Arthur Sinclair of Houss (-15 November 1667)

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Parents
Father:1Laurence Sinclair of Aith and Houss (-April 1632)
Mother:2Elizabeth Sinclair (-February 1634)
Spouses and relationship events
Married:3Barbara Barclay (-)
Children
Children with Barbara Barclay:
Arthur Sinclair (-)4
Grizel Sinclair of Houss (-)5
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Events
Died:615 November 1667
Personal Info
He was the oldest son of his father (at his death).7
He served heir to his grandfather 17 October 1634. The estate as specified in the deed, is very extensive, comprehending Houss and other places in the Isles of Burra, and numerous lands in Dunrossness, Tingwall, Whiteness, Weisdale, and Bressay. The Dunrossness property is described as "five lie lasts of the lands of Brow," i.e. 90 merks in all.8
He served heir to his grandfather, Arthur Sinclair of Aith, 17 October 1634.9
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1 John H. Ballantyne, Shetland Documents 1612-1637: (Lerwick: The Shetland Times Ltd., 2016), No. 1551, p. 588.
2 Ibid
3 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 Houss, Aith, and Scalloway, Burra, Etc., p. 165-69.
4 Ibid
5 Ibid
6 Ibid
7 , "The Commissariot Register of Shetland (part 3): ," The Scottish Antiquary or Northern Notes & Queries XII (1898): 37-40, 89-90, 132-35, No. 624, p. 89.
8 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 Houss, Aith, and Scalloway, Burra, Etc., p. 165-69.
9 , Retours of Services of Heirs 1544-1699, volume I-III: Inquisitionum ad capellam domini regis retornatarum abbreviatio (: The House of Commons of Great Britain, 1811), Orkney et Shetland, no. 21.
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