William Bruce of Sumburgh (-1675)

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Parents
Father:1Robert Bruce of Sumburgh and Symbister (-March 1636)
Spouses and relationship events
Married:21646Elizabeth Sinclair (-)
They had no issue.
Married:31656Margaret Sinclair (-)
Children
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
Attributes
Events
Died:101675
Personal Info
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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1 , "The Commissariot Register of Shetland (part 3): ," The Scottish Antiquary or Northern Notes & Queries XII (1898): 37-40, 89-90, 132-35, No. 683, p. 90.
2 Francis J. Grant, The County Families of the Zetland Islands: Being Genealogies of Local Families Compiled from Public Records and Other Sources (Lerwick: T. & J. Manson, 1893), Bruce of Sumburgh no. III, p. 31-32.
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 Quendale, p. 172-74.
4 Francis J. Grant, The County Families of the Zetland Islands: Being Genealogies of Local Families Compiled from Public Records and Other Sources (Lerwick: T. & J. Manson, 1893), Bruce of Sumburgh no. III, p. 31-32.
5 Francis J. Grant, The County Families of the Zetland Islands: Being Genealogies of Local Families Compiled from Public Records and Other Sources (Lerwick: T. & J. Manson, 1893), Bruce of Muness no. VII, p. 24.
6 Francis J. Grant, The County Families of the Zetland Islands: Being Genealogies of Local Families Compiled from Public Records and Other Sources (Lerwick: T. & J. Manson, 1893), Bruce of Sumburgh no. III, p. 31-32.
7 Ibid
8 Ibid
9 Ibid
10 Ibid
11 Ibid
12 , "The Commissariot Register of Shetland (part 3): ," The Scottish Antiquary or Northern Notes & Queries XII (1898): 37-40, 89-90, 132-35, No. 683, p. 90.
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