George Sinclair of Dunbeath (-1624)

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Parents
Father:1William Sinclair of Stemster (-)
Mother:2Janet Sinclair (-)
Spouses and relationship events
Married:3around 1600Margaret Forbes (-)
Marriage contract dated 23 April 1600.
Children
Children with Margaret Forbes:
Margaret Sinclair (-)4
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Events
Died:51624
Personal Info
On the resignation of his grandfather in 1590 George Sinclair had received the estates of the Dunbeath barony, and in May, 1591, obtained a Crown charter of confirmation. He was either facile or a spendthrift, for in 1602 he put himself under "Interdiction". In 1610 he resigned the barony in favour of his brother-in-law Arthur, Lord Forbes, in supersession of a deed by which he had entailed the estates on his kinsman the Earl of Caithness. He then withdrew from Caithness owing to the harassing conduct of the Earl, who is even accused of having contemplated his death, and resided with Lord Forbes. Dying in 1624, Alexander, Master of Forbes, sold Dunbeath to John Sinclair of Geanies, son of George Sinclair of Mey. The remainder of the barony and the lands of Spittal and Mybster were acquired by Sir Donald Mackay, first Lord Reay, who, in 1624, was infeft on a charter by the Bishop of Orkney, in Thura, Borlum, Downreay, and Brubster; and about the same time Sandside was purchased from Lord Forbes by William Innes, ancestor of the family of Innes of Sandside.6
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1 Roland William Saint-Clair, The Saint-Clairs of the Isles: Being a History of the Sea-Kings of Orkney and their Scottish Successors of the Sirname of Sinclair (Auckland: H. Brett, General Printer and Publihsher, 1898), The Sinclairs of Stemster and Dunbeath, p. 220-22.
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