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Crossbasket Castle was once held by John Kincaid of Crossbasket. ...

2026-07-17T02:36:05Z

Crossbasket Castle was once held by John Kincaid of Crossbasket.

https://www.crossbasketcastle.com/

For now, all we can say is that Kincaids were in Scotland from ...

2026-07-17T01:41:00Z

For now, all we can say is that Kincaids were in Scotland from 1425 A.D. That is when they started appearing in records there. They may have been there much longer but we await ancient dna evidence to support this.

What dna evidence does support is that the ancestors of R-A321 Kincaid's were in territory of what is now Germany for at least 2566 years. That is from the creation of the R-Z381 mutation to the creation of the R-S5245 mutation based on Family Tree dna dates. Before that they were in the Bohemia / Czechia for about 500 years - from the creation of the R-L151 snp to R-Z381's creation.

For a genetic history of Kincaid R-U106 ancestors before R-A321 see Dr. Iain Macdonald's 'Phylogeography of R-U106' (26 February 2026) at https://www.jb.man.ac.uk/~mcdonald/genetics/phylogeography.pdf.

# Table of Contents ### Research papers - *The earliest holders ...

2026-06-20T00:49:43Z

# Table of Contents

### Research papers

- *The earliest holders of the lands of Kincaid, 27 June 2014* (https://archive.org/details/early-kincaidlands)
- *The lands of Kincaid in relation to the Highlands of Scotland, 11 December 2011* (https://archive.org/details/highland_202606)
- *The Lairds of Kincaid and Craiglockhart castle, 27 April 2014* (https://archive.org/details/craiglockhart-tower)
- *The similarity of Kincaid and Crawford coat of arms, 22 January 2012* (https://archive.org/details/coatofarms)
- *Possible origins of the early Kincaid coat of arms, 4 February 2012* (https://archive.org/details/armsorigin)
- *Further evidence for Kincaid descent from Robert de Crauford, constable of
Edinburgh Castle, 27 October 2019* (https://archive.org/details/robertde-crauford-arms)
- *Documents pertaining to the Lairds of Kincaid, 1425 – 1914, 29 June 2014* (https://archive.org/details/Lairds)
- *Hamiltons of Bardowie – First known superiors of the Kincaids for
their ancestral lands, 24 June 2017* (https://archive.org/details/hamilton-bardowie)
- *A prosperous early Kincaid line in France, 25 October 2012* (https://archive.org/details/Montifault)

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🚧  Contents under construction. Updated to 19 June 2026.

Research paper by Peter A. Kincaid titled 'The earliest ...

2026-06-19T21:54:07Z

Research paper by Peter A. Kincaid titled 'The earliest holders of the lands of Kincaid' dated 27 June 2014 and formerly hosted on the kyncades.org website. Now hosted in at https://archive.org/details/early-kincaidlands

At the end of April Marina Silva published a paper titled ...

2026-06-18T16:30:58Z

At the end of April Marina Silva published a paper titled 'Genomic history and selection in Roman and early medieval Britain' (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.28.721361v1) in which they noted five ancient DNA samples that are sub R-S5245. Two are R-S5247 and three under R-S5246 which are known for the Sinclairs of Roslin. All but one date before the Anglo-Saxon period.

The samples are:

R-S5247
C12820 (250-400CE Clifton, Yorkshire)
C11708 (450-600CE Droxford, Hampshire)

R-S5246
C12901 (243-401CE Catterick, Yorkshire)
C11855 (200-410CE Napier Rd, Kent)
C12264 (100-410CE Blackfriars, Leicestershire)

This Roman era possible English origin for the Sinclairs of Roslin is most stunning.

We await for Family Tree DNA to verify these samples and upload to their y-dna tree. Errors do occur so ftdna verification is most essential. Especially the timeframes.

The Sinclairs of #Roslin of Da Vinci Code fame are a clade of ...

2026-06-17T15:30:11Z

The Sinclairs of #Roslin of Da Vinci Code fame are a clade of R-S5245 like Kincaid's of Kincaid. The former are a R-S5245>S5627>S5246 clade while Kincaid of Kincaid are a R-5245>FGC12993>A321 clade.

Most Kincaid's descending from the first one who assumed the ...

2026-06-16T03:35:24Z

Most Kincaid's descending from the first one who assumed the name from the lands of Kincaid (now Milton of Campse opposite Kirkintilloch, Scotland) are clades of the R-A321 y-dna SNP which is sub R-S5245>FGC12993.

No ancient DNA gas been found for R-A321 but 4 have been found sub R-S5245. They are DRH057 from Deersheim, Germany; VK389 from Telemark, Norway; C11119 from Oxford, England; and the recently reported I21002 in Akbari et all. 2026. The latter is R-S5245>Y8604>BY13972 but has no sample information released yet. Family Tree Dna seems to place it in their Y-Dna time tree between 700 CE and 800 CE.

DRH057 is the oldest sample at 400-600 CE. VK389 was a Viking man living 900-1000 CE and C11119 was a Medieval British man living 1050-1290 CE.