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Re: My Sinclair Background......Warm Aloha from your cousin in Hawaii. My great, great grandfather was Capt. Francis Sinclair, from Caithness, Scotland who took his family to New Zealand where they lived for about 15 years. He and his oldest son were lost

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Subject: Re: My Sinclair Background......Warm Aloha from your cousin in Hawaii. My great, great grandfather was Capt. Francis Sinclair, from Caithness, Scotland who took his family to New Zealand where they lived for about 15 years. He and his oldest son were lost
From: "Spirit One Email" <laurel@spiritone.com>
Date: 18 Sep 2001 10:18:24 -0700
References: <200109172259.f8HMxGc06573@akira.aus.us.mids.org>
Reply-To: sinclair@quarterman.org
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Aloha ???

       I know of your line quite well.   The shortened version of Capt.
Francis and his family going to New Zealand was printed in a recent Yours
Aye (our Clan Sinclair USA) quarterly.   You can read this article at
www.clansinclairusa.org   "History" , "Old Yours Aye Articles".  Scroll down
to Summer 2000 and you will see the link to Jenny Coster's article.

Then in the following quarterly the continuing saga to Hawaii appeared but I
haven't put that on the website yet.  Katherine contributed much to this
article as did her cousin Phillip who sent me the wonderful book "Stories of
Long Ago" by Ida Elizabeth Knudsen Von Holt and then of course his great
website at  http://hometown.aol.com/pakala/index.html
Laurel






----- Original Message -----
From: <kealoha8@hotmail.com>
To: <sinclair@matrix.net>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: My Sinclair Background......Warm Aloha from your cousin in
Hawaii. My great, great grandfather was Capt. Francis Sinclair, from
Caithness, Scotland who took his family to New Zealand where they lived for
about 15 years. He and his oldest son were lost at sea, and by 1862 or 1863,
his wife and remaining children decided to leave NZ, and move to Canada.
First, they spent the winter in the Sandwich Islands with the plan that they
would leave in the Spring. Learning that the family desired to purchase land
for a sheep and cattle ranch, the King offered to sell different parcels of

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- Re: My Sinclair Background......Warm Aloha from your cousin in Hawaii. My great, great grandfather was Capt. Francis Sinclair, from Caithness, Scotland who took his family to New Zealand where they lived for about 15 years. He and his oldest son were lost at sea, and by 1862 or 1863, his wife and remaining children decided to leave NZ, and move to Canada. First, they spent the winter in the Sandwich Islands with the plan that they would leave in the Spring. Learning that the family desired to purchase land for a sheep and cattle ranch, the King offered to sell different parcels of Crown Land to the Sinclairs. Nothing on the island of Oahu appealed to the family, and then the entire island of Niihau was offered. A wet winter had left the dry, isolated island unusually green, and the sons who visited Niihau were enchanted with the idea of owning their very own island. The family purchased Niihau, and put up their prefabricated house. Months later. they met my great !grandfather, Valdemar Knudsen from Norway who was the konohiki (overseer) for the King of a vast portion of the westside of the island of Kauai. Valdemar met and married Francis Sinclair's youngest daughter, Anne Sinclair. So, my great grandmother was a Sinclair. I hope this is enough information. Please let me know if I need to give you more dates, etc. I am related to Katherine Aline Weir. (She is already a subscriber.)
  - From: kealoha8@hotmail.com ()