Sinclair Family History
Sinclair Name Meaning
Scottish (of Norman origin): name of a powerful Scottish clan,
originally a habitational name from Saint-Clair-sur-Elle in La Manche
or Saint-Clair-l’Évêque in Calvados, so called from the
dedication of their churches to St. Clarus (see Clare 3).Jewish: Americanized form of some like-sounding Ashkenazic Jewish
surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sinclair
Name Distribution of Sinclair Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sinclair families
 356 - 709  119 - 355 |
 1 - 118  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sinclair families
|
1,110 - 2,218 371 - 1,109 |
1 - 370 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sinclair census records
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Sinclair Family Origin
Sinclair Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Sinclair Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Sinclair Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Sinclair census records
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Military Service by Sinclair
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