Margaret Sinclair

MARGARET SINCLAIR

Margaret Sinclair is the daughter and heir of Sir James Sinclair of Sanday. Protocol Book of Gilbert Grote: 228

Evidence from the Protocol Book of Gilbert Grote

30 October 1562: [Protocol Book of Mr. Gilbert Grote, 1552-1572 (Scottish Record Society, Edinburgh, 1914), protocol number 228 on p. 53

27 March 1563: [Protocol Book of Mr. Gilbert Grote, 1552-1572 (Scottish Record Society, Edinburgh, 1914), protocols numbered 229 on pp, 53-4]

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

April 1567: Charter by Mr Magnus Halcro of Burgh to Margaret Sinclair of Linxness, his wife, and their male children etc., of the six penny land lying under the house of Burgh with the patronage of the chaplainry of St Christopher, a penny land in Garsen and others, within the sheriffdom of Orkney. Given at Disert [Dysart]. [Seal attatched]. National Records of Scotland, Title deeds to lands in Orkney, reference GD1/45/5