Archibald Sinclair 1866 - 1952

Name: Archibald Sinclair

Father: Duncan Sinclair

Mother: Isabella Galbraith.

Born: 6 Apr 1866 at Auchindrain.

Died 28 Oct 1952 at Fasgaidh, Furnace, near Inveraray.
Cause of death: Cancer of the skin of the forehead, secondary cancer of the glands of the neck, as cert. by Wm. MaKenzie MB ChB

Never Married. No known issue.

Occupation: Sett Maker / Stone Cutter

Census:

• 1871

Auchindrain¹
2 room with windows

Name	Rel.	Con.	Age	Occupation	Born
Duncan Sinclair	Head	Mar	39	Farmer	Achindrain
Bella Sinclair	Wife	Mar	29		Kilmichael
Arch. Sinclair	son		4		Achindrain
Mary Sinclair	daur		12 mos		Achindrain

• 1881

Brenchollie²

Duncan Sinclair	Head	M	48	Powder Maker	Achindrain
Bella Sinclair	Wife	M	38	Powder Maker Wife	Barnakill
Archibald Sinclair	son		14	Scholar	Achindrain
Mary Sinclair	daur		11	Scholar	Achindrain
John Sinclair	son		8	Scholar	Achindrain
Bella Sinclair	daur		6	Scholar	Achindrain
Duncan Sinclair	son		3		Achindrain
Sarah Sinclair	daur		3m		Brenchollie

• 1911

PO Square, Furnace³

Duncan Sinclair	Head	80	Retired General Labourer		Cumlodden
Isabella Sinclair	Wife	70			Glassary
Archibald Sinclair	son	44	Settmaker	Granite quarries	Cumlodden
John Sinclair	son	38	Sett Maker	Granite quarries	Cumlodden
Isabella Sinclair	daur	36			Cumlodden
Sarah Sinclair	daur	30			Cumlodden
Mary Sinclair	daur	41			Cumlodden

Stories:

Was to have spent time in America (sometime between 1916 - 1925) - and upon his return he built Fasgaidh and moved his siblings in.

Home of Archibald Sinclair and his siblings. Built by Archie sometime between 1925 - 1930 on the Main A83 into Furnace.

House is mentioned in the following account:

> - Archibald Sinclair. He is an elder in the Church of Scotland. His letters, full of Scripture and benedictions, are like the many I received from my father. After some words about the war, he concludes, "May God help us to run with patience the race set before us looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our fath." "With patience" - we all need it. "Finisher of our faith" - most encouraging.

I visited the writer of this letter in 1925 and again in 1930. Between those years he had built a home on Loch Fyne in the Scottish Highlands. In 1930 as I approached the house I saw it was named, "Fasgaidh."

"Archie, is that a Gaelic name and, if so, what does it mean?" I asked.

"Yes, it is Gaelic. Come into the house and I will tell you its meaning," he replied.

When we were seated, he turned in his Gaelic Bible to Isaiah 32:2 There was "Fasgaidh." Then we turned to the same passage in the King James Version and he told me the phrase, "a hiding-place from the wind" was the translation of the Gaelic name of his home.⁴

"Fasgaidh"! What an appropriate name for a home! What is a home either physically or morally but a hiding-place from the wind!

Footnotes

1. GROS REF: 1871 Census 509/00 003/00 002 JA

2. GROS REF: 1881 Census 509/00 001/00 003 JA

3. 1911 Census 509/00 002/00 006 JA

4. Campbell, George A., "The Christian Evanjelist," weekly magazine of The Disciples of Christ, The Pulpit and the Pew , 15 February 1940, Pg. 185