Taxes, tacksman, taxing ancestry

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…