Helen Sinclair, Baroness Ogilvy of Airlie

Disambiguation

Different Helen Sinclair’s.

This Helen Sinclair (daughter of Henry Sinclair, 3rd Lord Sinclair) was married ONLY to Lord James Ogilvy of Airlie. had 4 sons and 4 daughters.

Helen Sinclair (Alexander Sinclair of Sempster's daughter) was married ONLY to Donald Mackay, 11th Chief of the Mackays They had 1 son and 2 daughters.

A third Helen Sinclair married Alexander Hamilton. 11 sons and 1 daughters.

Biography

From Darryl Lundy's Peerage page on Helen Sinclair:

http://www.thepeerage.com/p10929.htm#i109282

Helen Sinclair [1]

• F, #109282,
• d. between 1552 and 1562
• Last Edited=9 Feb 2011
• Consanguinity Index=0.45%

Helen Sinclair was the daughter of Henry Sinclair, 3rd Lord Sinclair and Margaret Hepburn.[1]

She married James Ogilvy, 4th Lord Ogilvy of Airlie, son of James Ogilvy, 3rd Lord Ogilvy of Airlie and Margaret Lindsay.[1]

She died between 1552 and 1562.[2]

She was also known as Elinor.[3]

Her married name became Ogilvy. As a result of her marriage, Helen Sinclair was styled as Lady Ogilvy of Airlie.

Children of Helen Sinclair and James Ogilvy, 4th Lord Ogilvy of Airlie

• 1. James Ogilvy, Master of Ogilvy+[4] d. 10 Sep 1547
  • Ben M. Angel notes: Master of Ogilvy merely means he was the firstborn son. It isn't a title or office.
• 2. Marion Ogilvy+
• 3. Helen Ogilvy+[1]
• 4. John Ogilvy of Inverkeiler+[5] d. b 1603
• 5. Archibald Ogilvy [5]
• 6. Margaret Ogilvy [5]
• 7. Agnes Ogilvy [5]
• 8. Thomas Ogilvy of Westercraig+[4] b. b 1547, d. b 1577
• 9. Alexander Ogilvy [5] b. b 1548

Notes

Helen married about 1519 to James Ogilvy son of James Ogilvy of Airlie and Isobel Lindsay.

On 11 July 1519, Andrew [Forman], archbishop of St. Andrews, commendator of Dunfermline, granted to James Ogilvy, son and heir apparent of Sir James Ogilvy of Airlie, and to Helen Sinclair, his wife, and their heirs, of the lands of Kinnell in the barony of Rescobie, regality of St. Andrews and sheriffdom of Forfar.[2]

Her husband the Master of Airlie died about 1548.

Her sister-in-law, ane of the sisteris of umquhil James, Lord Ogilvy,' grants a discharge with Andrew Gray her spouse to Elinor Sinclair, Lady Ogilvy, in 1552.

Helen, in Jan 1554 was reserved a liferent of Wester Craigs[3]

Helen died eight months before 9 Aug 1558 when her son James Ogilvy was retoured heir to his grandfather in lands of Kinnell in barony of Rescobie. [4]

Reference

• 1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VIII, page 140. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• 2. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 70.
• 3. [S323] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's The Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1904), volume I, page 117. Hereinafter cited as The Scots Peerage.
• 4. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 71.
• 5. [S323] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage, volume I, page 118.
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sinclair-1434 cites

1. Paul, James Balfour. "The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom", Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1910, Vol. VII, Archive.org, p. 572
2. NRAS NRAS792/6/1 See Notarial copy of 1535, August 17 see [1]
3. NRS GD16/4/20 see [2]
4. Calendar of House of Lords Manuscripts Voil.vii. Pt2 p.721 South Esk Charters no. 46 [3]
5. Clan MacFarlane: Helen Sinclair < link >
6. The Peerage: Helen Sinclair < link >