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DOUGLAS Sinclair’s earliest memory was of the great snow at the beginning of 1947. He, his father Captain Willie Sinclair, his mother Marion, and his sisters trudged from Nice Court, where Douglas was born in March 1943, to the Old Manse, a hundred yards away. The Sinclairs. ....
From Camberwell to Shetland in search of my family s story We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Steve Foley Normal text size Advertisement All my life I had been conscious of an ancestral connection to Shetland, but like many Australians of my generation, I had only a few fragments to assemble the jigsaw that was my Scottish heritage. I knew that my great-grandfather, William Pole Williamson, had been born in Lerwick in 1854; that he and his older brother had relocated with their father to Edinburgh where, I was told, they shortened their surname to Williams. ....