Sinclair-Wemyss Family of Southdun, Wick, Caithness 19th and 20th Century, 1878-1921

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Fonds MS 3203

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George Sackville Sinclair-Wemyss was the eldest son of David Sinclair-Wemyss of Southdun, who died in 1877. George joined the Royal Navy at an early age and served for four years on the Australia Station. He resigned his commission in 1879 due to ill health. While in Australia he met and, in 1878, married Helen Annie Jones, eldest daughter of R.M. Jones of Glenview, NSW. They returned to Scotland where two daughters were born. Helen Louisa Elizabeth Dunbar in 1879 and Marian Australie in Dec. 1880. George died on 30 March 1882.

The papers are mostly of a financial nature and plot the decline of the family. The widow and daughters had to leave Sackville House, Southdun and finally settled in Inverness. Marian died in 1982 aged 100

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