THE HAA OF CUISTER, BRESSAY, SHETLAND

Across the Bressay Sound is the ancestral home of Thomas Bolt

Thomas Bolt, Merchant and Agent

James' heir, Thomas Bolt, a prosperous merchant in his own right married in 1763 Barbara Inns; daughter of Alexander Inns of Fracafield (an important merchant-laird in Tigwall).

The 1762 accounts of his uncle, Arthur Nicolson, recorded that in that year Thomas supplied to him 98 cans of oil, 1167 ling and 1376 lasts of tusk, and that they were party to the smuggling of German gin and Dutch brandy in which Cruister played a key role.

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