of land in perpetuity for an annual fee of 20 florins. He died on 9 March 1703, at the age of 58, and was buried in Archcathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist.


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