III. George, third son of John Sinclair in Breckrow, married Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Begg, and had by her ten children:
He came to Nova Scotia with his wife and family in 1847, and settled on a woodland lot in Goshen. He died 15 January 1874. His wife died 11 August 1893.
Author's Addition (2nd Edition 1902):
William and Peter, twin sons of George Sinclair, were born in the parish of Watten, 15 July 1841. Janet their sister was born in Goshen, 25 November 1851, and died 22 August 1901.
Peter Begg was born in 1784. He married in 1810 Catherine Gow, by whom he had seven children: Robert, Barbara, Elizabeth, Catherine, William, Jane, Andrew, Margaret and Peter. He lived in Toftingall, Watten, at least from 1810 until 1828. He removed shortly after that date to Houstry, Watten, where he died in 1848. His wife was born in 1788 and died in Houstry in 1860. Elizabeth, his second daughter, was born in 1815.
John, eldest son of George Sinclair, was born at Berriedale in Latheron on the 26th of March 1839, and baptized on the 31st of March. He lives in Goshen on his father's farm. He is married and has one child.
William Sinclair, second son of George Sinclair, lives in Goshen.
He married, 16 December 1880, Mary, daughter of Robert Polson and Janet Sinclair, his wife, and had by her the following children:
George, fourth son of George Sinclair, was born in the parish of Halkirk.
He went to Scotland about thirty-five years ago, and for the last twenty-one years has been bank messenger in the British Linen Company Bank, Glasgow.
He married in Kirkintilloch, 18 January 1876, Agnes, daughter of James Fisher, and his wife, Mary Graham: and had by her the following children:
James M., fifth son of George Sinclair, lives in Goshen.
He married Annie, daughter of James Clyburn, in Country Harbour, and had by her twelve children:
Christy, second daughter of John Sinclair in Breckrow, came to Nova Scotia in the ship Osprey in 1840. She died in Goshen, in her brother William's house, 14 June 1873.
Peter Sinclair, third son of George Sinclair, lives in Isaac's Harbour, Guysborough County. He married, 13 December 1865, Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Bezanson. His wife died 26 October 1866. He married, 25 February 1868, Grace, daughter of William Maclean, Fraser's Mountain. She died 23 July 1901.
Mrs. Sinclair was born in Kirkintilloch in 1855.
Andrew, sixth son of George Sinclair, lives in Goshen.
He married, 16 July 1875, Christy, daughter of Duncan Stewart and Janet Stewart his wife, and had by her the following children:
Robert Begg, seventh son of George Sinclair, lives at Stony Mountain, Manitoba. He married first, 25 December 1885, Mary Ellen, daughter of Jacob Williams, Wavy Bank, Manitoba, and his wife, Esther Lister; and by her had six children:
His wife died 24 October 1893, aged twenty-nine years.
He married, secondly, 9 August 1894, Jennie Lister Williams, a sister of his first wife, and had by her three children:
Catherine, daughter of John Sinclair in Breckrow, was married to James Murray in Brubster, and had six children: Janet, Alexander, Johan, Catherine, Christy and Donald. We called to see her 18 August 1869. She died 3 January 1893, aged ninety-eight.
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