SINCLAIR, William 2nd of Dunbeath ^{1 2 3}

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William married Beatrice GORDON, daughter of Alexander GORDON Master of Sutherland and Janet STEWART.^{1 2} (Beatrice GORDON was born about 1528.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Beatrice (Gordon), married to William Sinclair of Dunbeath."

from Scots Peerage (vol.8)




"William Sinclair was twice married - first (according to Gordon, who is the more reliable authority in this instance), to Beatrix, daughter of Alexander, Master of Sutherland, and sister of John, Earl of Sutherland; or (according to Douglas), to Beatrix, the Earl's daughter."

from Sinclairs of Stemster and Dunbeath ^{1 2}

William next married Margaret INNES, daughter of Alexander INNES 14th of that Ilk and Elizabeth FORBES, after 1574.^{2 3} (Margaret INNES was born about 1541.)

  Marriage Notes:

"But of this marriage betwixt the Laird Innes and Elizabeth Forbes, I find no children out liveing Innes himself but one daughter called Margaret, who was marryed to William Sinclair brother to the Earle of Caithnes. The Earle had sent over his brother to vow the lady for him, but she preferred William to the Earle, bringing with her for a tocher the lands of Dunbaith and paroch of Ray, which the housfe of Innes had keept while then. By this woman, the Sinclair got also the lands of Monbeens, Lewcharis, Inche, and others about Elgin. See the instrument of seasine, marked 26, C, given to Wilham Sinclair of Stamesterr, eldest son and air to William Sinclair of Dunbeath and Margaret Innes, upon these lands about Elgin, anno 1575."

from Familie of Innes

Note:

William's brother was not the Earl of Caithness.The story of the 'Earl sending his brother' may be a conflation of William Sinclair's marriage to an Innes, and his father Alexander Sinclair, who was the brother of the Earl of Caithness and who also married an Innes lady.




"William Sinclair was twice married ... His second wife was Margaret, only child of Alexander Innes of Innes, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John, fifth Lord Forbes. After her father's death in 1553, Margaret Innes obtained a Crown charter of the lands of Ogston and others in Morayshire."

from Sinclairs of Stemster and Dunbeath ^{2 3}