Re: Orkney Sinclair's

[Niven Sinclair <niven@niven.co.uk>]

At 14:55 08/08/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Niven
>
>What about "poor little us". Maggie from Grimsby and Jean from Brookenby.
>
>Our father was Born James Irvine Sinclair, at "East House" East Side,
>St Margaret's Hope, South Ronaldsay, Orkney on 23rd May 1907.
>
>Maggie Ellis (nee Sinclair)
>Jean Sinclair (jeannie@brookmarket.freeserve.co.uk
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Niven Sinclair <transport@niven.co.uk>
>To: Isinc18@aol.com <Isinc18@aol.com>
>Cc: jsq@mids.org <jsq@mids.org>; laurel@spiritone.com
><laurel@spiritone.com>; sinclair@mids.org <sinclair@mids.org>
>Date: 03 August 1999 18:14
>Subject: Re: (no subject)

   The Irvines and the Sinclairs accompanied Bruce to Orkney in 1306
   so it is not surprising to find Irvine in your name

   Your easiest (and most accurate) source of information would come
    from :

                         The Archivisit,
                         Council Buildings,
                         Kirkwall, Orkney.

  Church records of South Ronaldsay would also be an excellent place to
  begin your research.

  I shall be going to Orkney next month but, as I'll be busy fliming
on Eynhallow (The Holy Island of Orkney)I regret I won't have time to
do any research on your family (much as I would like to be able to
help).

Good luck.  Compared with most searches, yours should be compratively
simple to trace.

Niven

> >At 12:34 31/07/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >>i am a sinclair from orkney
> >
> >
> >There are many many Sinclairs from Orkney.
> >
> >There are:
> >
> >
> >                                         The Sinclairs of Warsetter
>(Sanday)
> >                                         The Sinclairs of Tohop and Saba
> >                                         The Sinclairs of Ethay
> >                                         The Sinclairs of Essenquoy
> >                                         The Sinclairs of Greenwall,
> >Flottay, ( Gyre, Holm and Orphir)
> >                                         The Sinclairs of Clumlie, Towquoy,
> >(Sandwick, Westray and Birsay)
> >                                         The Sinclairs of Gorne and Burwick
> >                                         The Sinclairs of Overbrough
>(Harra)
> >                                         The Sinclairs of Craya (Stromness)
> >                                         The Sinclairs of Rapness (Westray)
> >                                         The Sinclairs of Estaquoy (Harra)
> >                                         The Sinclairs of Nethergarth
>(Harra)
> >                                         The Sinclairs of Camston
> >                                         The Sinclairs of Damsay
> >                                         The Sinclairs of Conyar (Harra)
> >                                         (from which branch Roland William
> >St Clair, the author of the
> >                                          "St Clairs of the Isles" emanates
> >although, like many Orcadians,
> >                                          his family emigrated to New
>Zealand).
> >
> >Names in brackets denote nearest town or, in some cases, island.  Where no
> >name appears in brackets, the
> >name itself is sufficient to establish the whereabouts of the particular
> >branch of the family.
> >
> >If you let me know the name of your most distant ancestor (preferably the
> >one who was the first to emigrate)
> >we might be able to trace which branch of the family you belong to - not
> >that that is necessarily important -
> >being a Sinclair is enough.
> >
> >Niven Sinclair
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