Family/Spouse: Margaret Sinclair. Margaret (daughter of L. (of Quendale) Sinclair) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Janet Baikie died on 11 Jun 1733.
2. James (6th of Tankerness) Baikie died in 1764.
3. William Baikie

George + Joan Stewart. Joan and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

BAIKIE - This name has long been identified with the Orcadian mainland, and is considered to be the diminutive of beck - a stream. The earliest notice of the surname is to be found in the Rental of Merwick (for the King) 1595, where Henry Baky is noted as having excambed land in Ysbustar, Marwick, for ob terre in Tronston. In 1623 James Baikie purchased the first part of the estate of Tankerness. In 1686 James Baikie of Tankerness received a Grant of Arms, and in 1780 Robert Baikie of Tankerness was elected to represent Orkney and Shetland as a Member of Parliament for the United Kingdom, but was unseated on petition.

Tankerness House, Kirkwall was acquired by James Baikie of Tankerness in 1641. Baikie was a successful Kirkwall merchant and a descendant of Paul Baikie, navigator to King H?kon IV of Norway.

James + Barbara Smith, of Ackergill. Barbara was born in Ackergill, Caithness, Scotland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to tradition, the founder of this family was Paul Baikie, who went as pilot or navigator with King Haakon V of Norway to Orkney after the Battle of Largs in 1263, and settled there. The genealogy of the family cannot be carried back any further, however, than the time of Magnus Baikie of Isbister in the 16th century, and is very incomplete and uncertain down to the time of James Baikie (c.1710-64). What does seem to be undisputed, however, is that James Baikie (d. 1675) acquired both the Hall of Tankerness (in about 1630) and Tankerness House, Kirkwall (in 1641), which became the main residences of the family.