Daniel Sinclair and Ann Campbell

Daniel Sinclair  and  Ann Campbell

(1785-1849)           (1788-1857)

How we relate:

They are the parents of Ann Sinclair Marshall

who is the mom of William Andrew Marshall

who is the dad of Minnie Marshall McKinnon

who is the mom of Byron McKinnon

 who is the dad of Don McKinnon

Thus they are my Great, great, great Grandparents.

 Daniel and Ann were married in Killin, Perth, Scotland on December 18, 1808.  After they were married, the Sinclair’s lived in Killin. They had nine children, three of whom died as infants. Four of her children came to America. She had one son, Peter, who didn't come, and became lost to the family after they left for America.

At some time before 1826, the Sinclairs moved to Doune, the birthplace of Daniel’s father.  By that time, the family consisted of six girls and one boy.  In Doune, Daniel was employed at Doune Castle as a caretaker. .  Doune Castle was a 400 year old (at that time) castle a few miles north of Stirling.

The first LDS missionaries came to Scotland in 1840, and the Sinclairs were introduced to and embraced this new religion soon afterwards. Perhaps this new religion filled a void in their lives. He reported himself as a shepherd to the census taker in 1841 and by 1842 most of the family had been converted and baptized. 

During this period of Mormon history, the saints in England were encouraged to gather in America for the strengthening of the church.  New members were advised to move to the City of Nauvoo as quickly as possible to receive their temple endowments.  Daniel and Ann Sinclair, upon hearing the call to gather, worked hard to make immigrating to America a reality.  They sold their possessions to obtain money for their passage to Zion. Ann (who the McKinnon line comes out of), their youngest and only unmarried daughter, would travel with them. The other daughters and their families would be able to join them as soon as money became available.

Daniel, Ann and daughter, Ann, bid farewell to their homeland and boarded the ship “Xylon” at Liverpool for the voyage to America. On September 9, 1843 they arrived in New York Harbor.

The Sinclairs stayed for a short time in Slab City, NY. It was there Ann met and married William Scott.  The group joined a party of Mormons traveling west and spent the winter in one of the temporary tent villages along the Missouri River during the harsh winter of 1848-1849.  Many Saints died and both Anns spent the winter nursing the sick as well as performing many other services for those around them. The hardships proved too much for William Scott. He left with a group of apostates and returned to the East, never to be seen again.

Among the sick was Ann’s father Daniel Sinclair. He eventually succumbed to Cholera that was among the saints and died, leaving both Ann’s alone without a man to help drive the wagon westward. 

The William S. Muir Company was getting ready to head west when Ann (the mother) heard about Robert Marshall - a bachelor who had come alone to America and had no one to travel with.  Ann hired the young Robert Marshal to drive her oxen to the Salt Lake Valley, realizing it would be beneficial to both parties. Ann (the daughter) and Robert got married later that year.

They arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in the fall of 1849 and shortly after settled in the  Sessions Settlement which is now Bountiful.  

Ann Campbell Sinclair worked as a midwife and nurse.  On June 30, 1857, Ann was stricken with apoplexy after returning home from assisting a patient.  She lived only a short time after that.

 

Sources:

·         Excerpts from “To Them it Was Real,” family history compiled by Bob Dix, 2000

·         http://macfarlane-sinclair.org/index.php?page=3