Ancestors Van der Sluis en De Oude » Francis Sinclair (± 1615-1681)

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1. Caithness family history (1884), Caithness family history, John Henderson, via http://www.archive.org/stream/caithnessf...

   THE SINCLAIRS OF STIRKOKE.
   
   I. IN 1507 DAVID SINCLAIR obtained a Crown charter The sinciairs of
   of Stirkoke and Alterwall, in which he is designed " filio
   naturali quond. Joannis Magistri Cathanensis," and in
   
   1588 he obtained letters of legitimation. He died before
   1595, and left a son, John, as also a natural son, Colonel
   George Sinclair, who was slain in an expedition to Nor-
   way in 1612.
   
   II. JOHN SINCLAIR OF STIRKOKE was slain in a fight
   at Thurso in 1612. It is uncertain whether he had any
   issue.
   
   «b»III. FRANCIS SINCLAIR. LAIRD or STIRKOKE, in 1624,
   was a natural son of George, fifth Earl of Caithness. «/b»
   
   In Captain Kennedy's MS. relative to Caithness
   matters, he states that Francis Sinclair's mother was one
   Barbara Mearns. In February 1670 Christian Mearns,
   daughter of William Mearns in Wick, as nearest heir of
   her grandfather, George Mearns of Occumster, Achavar,
   and Smerary, 1 and of her grand-uncle, William Mearns of
   
   1 Inventory of Caithness titles.
   
   104 THE SINCLAIRS OF STIRKOKE.
   
   The sinciairs of Occumster, granted a disposition to Francis Sinclair,
   whose mother, if Captain Kennedy's account is correct,
   was perhaps of this family.
   
   «b»Francis Sinclair married Margaret Williamson, and
   had three sons and two daughters :
   «/b»
   1. Francis, his successor.
   
   2. John.
   
   3. Gustavus.
   
   1. Marjory, who was the fifth wife of Donald, first
   
   Lord Reay, by whom he had three sons, William
   of Kinloch, Charles of Sandwood, and Rupert ;
   and two daughters, Margaret, who died in Thurso
   in 1720, and Christian, who married, in 1650,
   Alexander Gunn of Killernan (Clan Gunn), and
   was in 1668 infeft in liferent in lands of Navi-
   dale, etc., on disposition by her husband.
   
   «b»2. Anne, who married Colonel Francis Sinclair in
   Scrabster, a son of John Sinclair, first of Assery.
   «/b»
   IV. FRANCIS SINCLAIR OF STIRKOKE married, in 1658,
   Anne, eldest daughter of Patrick Sinclair of Ulbster.
   His mother, Margaret Williamson, and his "uncle,"
   Francis of Northfield, second son of George, fifth Earl,
   were parties to the contract of marriage, thus showing
   that his father, Francis, must have been one of the two
   natural sons of Earl George. Francis Sinclair had four
   sons and a daughter :
   
   1. Patrick, eldest son in 1676.

2. Familieverzameling Henderson, P. Henderson, via http://www.genealogieonline.nl/familieve...
3. Familieverzameling Henderson, P. Henderson, via http://www.genealogieonline.nl/familieve...

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