clan Sinclair

[garydevine1995]

hi my great gran on my mothers side was a sinclair, she was called helen roy sinclair, and i have recently come across the sinclair clan, i have read it all and how it orginated in scotland and i was wondering could i be a descendent from them. i have found this on wikipedia on them.

"The Sinclairs were a noble family which had its origins in Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, in Normandy, France. They first came to England (before they came to Scotland) with William the Conqueror during his invasion of England. The name was originally "Saint-Clair" which was a place name. Richard of Saint-Clair and Brittel of Saint-Clair are both mentioned in the Domesday Book.William of Saint-Clair accompanied Saint Margaret of Scotland, daughter of Edward the Exile to Scotland in 1068, where she eventually married Malcolm III of Scotland. In return for his efforts, the king supposedly granted Sinclair the barony of Roslin, Scotland "in free heritage".

Chief Sir Henry Sinclair, 2nd Baron of Roslin (1060–1110) led a successful attack on England at the Battle of Alnwick (1093). One of the earliest recorded Sinclairs in Scotland was Chief Henry of Saint-Clair/Sinclair, 3rd Baron of Roslin who obtained a charter for the lands of Herdmanston in Haddingtonshire in 1160. Chief William Saint-Clair/Sinclair, 4th Baron of Roslin witnessed a charter granted by King Stephen of England in 1135."

in any chance could i be related to them ??

[Russell]

Hi Gary

I think you might need to make a few more links in your more recent family tree before you can confirm or deny the Clan Sinclair link.Sinclair is a fairly common name and, like most of us your ancestors were probably plain, ordinary folk with no firm clan associations.
No harm in trying though
Scotlandspeople can be quite expensive to download certificates if you find too many possible relatives in a short space of time. It sometimes takes time to check out your facts until you are quite sure that it really IS your relative. One way of cutting costs is to use ancestry.co.uk. You may find that your local library has a subscription to it so you can do look-ups for free. Most libraries only charge for the print-outs you make.

Good luck with all these searches you are doing.

Russell

[Alan SHARP]

Hi Gary, greetings from New Zealand.

I have been reading your voyage of discovery with great interest. It is not common for teenagers to be so interested in genealogy, and I commend you for your interest. My Grand mother died when I was eleven and for the next fifteen years my Grand Father spent, at least, half the year living with us. While I was interested in his stories I never took notes, but just a few years after he died my aunt and I started out to confirm our oral family history, and forty years later I’m still at it.

If I had taken the real interest you are showing, I would have saved myself hundreds of hours of research.

All the best mate, with your voyage of discovery.

Alan SHARP.

[garydevine1995]

thank you very much Alan