Re: AUTOPOST: Guest Book Entry [peter stout]

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

At 22:02 21/08/99 -0400, you wrote:
> Author:   peter stout 
> Reply-to:
> mailto:natedawg@xtra.co.nz
> Location: featherston NZ
> Date:     Saturday, August 21, 1999
>
> I am interested in Sinclair in Shetland, in particular with Stout
> connections, especially James Sinclair (b abt 1800) of Aithness, Bressay
> married Barbara Stout (1799-1879)5 April 1825 and had children
> Robert(b1827), Henry(b1830), William (b1832), James (b1835), Margaret Hay
> (b1840), Thomas (b1842)
>
> I have no information on this particular family but, if you contact,
> Brian Smith, The Archivist at King Harald Street,
> Lerwick,
   Shetland, he may be able to give you
some information or, at least, put you in touch with someone who
can.

 It may interest you to know that Stout is quite a common name in
Orkney.  I have not found the name in any of the early
Shetland records

 It stem from the Old Norse stoth which means stallion

Niven Sinclair



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