Blog category: Stronsay

Taxes, tacksman, taxing ancestry

Picture of Arvoquoy

Taxes, not the most immediately appealing topic for the #52ancestors challenge but it is a challenge after all so here goes. I’m looking at William Sinclair (c1770?-aft 2 Jun 1841?), one of my maternal x4 great grandfathers. He lived in Stronsay, Orkney, was married to Barbara Miller and they had at least five children: Isabella  |  more…

T for testament or where there’s a will there’s also a family

picture of hand writing will and testament

Testament. Not the old and new but a collective name for all the documents to do with the administration of a dead person’s estate. It could include: an inventory of their moveable possessions  (cash, bank accounts, farm stock, furniture for example) perhaps a will setting out who was to receive what. If so the documents  |  more…