Spring 2019

Hallo

You may remember receiving a Newsletter from the sinclairgenealogy.info website some years ago (actually it was Winter 2015). This is the next one and it is being sent to you because your email address was on the previous mailing list. My apologies if you don't want to receive them - just click unsubscribe to be deleted from future mailings.

The website has been rebuilt and the original pages about the Newry Sinclair family are still there, plus updated descendant tables for other Irish Sinclair families.

New information will be added during the year concerning the medieval Saint Clair family who held land across southern England in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Details about Hamo de Saint Clair and his brother William have already been published in the book opposite - Hamo held the barony of Walkern, which passed to his son Hubert and granddaughter Gunnore de Saint Clair. 

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The reason for the long gap between the last Newsletter and this one is because the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta was celebrated in 2015. This resulted in taking time out to bring together twenty-two Magna Carta villages and towns across England so that their local communities could take part in the celebrations. See www.magnacartabarons.info.

Although the Saint Clair family did not play a part in the rebellion that produced Magna Carta, a descendant, William (III) de Lanvalei, was one of the barons who forced king John to accept its terms - for a short time, anyway.

The richly illustrated book opposite provides short biographies of all the barons who took part and background information about their family links.

Copies of both books can be ordered from the new sinclairgenealogy website.

With best wishes, Peter

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