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Mr. Hercules Sinclair, minister of Northmavine, Shetland
Facts and Events
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Mr. Hercules Sinclair, minister of Northmavine, Shetland |
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References
- Gowdy, Mahlon Myron, and G. T. (Gideon Tibbetts) Ridlon. A family history comprising the surnames of Gade--Gadie--Gaudie--Gawdie-- Gawdy--Gowdy--Goudy--Goudey--Gowdey--Gauden--Gaudern and the variant forms from A.D. 800 to A.D. 1919. (Lewiston, Maine: Journal Press, 1919)
Page 119.
The Goudies of Swinister and Overland, Shetland
Rev. John Gauden, M.A., son of Thomas Gadie and his wife Mary Stuart of Campston, was born in 1650 . . . He married Margaret Sinclair, said to have been the daughter of John Sinclair of Quendale, survived him and had issue, of whom presently.
1. John Gauden, son of Rev. John and Margaret (Sinclair) Gauden, was his father’s heir to the lands of Overland in the island of Fetlar, Shetland; also acquired lands in Swinister, in 1684 for £500, from Mr. Robert Ramsey, minister of Yell, Shetland, and Margaret Sinclair his spouse, the only child of Hercules Sinclair, minister of Northmavin, Shetland.
- Hibbert, Samuel. A Description of the Shetland Islands: Comprising an Account of Their Geology, Scenery, Antiquities, and Superstitions. (A. Constable and Company, 1822)
Page 531.
But at length came Mr Hercules Sinclair, minister of Northmavine, mighty and fervent in zeal against all idolatry, who, by rasing Cross-Kirk to the ground, succeeded, as Brand supposed, in making the people of Northmavine more civilised than the rest of their neighbours.
- Cowie, Robart. Shetland, descriptive and historical and topographical description of that country. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969)
Pages 159.
At length arose Mr. Hercules Sinclair, minister of Northmavine, who, in the heat of his Protestant zeal, caused the old kirk to be razed to its foundations.
- Scott, Hew. Fasti Ecclesiæ scoticanæ: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation. (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1915-)
Vol. 7, Page 312, 313.
PAGE 312
HERCULES SINCLAIR, M.A. (St
1662 -Andrews, 25th July 1657); min. in
1662. His only child Margaret marr.
Robert Ramsay, min. of Yell. — [Orkney
Presb. and Syn. Reg.; Brand’s Orkney
and Zetland.]
PAGE 313
[LAURENCE SINCLAIR, brother of
preceding; went one Sabbath to
preach at Ollaberry, where he died
and was buried.]—[Information from the
Rev. J. R. Sutherland.']
- Wallis, E. W. (Ph.D, Thesis), in The Church in Shetland During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
University of Edinburgh, 1940.
Page 151 – Northmavine and Ollaberry – It is not known how long Gilbert Mowat remained minister of this parish after 1642, but as far as can be learned, no fresh appointment was made until 1662, when Hercules Sinclair is mentioned as the minister of the parish. All that is known of him is that he took the degree of M.A; on 25 July 1657 that “his only child Margaret married Robert Ramsay, minister of Yell,” and that he caused the chapel of Eshaness to be destroyed, so as to put an end to the pilgrimages and superstitions connected with it.
A certain Laurence Sinclair is mentioned as minister of this parish, but the dates of his admission and demission are not known. All that is recorded of him is that “he went one Sabbath to preach at Ollaberry, where he died and was buried.”
Page 188 – Mid Yell or Reafirth. – Its minister was Robert Ramsay, who was admitted to this parish before 5th June 1684, and was ultimately received into Presbyterian communion by the Commission of Assembly 1700. He “died 10th January 1716 aged about 61.” He was a son-in-law of Hercules Sinclair, the minister of Northmavine.
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