Re: Sinclair of Pennicuik

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

At 20:39 17/10/00 -0400, you wrote:
> on 17/09/00 17:49, Niven Sinclair at
> niven@niven.co.uk wrote:
>
> > At 20:38 15/09/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >> Greetings to Donald Sinclair,
> >> I am so glad but not entirely surprised that you were able to
> help me in my
> >> search. Funny thing is, I did not expect to find Sinclairs right
> in
> >> Pennicuik - two doors from the Clerks (my family)! All I know is
> that a
> >> Francis Sainclair married an Elizabeth Clerk (from about 100
> years before)
> >> and both lived and died in Sweden. And I thought the only
> connection
> >> possigle was back in Sweden! maybe I should look closer around
> Roslyn...
> >> So thanks for this new piece of the puzzle. Maybe one day I'll
> be able to
> >> get to whole picture of the Clerk-Sinclair connection. Thank
> you  for your
> >> help.
> >> Francine Bernier
> > 
> > 
> > Perhaps you should get a copy of my "Sinclairs of
> Sweden"
> > 
> > I will send you a copy (a) if I can find one and (b) if you can let
> me have
> > your postal address.
> > 
> > Niven Sinclair
> > 
> > 
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> Hello agin!
>
> Dear Niven,
>
> it has been a few weeks and no news yet, but were you able to locate a
> copy
> of your "Sinclairs of Sweden" book?  I am still VERY
> interrested.
> Thanks!
>
> Francine


All my postal addresses are away with a girl who is putting them all on a
disc so that I
do not have my usual difficulty in having to write all my 1,000+
Christmas Card envelopes.

Can you let me have your address again please.  I am sure I will
find a copy of the Sinclairs
of Sweden for you.  Did I send you details of the Sinclairs of
Penicuik?  The information
which I have pertains to a James Sinclair who married a Marha Hartley in
1798.  They had
12 children, one of whom, a Thomas Sinclair married (1) Margaret
Robertson and (2) Janet
Cornell.  Between them, they had 16 children. one of whom was James
Sinclair (b.1827)
who married (1) Eliza Lindsley and (2) Margaret Brown.  He emigrated
to the United States
in 1855 and set up as a blotting-paper manufacturer and was still a
member of the firm at
the time of his death in 1876.  He had no children.  His
factory was in New Haven, Connecticut.

Alexander Brown Sinclair, the son of Thomas Sinclair above,  went to
the United States in
1857.  He was also engaged in the paper business which is not
surprising as paper was
manufactured at Rosslyn where the Sinclairs had a scriptorium
where books were written
or copied by scribes; illuminated and bound.  I have recently become
the owner of a copy
of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1345-1400) which had been written,
illuminated and bound
at Rosslyn.  This book had been stolen by General Fairfax (one of
Cromwell's Generals).
Fortunately, it found its way to the Bodleian Library in Oxford where it
was recently analysed
by experts who described the paper, the binding, etc. in minute
detail.  They made a
beautiful copy (some of it in colour) for me which I was happy to pay
for.

Niven Sinclair


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