Person:Alexander Sinclair (13)

Alexander Sinclair

• Douglass, Robert. The Baronage of Scotland: Containing, An Historical and Genealogical Account of the Gentry of that Kingdom. (London: Cadell & Davies, 1798), Page 248, 249.

XX. Alexander Sinclair of Roslin, who married Jean, daughter of Robert seventh lord Semple, by whom he had three sons and three daughters, who all died young except his son, William Sinclair XXI.

1. ↑ Paul, James Balfour. The Scots peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's ‘Peerage of Scotland’ containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, with armorial illustrations. (Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1904-1914)
   Vol. 7. Page 558.

   Page 558 - Jean, married to Alexander Sinclair of Roslin, and was mother of William Sinclair of Roslin, the last of that ancient family, who died in 1778, aged seventy-eight.

2. ↑ Alexander St. Clair of Rosslyn, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
3. ↑ Douglass, Robert. The Baronage of Scotland: Containing, An Historical and Genealogical Account of the Gentry of that Kingdom. (London: Cadell & Davies, 1798)
   Page 248, 249.

   XX. Alexander Sinclair of Roslin, who married Jean, daughter of Robert seventh lord Semple, by whom he had three sons and three daughters, who all died young except his son, William Sinclair XXI.

4.   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.

   XIV ALEXANDER ST.CLAIR
   
   Who married Jean, daughter of Robert, seventh Lord Semple. This laird was of considerable poetical ability, his poems in Manuscript are preserved in the Advocates' Library. He had issue -
   
   WILLIAM his successor.
   
   Two sons and three daughters, who died young.
   
   He was succeeded by his son