Re: Sinclair of Pennicuik

[Francine Bernier <f_bernier@videotron.ca>]

Title: Re: Sinclair of Pennicuik

on 18/10/00 18:37, Niven Sinclair at niven@niven.co.uk wrote:

> 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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> > > 
> > > 
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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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Dear Niven,

Here is my postal address:

F. Bernier
26 Maisonneuve Street
Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec
H9B 1K4
Canada

Looking forward to read this book. Thank you again.