Isabella Sinclair

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Isabella Sinclair

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Birthplace: Scotland
Death: 1652 (33-34)
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Daughter of George Sinclair, 5th Earl of Caithness and Jean Gordon
Wife of John Mackay, 2nd Lord Reay
Mother of Jane Mackay and Robert Mackay
Sister of William Sinclair, Lord Berridale; Francis Sinclair of Keiss & Northfield; lieut col john Sinclair and Elizabeth Sinclair
Half sister of Francis Sinclair of Stirkoke

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About Isabella Sinclair

From page 157 of Book of MacKay: "Lord Reay, who died in 1680, was twice married. By his first wife, Isabella Sinclair, a Caithness lady, whom he married in 1636, he had two children : —
i. Robert, who died early in life without issue. ii. Jane, married (contract 14 November, 1665) Eobert Gordon, third son of John, Earl of Sutherland. Eobert Gordon died 1 at Langdale, Strathnaver, 1671, without issue; and his widow afterwards married, secondly, Hugh Mackay IV. of Strathy, by whom she had issue as given in our account of that family."

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Cracroft's Peerage states that John [Mackay], 2nd Lord Reay mar. (1) 1636 Lady Isabella Sinclair, 2nd dau. of George [Sinclair], 5th Earl of Caithness, by his wife Lady Jean Gordon, only dau. of George [Gordon], 5th Earl of Huntly

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Isabella Sinclair's Timeline

1618
1618
Scotland
1638
1638
Highland, United Kingdom
1652
1652
Age 34
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