Frotoft branch of the Orkney Traills

TRAILL.
Island of Kousay, and his second wife Isobel Craigie. The
Batter and Hobbister Traills are well known as the Caithness
Traills, Eatter being in Caithness. James Traill of Ratter
and Hobbister, Sheriff of Caithness, who married Lady
Janet Sinclair, second daughter of William Sinclair, tenth
Earl of Caithness, was the great, great, great grandson of
G-eorge Traill, in Westness, and Isobel Craigie. 0)
George Traill, in Westness, probably did not accumulate
very much money during the first few years he was in Orkney,
but more than twenty years before he died he had property
in the Island of Rousay (2) and capital to accommodate others,
when the interest and security was good. Many of the
Orkney Traills became landed proprietors, some of them
were able to leave property and money, but unfortunately
many of the Traills lost what had been left to them, or what
they had made, from one cause or another, in too many cases
from causes which they could have avoided or prevented ;
this applies to every branch of the Orkney Traills, although
not equally to each individual who may have died in worse
circumstances than he was at one time of his life ;< 3 > how-
ever, in local matters, many of the Traills have done good
service, others have worked in the world of Science and
Literature, &c, such as Thomas Stewart Traill, of the Tirlet
Branch, who was Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, Edin-
burgh, and edited the eighth edition of the Encychpcedia
Brit&nnica shortly before he died ; Thomas Stewart Traill,
son of the Professor, author of several poems ; H. D. Traill,
one of the Eatter and Hobbister Branch, author of " The
New Fiction," and other essays on literary subjects, " The
Life of Sir John Franklin," "The New Lucian," &c. &c. ;
(1) James Traill was a great grandson of George Traill, of Quendale,
and his second wife Anna Baikie, daughter of James Baikie, of Burness.
( z ) Possibly the property was not held in his own name.
(3) It is not known that William Traill, M.D., John Traill, C.E., or the
present William Henry Traill, all of the Woodwick Branch, lost any of the
property. George William Traill, of Kousay and Veira, left a valuable
property.
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