Descendants of James Stewart of Ardvorlich

 

Descendants of James Stewart of Ardvorlich

 

Compiled by Malcolm Sissons

October 2006

 

 

Generation No. 1

 

1.  JAMES STEWART OF2 ARDVORLICH  (ROBERT STEWART OF1) was born 1655 in Kilmadock, Perthshire.  He married ELIZABETH BUCHANAN 1682.  She was born 25 May 1651.

 

Notes for JAMES STEWART OF ARDVORLICH:

James Stewart, 4th Ardvorlich, was born in 1655 in Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland.  James acted as Chamberlain to the Earl Moray in which capacity he functioned as governor of Doune Castle (right). In 1690 he was appointed Justice of the Peace for Perthshire. He was in the regiment commanded by Lord William Murray sent to Inverary to secure the Duke of Argyll's forfeited estates. (MacGregor) .

 

The succession of the governorship of Doune becomes unclear at this point and is currently being researched.  It appears presently that David Stewart succeeded his father as Governor of Doune Castle, and that his natural son, Donald, *MAY* have succeeded him.  In 1745 MacGregor of Glengyle was appointed by the Bonnie Prince Charlie as temporary governor of Doune during the '45 uprising.  After which David Stewart (below) was arrested and died in prison, and his natural son, Donald, went into hiding in Aberdeenshire.

 

James STEWART married about 1682 to Elizabeth BUCHANAN of that ilk.  She was baptized 25 MAY 1651 in Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland, as the daughter of John Buchanan, 19th Lord of Buchanan and his wife Mary Erskine, daughter of Henry Erskine, Lord of Cardross.  James' marriage to Elizabeth Buchanan was not very popular with her family. They charged that she had married beneath her station. However the marriage was approved by her uncle, then the Lord of Cardross, which settled other family members' concerns.

 

--from Stewarts of Balquhidder website

 

       

Children of JAMES ARDVORLICH and ELIZABETH BUCHANAN are:

                   i.    MARIE3 STEWART, b. Bef. 16 June 1680.

                  ii.    ROBERT STEWART, b. 6 May 1681.

2.              iii.    DAVID STEWART, b. Abt. 9 April 1684, Glenfinglas, Perthshire; d. Aft. 1746, Stirling Prison, Stirling, Perthshire.

 

 

Generation No. 2

 

2.  DAVID3 STEWART (JAMES STEWART OF2 ARDVORLICH, ROBERT STEWART OF1) was born Abt. 9 April 1684 in Glenfinglas, Perthshire, and died Aft. 1746 in Stirling Prison, Stirling, Perthshire.  He married MARGARET STEWART 12 December 1750 in Dunkeld, daughter of WILLIAM STEWART.  She was born in Fungorth ?.

 

Notes for DAVID STEWART:

Evidence of this David comes from the Ardvorlich History, MacGregor, and from the Stewarts of the South as follows: "The old Branch of Ardvorlich Family (& sometime Macorriston) became extinct when the present Mr Stewart's father became heir - the last branch which you may see in Duncan Stewart's History was Robert a rude and boisterous man, he died without issue [sic - actually Ardvorlich passed first to David's cousin, Robert, 6th Ardvorlich]. Next David, his brother, was Tenant in Glenfinglas (and sometimes in Macorriston) was Forrester to the Earl of Murray.  He was married to a daughter of Steward of Balled [actually she was a daughter of Stewart of Fungorth, believed to be of the family of Balled] and widow of Campbell of Lochdochard by whom he had one son - he was a promising youth he was slain at the unfortunate battle of Culloden. [sic - The Stewarts of the South has confused the two sons. See below.]" 

 

David's baptism, shown above, is not certain.  The entry in question shows no name for the child of James Stewart of Ardvorlich and Elizabeth whose baptism is recorded in Kilmadock. As David's birth is unaccounted for, it is believed this entry is David Stewart. 

 

David was arrested for his participation in the Jacobite uprising of 1745. He was imprisoned in the tollbooth at Stirling where he later died.  He is accounted for in: Testament of David Stewart in Glenfinglas who died in November of 1746 given up by the Earl of Moray as creditor. 

 

David married Margaret STEWART of Fungorth, daughter of William Stewart, 2nd of Fungorth. Commissariat Records of Dunkeld confirm that David married Margaret Stewart "sister german to the deceased Patrick Stewart, merchant in Edinburgh, first married to Alexander Campbell of Lochdochart, and thereafter married to David Stewart, brother to Robert of Ardvorlich (12 Dec 1750).

 

       

Children of DAVID STEWART and MARGARET STEWART are:

                   i.    JAMES4 STEWART, b. Abt. 1705, Perthshire.

 

Notes for JAMES STEWART:

Thought to have died without issue.  He is reported in the "Stewarts of the South" to have died at Culloden but this is likely a confusion with his natural brother Donald.

 

3.               ii.    DONALD STEWART, b. Abt. 1710, Ballachallan, Perthshire (?); d. Abt. 1770, Hythie, Buchan.

 

 

Generation No. 3

 

3.  DONALD4 STEWART (DAVID3, JAMES STEWART OF2 ARDVORLICH, ROBERT STEWART OF1) was born Abt. 1710 in Ballachallan, Perthshire (?), and died Abt. 1770 in Hythie, Buchan.

 

Notes for DONALD STEWART:

It appears that Donald was an illegitimate son of David Stewart of Glenfinglas, sometimes called in error "of Ballachallan", but not to be confused with the Ballachallan Stewart family and David Home Stewart of that ilk.

 

Robert Stewart Clark of Guelph had an "In Memoriam" card as follows:

 

In affectionate memory of John Stewart, son of Alexander Stewart of Aberdour, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, great-grandson of Donald Stuart (sic) of Ballochallan, Perthshire, Governor of Doune Castle for Prince Charles Edward 1745....

 

From Stewart website:

Donald STEWART b: ABT 1710 in Glenfinglas or Ballachallan, Perthshire, Scotland.  Donald was a natural son, so his real mother is unknown. Donald served in the Appin Regiment during the '45 uprising and was recorded as having been killed at the battle of Culloden.  He is shown above by "Stewarts Of the South" as the "promising youth [who] was slain at the unfortunate battle of Culloden".  However recent research has revealed that he in fact survived Culloden and went into hiding in Aberdeen.  His existence is not recorded in the Stewarts of the South nor MacGregor, but is firmly asserted by his descendant, Malcolm Sissons and a collateral line.  Donald Stewart fled to Hythie in Buchan, Aberdeenshire sometime after the "45" and eventually died in Fetterangus, Buchan, Aberdeenshire.  Donald is recorded in the Muster Rolls of the '45 as being the son of "David Stewart of Ballachallan", which has led to confusion with the Stewarts of Ballachallan.  Either the Muster Rolls are incorrect or David may have resided for a time in Ballachallan and was thus confused with the Ballachallan family. Donald Stewart had the following children. 

       

Child of DONALD STEWART is:

4.                i.    WILLIAM5 STEWART.

 

 

Generation No. 4

 

4.  WILLIAM5 STEWART (DONALD4, DAVID3, JAMES STEWART OF2 ARDVORLICH, ROBERT STEWART OF1)

 

Notes for WILLIAM STEWART:

Not much is known about William.  He also was possibly born in Ballochallan but likely spent most of his life in Buchan.  Since at least one of his children, Alexander, was born in Aberdour (now called New Aberdour, near Aberdour Bay on the coast, half way between Fraserburgh and Banff), it is possible that he lived there for at least part of his life.

       

Children of WILLIAM STEWART are:

5.                i.    ALEXANDER6 STEWART, b. Aberdour, Aberdeenshire; d. 1839, Peterhead, Buchan, Scotland.

                  ii.    JOHN STEWART.

 

Notes for JOHN STEWART:

John had five sons and a daughter.

 

                 iii.    MARGARET STEWART.

 

 

Generation No. 5

 

5.  ALEXANDER6 STEWART (WILLIAM5, DONALD4, DAVID3, JAMES STEWART OF2 ARDVORLICH, ROBERT STEWART OF1) was born in Aberdour, Aberdeenshire, and died 1839 in Peterhead, Buchan, Scotland.  He married MAY BREMNER 1795 in Strichen, Buchan, Scotland. 

 

Notes for ALEXANDER STEWART:

He is buried at Peterhead. 

       

Children of ALEXANDER STEWART and MAY BREMNER are:

6.                i.    JOHN7 STEWART, b. 1 August 1797; d. 20 May 1878, Essex, England.

7.               ii.    GEORGE STEWART, b. 1799; d. 1882, Penton, Hants, England.

                 iii.    JAMES STEWART, b. 1801.

 

Notes for JAMES STEWART:

He died young.

 

8.              iv.    ALEXANDER STEWART, b. 25 June 1810, Aberdour (New), Aberdeenshire; d. 1841.

                  v.    WILLIAM STEWART, b. 1812; d. Peterhead, Buchan, Scotland.

 

Notes for WILLIAM STEWART:

He lived at Middle Grange, Peterhead and is buried at Peterhead.

 

                 vi.    MARGARET STEWART, b. Abt. 1817.

 

 

Generation No. 6

 

6.  JOHN7 STEWART (ALEXANDER6, WILLIAM5, DONALD4, DAVID3, JAMES STEWART OF2 ARDVORLICH, ROBERT STEWART OF1) was born 1 August 1797, and died 20 May 1878 in Essex, England.

 

Notes for JOHN STEWART:

Robert Stewart Clark of Guelph had an "In Memoriam" card as follows:

 

In affectionate memory of John Stewart, son of Alexander Stewart of Aberdour, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, great-grandson of Donald Stuart (sic) of Ballochallan, Perthshire, Governor of Doune Castle for Prince Charles Edward 1745....

 

He is buried in Upton churchyard, Essex.

       

Children of JOHN STEWART are:

9.                i.    CAROLINE8 STEWART, b. 1826.

10.             ii.    GEORGE STEWART, b. 1827; d. 1901.

11.            iii.    JOHN STEWART, b. Abt. 1830.

12.            iv.    ALEXANDER STEWART, b. 1834; d. 1899, Brentford.

 

7.  GEORGE7 STEWART (ALEXANDER6, WILLIAM5, DONALD4, DAVID3, JAMES STEWART OF2 ARDVORLICH, ROBERT STEWART OF1) was born 1799, and died 1882 in Penton, Hants, England.

 

Notes for GEORGE STEWART:

He is buried at Thruxton churchyard.

       

Child of GEORGE STEWART is:

13.              i.    EMMA8 STEWART, b. 1834.

 

8.  ALEXANDER7 STEWART (ALEXANDER6, WILLIAM5, DONALD4, DAVID3, JAMES STEWART OF2 ARDVORLICH, ROBERT STEWART OF1) was born 25 June 1810 in Aberdour (New), Aberdeenshire, and died 1841.  He married AGNES WALKER 18 June 1835 in Aberdour, Aberdeenshire. 

 

Notes for ALEXANDER STEWART:

He owned Copland Hill near Peterhead, now a neighbourhood on the west side of the town.

       

Children of ALEXANDER STEWART and AGNES WALKER are:

14.              i.    ROBERT8 STEWART, b. 6 April 1836, St. Fergus, Buchan, Scotland; d. 16 October 1907, Guelph, Ontario.

                  ii.    ALEXANDER STEWART, b. 1838, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.

 

Notes for ALEXANDER STEWART:

Died young.

 

                 iii.    AGNES STEWART.

 

Notes for AGNES STEWART:

Died young.

 

 

Generation No. 7

 

9.  CAROLINE8 STEWART (JOHN7, ALEXANDER6, WILLIAM5, DONALD4, DAVID3, JAMES STEWART OF2 ARDVORLICH, ROBERT STEWART OF1) was born 1826.  She married COOPER in Melbourne, Australia. 

 

Notes for CAROLINE STEWART:

She had two daughters.

       

Children of CAROLINE STEWART and COOPER are:

                   i.    DAU A9 COOPER.

                  ii.    DAU B COOPER.

 

10.  GEORGE8 STEWART (JOHN7, ALEXANDER6, WILLIAM5, DONALD4, DAVID3, JAMES STEWART OF2 ARDVORLICH, ROBERT STEWART OF1) was born 1827, and died 1901.

 

Notes for GEORGE STEWART:

George was an artist.

       

Child of GEORGE STEWART is:

                   i.    B. G.9 STEWART, b. Bude, Cornwall?.

 

11.  JOHN8 STEWART (JOHN7, ALEXANDER6, WILLIAM5, DONALD4, DAVID3, JAMES STEWART OF2 ARDVORLICH, ROBERT STEWART OF1) was born Abt. 1830.  He married EMMA STEWART 1853, daughter of GEORGE STEWART.  She was born 1834.

 

Notes for JOHN STEWART:

He was a major, inspector of military schools.

       

Children of JOHN STEWART and EMMA STEWART are:

                   i.    DONALD9 STEWART.

                  ii.    AMY MAY STEWART.

                 iii.    ELLA TERESA STEWART.

 

12.  ALEXANDER8 STEWART (JOHN7, ALEXANDER6, WILLIAM5, DONALD4, DAVID3, JAMES STEWART OF2 ARDVORLICH, ROBERT STEWART OF1) was born 1834, and died 1899 in Brentford.

       

Children of ALEXANDER STEWART are:

                   i.    ALEXANDER9 STEWART.

                  ii.    FRED STEWART.

                 iii.    DUGALD STEWART.

                 iv.    LIONEL STEWART.

                  v.    MILDRED STEWART.

 

13.  EMMA8 STEWART (GEORGE7, ALEXANDER6, WILLIAM5, DONALD4, DAVID3, JAMES STEWART OF2 ARDVORLICH, ROBERT STEWART OF1) was born 1834.  She married JOHN STEWART 1853, son of JOHN STEWART.  He was born Abt. 1830.

 

Notes for JOHN STEWART:

He was a major, inspector of military schools.

       

Children are listed above under (11) John Stewart.

 

14.  ROBERT8 STEWART (ALEXANDER7, ALEXANDER6, WILLIAM5, DONALD4, DAVID3, JAMES STEWART OF2 ARDVORLICH, ROBERT STEWART OF1) was born 6 April 1836 in St. Fergus, Buchan, Scotland, and died 16 October 1907 in Guelph, Ontario.  He married ISOBELLA G. WILSON 4 October 1859 in Guelph, Ontario, daughter of SAMUEL WILSON and MARGARET.  She was born 12 August 1841 in Rockwood, Ontario, and died 1883 in Guelph, Ontario. 

Notes for ROBERT STEWART:

Robert was born in St. Fergus, about 5 miles north of Peterhead on the coast.  It is probable that he grew up in the Peterhead area.  We don't know when he emigrated but either as a youngster with his family or as a young man.  He was about 23 when he married in Guelph.

 

In the 1882-83 Vernon Directory, Robert is listed as a carpenter, with a house at 332 Woolwich in Guelph, along with children Agnes, a teacher, and Alexander W., a clerk.  After Isobella died in 1883, Robert began drinking and left Guelph but he returned in poor health shortly before he died in 1907.

       

Children of ROBERT STEWART and ISOBELLA WILSON are:

15.              i.    AGNES CELINE9 STEWART, b. 25 May 1861, Guelph, Ontario; d. 4 October 1912, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

                  ii.    ALEXANDER W. STEWART, b. Abt. 1865; d. 12 October 1909.

 

Notes for ALEXANDER W. STEWART:

He was apparently a clerk living in his father's house at 332 Woolwich in Guelph as recorded in the 1882-83 Vernon Directory.  He did not marry.  Little else is known of him.

 

16.            iii.    MINERVA MAY STEWART, b. 1868; d. 1935, Guelph, Ontario.

                 iv.    WILLIAM STEWART, b. Abt. 1870.

 

Notes for WILLIAM STEWART:

Willie Stewart was not married and did not have any family.

 

 

Generation No. 8

 

15.  AGNES CELINE9 STEWART (ROBERT8, ALEXANDER7, ALEXANDER6, WILLIAM5, DONALD4, DAVID3, JAMES STEWART OF2 ARDVORLICH, ROBERT STEWART OF1) was born 25 May 1861 in Guelph, Ontario, and died 4 October 1912 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.  She married WILLIAM THOMPSON RUTHERFORD 26 February 1890 in Guelph, Ontario, son of WILLIAM RUTHERFORD and CATHARINE CRAIG.  He was born 11 October 1843 in Oxford Twp., Grenville Co., Ontario, and died 4 September 1904 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

 

Notes for AGNES CELINE STEWART:

Agnes Celine Stewart was named after her father's mother, Agnes Walker, or his sister Agnes.  She probably grew up in Guelph and was a teacher there (according to 1882-83 Vernon Directory).  After her husband's death in Winnipeg, Agnes took Gerald back to Guelph where they lived from 1904 to 1907 close to their relatives.  They went on several trips to Scotland and on one they visited an "aunt" (possibly Robert's sister Margaret Stewart) in Aberdeen, which is where Gerald's grandfather clock came from.  Gerald and his mother returned to Winnipeg in 1908 and lived in an apartment near the Winnipeg Winter Club, while Gerald began his study of law.  Agnes died about 1909 and is buried in St. John's church cemetery.

 

 

 

Notes for WILLIAM THOMPSON RUTHERFORD:

William Thompson Rutherford first married Anna Clark of Guelph.  It is not known how they met.  After having two children, she died.

 

Agnes Stewart also lived in Guelph where she would have met William.  After William Rutherford and Agnes Stewart were married, they moved to Winnipeg prior to Gerald's birth on 15 December 1890.  The family home was located at the site of the present Hudson Bay Co. parking lot on Donald  St.  In Winnipeg, William became a wholesale tobacconist operating from premises at ?  William Thompson Rutherford died of ?  when Gerald was only 12 years old.

 

 

       

Child of AGNES STEWART and WILLIAM RUTHERFORD is:

                   i.    GERALD STEWART10 RUTHERFORD, b. 15 December 1890, Winnipeg, Manitoba; d. 15 July 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba; m. (1) MARGARET HOPE MCRAE, 18 December 1918, London, England; b. 13 October 1892, Ottawa, Ontario; d. 3 December 1942, Winnipeg, Manitoba; m. (2) AMY DEJARDIN, 1959, Winnipeg, Manitoba; b. 11 June 1897; d. 20 February 1980, Hawaii.

 

Notes for GERALD STEWART RUTHERFORD:

Gerald was born in a house on Donald St. where the Hudson Bay Co. parkade is located in downtown Winnipeg.  After his father died prematurely when he was twelve, his mother took him to her family in Guelph and while living there, Gerald formed a close relationship with his cousins.  He and his mother visited Scotland at this time, meeting Lord Frederic Hamilton during the voyage.

 

Gerald and his mother returned to Winnipeg in 1908 and lived in an apartment near the Winnipeg Winter Club, while Gerald began his study of law at the University of Winnipeg and graduated with his B.A. in 1911, and was called to the bar just before he left for the war. 

 

Gerald had joined the 79th Cameron Highlanders of Canada.  However, he was "taken on strength"  with 19 other officers from the Camerons in March, 1915,  as a lieutenant in the 52nd "New Ontario" Battalion, raised in Port Arthur, Ontario.  They landed in England in late 1915.  While in camp south of London, Gerald's friend Lord Frederic Hamilton arranged for Gerald to meet Arthur Conan Doyle who lived near by.  Later, in 1916 while on leave, Gerald went to tea with the Bowes-Lyon family, including 16 year old Elizabeth, who later became the Queen (now Queen mother).  He spent most of the war in the trenches, starting as lieutenant and listed as a machine gun officer in November 1915.  He was promoted to captain on 17 October 1917 and to adjutant to Colonel Foster on 26 December 1917.  His unit fought in the battles of Ypres, Mount Sorrel, the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, Passchendaele, Amiens, Hindenburg line, Cambrai and Valenciennes.  Gerald was wounded in one of the actions when he and his comrades were exposed to a German machine gun when the fog lifted.  He was wounded in the stomach although his belt buckle took most of the damage.  He served until December 1918 and was "evacuated" 10 February 1919 (i.e. he left the unit).  He was awarded the Military Cross by King George V in 1919.  Gerald continued his contact with Col. Foster who visited the Rutherford family in Winnipeg.

 

"Hope", as Gerald called her, took a boat to England at the end of the war where they were married in 1918 in London, at St. Margaret's church (since destroyed). Greta (Jackson) and her husband, Dr. Charles Bunn, attended the couple during the ceremony.  Upon their return to Winnipeg, Gerald did law work with the soldier settlement board helping returned soldiers get on to farms and then started with the law firm of Aikens Loftus & Co.  During the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, at the request of the authorities, Gerald helped out on the rifle range, teaching some of the older men how to shoot.

 

Gerald and Hope lived in an apartment at the corner of Osborne and Roslyn Road where Margaret Hope ("Babs") was born on 15 October 1919.  The young couple built a house at 200 Cambridge St. in 1923 where  Nancy-Ruth ("Nance") was born on 10 November 1924.  During these years, Nellie, the maid, also lived with the family.  Gerald was a strict disciplinarian, a view not generally shared by his wife.  He enjoyed sports such as swimming and squash.

 

In 1926, Gerald established his own law practice in the Somerset block and a few months later joined forces with Alfred Rosevear who was practising law in the same building.  They took on a couple more partners, Mssrs. MacIntosh and Johnson, but had to dissolve the firm in about 1930 when they could not get enough clients.  During the depression, Gerald went to work for the Debt Adjustment Board which involved farms which were bankrupt and trying to work out ways to keep the family on the farm.  A year after he started, Gerald became Chairman, a job which he kept until 1940 when he went to Ottawa where he worked as counsel to the Controllers for the Department of Munitions and Supplies.  He returned to Winnipeg in 1941 to take up work as legislative counsel to the Manitoba government.  He continued his association with the Cameron Highlanders through the years.

 

The family spent most summers from 1932 on  at the cottage they built on Clearwater Bay, Lake of the Woods, Ontario, where they were neighbours of the Fred Jacksons.  Hope was stricken while at camp and later died, leaving Gerald with a 16 year old Nancy-Ruth at home.

 

Gerald continued his career as Legislative Counsel, and revising the statutes of Manitoba, earning him the sobriquet of "Mr. Manitoba" among his colleagues of the Uniform Law Conference.  He was also named Queen's Counsel.  During this period, he also served as a major in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders militia regiment.  Gerald reached mandatory retirement age (of 65) in 1955 but carried on in this capacity as a "temporary" employee until 1968, and as Revising Officer until 1972 finally quitting at the age of 82.

 

After seventeen years as a widower, Gerald remarried to Amy de Jardin in 1959, and acquired a new step family.  After retirement, Gerald did some contract work for the Government of British Columbia, revising statutes.  Gerald and Amy also made a number of trips to Hawaii, where Amy passed away in February 1980.   Gerald continued to live by himself, celebrating his 90th birthday in style at the Fort Garry Hotel, before finally passing away at the age of 96 on 15 July 1987.  Gerald is buried in St. John's cemetary in Winnipeg, a city which he always considered to be the finest in the land.

 

Notes for MARGARET HOPE MCRAE:

Hope was born and grew up in Ottawa.  The day of the boating accident, she was ill and in the care of her great aunt at Mrs. Ritchie's Hotel in Aylmer.  After the drowning of her parents and brother, Margaret Hope McRae (Hope spelled her name MacRae although her father and grandfather generally spelled it McRae after the fashion of the times.  However, when her grandfather John McRae first arrived in Canada, he signed for his land "MacRae".) was initially cared for by "Auntie Gibb" (Sophia Hope Gibb), a spinster sister of Maggie's mother, Jane Anderson Bell, née Gibb. It was her grandfather Andrew Wilson Bell who was guardian at first.  Later, during her school years, Hope McRae was cared for by the family of Alfred Fripp, a barrister in Ottawa (his partner was D'arcy McGee, possibly the son of the assassinated politician) and later a senator.  His wife, Clementina, was a sister of Maggie (Bell) McRae. They lived at 407 Queen.  For some reason, Hope was raised with little contact with her McRae relatives.

 

Hope attended Ottawa Ladies' College where she met Greta Jackson of Stonewall, Manitoba (who later married Dr. Bunn of Red Deer).   She went out one summer (1912-1914?) to Stonewall, Manitoba, to visit her school friend Greta Jackson, daughter of Ida (Clark) Jackson who was a sister of Gerald's father's first wife Anna.  She happened to meet Gerald Stewart Rutherford, who was visiting the Jacksons, and they hit it off.  About this time, she may have been attending art college in New York. 

 

At the end of the war, Hope travelled to London where she was married to Gerald. After their wedding, the couple returned to Winnipeg and established a home.  Hope was at home, coping with raising a family during the depression.  Although Hope played piano, she sold it to buy a washing machine in the 1930's.  She also did volunteer work with the Children's Aid Society.  Hope was very soft- hearted and fond of children.  Although she had been a good golfer and enjoyed tennis in her younger years, a weak heart caused her to give up these sports.

 

                          On the Labour Day weekend in 1942, while at camp on Clearwater Bay, Margaret Hope (MacRae) Rutherford suffered an attack, vomiting blood, and was rushed back to Winnipeg.  It was discovered that she had cancer of the bowel and had an operation.  She returned home but during a subsequent operation, died of a heart attack on 3 December 1942 while receiving a direct blood transfusion from Nancy-Ruth.  She was buried in St. John's Church cemetary, Winnipeg.

 

16.  MINERVA MAY9 STEWART (ROBERT8, ALEXANDER7, ALEXANDER6, WILLIAM5, DONALD4, DAVID3, JAMES STEWART OF2 ARDVORLICH, ROBERT STEWART OF1) was born 1868, and died 1935 in Guelph, Ontario.  She married WILLIAM A. CLARK 3 June 1891 in Guelph, Ontario, son of ANOTHER CLARK.  He was born 1858, and died 1917 in Guelph, Ontario.

 

Notes for MINERVA MAY STEWART:

The name May was probably after May Bremner, her great grandmother on the Stewart side.

       

Child of MINERVA STEWART and WILLIAM CLARK is:

                   i.    QC ROBERT STEWART10 CLARK, b. 20 March 1892, Guelph, Ontario; d. 25 September 1965, Guelph, Ontario; m. KATHARINE ALBERTA STUTT, 22 November 1930, Toronto, Ontario; b. 7 May 1894, Dundas, Ontario; d. 31 March 1986, Guelph, Ontario.

 

Notes for QC ROBERT STEWART CLARK:

                          Stew Clark grew up in Guelph and became a close friend of his cousin Gerald Rutherford, who lived there for a period.  He played the piano and was active in theatre.  He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1912, whereupon he entered Osgoode Hall, graduating in 1915.  He then enlisted with the 64th Guelph Battery of the Royal Canadian Artillery but an injury suffered during training prevented him from serving overseas.  Upon discharge, he obtained a position as purchasing agent with the Partridge Rubber Co.  Stew joined the staff of barrister Nicol Jeffrey, appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario in 1928, at which time Stew opened his own law practice and later associated with J.K. Blair, QC.  He acted for 13 years as Guelph city solicitor and 10 years as a member of the Ontario Parole Board.  He was appointed a King's Counsel in 1934.  He served as a Judge of Wellington County Court for 18 years.   Stew was actively involved at one time or another in the Liberal party, the Masonic Lodge, and various other clubs as well as being an elder of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church.  After a period of poor health, he was reconsidering a decision to retire when he died of a heart seizure.