William Bruce of Sumburgh (-1675) |
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| Father:1 | Robert Bruce of Sumburgh and Symbister (-March 1636) | ||
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| Married:2 | 1646 | Elizabeth Sinclair (-) | |||
| They had no issue. | |||||
| Married:3 | 1656 | Margaret Sinclair (-) | |||
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| Children with Margaret Sinclair: | ||
| Robert Bruce of Sumburgh (-1687)4 | ||
| Margaret Bruce (-)5 | ||
| Laurence Bruce (-)6 | ||
| Andrew Bruce (-)7 | ||
| Dorothea Bruce (-)8 | ||
| Barbara Bruce (-)9 | ||
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| Died:10 | 1675 | |||
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| He was retoured heir to his father and grandfather on 19 April 1642. In 1661 he was appointed a Commissioner of Excise, and Commissioner of the Peace in 1663, and of Supply in 1667. On 16 February 1663 he acquired from Captain Laurence Middleton his whole right in the umboth lands of Sumburgh, which rights had been acquired by Middleton from Peder Pedersen, provost of Copenhagen, and Carl Rosenmeyer, burgess there, on 2 October 1661, and which assignation was confirmed by King Frederick III. of Denmark and Norway. This had formed part of the estate of Provostry of the Catherdral of Bergen.11 | ||
| He was his father's oldest son.12 | ||
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