Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip of a Scotsman wearing a kilt and sporran and walking by cliffs on the coast of South Havra Island on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Orkney Islands, Britain, United Kingdom. Olave Sinclair of Havera, South Havra, and Brow, died 1573, was an official on Shetland, known as the " foud ". He collected taxes due to the Scottish crown. His first name is sometimes written as Oliver, Ola, or Olaf. Olave Sinclair was present at the battle of Summerdale in 1529 and in 1539 was given a respite, exemption from prosecution, for the death of John Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Caithness. Olave Sinclair is said to have been blind in one eye, the result of leaping from Sumburgh Head to escape a band of marauders from the Isle of Lewis. A version of the story explains that Sinclair had a quarrel with William MacLeod of Lewis, whose wife had brought him lands in Shetland. Two previous attempts by the MacLeods to seize Sinclair in revenge for William MacLeod's death were foiled by his Fair Isle allies. Sinclair was involved in the murder of a William Lewis or Lowis and his three servants on Shetland in the silence of night in June 1543. The assailant from Lewis, traditionally described as Hucheon MacLeod, seems to have been Hugh Morrison, brieve of Lewis, of Trotterness, who killed Olave's son, Henry Sinclair, around the year 1551. In October 1564, Mary, Queen of Scots granted Sinclair a remission from prosecution for this crime. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day
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