Sir Oliver Sinclair of Rosslyn

SIR OLIVER SINCLAIR OF ROSSLYN

The Scotts Peerage II: 334

Death

A date and place of death has not been identified for Sir Oliver Sinclair of Rosslyn. He was alive on 12 July 1536, when he had a grant of the non-entries of half of the lands of Denys in the sheriffdom of Peebles and a gift of the office of Coroner in the same sheriffdom. NRS: GD32/20/8 but he died before 5 December 1537, when his widow Isabella Livingstone, lady Rossyln, gave her son Master Henry Sinclair the ten pound lands of Over Liberton and others. NRS: GD122/1/319

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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15 December 1507: Procuratory whereby Isabella Levingstoun, daughter of deceased James Levingstoun of Ballintoun and relict of deceased Alexander Levingstone, appointed Sir John Elphinstoun of that ilk, Mr. James Henrisoun, lord justice clerk, and George Grahame of Auchincloch as her procurators to resign her lands of Southside of Hill of Dundaf in the hands of Robert Douglas of Lochlevin, in favour of Sir Oliver Sinclar of Rosling and herself. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Earls of Morton, reference GD150/1551

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12 July 1513: Notarial instrument whereby Robert Douglas of Lochlevin [Loch Leven] appoints William, Earl of Montrose and others as his procurators to receive the resignation of the south side of Dundaf hill in the barony of Dundaf and sheriffdom of Striueling [Stirling], from Oliver Sinclare [Sinclair] of Roslin and Isabella Levingstoun [Livingston], his spouse, and to grant a tack for 5 years of these lands to the said Oliver and Isabella, in terms of a previous reversion. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Rollo family of Duncrub, Perthshire, reference GD56/20

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12 July 1536: Grant by James V to Oliver Sinclair of Rossling [Roslin], kt, of the non-entries of half of the lands of Denys with the pertinents lying within our sheriffdom of Peblis [Peebles] and of the office of coroner of and within the said sheriffdom of Peblis, which pertained to umquhile William Dudingstoune [Dudingstoune] of Southouse and then to the Crown by reason of non-entries since the decease of the said William by the space of 23 years last by past. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Viscounts and Barons of Elibank, reference GD32/20/8

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5 December 1537: Charter of Isobel Levinstoun, (relict of Oliver Sinclair), Lady of Roslyn, to Master Henry Sinclair, her son, of the £10. lands in Over Libertoun, and one mark land called Soytor land, in all 16 marks of land. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Gilmour family of Craigmillar and Liberton, Midlothian, reference GD122/1/319

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18 October 1543: Charter of Isabell Levingstoun, Relict of Oliver Sinclair, to Arthur Sinclair her son, of the 10 pound land and the markland called Soytoun land in Over Libertoun. Seal, three mullets, impaling a cross indented S Issabel Levingstoun. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Gilmour family of Craigmillar and Liberton, Midlothian, reference GD122/1/320

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6 December 1543: Charter of Alexander Dalmahoy, confirming that of Isabella Lavingstoun, Relict of Oliver Sinclair, of Roslyn, knight, in favour of Arthure Sinclaire her sonne. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Gilmour family of Craigmillar and Liberton, Midlothian, reference GD122/1/322

Genealogy

1. The Scotts Peerage II: 334
2. The Saint-Clairs of the Isles etc. By Roland William Saint-Clair (H. Brett, Auckland, 1898), pp. 286-7 for the family of Sir Oliver Sinclair of Rosslyn
3. Stirnet: Sinclair 01

Biographical Summary

Sir Oliver Sinclair, Ancestor of the Sinclairs of Rosslyn, was "of" Rosslyn, Scotland.1

Family

• parents: Sir William Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Orkney, 1st Earl Caithness, Lord Sinclair d. bt 7 Dec 1476 - 29 Mar 1482 & Marjory (Mary) Sutherland1 b. c 1430

married

1. Margaret Borthwick, daughter of William Borthwick, 3rd Lord Borthwick.2

Citations

1. [S11564] The Scots Peerage, Vol. II, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 334.
2. [S11564] The Scots Peerage, Vol. II, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 107.

Links

• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1336.htm#...

http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Oliver_Sinclair_(6)

Sir Oliver finished the Chapel of Roslin, as appears by his scutcheon in the vault, whereon there appears only a ragged cross, as also on the left hand of the window of the sacristy underground. He was thrice married: First, to Christian Haldane; [Stirling Protocol Book] secondly, to Elizabeth, daughter of William, third Lord Borthwick; and thirdly, to Isabella Livingstone.

References:

Saint-Clair, Roland William. The Saint-Clairs of the Isles: being a history of the sea-kings of Orkney and their Scottish successors of the surname of Sinclair. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1978), Pages 286 to 296.