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Tracing the ancestry of Pamela Murdoch Bryans and Maurice Alan Johnson

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James Sinclair, of Cambusnethan

Male 1737 - 1808  (71 years)

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  • Name James Sinclair 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Male 
    Birth 5 Mar 1737  [1] 
    Death 5 Jul 1808  Cambusnethan House, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Last Modified 25 Aug 2021 

    Wife Mary Emelia Nisbet
              b. 4 Feb 1752  
              d. 22 Feb 1830, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years) 
    Marriage 17 Jul 1773  [2] 
    Age at Marriage James was 36 years old - Mary was 21 years old. 
    Children 
     1. Robert Lockhart
              b. 25 Apr 1774, Canongate, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Caroline Lockhart
              b. 14 Jun 1790, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 4 Sep 1868 (Age 78 years)
    Last Modified 25 Aug 2021 

  • Notes 
    • Early Life
      Born James Sinclair, son of Sir Robert Sinclair of Stevenson and Isabella Kerr, James changed his surname to Lockhart in order to inherit the Cambusnethan property from his uncle, George Lockhart of Castlehill, Lord Woodhall.

      It is presumably in honour or memory of James that the name "Lockhart" was given to Agnes Lockhart Nisbet (his great grand-niece).

      The memoirs of Harry Nisbet1, James' nephew, recount some interactions with the Lockharts:
      I was born in the West Indies, November 11th 1794.
      Came to England with my mother and her other children after my father’s death in 1799. Went to Scotland in the fall of that year to reside in Clydesdale, Lanarkshire, with my aunt [Mary Emelia Nisbet] , my father’s sister, the wife of James Lockhart Esq, who had a good estate & residence, called Cambusnethan. Lived with my mother at Dalserf House2, in that neighbourhood, until the summer of 1803, removing then to Edinburgh where we remained until August 1805, when we went to England, I being then 12 years old.

      He later recalls a visit to his cousin Robert Lockhart (son of James) in 1826.

      Family Life
      James Sinclair Lockhart married Mary Emelia Nisbet on the 17th of July 1773. They apparently3 had five children, though I have found baptismal records just for two:
      1. Robert, born 1774
      2. Mary Emelia [no baptismal record]
      3. Isabella [no baptismal record]; died Portobello 1832
      4. Anne [no baptismal record]; born 1782 and died 1839
      5. Caroline, born 1790


      Footnotes
      [1] Family Archive, Harry Nisbet Memoirs.docx
      [2] http://www.dalserf.org/the-lairds-of-dalserf/
      [3] Nisbet Family Pedigree in Family Archive

  • Event Map
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  • Sources 
    1. [S0279] National Records of Scotland, Old Parish Registers - Births, (scotlandspeople.gov.uk), 5 Mar 1737, James Sinclair; Haddington.

    2. [S0159] Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, Nisbet of Carfin; Series 5, Volume 2, Pages 44-52.