Descendants
of James Mhor Stewart
1. JAMES MHOR (of ALBANY and BALDORRAN) STEWART the GREAT, b. in SCOTLAND, (son of MURDOCK STEWART and ISABEL of LENNOX) occupation 1st of BALDORRAN, d. CIRCA 1451 in IRELAND.
James reacted to his father's execution by leading an attack on Dumbarton, burning it and killing the governor of the castle, John Stewart. He fled to Ireland where he later died. He was ancestor to the Stewarts of Ardvorlich. James and Lady MacDonald were not married.
Partner LADY MACDONALD, began NOT MARRIED in SCOTLAND, (daughter of MARGERY BISSETT and JOHN MHOR (1st EARL of ANTRIM) MACDONALD).
Children:
i ANDREW STEWART, occupation LORD of AVONDALE.
King James II invited Andrew, the eldest son of James, to return to Scotland and was appointed Lord Avondale in 1459.
ii MURDOCH (of ALBANY) STEWART, b. in SCOTLAND.
iii ARTHUR STEWART, b. in SCOTLAND.
2. iv JAMES BEAG (1st of BALDORRAN) STEWART.
v ROBERT STEWART, b. in SCOTLAND.
vi MATILDA STEWART, b. in SCOTLAND.
vii ALEXANDER STEWART, b. in SCOTLAND.
3. viii WALTER (of MORPHIE) STEWART b. 1440.
Second Generation
2. JAMES BEAG (1st of BALDORRAN) STEWART, b. in IRELAND, occupation 2nd of BALDORRAN.
James returned to Scotland and was accepted and granted the lands of Baldorran by John, Lord Darnley in 1466.
He married ANNABEL BUCHANAN, (daughter of SIR PATRICK BUCHANAN and GALBRAITH).
Children:
i JOHN STEWART, b. CIRCA 1450 in SCOTLAND.
4. ii WILLIAM (2nd of BALDORRAN) STEWART b. CIRCA 1455.
5. iii ANDREW (1st of GARTNAFUERAN) STEWART b. CIRCA 1460.
iv MATILDA STEWART, b. CIRCA 1465 in SCOTLAND.
She married WILLIAM (1st OF CULLODEN AND DUNTREATH) EDMONSTON, b. CIRCA 1425 in , CULLODEN, STRATHBLANE, STERLINGSHIRE, SCOTLAND, d. 1486.
3. WALTER (of MORPHIE) STEWART, b. 1440 in SCOTLAND, occupation KNIGHT OF MORPHY, d. 1513 in SCOTLAND.
Walter was the grandfather of a later, Andrew Stewart, Second Lord Avondale in 1501. From this Andrew came three sons, Andrew Stewart, Third Lord of Avondale, later Lord Ochiltree; Henry Stewart created Lord Methven in 1528; and James Stewart of Beith, father of James, Lord Doune.
He married ELIZABETH ARNOT, b. in SCOTLAND.
Children:
6. i ALEXANDER STUART.
ii JOHN STEWART, b. in SCOTLAND.
iii GEORGE (of JOHNSTON) STEWART, b. in SCOTLAND.
iv MARGARET STEWART, b. in SCOTLAND.
Third Generation
4. WILLIAM (2nd of BALDORRAN) STEWART,[1] b. CIRCA 1455 in BALDORRAN, BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND, occupation 2nd of BALDORRAN.
His full name was William of Baldorran, Balquhidder, Perthshire. William received the office of hereditary Royal Baillie of Balquhidder. It was this William and his son Walter, who held the townships listed in the Exchequer Rolls of 1488. In the portioning of Balquhidder which took place during the sixteenth century, the descendants of Sir William Stewart of Baldorran gained hereditary tacks of land.
According to MacGregor, author of "Landed Families of Strathearn," William also "received a payment from the Exchequer in 1467. He was witness to a charter by Patrick McNab of Bovaine granting the lands of Bovaine, and others, to his eldest son and heir Finlay McNab, at Killin on 1 January, 1486, and was witness to a Procuratory of Resignation by John Comrie of that Ilk, in favour of his son and heir, John Comrie, on 21 November, 1495. On 7 November, 1500, he was a member of an assise at the retour of Henry Douglas as heir to his deceased father James Douglas in the lands of Auchansk and m. firstly by 1 May, 1484, to Janet, daughter of Archibald de Buchannan of Lettir, when they had a charter from her father for the lands of Lettir, in the Lordship of Strathgartney, and had issue. He m. secondly to Mariota, daughter of Sir Colin Campbell, 3rd of Glenorchy, by 5 October, 1498, when they had a charter for the lands of Emmercruitage and Croftinderry for the duration of their lives and that of their son Walter from Robert Menzies of Comrie, and was witness to a charter by John Lindsay of Gartallartane for the lands of west-third of Gartallartane in favour of Drummond Johnston on 21 April, 1509. He d. by April of 1513 and by these two wives"... he had issue.
He married (1) JANET (of LETTIR) BUCHANAN, b. CIRCA 1465 in SCOTLAND, (daughter of ARCHIBALD (of LETTIR) DE BUCHANAN).
Children:
i JAMES (of BALQUHIDDER) STEWART.
ii JANET (of LETTIR) STEWART, b. CIRCA 1480 in SCOTLAND.
She married JOHN (of KIPPENROSS) KINROSS.
iii AGNES STEWART, b. CIRCA 1482 in SCOTLAND.
He married (2) MARION (MARIOTA) (of GLENORCHY) HELEN CAMPBELL, b. in SCOTLAND, (daughter of SIR COLIN (of GLENURQUBY) CAMPBELL and MARGARET (of KEIR) STERLING).
Children:
7. iv WALTER (3rd of BALDORRAN) STEWART b. CIRCA 1485.
8. v JOHN (1st of GLENBUCKY) STEWART b. CIRCA 1487.
vi MARIOT STEWART.
It is not certain which of William's wives is the mother of Mariote.
vii HELEN STEWART.
5. ANDREW (1st of GARTNAFUERAN) STEWART, b. CIRCA 1460 in BALDORRAN, BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
Andrew is mentioned in 1575 as a sponsor in the Special Retour of James Stewart of Baldorran in the lands of Immercreithan and Creftinterray.
Children:
9. i ALEXANDER (2nd of GARTNAFUERAN) STEWART b. CIRCA 1525.
ii JOHN (1st of BLAIRGARY) STEWART.
John was ancestor ot the Blairgarry Stewarts.
6. ALEXANDER STUART, b. in SCOTLAND, occupation LORD of AVONDALE, d. in SCOTLAND.
He married MARGARET KENNEDY of BLAIRQUHAN, married in SCOTLAND.
Children:
10. i ANDREW (2nd LORD of AVONDALE) STUART.
Fourth Generation
7. WALTER (3rd of BALDORRAN) STEWART, b. CIRCA 1485 in SCOTLAND, occupation 4th of BALDORRAN.
Walter succeeded his father as Royal Baillie. He was confirmed in the ownership of his ancestral lands (Baldorran, Perthshire) in September 1500. Walter's sword of that office hangs in the House of Ardvorlich. His brother, John Stewart founded the family of Stewarts of Glenbuckie in Balquhidder, who held that estate for almost three centuries. Walter was the ancestor of the Ardvorlich, Annat, and Glenfinglas Stewarts.
He married EUPHEMIA EUPHEMIA (of TULLIECHETTIL) REIDHEUGH, married in SCOTLAND, b. in SCOTLAND, (daughter of JAMES (of CULTOBRAGGAN) REIDHEUGH and MARGARET SIMPSON).
Children:
11. i JAMES (of BALQUHIDDER) STEWART b. CIRCA 1520.
ii ANDREW (of BALDORRAN) STEWART, b. CIRCA 1525 in BALDORRAN, BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
He married MARGARET DRUMMOND OF DRUMMOND ERINOCH.
iii WILLIAM STEWART.
iv HELEN (of BALDORRAN) STEWART, b. CIRCA 1530 in SCOTLAND.
She married JOHN (of GARTINCABER) DOG.
8. JOHN (1st of GLENBUCKY) STEWART, b. CIRCA 1487 in BALDORRAN, BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
John Stewart founded the family of Stewarts of GlenbuckY in Balquhidder. His family held that estate for almost three centuries. According to MacGregor, author of "Landed Families of Strathearn," he was "mentioned with his father and brothers in the Exchequer Rolls during the reign of King James IV, as crown tenant in the lands of Stronslaney, in the Lordship of Balquhidder. He was heir provisional to his brother Walter Stewart in the lands of Duchlas on 14 September, 1500, and was witness with his father to a charter by James Mushet of Tolgarth for his share of lands of Finlarig in favour of Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy on 27 February, 1506. He obtained the lands of Glenbuckie, m. to a daughter of Patrick Buchanan, and had issue."
He married BUCHANAN, (daughter of PATRICK (of MacCARTHE) BUCHANAN and UNKNOWN).
BUCHANA: She was the daughter of Patrick Buchanan of MacCarthe, ancestor of the
Laird of Arnprior, Ochlesy, MacCarthe, and Desclelles.
Children:
12. i PATRICK (2nd of GLENBUCKY) STEWART.
13. ii DUNCAN (3rd of GLENBUCKY) STEWART b. CIRCA 1530.
iii ROBERT STEWART.
9. ALEXANDER (2nd of GARTNAFUERAN) STEWART, b. CIRCA 1525 in GARTNAFUARAN, BALQHUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
He married GRAY.
Children:
14. i ANDREW (3rd of GARTNAFUERAN) STEWART.
ii JOHN STEWART.
John was the ancestor of the Hyndfield Stewarts. He was shown living in Kirktown of Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland in 1587.
10. ANDREW (2nd LORD of AVONDALE) STUART, occupation GROOM of the STOLE, d. 1548 in SCOTLAND.
Andrew served as the Groom of the Stole to King James IV (1488-1513) of Scotland. Andrew exchanged the Lordship of Evandale-Annandale for the Barony of Ochiltree and became the ancestor of the Lords of Ochiltree. By his marriage to Margaret, he created the Earl of Arran on August 10, 1503.
He married (1) BEATRIX DRUMMOND, married in SCOTLAND, b. in SCOTLAND, (daughter of LORD JOHN DRUMMOND and UNKNOWN).
Children:
i ANDREW (3rd LORD of AVONDALE) STUART, b. CIRCA 1500 in SCOTLAND.
Andrew inherited the title of Avondale and was also created as Lord Ochiltree.
ii HENRY (LORD of METHVEN) STUART, b. CIRCA 1504 in SCOTLAND.
Henry was created Lord of Methven in 1528.
15. iii JAMES (of BEITH) STUART b. CIRCA 1506.
iv CHRISTIAN STUART, b. CIRCA 1508 in SCOTLAND.
She married JOHN BOSSWELL of AUCHINLECK, married in SCOTLAND.
v MARJORY STUART, b. CIRCA 1514 in SCOTLAND.
She married JOHN KNOX, married CIRCA 1563 in SCOTLAND, b. CIRCA 1514 in GIFFORD, EAST LOTHIAN, SCOTLAND.
JOHN: John Knox, Founder of Presbyterianism:
The following is a laudatory biography from the Encyclopedia of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America by Alfred Nevin, 1884:
He was born in 1505 at Gifford, in East Lothian, and was educated at Haddington and St. Andrew's. After he was created Master of Arts, he taught philosophy, most probably as a regent in one of the colleges of the University. His class became celebrated, and he was considered as equlling if not excelling, his master, in the subtleties of the dialectic art. About the same time (1530), although he had no interest [support from influencial men] but what was procured by his won merit, he was advanced to clerical orders, and ordained a priest before he reached the age fixed by the canons of the Church. At this time, the fathers of the Early Church, Jerome and Augustine, attracted his particular attention. By the writings of Jerome, he was led to the Scriptures as the only pure fountain of divine truth [revelation] and to believe the utility of studying scripture in their original languages instead of Latin in the opposite to those taught in the Romish Church, who while she retained his name as a saint in her calendar, had banished his doctine as heretical. From this time Knox renounced the study of Scholastic Theology.
Knox first betrayed his change of sentiment in certain lectures in the University at St. Andrew's where his youthful and noble countryman, Patrick Hamilton, for his advocacy of the doctrines of redemption, had perished in the fire. His defection aroused the clergy to denounce him as a traitor, and deprive him of his priesthood. He escaped death only by timely flight from the vengeance of Cardinal Beaton, who had engaged his emissaries to lay hold of him. Knox found protection under Douglas, of Langniddrie, and employment as a Tutor. Knox next appears in the company of George Wishart, the Scottish schoolmaster, who, having received the doctrinces of the Reformation, began to preach them, probably about 1536. The sword which was carried before the preacher after the attembt to assassinate him in Dundee was borne by Knox. On the night when the noble martyr was arrested, at the Cardinal's command, he ordered that the sword be taken from his zealous attendant. Knox begged for leave to follow him, but Wishart answered: "Nay, return to your bairnes" (meaning his pupils), "and God bliss you; ane is sufficient for a sacrifice."
The cruel martyrdom of him whom Knox revered as his spiritual father, and whom, for his endearing qualities, he cherished as a brother, made a powerful impression on the ardent soul of the Reformer. Knox himself was in constant peril from the bloody foe. We find him, after the murder of the Romanist Beaton, seeking a refuge in St. Andrew's Castle, which the Cardinal's slayers held as a safe resort from the persecution of the Papists. There an event befell him which had the most serious bearing supon all his future. Unitl now, Knox's utterances in favor of Reformed doctrines had been private, consisting in Bible expositions to his pupils and his neighbors. He had never undertaken the place of public preacher, nor did he consider his office as priest enough to justify him in doing so, without a call from a Christian congregation. He received this call in the most unlooked for manner. Among the Protestants taking refuge in St. Andrew's Castle were Sir David Lindsay, of the Mount, the poet, and the scourger of the priesthood, Henry Balnaves, one of those stout barons who lent aid, by pen and sword, to the Scotch Reformation. These men quickly recognized in Knox's ability and skill in giving popular instruction to his pupils the germs of an energy and popular eloquence that were destined to earn him renown. They urged him to undertake the preacher's work. Knox, distrusting his own ability, and entertaining a lofty idea of the importance of the office steadfastly declined. At length, a call to preach having been given him, in such a solemn and unexpected way as to assure him that it came from God, though he feared and trembled, he accepted the office laid upon him. On the day appointed he appeared in the pulpit, and took his text from Daniel vii, 25; "And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws;" a choice which reveals directly his view of the Papacy, and the confidence with which he anticipated its overthrow. It was a memorable day in Scottish history when Knox first preached in the parish church at St. Andrew's. Brave men held their breath as they listened to his bold and sweeping utterances. Such preaching had not been heard in Scotland for ages. "Others hewed the brances of the Papistry, but he struck at the root." Some rejoiced and took courage, some doubted, some hoped, some feared, many were furious, but all felt that there was a new power in the world; while a few chosen spirits recognized John Knox as the ordained champion and leader of the revolution then beginning in Scotland.
Notwithstanding the opposition Knox met with from the clergy, he every day grew bolder in the cause, until the castle of St. Andrew's surrendered to the French, in July, 1547, when he was carried with the garrison into France, and remained a prisoner on board the galleys, until the latter end of 1549. Being then set at liberty, he passed over to England, and arriving in London, was licensed and appointed preacher, first at Berwick, and afterwards at Newcastle. In 1552 he was appointed Chaplain to Edward VI, and preached before the king at Westminster, who recommended Crnmer to give him the living of All-hallows, in London, which Knox declined, not choosing to conform to the English liturgy. On the accession of Queen Mary he went to Geneva, and next to Frankfort, where he took part with the English exiles, who apposed the use of the liturgy, but the other side prevailing. Knox returned to Geneva, and soon after went to Scotland. While engaged in the ministry, he received an invitation to return to Geneva, with which he complied, and in his absence, the bishops passed sentence of death upon him for heresy, against which he drew up an energetic appeal. In 1558 he published his treatise, entitled "The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women," chiefly aimed at the cruel government of Queen Mary, of England, and at the attempt of the Queen Regent of Scotland to rule without a parliament. In April, 1559, he would have visited England, but was prevented by the resentment felt by Elizabeth at his late treatise. He therefore proceeded directly to Scotland, where he found a persecution of the Protestants just ready to commence at Stirling.
"His appearance at Edinburgh," says Prof. S.J. Wilson, "as sudden and unexpected as the appearance of Elijah at Samaria, created among his enemies as great a panic as though it had been the invasion of a hostile army. Although under sentence of outlawry, and liable at any hour to be arrested and executed, Knox resolved to stand with his brethren at Stirling, and share their dangers and their fate; "by life, by death, or else by both, to glorify God." But from this threatened danger the Lord preserved both him and them. Amidst the throes of incipient civil war, and in verification of his own prediction while a galley slave, he returned to St. Andrew's. The archibishop peremptorily forbade his preaching in the cathedral, and threatened that in case he should dare to do so he would be shot down in the pulpit, by the soldiers. In defiance of the archibishop's threat, and in spite of the remonstrances of his friends, he yet preached.
The effects and results of Knox's preaching at this time were marvelous. In the three days at St. Andrew's--the primal See of Scotland--Popery was utterly overthrown, the Reformed worship was set up, images and pictures were torn from the churches and monasteries were demonlished. Knox's doctirne was as fatal to Popish superstition as the fire which ran along the ground, in the plague of the hail, was fatal to the vegetable gods of Egypt. Wheresoever that doctrine went, and it ran very swiftly, Popish power and Popish idolatry, with all the paraphernalia thereof, melted before it. In less than a month after his triumphal appearance at St. Andrew's, Knox's voice was ringing among the rafters of St. Giles and of the Abbey Church at Edinburgh. Chosen at once as pastor of St. Giles, he entered upon his labors in that church, which his name has made historic throughout the world, and where so often "his voice, in an hour, put more life into men than six hundred trumpets could."
By the arrival of Queen Mary Stuart at Edinburgh (August, 1561), our Reformer was engaged in a new conflict. The young and beautiful Queen was received by her subjects with harrahs. But she brought from France a spirit steeped in the prejudices of the Romish Church, and a resolution, formed in concert with the House of Lorraine, to resote the old religion in her dominions. Knox was summoned to an interview with the Queen. She charged him, says Dr. MacCrie, "with stirring up her subjects against her, and among other things, upbraied him with sedition, by reason of his book on women's government." He vindicated himself from the charge of disloyalty. The conversation then turned on the nice point of popular resistance to civil power. Knox maintained that a ruler might be resisted, illustrating by the case of a father, who, through madness, tried to slay his children.
"Now, Madame, if the children arise, join together, apprehend the father, take the sword from him, bind his hands and keep him in prison till the frenzy be over, think you, Madame, that the children do any wrong? Even so, Madame, is it with the princes that would murder the children of God that are subject unto them."
Dazed by the boldness of this answer, the Queen sat some time in silent stupor, and then said, "Well, then, I perceive that my subjects shall obey you, and not me, and will do what they please, and not what I command."
"God forbid," replied the Reformer, " "That ever I take upon me to command any to obey me, or to set subjects at liberty to do whatever pleases them. But my travail is that both princes and subjects may obey God. Queens should be nursing mothers to the Church."
"But you are not the Church that I will nourish," said the Queen. "I will defend the Church of Rome, for it is, I think, the true Church of God."
"Your will, Madame, is no reason, neither doth your thought make the Roman harlot to be the true and immaculate spouse of Jesus Christ."
"My conscience is not so," siad the Queen. "Conscience, Madame, requires knowledge, and I fear that right knowledge you have none."
"But I have both heard and read."
"So, Madame, did the Jews who crucified Christ. Have you heard any teach but such as the Pope and the Cardinals have allowed? You may be assured that such will speak nothing to offend their own estate."
"You interpret the Scriptures in one was, "said the Queen, evasively, "and they in another; whom shall I believe, and who shall be judge?"
"You shall believe God," replied Knox, "who plainly speaketh in his Word, above your Majesty and the most learned Papists of all Europe." He offered to show that Papal doctrine had no foundation in God's Word.
"Well," said she, "you may perchance have opportunity therefor sooner than you think."
"Assuredly," said Knox, "if ever I get that in my life, I shall get it sooner than I believe, for the ignorant Papist cannot patiently reason, and the learned and crafy Papist will never come in your audience, Madame, to have the ground of his religion searched out."
During this interview with the Queen and her attendant lords, on being questioned concerning his contumacy, Knox answered that he preached nothing but truth, and he dared not preach less. "But," answered one of the lords, "our commands must be obeyed, on pain of death; silence, or the gallows is the alternative." The spirit of Knox was roused by the dastardly insinuation that any human punishment could make him desert the banner of his Saviour, and with that fearless, indescribable courage which disdains the pomp of language or of action, he firmly replied,
"My lords, you are mistaken if you think you can intimidate me to do by threats what conscience and God tell me I never shall do, for be it known unto you that it is a matter of no importance to me, when I have finished my work, whether my bones shall bleach in the winds of heaven or rot in the bosom of the earth." Knox having retired, one of the lords said to the Queen, "We may let him alone, for we cannot punish that man."
Knox was twice married. His first wife, who died in her twenty-seventh or twenty-eighth year, was Marjory Bowes, the daughter of Richard Bowes, a Captain of Norman Castle, and a scion of a family of distinction in Northumberland. His second marriage (1563) was to a lady considerably younger than himself, Margaret Stewart, daughter of Andrew Lord Stewart of Ochiltree.
During his ministry at Edinburgh our Reformer lived not only a very laborious life, being much engrossed with the public affairs of the nascent Church and at the same time devoted to his work as a parish minister, to say nothing of his continual and perhaps in his position unavoidable controversies, more or less personal with the ecclesiastical and political factions of the day, whom he regarded as his own and his country's enemies; but a life not without its social and family enjoyments. He had a fair stipend of four hundred merks Scots, equal to about forty-four pounds of English money of that day, and the value of which may be computed, when it is stated that the amount was considerable higher than that of the salaries of the Judges of the Sourt of Session in Scotland, and not much lower thatn those of the English Judges of the same times. Then he had a good house, which was provided and kept in repair by the municipality; a house previously occupied by the Abbot of Dunfermline. The house is still preserved, with little change, and forms a memorial, hitherto the only memorial of the great Reformer in the scene of so many of his labors. Nor was he, with all his severity of temper, a man indisposed in those days, to exchange friendly and kindly relations with his neighbors, many of whom in ever rank were among his intimate friends, or to give way, when the occasion fitted (perhaps even sometimes when it did not fit), to mirth and humor, of which, as of othe traits of his character, whi writings furnish abundant evidence.
An interesting description of Knox's appearance, and especially of his style as a preacher in his later years, is furnished in the Diary of James Melville Melville was at the time a student in St. Andrew's and the period he refers to is the year 1571, when Knox, of rhis personal security, had, not for the first time in his life, taken refuge in that city. "Of all the benefits I had that year, was the coming of that most notable prophet and apostle of our nation, Mr. John Knox, to St. Andrew's who, by the faction of the Queen occupying the castle and town of Edinburgh, was compelled to removed therefrom, with a number of the best, and chose to come to St. Andrew's.. . . Mr. Knox would sometimes come in and repose him in our college-yards, and call us scholars unto him, and bless us, and exhort us to know God and his work in our country, and stand by the good cause; to use our time well and learn the good instructions and follow the good examble of our masters. . . He was very weak. I saw him every day of his doctrine go hulic and fear, with a furring of martriks about his neck, a staff in the one hand, and good, godly Richard Balantyne, his servant, holding up the other oxtar, from the abbey to the parish church, and by the said Richards and another servant lifted up to thepulpit, where he behoved to lean at his first entry, but as he had done with his sermon, he was so active and vigorous that he was like to ding that pulpit in blads and fly out of it."
John Knox died november 24th, 1572. He was buried in St. Giles Churchyard, Edinburgh, several lords attending the funeral services. By reason of changes which have since occurred, in the middle of the paved street in that city, the passerby now reads, upon a squre stone, this inscription:
J.K.
1572
Beneath that spot over which now trundles the commerce of a great city, were once laid the remains of him who "never feared the face of man"
Knox left many writings behing, some of them polimic, others practical, the majority suggested by occurrences in his life. His principal work was "History of the Reformation of Religion within the Realm of Scotland," etc., to the fourth edition of which are appended all his other works.
He married (2) MARGARET HAMILTON, married in SCOTLAND, (daughter of JAMES HAMILTON and UNKNOWN).
Fifth Generation
11. JAMES (of BALQUHIDDER) STEWART, b. CIRCA 1520 in BALDORRAN, BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
James sold Baldorran to the Glorat family, although Duncan Stewart's geneaology (1739) indicates that it was his father, Walter, who sold Baldorran to William Livingston of Kilsyth ca. 1524. Some researchers have suspected, without firm proof, that the son, Patrick, born of James (of Balquhidder) Stewart and the MacLaren daughter of Patrick MacLaren of Balquhidder, may have been a "handfast marriage." This was a Celtic custom where a couple could unite for a year on a trial contract and any children being born from this contract were the responsibility of the father.
He married (1) MacLAREN, (daughter of PATRICK (of BALQUHIDDER) MacLAREN).
Children:
16. i PATRICK STEWART.
He married (2) STEWART DAUGHTER, married in SCOTLAND, (daughter of PATRICK (2nd of GLENBUCKY) STEWART and MARGARET (of that ILK) LECKY).
STEWART: She was the daughter of Patrick Stewart of Glenbuckie, Perthshire.
Children:
ii WILLIAM STEWART, b. in PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
17. iii ALEXANDER (1st of ARDVORLICH) (ALASTAIR) STEWART b. CIRCA 1560.
18. iv JOHN or ALEXANDER (1st of ANNAT) STEWART.
v JAMES OIG STEWART, b. in PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
12. PATRICK (2nd of GLENBUCKY) STEWART.[2]
Patrick had twelve sons who came to maturity but died before his own death.
He married (1) MARGARET (of that ILK) LECKY, married CIRCA 1520 in GLENBUCKY, BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
MARGARET: The only evidence for her first name comes from James Stewart:
"Firm evidence of the early Stewart interest in the Glenbuckie estate dates from an instrument of resignation of 15 October 1552, drawn up at Perth by Patrick Stewart of Glenbuckie and his wife Margaret Lekky, in favour of their son Robert Stewart and his spouse Katherine Kennedy." -- Settlements of Western Perthshire, by James Stewart, page 132.
Children:
i STEWART DAUGHTER.
She married WILLIAM (of CAMBUSMOIR) SCHAW.
19. ii STEWART DAUGHTER.
20. iii STEWART DAUGHTER.
21. iv WALTER (of BAILLIEFOILE) STEWART.
v ROBERT STEWART.
"Firm evidence of the early Stewart interest in the Glenbuckie estate dates from an instrument of resignation of 15 October 1552, drawn up at Perth by Patrick Stewart of Glenbuckie and his wife Margaret Lekky, in favour of their son Robert Stewart and his spouse Katherine Kennedy." -- Settlements of Western Perthshire, by James Stewart, page 132.
He married KATHERINE KENNEDY.
He married (2) DAUGHTER to JAMES (1st of BROICH) EDMONDSTON, married in SCOTLAND.
13. DUNCAN (3rd of GLENBUCKY) STEWART,[3] b. CIRCA 1530 in GLENBUCKY, BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
This marriage forged a link with the old ruling house. The new marriage alliance established itself in several holdings in the district. In Robert the First Duke of Albany, later Robert II of Scotland, they shared a common ancestor with the king.
He married MacLAREN (of AUCHLESKIN), (daughter of MacLAREN CHIEF of CLAN LABHRAN and UNKNOWN).
Children:
22. i ALEXANDER (4th of GLENBUCKY) STEWART b. CIRCA 1553.
ii DUNCAN STEWART, b. CIRCA 1550 in SCOTLAND.
14. ANDREW (3rd of GARTNAFUERAN) STEWART.
He married STEWART DAUGHTER, (daughter of PATRICK (2nd of GLENBUCKY) STEWART and MARGARET (of that ILK) LECKY).
STEWART: She was a daughter of Patrick Stewart of Glenbucky.
Children:
23. i WALTER (4th of GARTNAFUERAN) STEWART b. CIRCA 1575.
15. JAMES (of BEITH) STUART, b. CIRCA 1506 in SCOTLAND.
Children:
i JAMES (LORD of DOUNE) STEWART, b. CIRCA 1530 in SCOTLAND.
Sixth Generation
16. PATRICK STEWART.
Patrick was given the hereditary tack of Lednascriden in the Barony of Balquhidder circa 1533 and was considered to be the founder of the Stewarts of Lednascriden.
Children:
i WILLIAM STEWART.
William Stewart is the patriarch of Branch 2 of the Stewarts of Ardvorlich according to the Factor of Athol's letter. He was also known as "William MacAlastir" which means William, son of Alexander. It is possible that he was actually the brother of James Beg Stewart, rather than his cousin. It is also possible that there may be an extra generation between Alexander Stewart of Ardvorlich and James Beg Stewart, however no other evidence would support such a claim. .
17. ALEXANDER (1st of ARDVORLICH) (ALASTAIR) STEWART,[4] b. CIRCA 1560 in SCOTLAND.
Alexander acquired Ardvorlich, Perthshire, Scotland around 1580. This was an estate adjoining the eastern boundary of Balquhidder. The Stewarts of Ardvorlich still reside on the original estate. Alexander Stewart acquired Advorlich as a freeholder of the Crown. He became leader of a clan which, according to Duncan Stewart in his "History of the Stewarts", numbered about three hundered people. Alexander and his descendants were known by the Gaelic patronymic Mac-Mhic-Bhaltair, "sons of the son of Walter".
Alexander Stewart acquired Advorlich in 1580 as a freeholder of the Crown. He became leader of a clan which, according to Duncan Stewart in his "History of the Stewarts", numbered about three hundered people. Alexander and his descendants were known by the Gaelic patronymic Mac-Mhic-Bhaltair, "sons of the son of Walter".
This is the family that was allegedly responsible for the outlawing of the Clan MacGregor, though MacGregors today dispute the common historical record.
The story goes like this:
Alexander's brother-in-law, John Drummond, who was keeper of the Royal Forest, found a group of MacGregors poaching in the forest. As punishment he cut off their ears and sent them home humiliated. The MacGregor clan rose in defence, killing Drummond and delivering his head to the dinner table of the Ardvorlich Stewarts while Alexander was away. At the sight of her brother's severed head on her dinner table, Margaret allegedly went nuts and ran off into the woods not to be found for days. Further legend has it that she was pregnant at the time and the shock sent her into labour and she delivered James Baeg in the forest.
In 1592 Alister Stewart of Ardvorlich led a cattle raid in Lennox with two bagpipes leading the way. Whether or not Alister is the same this Alexander (Alister is Gaelic for Alexander) is not clear. Thus it's possible that there are two successive Alexander Stewarts of Ardvorlich (father and son) and that this person is a confusion of the two.
He married MARGARET DRUMMOND-ERNOCH, (daughter of JOHN DRUMMOND-ERNOCH).
MARGARET: She was the daughter of the Drummond keeper of the Royal Forest of Glenartney. Margaret was also the sister of Drummond-Enoch who was shocked by the severed head of her brother delivered to her door by the MacGregors.
Children:
24. i MAJOR JAMES BAEG (2nd of ARDVORLICH) STEWART b. 1589.
ii WILLIAM (of BALEMENOCH) STEWART, b. CIRCA 1592 in ARDVORLICH, COMRIE, PERTSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
25. iii DUNCAN STEWART b. CIRCA 1594.
26. iv ISOBEL STEWART b. CIRCA 1596.
27. v JANET STEWART.
vi JOHN STEWART, b. in ARDVORLICH, COMRIE, PERTSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
28. vii MARGARET (of ARDVORLICH) STEWART b. CIRCA 1610.
18. JOHN or ALEXANDER (1st of ANNAT) STEWART, b. in SCOTLAND.
John was the ancestor of the Stewarts of Annat, Ballachallan, and Craigtoun, Perthshire, Scotland. He purchased Annat in 1621 from James Muschet of Burnbank. John was the progenitor of the Stewarts of Annat.
He married McNAB.
Children:
29. i JOHN (2ND of ANNAT) STEWART.
ii WALTER STEWART.
iii ANDREW STEWART.
iv JAMES STEWART.
v ARCHIBALD STEWART.
19. STEWART DAUGHTER, (See marriage to number 11.)
20. STEWART DAUGHTER, (See marriage to number 14.)
21. WALTER (of BAILLIEFOILE) STEWART.
Children:
i ROBERT STEWART.
22. ALEXANDER (4th of GLENBUCKY) STEWART, b. CIRCA 1553 in GLENBUCKY, BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
Alexander married his second cousin. He sold his right and title of Glenbucky to his next older brother, Duncan Stewart.
He married STEWART.
Children:
30. i PATRICK (1st of LEDCREICH) STEWART b. CIRCA 1572.
31. ii DUNCAN (5th of GLENBUCKY) STEWART.
iii ROBERT (of BROICHIE) STEWART, b. in LAIRD OF GLENBUCKY, BALQUHIDDER SCOTLAND.
Robert was included in a Bond of Manrent by his father to Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy in 1586.
iv JAMES STEWART, b. in LAIRD OF GLENBUCKY, BALQUHIDDER PARISH.
James was included in a Bond of Manrent by his father to Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy in 1586.
v JOHN (of VOIL) STEWART, b. in LAIRD OF GLENBUCKY, BALQUHIDDER SCOTLAND.
John was included in a Bond of Manrent by his father to Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy in 1586. Duncan Stewart's genealogy (1739) records John's birth as illegitimate.
vi WALTER STEWART, b. in LAIRD OF GLENBUCKY, BALQUHIDDER PARISH.
Walter was included in a Bond of Manrent by his father to Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy in 1586. Duncan Stewart's genealogy (1739) records Walter's name as Patrick and his birth as illegitimate. MacGregor confirms he was a natural son. His birth mother is unknown.
23. WALTER (4th of GARTNAFUERAN) STEWART, b. CIRCA 1575 in GARTNAFUARAN, BALQHUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
He married ELIZABETH BUCHAN.
Children:
32. i ALEXANDER (5th of GARTNAFUERAN) STEWART b. CIRCA 1600.
Seventh Generation
24. MAJOR JAMES BAEG (2nd of ARDVORLICH) STEWART, b. 1589 in BALDORRAN, CAMPSIE, STIRLINGSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
James Stewart was allegedly the gay lover of Lord Kilpont. Their homosexual relationship is denied by the family who describe them as just "intimate friends who shared a tent." After a dispute of some sort, James slew Lord Kilpont with his dirk and fled, abandoning his son Harry who had been mortally wounded in battle.
The story was made legendary in Sir Walter Scott's book "A Legend Of Montrose". James had been fighting under Montrose, but could not return to Montrose's camp after slaying Kilpont, who was a friend of Montrose. So James Stewart switched sides and became a Major in the army of the Duke of Argyl. The hatred between Montrose and Argyle has been illustrated in the movie "Rob Roy".
James resided in both Baldorran, Stirlingshire and Lochvenacher, Callendar, Perthshire.
Ardvorlich House : 1620 - Cattle raiding between Clans was a way of life in highland Perthshire. A Macdonald of Glencoe raiding party were successfully repulsed by the Stewarts [James] of Ardvorlich House on the south side of Loch Earn. Seven Macdonalds died and are buried near the house. The site is marked by a large stone.
James grew up to be a man of violent and erratic temper whose escapades where such that when he died, his friends were so afraid that his enemies would commit an outrage on his body that they buried it at a place known as "Coil-a Mhor" where today there is a stone which bears the inscription, "This stone marks the place of interment of Major James Stewart, afterwards removed to the family vault of Dundurn, Died about 1680." Dundurn is near St Fillans at the east end of Loch Earn.
This James Stewart is described by in the Factor of Atholl's letter as follows:
"1 Branch - James Beg of Baldorran parish of Campsie Stirlingshire was Predecessor of the Stewarts of Ardvorlich commonly called Slioch Toigh Nellain from a fortified island in Lochvenacher Callendar Parish where James Beg usually resided and had different skirmishes with the Campbells and came off with success. Those Campbells are said to be of the family of Breadalbane which I think is not correct as the Breadalbane Family had no branches & but little power at that time."
Contrary to the position of the Factor of Atholl, there may be something to this claim of skirmishes with the Campbells. Present day MacGregors allege that it was these Campbells who killed James' uncle John Drummond and delivered his severed head to the dinner table at Ardvorlich, not the MacGregors as is commonly charged.
James Baeg married secondly to Janet Buchanan, widow of Walter Buchanan,
The murder of Drummond-Ernoch, recorded in the notes of James' mother, is shown in court records as having occured in 1589. If legend is correct then James' birth must be around this time.
He married KATHERINE MURRAY.
Children:
33. i BARBARA STEWART.
34. ii ROBERT (3rd of ARDVORLICH) STEWART b. 7 Nov 1625.
iii HENRY (HARRY) STEWART, b. CIRCA 1629, d. 1 Sep 1644 in SCOTLAND.
Henry died at the Battle of Tippermuir.
35. iv JOHN DHU MHOR (of DALVEICH) STEWART b. 14 Feb 1630-31.
25. DUNCAN STEWART, b. CIRCA 1594 in ARDVORLICH, COMRIE, PERTSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
Duncan Stewart is the patriarch of Branches 3 & 4 of the Stewarts of Ardvoirlich according to the Factor of Atholl's letter. He is described as follows:
"III BRANCH - Duncan Brother to Major Stewart of Ardvorlich Tacksman of Auch raig Port Parish Monteith then the property of Ardvorlich. His son Alexander whose offspring are called Sliochd Alastir Oaig."
Children:
i ALEXANDER STEWART, b. in SCOTLAND.
26. ISOBEL STEWART, b. CIRCA 1596 in ARDVORLICH, COMRIE, PERTSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
She married JOHN (6th of GLENBUCKY) STEWART, b. in SCOTLAND, (son of DUNCAN (5th of GLENBUCKY) STEWART and KATHARINE Mac-GRIGOR).
Children:
i DUNCAN STEWART, b. CIRCA 1625 in GLENBUCKY, BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
Duncan died without issue.
36. ii ALEXANDER (7th of GLENBUCKY) STEWART b. CIRCA 1628.
iii JAMES STEWART.
iv DONALD STEWART, b. CIRCA 1630 in GLENBUCKY, BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
37. v ISOBEL (of GLENBUCKY) STEWART.
27. JANET STEWART, b. in ARDVORLICH, COMRIE, PERTSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
She married DUNCAN (of GLENOGLE) STEWART.
Children:
i SON STEWART.
28. MARGARET (of ARDVORLICH) STEWART, b. CIRCA 1610 in ARDVORLICH, COMRIE, PERTSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
She married ANDREW (6th OF GARTNAFUERAN) STEWART, b. CIRCA 1625 in GARTNAFUERAN, BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND, (son of ALEXANDER (5th of GARTNAFUERAN) STEWART and JANET McGRIGOR).
Children:
38. i WALTER (7th of GARTNAFUERAN) STEWART b. 1620.
29. JOHN (2ND of ANNAT) STEWART, b. in BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
He married (1) JANET GRAHAM, (daughter of GESPARD (of GARTUR) GRAHAM).
Children:
i ALEXANDER STEWART.
39. ii DUNCAN STEWART.
He married (2) ELIZABETH (of KENLOCH) CAMPBELL.
30. PATRICK (1st of LEDCREICH) STEWART, b. CIRCA 1572 in LAIRD OF GLENBUCKY, BALQUHIDDER PARISH.
According to the historical compiler, MacGregor, author of Landed Families of Strathearn, this "Patrick Stewart",..was... "styled as eldest son to his father in a Bond of Manrent to Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy in 1586. He did not succeed to the lands of Glenbucky but obtained those of Ledcreich and had issue." This also seems to be confirmed in the family notes made by his later descendant, Patrick Stewart of Ledcreich in 1763, and published in the American Historical Magazine; University Press, Volume 8; Date: 1902.
He married CHRISTIAN DRUMMOND, married in SCOTLAND, b. in SCOTLAND, (daughter of SIR JOHN DRUMMOND of NIGANOR and UNKNOWN).
Children:
40. i WILLIAM (2nd of LEDCREICH) STEWART b. CIRCA 1600.
ii DUNCAN STEWART, b. in LAIRD OF GLENBUCKY, BALQUHIDDER SCOTLAND, d. 25 Jan 1665 in LEDCREICH, BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.[5]
31. DUNCAN (5th of GLENBUCKY) STEWART, b. in SCOTLAND.
Duncan was the next in succession of Glenbucky following the sale of right and title to him by his oldest brother, Patrick Stewart. He was included in a Bond of Manrent by his father to Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy in 1586.
He married (1) CAMPBELL of ARDKINGLAFS, married in SCOTLAND.
He married (2) KATHARINE Mac-GRIGOR, married in SCOTLAND, b. in SCOTLAND.
KATHARINE: Katharine was the granddaughter to Dougal Keir-Mac-Grigor, ancestor to innerlochlarg and Glengyle, said to be the last Cadet of the Laird of Mac-Grigor.
Children:
41. i JOHN (6th of GLENBUCKY) STEWART.
ii WALTER STEWART, b. in SCOTLAND.
iii DUNCAN STEWART, b. in SCOTLAND.
iv PATRICK STEWART, b. in SCOTLAND.
v JOHN BEG STEWART, b. in SCOTLAND.
vi ALEXANDER STEWART.
32. ALEXANDER (5th of GARTNAFUERAN) STEWART, b. CIRCA 1600 in GARTNAFUARAN, BALQHUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
This Alexander may be the Allester Dow Stewart mentioned in the Trial of Gilderoy.
He married JANET McGRIGOR.
Children:
42. i ANDREW (6th OF GARTNAFUERAN) STEWART b. CIRCA 1625.
ii WALTER STEWART.
iii ROBERT STEWART.
iv ALEXANDER STEWART.
Eighth Generation
33. BARBARA STEWART.
She married JOHN McCRUDEN or McGRUDER III, (son of JOHN McCRUDEN or McGRUDER II and MARGARET DRUMMOND) d. 1666 in SCOTLAND.
JOHN: John was known as John McGruder of Meigor.
Children:
i BARBARA McGRUTHER, d. Aug 1669.
She married JOHN MALLICE.
ii JANET McGRUTHER.
She married ALEXANDER PHILP.
iii JOHN McGRUTHER IV.
He married JEAN DRUMMOND, married Jul 1668 in SCOTLAND.
iv ALEXANDER McGRUTHER VII, b. CIRCA 1650 in SCOTLAND, d. Nov 1700 in SCOTLAND.
Alexander was also known as Alexander McGruther in Dalcrune.
He married ANNA MURRAY, married 17 Sep 1674 in COUDOUN, SCOTLAND.
34. ROBERT (3rd of ARDVORLICH) STEWART, b. 7 Nov 1625 in KILMADOCK, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
He married JEAN DRUMMOND.
Children:
43. i JAMES (4th of ARDVORLICH) STEWART b. 1665.
44. ii WILLIAM STEWART b. 1660.
iii ALEXANDER STEWART.
iv KATHERINE STEWART.
She married DAVID (of COMRIE) DRUMMOND.
v JANET STEWART.
She married JAMES MUSTHET.
35. JOHN DHU MHOR (of DALVEICH) STEWART, b. 14 Feb 1630-31 in KILMADOCH, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
John was described as a "rude and boisterous man" according to the Factor of Atholl. He allegedly witnessed the murder of Lord Kilpont by his father and transmitted the true version" of the events through his descendants by a grandson who was reputed to have lived over 100 years. This grandson carried the "true" story to the House of Ardvoirlich around 1800. John Dhu Mohr's version of the events is retold in the preface to Sir Walter Scott's "A Legend Of Montrose".
John held the property of Dalveich, Lochearnside, Balquhidder Parish, Perthshire, Scotland.
John is the patriarch of Branch 7 of the Stewarts of Ardvorlich, according to the Factor of Atholl's letter.
John is known to have had two sons (possibly more) Charles and Murdoch. Murdoch had no children. It is suspected that John's line continued only through his son Charles, though the source of this information has since been lost.
Children:
i BARBARA STEWART, b. 6 Jan 1644-45 in SCOTLAND.
ii ALEXANDER STEWART, b. 4 Mar 1647-48 in SCOTLAND.
iii JONET STEWART, b. 5 Mar 1648 in SCOTLAND.
iv KATRING STEWART, b. 3 Dec 1649 in SCOTLAND.
45. v CHARLES STEWART b. 15 May 1651.
vi MURDOCK STEWART, b. 17 Jun 1652 in KILMADOCK, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
36. ALEXANDER (7th of GLENBUCKY) STEWART, b. CIRCA 1628 in GLENBUCKY, BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
He married HELEN (of LEEKS) CAMPBELL, (daughter of HUGH (of LEEKS) CAMPBELL).
Children:
46. i DUNCAN (8th of GLENBUCKY) STEWART b. CIRCA 1650.
37. ISOBEL (of GLENBUCKY) STEWART.
She married WALTER (7th of GARTNAFUERAN) STEWART,[6] b. 1620 in PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND, (son of ANDREW (6th OF GARTNAFUERAN) STEWART and MARGARET (of ARDVORLICH) STEWART).
Children:
47. i ALEXANDER (8th of GARTNAFUERAN) STEWART.
48. ii ROBERT STEWART b. 1655.
iii JOHN STEWART.
38. WALTER (7th of GARTNAFUERAN) STEWART,[7] (See marriage to number 37.)
39. DUNCAN STEWART.
Duncan purchased Ballachallam.
Children:
49. i GEORGE STEWART.
40. WILLIAM (2nd of LEDCREICH) STEWART, b. CIRCA 1600 in LAIRD OF LEDCREICH, BALQUHIDDER PARISH, d. 31 Jul 1683 in LEDCREICH, BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.[8]
He married MARY MacGREGOR, married in SCOTLAND, b. in SCOTLAND, (daughter of DUNCAN MacGREGOR and UNKNOWN).
Children:
50. i PATRICK (3rd of LEDCREICH) STEWART b. CIRCA 1635.
41. JOHN (6th of GLENBUCKY) STEWART, (See marriage to number 26.)
42. ANDREW (6th OF GARTNAFUERAN) STEWART, (See marriage to number 28.)
Ninth Generation
43. JAMES (4th of ARDVORLICH) STEWART, b. 1665 in KILMADOCK, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
He married ELIZABETH BUCHANAN, married 1682 in PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND, b. 25 May 1651 in KILMADOCK, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND, (daughter of JOHN (22nd LORD of BUCHANAN) BUCHANAN).
Children:
i A SON, b. 9 Apr 1684 in KILMADOCK, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
ii JAMES STEWART, b. 14 Mar 1684-85 in KILMADOCK, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
iii JEAN STEWART, b. 5 Jul 1691 in KINCARDINE NEAR DOUNE, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
iv ROBERT (5th of ARDVORLICH) STEWART, b. CIRCA 1700 in SCOTLAND.
It is believed that this is the Robert Stewart referred to in the Factor of Atholl's letter 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."
Duncan Stewart's genealogy (1739) records this Robert Stewart as the present Lord of Ardvorlich. Since Robert died without issue the estate and title then passed to his nephew.
v JOHN STEWART, b. 20 Jan 1710-11 in CALLANDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
51. vi DAVID STEWART b. CIRCA 1705.
52. vii ALEXANDER STEWART.
viii WILLIAM STEWART.
44. WILLIAM STEWART, b. 1660 in SCOTLAND.
Children:
53. i ROBERT (6th of ARDVORLICH) STEWART b. 1717.
45. CHARLES STEWART, b. 15 May 1651 in KILMADOCK, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
He married KATHRIN WRIGHT.
Children:
i JANET STEWART, b. 11 Aug 1677 in SCOTLAND.
54. ii JOHN STEWART b. 15 Aug 1679.
iii ROBERT STEWART, b. 1682 in SCOTLAND.
iv DUNCAN STEWART, b. 1688 in SCOTLAND.
v ALEXANDER STEWART, b. 1700 in SCOTLAND.
46. DUNCAN (8th of GLENBUCKY) STEWART, b. CIRCA 1650 in GLENBUCKY, BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
He married JEAN (of DUCHRAY) GRAHAM, (daughter of JOHN (of DUCHRAY) GRAHAM).
Children:
55. i JOHN (9th of GLENBUCKY) STEWART.
ii WALTER STEWART, b. in GLENBUCKY, BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
Walter attained the rank of Lieutenant in the army and had issue.
iii ALEXANDER STEWART, b. in GLENBUCKY, BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
Alexander became a Tacksman in Tomnasai and had issue.
iv PATRICK STEWART, b. in GLENBUCKY, BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
Patrick had issue who settled in London.
47. ALEXANDER (8th of GARTNAFUERAN) STEWART, d. 1728 in DUNDERN, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
He married MARGARET CAMPBELL, (daughter of COLIN CAMPBELL).
Children:
i JAMES STEWART.
He married JANET CAMPBELL, (daughter of ALEXANDER CAMPBELL).
ii WALTER STEWART.
iii JEAN STEWART.
She married ALEXANDER STEWART, (son of DUNCAN (of DUART) STEWART) d. 1707 in GLENFINGLAS, PERTHSHIRE SCOTLAND.
ALEXANDER: Alexander was an eighth part tacksman of Glenfinglas.
48. ROBERT STEWART,[9] b. 1655 in PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND, d. 1714 in EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND.
Robert fought as a Covenanter at the battle of Bouthwell Bridge in 1679 against the troops of Charles II, in which the Covenanters were defeated. He later fled to Ireland. Family legend tells that Robert crossed the Northern Channel in an open boat and took refuge in Londonderry, Ireland, where he had relatives. He was soon joined by his family. His estate in Scotland was forfeited. Although he died in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1715, his widow, Jeanette Forsythe, was said to have died in Colrain, Massachusettes, in America after emigrating there with her son, John Stewart and his family.
He married JEANETTE FORSYTHE, married 1679-80 in PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND, b. CIRCA 1657, (daughter of JOHN FORSYTHE and CATHERINE MORISONE) d. 1752-55 in AMERICA.
Children:
56. i JOHN STEWART b. 1682.
ii ROBERT STEWART, b. 1684 in EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND.
Robert emigrated to America in 1718.
iii JULIANA STEWART, b. CIRCA 1685.
iv SAMUEL STEWART, b. CIRCA 1686.
49. GEORGE STEWART.[10]
He married MARY HUME, (daughter of HARRY (of ARGATY) HUME).
Children:
57. i DAVID (of BALLACHALLAM) STEWART.
58. ii GEORGE (STEWART) STEUART.
50. PATRICK (3rd of LEDCREICH) STEWART,[11] b. CIRCA 1635 in LAIRD OF LEDCREICH, BALQUHIDDER PARISH.
Patrick served as a general in the English army of Charles I, Charles II, and James II. He fought in 25 battles, besides skirmishes, and suffered much financially because of his loyalty to the royal families. He was also of Stronslane, Perthshire, Scotland.
In the Commissariot Record of Dunblain-Register of Testaments 1539-1800 (SRO), there are three wills recorded for Ledcreich. These are: (1) Duncan Stewart; 25 Jan 1665 and 6 Jan 1666; (2) Margaret Buchanan and Patrick Stewart her husband; 22 Aug 1682; (3) William Stewart 31 Jul 1683.
He married MARGARET BUCHANAN, married in BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND, b. in SCOTLAND, (daughter of ROBERT (of DRUMLAIN) BUCHANAN and UNKNOWN).
Children:
59. i ALEXANDER (of LEDCREICH) STEWART b. CIRCA 1676.
Tenth Generation
51. DAVID STEWART, b. CIRCA 1705 in PERTSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
Evidence of this David comes only from the Factor of Atholl's letter 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. 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 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."
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He married STEWART, (daughter of BALLED STEWART).
Children:
i SON STEWART.
From the Factor of Atholl's letter:
"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 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."
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52. ALEXANDER STEWART.
Evidence of this Alexander Stewart comes only from the Factor of Atholl's letter, as follows:
"[David's] brother Alexander married Stewart the heiress of Craigtown of the family of Annat, Craigton is in Down parish now Earl of Murray's Estate by the Heiress he had one son and some daughters. The son was a Lunatic but had the income of the estate during his life, his sisters claimed the estate but were rejected."
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He married STEWART, (daughter of STEWART of CRAIGTOWN).
STEWART: She was a descendant of the Stewarts of Annat.
Children:
i SON STEWART, b. CIRCA 1725 in PERTSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
This son was described by the Factor of Atholl as "a Lunatic but had the income of the estate during his life."
ii DAUGHTER STEWART.
iii DAUGHTER STEWART.
53. ROBERT (6th of ARDVORLICH) STEWART, b. 1717 in SCOTLAND.
It is believe that this is the Robert referred to by the Factor of Atholl as follows:
"2 Branch Robert Stewart Taxman of Balmenoch father to the present Mr Stewart when he was born there was thirteen between him and the estate. It was with some difficulty he got the estate at all as he was not an active man himself. This family were called the House of Balmenoch of which farm they had a wadset or Feu of which they were dispossessed in an unlawful way by Robert of the first branch a rude and unruly man. The first of this Branch was one William an Uncle's son to Major Stewart he was called William MacAlastir, the major mentioned above was the bloody M James Stewart who killed Lord Kilpont Ardvorlich is on the South Side of Lochearn parish of Comrie County of Perth."
He married MARGARET STEWART.
Children:
i JEAN STEWART, b. 8 May 1748 in COMRIE, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
ii MARGARET STEWART, b. May 1750 in COMRIE, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
iii CATHARINE STEWART, b. Jul 1751 in COMRIE, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
60. iv WILLIAM (7th of ARDVORLICH) STEWART b. Jun 1754.
v JEAN STEWART, b. Apr 1755 in FORTINGALL, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
vi JOHN STEWART, b. Jan 1756 in COMRIE, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
vii JAMES STEWART, b. Sep 1758 in COMRIE, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
54. JOHN STEWART, b. 15 Aug 1679 in KILMADOCK, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
This John Stewart represents the best guess of trying to plot a line between the two provable points of John Dhu Mohr Stewart (b: Feb 14, 1630/31) of Dalveich, Lochearnside and Robert Stewart (b: Abt. Nov 1775) of St. Fillans, Lochearnside.
Children:
61. i ROBERT STEUART b. CIRCA 1729.
55. JOHN (9th of GLENBUCKY) STEWART, b. in BALQUHIDDER, PERTSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
John succeeded his father and had a Crown Charter of Confirmation for the lands of Glenbucky on 27 September, 1706. He married circa 1688.
He married JANET STEWART, (daughter of JOHN (of ARDSHEIL) STEWART).
Children:
62. i ALEXANDER (10th of GLENBUCKY) STEWART.
63. ii DUNCAN STEWART.
64. iii DONALD STEWART.
iv JEAN STEWART.
She married ROBERT MacGREGOR, (son of GREGOR (of GLENGYLE) MacGREGOR).
56. JOHN STEWART, b. 1682 in EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, d. 6 Apr 1741 in DERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE, buried: 1741 in DERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
John settled in Ulster, Ireland and later emigrated with his family and his mother and her family to America from in 1718. They landed at Boston on October 14, 1718. He was one of 16 settlers of Londonderry, New Hampshire and a proprietor and prominent member in this new Scotch-Irish settlement. He was a carpenter by trade. His will was dated April 3, 1741.
He married (1) ELIZABETH CLARK.
Children:
65. i CHARLES STEWART b. 1705.
ii ROBERT STEWART.
He married LYDIA BLAIR, married 1735 in ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTES.
iii JAMES STEWART.
iv JOHN STEWART, b. 1711 in ULSTER, IRELAND.
He married REBECCA (COSTA) PATTEN.
v MARY STEWART, b. 1716 in ULSTER, IRELAND.
She married UNKNOWN, married 7 Nov 1738.
66. vi SAMUEL STEWART b. 1718.
He married (2) ELIZABETH FORSYTHE, d. in COLRAIN, MASSACHUSETTES.
Children:
67. vii JOSEPH STEWART b. 6 Jan 1721.
viii MARGARET STEWART.
She married WILLIAM AIKEN.
57. DAVID (of BALLACHALLAM) STEWART.
David Home Stewart was probably the eldest son and inherited the farm of Ballachallan. According to Alexander Stewart of Ardvorlich, he commanded at one time the garrison of Doune castle in the Prince's interest during the Jacobite rebellion. According to the current proprietor, the farmhouse at Ballachallan was built about 1740, therefore likely by David.
Children:
68. i DONALD STEWART b. CIRCA 1700.
58. GEORGE (STEWART) STEUART, occupation SURGEON.
George emigrated to Annapolis, Maryland. Dr. George Stewart changed the spelling of his name; in which change all his descendants have acquiesced. Many others of the family did the same, in compliment, as is supposed, to the unfortunate Queen Mary, who, while living at the Court of France, substituted the letter u for w in her surname. Dr. Steuart purchased the estate of Dodon, which still remains in the family, from Nicholas Carroll in 1725.
He married ANN DIGGS.
Children:
i GEORGE HUME STEUART, b. 1747, d. 1800 in SCOTLAND.
ii SUSANNA STEUART, b. 1749, d. 24 Oct 1774.
She married JAMES TILGHMAN, occupation JUDGE.
69. iii JAMES STEUART b. 1755.
iv ANN STEUART, b. 1757, d. 1767.
v MARY STEUART, b. 1759, d. 1776.
vi JEAN STEUART, b. 1761, d. 1778.
59. ALEXANDER (of LEDCREICH) STEWART, b. CIRCA 1676 in LAIRD OF LEDCREICH, BALQUHIDDER PARISH, d. in PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
Alexander was the only son of General Patrick Stewart of Ledcreich, an officer in the armies of Kings Charles I, Charles II, and James II. Alexander married a daughter of the Glenagle household, Catherine Stewart, daughter of Alexander Stewart who was the son of Duncan Stewart of Glenagle. Alexander lived in the South East district of Perthshire, Scotland and was considered a member of the Highlander clans.
He married KATHARINE STEWART, (daughter of ALEXANDER STEWART and UNKNOWN).
Children:
70. i PATRICK STEWART b. 7 Feb 1697.
71. ii WILLIAM STEWART b. CIRCA 1700.
iii ROBERT STEWART, b. in LEDCREICH,BALQUHIDDER, SCOTLAND.
iv ALEXANDER STEWART, b. 11 Sep 1707 in LEDCREICH, BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
Eleventh Generation
60. WILLIAM (7th of ARDVORLICH) STEWART, b. Jun 1754 in COMRIE, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
It is believed that this is William is the one referred to by the Factor of Atholl as "the present Mister Stewart".
Children:
i ROBERT (8th of ARDVORLICH) STEWART, b. CIRCA 1780 in SCOTLAND.
This Robert Stewart's birth is recorded by the Factor of Atholl's letter, as follows:
"William Stewart Esqur the presant proprietor four sons 1 Robert 2 John 3 Willm 4 Anthony."
ii JOHN STEWART.
Evidence for this John Stewart comes only from the Factor of Atholl's letter, as follows:
"William Stewart Esqur the presant proprietor four sons 1 Robert 2 John 3 Willm 4 Anthony."
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iii WILLIAM STEWART.
Evidence for this William Stewart comes only from the Factor of Atholl's letter, as follows:
"William Stewart Esqur the presant proprietor four sons 1 Robert 2 John 3 Willm 4 Anthony."
iv ANTHONY STEWART.
Evidence for this Anthony Stewart comes only from the Factor of Atholl's letter, as follows:
"William Stewart Esqur the presant proprietor four sons 1 Robert 2 John 3 Willm 4 Anthony."
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61. ROBERT STEUART, b. CIRCA 1729 in BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
He married JANET DRUMMOND, (daughter of ALEXANDER DRUMMOND and ANNA MILLER).
Children:
i BEATRIX STEWART, b. 9 Apr 1746 in BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
72. ii JOHN STEWART b. 14 Aug 1747.
iii ALEXANDER STEWART, b. 3 Apr 1750 in BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
iv JEAN STEWART, b. 6 Apr 1751-52 in BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
v HELEN STEWART, b. 31 Apr 1754 in BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
vi DUNCAN STEWART, b. 9 Sep 1756 in BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
vii JANNET STEWART, b. 10 Aug 1758 in BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
62. ALEXANDER (10th of GLENBUCKY) STEWART.
According to MacGregor, author of "Landed Families of Strathearn," Alexander "succeeded his father and had a Crown Charter of Confirmation for the lands of Easter Innernenty on 12 February, 1727. He married at Balquhidder on 26 February, 1715, to Janet Drummond. He is said to have either committed suicide or to have been murdered by James Mor MacGregor upon the outbreak of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and had issue."
He married JANET DRUMMOND, married 12 Feb 1727 in BALQUHIDDER. PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
Children:
i DUNCAN (11th of GLENBUCKY) STEWART, b. 5 Dec 1724 in BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
Duncan succeeded his father and is said by Captain James Stewart to have "died of the consumption" leaving no issue.
ii JOHN STEWART, b. 24 Dec 1725.
John died young.
iii ALEXANDER (12th of GLENBUCKY) STEWART.
Alexander succeeded his brother and sold the lands of Glenbucky to his brother-in-law, John Stewart of Benmore. He is stated to have died of consumption.
iv DAVID STEWART, b. 22 Feb 1727 in BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
v JANET STEWART, b. 16 Jun 1728 in BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
vi WALTER STEWART, b. 14 May 1729 in BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
vii MARY STEWART.
She married JOHN (of BENMORE) STEWART.
63. DUNCAN STEWART.
He married GRISSELL DRUMMOND, (daughter of JOHN (of COLQUHALZIE) DRUMMOND).
Children:
i JOHN STEWART.
John was baptised at Callander on 27 April 1731.
ii ALEXANDER STEWART.
Alexander was baptised at Callander on 18 June 1732.
iii JANET STEWART.
Janet was baptised at Callander on 18 April 1734.
iv KATHERINE STEWART.
Katherine was baptised at Callander on 2 December 1735.
64. DONALD STEWART.
Donald was apprenticed to James Tod, Merchant in Edinburgh, on 7 January 1730.
He married JEAN ERSKINE.
Children:
i ALEXANDER STEWART, b. 8 Jan 1739 in EDINBURGH, SCOLTAND.
ii DANIEL STEWART, b. 2 Jun 1746 in EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND.
iii JANET STEWART.
Janet was born on 6 April 1740 and baptised at Callander on 9 April 1740.
65. CHARLES STEWART, b. 1705 in IRELAND.
Charles bought two lots in Colrain, Massachusettes on February 27, 1748, from Samuel Rankin of Londonderry, New Hampshire. Charles then sold his homestead in Londonderry on August 26, 1784, to his brother, John Stewart. Charles moved to Colrain that same year. On June 19, 1749, he bought a house and lot from Joseph Rankin of Pelham, Massachusettes. Charles was one of a Committee to manage the affairs of the town in 1759. He was also surveyor and hog constable. He was a soldier in the French and Indian War. Charles' will was executed on April 1, 1776 and was probated on May 6, 1777.
He married (1) MARY AYERS, married 15 Nov 1727 in LONDONDERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE, (daughter of SAMUEL AYERS).
Children:
i ELIZABETH STEWART, b. 11 Jan 1729 in LONDONDERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
She married JOHN CLARK.
ii MARY STEWART, b. 5 May 1730 in LONDONDERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
She married ABRAHAM PECK, married 21 Dec 1754 in MASSACHUSETTES, (son of SIMON PECK).
iii MARGARET STEWART, b. 4 Apr 1731 in LONDONDERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Margaret and John Kately had two children.
She married (1) JOHN KATELY.
She married (2) JOHN ANDERSON.
JOHN: Margaret and John Anderson had 10 children.
She married (3) JAMES STEWART.
iv WILLIAM STEWART, b. 12 Feb 1733 in LONDONDERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
He married ELIABETH CLARK, (daughter of MATTHEW CLARK).
v JOHN STEWART, b. 1735 in LONDONDERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
He married ANN McCLELLAN, (daughter of MICHAEL McCLELLAN).
vi JENNET STEWART, b. 1737 in LONDONDERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
She married JOSEPH BELL, married July 1765, b. in HALIFAX, VERMONT.
vii SAMUEL STEWART, b. 1739 in LONDONDERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
viii REBECCA STEWART, b. 1742 in LONDONDERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
She married JOHN STEWART.
ix LYDIA STEWART, b. 1747 in LONDONDERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
She married JOSEPH McCOWAN, married 23 Feb 1775 in LONDONDERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
He married (2) JENETT LINDSAY, married 24 Apr 1759 in PELHAM, MASSACHUSETTES.
66. SAMUEL STEWART, b. 1718 in ULSTER, IRELAND.
He married ALICE ATCHISON.
Children:
73. i JOHN STEWART b. 1745.
67. JOSEPH STEWART, b. 6 Jan 1721 in AMERICA.
The following letter was written by Joseph Stewart to his son, John Stewart. He lived to be over 100 years old, dying February 22, 1821 in White Creek, Washington County, New York.
"White Creek, August 28, 1818.
I have received your letter and I am sorry to hear of your sickness. By all accounts of our descent, we are of the royal house of the Stewarts. My father was John the eldest son of Robert my Grandfather, who was obliged to fly to Ireland when they were newly married. My Granny was sent to Edinburgh and he was born there. As far as I can learn they belong to the House of White Rose and not altogether separated from the House of Black Hall. My Grandfather's family's names was John and Robert and their sister's name was Juleyan, Samuel, the youngest. My Grandfather had a good estate in Scotland when he fled from it. King William would do nothing about it, neither would Queene Anne, but when King George came to the crown their Uncle Samuel Stewart, by the help of the Duke of Argyle, recovered it. That must be the estate you mention. I was informed that Uncle Samuel died without issue, left no heirs. The way that I came to know of our descent was by old Father James Stewart of Colrain. You may remember young James, who married at last Margaret Anderson, your cousin. That descent was from White Rose, for he himself belonged to Black Hall. He had a catalogue of the house of Stewarts for many hundred years, but son Alx carried it away with him to Pennsylvania. I did not know all this until after my father's death. This I knew they belonged to the Rose party, by reason of the high esteem they had for Charles the 1st who had many good properties.
My father's eldest son Charles who is your uncle, and Father and your grand Uncle Robert would never own the last pretender or any of that race by reason of his spurious birth. No man dare assail the name of Stewart that was if he would not forfeit his life. It gives you the reach, James the 1st had two sons James and Robert, James the 3rd had two sons James and Robert. This is the whole I can give you at present. I am afraid you can't read for since I got that fall at your house I could never hold a pen to write straight. I would be you would acquaint me of your proceedings therefore I rest.
To John Stewart Your Father
Joseph Stewart"
The following letter was addressed to a person, name unknown, who evidently had written Joseph Stewart a letter of inquirey. The letter seems to have been left unfinished and was never sent. It is now a highly prized relic in the possession of Joseph's descendants.
"White Creek, March 15, 1819.
Dear Sir,
I received your of the 16th February last, informing me that the heirs of Elizabeth Forsyth that she married a Stewart. My Father's name was John Stewart, the eldest son of Robert Stewart. My mother's name was Elizabeth Forsyth. My grandmother's name was Forsyth, her Christian name forgot. My great-granfather's name was, as I believe, Walter. My grandfather's name by my mother's side was either William or James, which I cannot tell."
He married MARGARET.
Children:
i JOHN STEWART.
68. DONALD STEWART, b. CIRCA 1700 in BALLACHALLAN, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND, d. CIRCA 1770 in HYTHIE, BUCHAN, SCOTLAND.
Donald Stewart was an illegitimate son of David Home Stewart of Ballachallan, according to information obtained from Alexander Stewart of Ardvorlich. He likely grew up around Ballachallan. His father was apparently the Governor of Doune Castle for the Stuart cause during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. The Stewart of Appin Regiment, some 300 strong, garrisoned the castle and then marched off to Culloden where many died. It is thought that Donald accompanied this regiment to Culloden which is why the family tradition assumed we were Stewart of Appin branch. He escaped the slaughter of Culloden and its aftermath. He settled at Hythie and was buried at Fetterangus, Buchan.
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...."
There may have been some confusion due to a reference in Sir Walter Scott's novel "Waverley", where he talks about Donald Stewart of Balloch as the Governor of Doune Castle. Sir Walter Scott stayed at Ballachallan where he wrote part of one of his novels, possibly Waverley. The current farmhouse was built in 1740 according to the current owner.
Children:
74. i WILLIAM STEWART.
69. JAMES STEUART, b. 1755, occupation PHYSICIAN, d. 1845.
James was taken by his father to Scotland, at the early age of 8 years, and did not return until he had completed his professional education at Edinburgh. He practiced his profession for several years in Annapolis, with success and reputation, residing in the house in which he was born, the celebrated mansion which was built by his father in 1750, widely known in after years as "Mrs. Green's Boarding House," until it was removed to give place for the present Executive Mansion. He removed to Baltimore in 1794, and immediately enjoyed the fruit of his deserved reputation, a lucrative practice. In 1805 he retired from practice and devoted himself to the cultivation and improvement of his estate, Sparrow's Point, a part of which is now known as Holly Grove; where he passed much of his life, preferring the quiet of nature to the gay and bustling scenes of a city.
He married REBECCA SPRIGG, married 1787 in STAWBERRY HILL, ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND, (daughter of RICHARD SPRIGG and MARGARET CAILE).
Children:
i GEORGE HUME STEUART, JR, b. 1790, d. 1867.
ii MARGARET STEUART, b. 1795, d. 1832.
iii SOPHIA STEUART, b. 1796.
iv RICHARD SPRIGG STEUART, b. 1797.
v JAMES STEUART, JR, b. 1799, d. 1804.
vi HENRIETTA STEUART, b. 1801.
vii ELIZABETH STEUART, b. 1802.
70. PATRICK STEWART,[12],[13],[14],[15] b. 7 Feb 1697 in LAIRD OF LEDCREICH, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND, occupation FARMER,[16] d. 1 May 1772 in BLADEN CO., NORTH CAROLINA, buried: 1772 in ST DAVID'S PARISH, CHERAW, SOUTH CAROLINA.[17]
Patrick Stewart and his wife Elizabeth Menzies came to America from Ledcreich in Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland with six Argyllshire gentlemen and about 300 Highlanders from Scotland to Cape Fear in North Carolina, in 1739. (Note: the term "gentlemen" as used then denoted those entitled to bear arms). The group called itself the Argyll Colony because Argyll was the shire in western Scotland from which they sailed. They were the vanguard of what began as a trickle and grew into a flood of Highland emigrants to what was then Bladen County, North Carolina, later to be divided into Cumberland, Moore, Robeson, Harnett and Hoke Counties. The colony sailed from Scotland in June 1739. On 6 June, the customs office of Campbeltown, Argyll, cleared the "Thistle" (ship) of passengers for "Cape Fear in America." From Cambeltown, she sailed to Gigha to take on additional passengers and join the "Charming Molly" (ship), cleared at Belfast also to carry part of the colony.
They arrived in North Carolina in September and probably spent most of their first winter in or near Newton (soon to be renamed Wilmington) because they had not yet decided on a specific location for settlement. Earlier settlers, mostly from Pennsylvania and Jersey, had already taken up most of the river frontage along the Cape Fear as far up as the mouth of Lower Little River, some twenty miles above Cross Creek. For that reason the Argyll Colonists had to go farther upriver to find available river frontage, the preferred location because, in the absence of roads at the time, the river was the most convenient highway. On 4 and 5 June 1740, some twenty-five men with Highland names were issued patents for a total of 14,000 acres in parcels of varying sizes on both sides of the river as far up as The Forks, the confluence of the Haw and Deep Rivers which form the Cape Fear, about fifty miies above Cross Creek.
In 1740 Patrick Stewart received land grants for 320 acres in Bladen Co., N. Carolina. In 1756 he was granted land on Harnett's Branch, and in 1763 at Brown's Marsh, all in Bladen County. After the Stuarts failed to re-establish themselves on the throne of England and Scotland in 1746, Patrick is said to have decided to never return to Scotland and sold his estate in Ledcriech to his brother, Robert. On January 18, 1763, he and his son, Charles, wrote down his genealogy. Patrick and his wife Elizabeth later moved following his daughter, Catherine and her husband William Little, to South Carolina at the Cheraws where he died 1772.
The will of Patrick Stewart of St David’s Parish in the Cheraws District of North Carolina, dated 8-May-1772, divided his property among his wife, Elizabeth, son James, daughters Catherine Little and Margaret Caraway, and his grandson Charles Stewart Caraway. The executors were Catherine Little (who in 1774 married John Speed) and Alexander Gordon.
The old written record of the Stewart ancestors which was dictated by Patrick Stewart, former Laird of Ledcreich, Balquhidder, Scotland, on January 18, 1763, and recorded by Patrick's son, Charles, was in the possession of Patrick's granddaughter, Ann Gist (Ann was the daughter of Patrick's son, James) at the time of her death. Her surviving husband, Gist, sent this original record to Dr Morgan Brown who was married to Patrick Stewart's granddaughter, Elizabeth Little (daughter of Catherine Stewart). It has survived these many years in the Brown family bible and was pubished in the American Historical Magazine; University Press, Volume 8; Date: 1902.
He married (1) JEAN STEWART,[18] married 1718 in KIRKTOWN OF BALQUIHIDDER, SCOTLAND, b. in KIRKTOWN OF BALLQUHIDDER, SCOTLAND.
Children:
i MARY STEWART, b. 8 Jan 1719 in KIRKTOWN OF BALLQUHIDDER, SCOTLAND.
ii KATHERINE STEWART, b. 1 Dec 1720 in KIRKTOWN OF BALLQUHIDDER, SCOTLAND.
He married (2) KATHRINE STUART,[19] married 23 Nov 1728 in BALQUHIDDER PARISH, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND, b. in BALQUIDDER PARISH, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
Children:
75. iii JANET STEWART.
He married (3) ELIZABETH MENZIES, married 13 Oct 1733 in BALQUHIDEER, PERTH, SCOTLAND, b. CIRCA 1715 in PARISH OF DULL, SCOTLAND, (daughter of DR. DUNCAN MENZIES and MARGARET MENZIES) d. 1772 in BLADEN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
Children:
76. iv MARGRATE STEWART b. 3 Nov 1734.
v WILLIAM STEWART, b. 21 Dec 1738 in PERTH, SCOTLAND, d. CIRCA 1739 in PERTH, SCOTLAND.
vi ALEXANDER STEWART.
Alexander died at birth.
77. vii CATHERINE STEWART b. CIRCA 1739.
78. viii JAMES STEWART.
ix CHARLES STEWART, b. in BLADEN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, d. 1765 in WILLMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA.
Charles was the youngest and favorite son of Patrick Stewart and Elizabeth Menzies. He died young and single at Wilmington, North Carolina in 1765. He is the family member who transcribed Patrick Stewart's family genealogy in 1763.
79. x ELIZABETH STEWART b. 1744.
71. WILLIAM STEWART, b. CIRCA 1700 in BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND, occupation FARMER,[20] d. 2 Aug 1778 in RALEIGH, WAKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, buried: 1778 in SOUTH RIVER CHURCH, BLADEN CO., NC.
William immigrated with his brother Patrick from Perthshire, Scotland as a widower with several children to North Carolina in 1739. He settled in Bladen County, North Carolina on the Cape Fear River. William later located near Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina with his second wife, the widow Jannett McDougal Williamson.
He married (1) UNKNOWN.
Children:
i HUGH STEWART.
ii ROBERT STEWART.
He married (2) CATHERINE COLVIN, married in BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND, b. CIRCA 1693 in BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND, d. CIRCA 1755 in BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND, buried: CIRCA 1755 in STEWART CEMETERY; BLADEN CO., NC.
CATHERINE: The Old Stewart Cemetery is located between North Carolina Highway 210 and the South River near the intersection with U.S. Highway 701. The cemetery site consisted of a low brick rubble wall which was originally a triangular shape. On May 3, 1995 the site was inspected by Mark Wilde-Ramsing and Catherine Sloan and was found to be in poor repair but with evidence of the
original wall. No grave stones were apparent.
Children:
80. iii PATRICK STEWART.
iv MARGARET STEWART, b. in SCOTLAND.
Margaret lived a very unhappy life with Spiller for several years. They were seperated following the return of Spiller's first wife and family from Ireland. Margaret died not long afterwards without having had any children.
She married SPILLER, occupation ATTORNEY.
SPILLER: Spiller was an attorney from Ireland and came to America from Ireland leaving a wife and two or three children. He married Margaret Stewart here in American and did not tell her of his first marriage.
He married (3) JANNETT McDOUGAL,[21] married 1760 in BLADEN COUNTY, N. CAROLINA, d. 1793 in BLADEN CO., NORTH CAROLINA, buried: 1793 in SOUTH RIVER CHURCH, BLADEN CO., NC.
JANNETT: Janet was a widower. Her first husband was Daniel Williamson.
Children:
v CATHERINE STEWART, b. 1761 in BLADEN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
She married DWANGHER.
81. vi CHARLES STEWART b. 16 Jan 1761.
82. vii DUNCAN STEWART b. 1763.
83. viii JAMES STEWART b. 1763.
ix JANNETT STEWART, b. 1765 in BLADEN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
Jane married her cousin John Stewart.
She married CAPTAIN JOHN (JOCK) STEWART, b. in SCOTLAND, occupation HALF-PAY BRITISH OFFICER.
84. x ANN STEWART b. 1767.
85. xi ELIZABETH STEWART b. 1769.
86. xii ELEANOR HELEN NELLIE STEWART b. 4 Mar 1771.
Twelfth Generation
72. JOHN STEWART, b. 14 Aug 1747 in BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
Careful reading of the Factor of Atholl's letter (see notes on Robert Stewart, son of this John Stewart) indicates that Robert Stewart had a brother* named Alexander in Balquhidder. The family of this John Stewart represents the only possible family in Balquhidder who had both a son Robert and a son Alexander of the right age. This John Stewart is not provable, but is most probably correct. What is provable is that, according to the letter, Robert and Alexander were both great-great-great grandchildren of John Dhu Mohr Stewart of Dalveich.
* The reference is not precise. It's possible Alexander was a cousin, but I believe the Factor was referring to a brother.
He married CATHERINE STEWART, married in BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND, b. CIRCA 1747 in PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
Children:
i MARGARET STEWART, b. CIRCA Feb 1766 in BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
ii CATHERINE STEWART, b. CIRCA Aug 1771 in BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
iii JANET STEWART, b. CIRCA Oct 1773 in BALQUHIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
87. iv ROBERT STEWART b. CIRCA Nov 1775.
v MARGARET STEWART, b. 1781.
vi PETER STEWART, b. 1775.
73. JOHN STEWART, b. 1745 in MASSACHUSETTES, d. 1821.
He married HULDAH HUBBELL.
Children:
88. i IRA STEWART b. 1779.
74. WILLIAM STEWART.
Not much is known about William. He also was likely born in and 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:
i ALEXANDER STEWART, b. in ABERDOUR, ABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND, d. 1839 in PETERHEAD, BUCHAN, SCOTLAND.
ii JOHN STEWART.
iii MARGARET STEWART.
75. JANET STEWART, b. in PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
She married JOHN McLEAN, married 16 Mar 1754 in FORTINGALL, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
Children:
i JAMES McLEAN, b. 23 Feb 1756 in FORTINGALL, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
ii PATRICK McLEAN, b. 2 Nov 1757 in FORTINGALL, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
iii DUNCAN McLEAN, b. 12 Jun 1763 in BLAIR ATHOLL, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
iv DONALD McLEAN, b. 11 Feb 1765 in BLAIR ATHOLL, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
89. v ALEXANDER McLEAN b. 22 Jul 1767.
76. MARGRATE STEWART, b. 3 Nov 1734 in BALQUIDDER, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
She married (1) THOMAS STEWART, married in CHERAWS DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA, b. CIRCA 1730 in PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND, (son of DUGALD STEWART and UNKNOWN) d. CIRCA 1763 in BLADEN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
THOMAS: Thomas was a planter of Cumberland County. In April 13, 1756, records indicated that he deeded to John Rea 200 acres of land which was part of a tract of 640 acres on the northwest branch of Cape Fear river which was granted by the king's patent April 13, 1740, to Dugald Stewart.
Children:
i ELIZABETH STEWART, b. CIRCA 1760 in CAPE FEAR RIVER, CUMBERLAND CO., NC, d. 1812 in CAPE FEAR RIVER, CUMBERLAND CO., NC, buried: 1812 in CUMBERLAND CO., NORTH CAROLINA.
In the "Abstracts of Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarterly Sessions of Cumberland County; October 1755-January 1779; Volume I (William Fields, Editor), the following was found:
"February 1762 Term: Justices Present at this Term: Alexander McAlister, John Stewart, Ferquhard Campbell and Hector McNeill. February 16, 1762: John Carraway appointed guardian of Elizabeth Stewart, orphan daughter of Thomas Stewart, security: 300 pounds."
"April 1774 Term: Justices Present at this Term: Thomas Mathews (Mathus), Alexander McDonald (McDonold), Wm Seal, Farqd Campbell, Robert Cochran, Robert Rowan, George Myline (Milne), Willm. Sprowel (Sprowl), David Smith, Duncan McNeill, James Hepbern, Robt. Cobb and Richard Lyon. April 29, 1774: Miss Elizabeth Stewart chose Farqd. Campbell, Esq., and Mr. Alexr. Gregory as her guardians; bond 200 pounds."
Elizabeth died an old maid on her plantation on the Cape Fear river in Cumberland County, North Carolina. She willed 800 acres of her land to her cousins Robert Stewart, Hector Stewart and Dugald Stewart. She gave some slaves to her nieces, Eliza and Janet Caraway, daughters of James Caraway and Margaret Stewart, eldest daughter of Patrick Stewart and Elizabeth Menzies.
She married (2) JOHN CARRAWAY, married in CHERAWS DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA.
Children:
90. ii JAMES CARRAWAY.
iii CHARLES STEWART CARRAWAY.
91. iv THOMAS CARRAWAY.
v ROBERT CARRAWAY, b. in CHERAWS DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA.
vi ELIZABETH CARRAWAY, b. in CHERAWS DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA.
vii JANET CARRAWAY, b. in CHERAWS DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA.
77. CATHERINE STEWART, b. CIRCA 1739 in BLADEN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, occupation HOUSEWIFE, d. CIRCA 1789 in RICHMOND CO., NORTH CAROLINA, buried: in RICHMOND CO., NORTH CAROLINA.
Catherine was the first child of Patrick Stewart & Elizabeth Menzies to be born in America. She first married William Little of Edenton, N. Carolina in 1764. They had one daughter, Elizabeth Little, who married Morgan Brown in 1784. Catherine's second marriage in 1774 was to John Speed of Anson County (later in 1779, this part of Anson County was named Richmond County east of the Pee Dee River), North Carolina. From early records of St David’s Parish in Cheraw, SC, which is just twenty miles south of Rockingham, Richmond County, NC, John Speed is listed in 1778 as a vestryman of the parish. This marriage produced the next direct Speed descendants, James Stuart Speed, Sarah Speed, Catherine Speed, and Martha Patsy Speed. James later settled in Montgomery Co., Tennessee.
She married (1) WILLIAM LITTLE, JR., married 25 Sep 1764 in CHERAWS, SOUTH CAROLINA, b. 27 Sep 1729 in EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA, (son of WILLIAM LITTLE and PENELOPE GALE) d. Oct 1766 in CHERAWS, SOUTH CAROLINA.
WILLIAM: Before William was nineteen, he had developed a weakness for gambling and soon lost the Occanecha estate that he had inherited from his late father. The man who won these and other lands around the Roanoke River from William was Robbin Jones. William also lost lands along the Pee Dee River on which the town of Snead's Borough (also known as Snead's Ferry) was formed. On his way toward Halifax after losing his land on the Pee Dee, he met a man by the name of Goleman Kimbrough, who with his daughter, were moving to South Carolina. He decided to travel with the man and his daughter because he was so struck by her beauty. He later married her and bought and settled on a tract of land on the Pee Dee River at the mouth of Hicks' Creek including the principal town of Cheraw, South Carolina. His father-in-law lived on the same tract of land with them. There he prospered gowing indigo.
After his first wife died, William lived as a widower for seven or eight years, after which he met Catherine Stewart and married her. Catherine was twenty-six when she married William Little. Family records indicate that Catherine immediately reformed William of his weakness for gambling and lovingly accepted into their home his daughter from his first marriage. The daughter, Sarah, was about nine years old at the time William and Catherine married.
Soon after his second marriage, William began to decline in health from something referred to then as "black jaundice or black bile." By the early 1800's this disorder was called "dyspepsia." His health continued to deteriorate until his death in September of October of 1766. When William died, he had considerable debt, but Catherine who was the sole administratrix, paid off all debts he estate owed in three or four years. It was a tedious undertaking and required her to make one or two trips to Charleston South Carolina, Cape Fear, and Edenton, North Carolina.
Children:
92. i ELIZABETH LITTLE b. 14 Nov 1765.
She married (2) JOHN SPEED, married Jul 1774 in CHERAW DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA, b. CIRCA 1745 in NORTH CAROLINA, (son of WILLIAM SPEED and ELIZABETH) occupation FARMER & LAND APPRAISER,[22] d. 18 Feb 1806 in RICHMOND CO., NORTH CAROLINA, buried: 1806.
JOHN: John Speed was a captain and later a lieutenant colonel during the American Revolutionary War and served in the Richmond County, North Carolina Militia (formerly part of Anson County). Captain John Speed was wounded at the Battle of Stono Ferry, South Carolina on June 20, 1779. Stono Ferry was about eight miles west of Charleston on James Island in the Stono River. The State Records of North Carolina found in the North Carolina Archives reflect that Captain Speed of the North Carolina Militia was listed as wounded in the "Return of the Killed, Wounded, and Missing in the Action of Stono Ferry, 20th June 1779." In the North Carolina Archives, there are two Revolutionary War pension applications for veterans who served under Captain John Speed. From these and other archive records, it was learned that Captain John Speed served under Colonel Thomas Crawford.
From early records of St David’s Parish in Cheraw, SC, which is just twenty miles south of Rockingham, Richmond County, NC, John Speed is listed in 1778 as a vestryman of the parish. 1779 Jury List Records for Cheraws District of S. Carolina list John Speed as both a Grand Juryman and Petit Juryman in Civil Causes. Other references to John Speed are found in Stewart-Stuart Family history book (R929.125 B66 V.14). In the Stewart family history, John Speed is noted as marrying Catherine Stewart in 1774 (this was her second marriage). The common use of the Stewart/Stuart name was reflected in numerous descendants thereafter. Anson Co., N. Carolina deeds and abstracts (1756-1786) refer to John Speed several times.
On April 21, 1784, John Speed took his seat in the North Carolina General Assembly representing Richmond County. He is listed in the 1790 U.S. Census of Fayette District of Richmond County, North Carolina. John Speed died 18 February 1806. His obituary was published in the early North Carolina newspaper, "The Raleigh Register": "Died in Richmond County, on the 18th ult. of the smallpox, Colonel John Speed, a respectable citizen, who has frequently represented that county in the General Assembly of this State." The North Carolina Archives records reflect that James Stewart Speed was the administrator of his father's estate in Richmond County.
Children:
93. ii JAMES STUART SPEED b. 16 Mar 1775.
94. iii SARAH (SALLY) SPEED b. CIRCA 1777.
95. iv CATHERINE SPEED b. CIRCA 1788.
v MARTHA PATSY SPEED, b. CIRCA 1789 in CHERAW DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA.
She married WILLIAM MICHAELS, married in SOUTH CAROLINA.
78. JAMES STEWART, b. in NORTH CAROLINA.
He married ANNE (VOLPONTEAU) VILLEPONTEAUX, married in DORCHESTER CO., S CAROLINA.
Children:
i ANN STEWART, b. in DORCHESTER CO., SOUTH CAROLINA, d. 8 Mar 1820 in UNION COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.
Ann and her first husband, Edward Tongue, had no children. Both Ann and her second husband, Gist, also lived their lives without children and died in Union County, South Carolina. The old written record of the Stewart ancestors which was dictated by Patrick Stewart, former Laird of Ledcreich, Balquhidder, Scotland, on January 18, 1763, and recorded by Patrick's son, Charles, was in Ann's possession at the time of her death. Her surviving husband, Gist, sent this original record to Dr Morgan Brown who was married to Patrick Stewart's granddaughter, Elizabeth Little (daughter of Catherine Stewart). It has survived these many years in the Brown family bible and was pubished in the American Historical Magazine; University Press, Volume 8; Date: 1902.
She married (1) EDWARD TONGUE, b. in CAIN ACRE NEAR THE RIVER POUPON.
She married (2) FRANCIS FINCHER GIST, married 27 May 1813 in UNION COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, b. CIRCA 1773, d. 11 Jan 1819 in UNION COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.
96. ii WILLIAM STEWART b. 5 Jun 1771.
79. ELIZABETH STEWART, b. 1744 in NORTH CAROLINA, d. 1795 in ROBESON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
She married JAMES STEWART, married in BLADEN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
JAMES: James Stewart was his wife's cousin. It is unknown as to which Stewart
family.
Children:
97. i JAMES STUART b. 3-Sep-1767.
98. ii CATHERINE STUART.
iii ELIZABETH STUART.
She married WILLIAM JORDAN.
iv MARGARET STUART, d. in SOUTH CAROLINA.
She married POPE.
v CHARLES G. STUART, b. CIRCA 1775 in BLADEN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, d. CIRCA 1817 in ROBESON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.
Charles joined the patriots in Mexico and was never heard from again.
80. PATRICK STEWART,[23] b. in SCOTLAND, d. 14 Dec 1777 in WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA.
Patrick was an elder son of William Stewart. During the start of the American Revolution, he received an appointment of captain in the Minute Men of North Carolina and fought bravely at the battle of Moor's Creek Bridge, above Wilmington, against the Tories under McLeod and McDonald. But afterwards, he took offense at either the American cause or some of the officers in the American service, and resigned his commission and joined the British Army where he received an appointment as captain in the Queen's Rangers. He spelled his name Stuart, but his brother Duncan, who was favorable to the colonial cause, refused to spell his name the same as Patrick. "Patrick was progenitor of Captain Madison Bachelor of Vicksburg, Mississippi, who is representative of that family, being great-great-grandson of Patrick," 1891. reference: Stewart Clan Magazine, Vol.XIV, No.2, Beatrice, Neb., August, 1936. Patrick died before the close of the war.
Although, Patrick never married he did have a son named, Walter, who was raised by the Stewart family and married in Stewart County, Tennessee. A Jemima Matthews was mentioned in Patrick's will filed in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Children:
99. i WALTER STEWART.
81. CHARLES STEWART, b. 16 Jan 1761 in BLADEN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, d. in WILKINSON CO., MISSISSIPPI, buried: in STEWART TWO CEMETERY, WILKINSON CO.
Charles was a close brother to Duncan Stewart. He is buried at the Ventress place one mile north of the old Stewart Plantation estate in Wilkinson Co., Mississippi. He served in the fourth General Assembly representing Montgomery County in the House of Representatives from 1801-1803. Charles and his brother, Duncan, were the first Stewarts to leave Bladen County, North Carolina for Clarksville, Tennessee. He operated a mill in 1810, on the West Fork of Red River. Charles also engaged in practice of law and was appointed property appraiser by Montgomery County Court, 1805.
He married POLLY JONES, married 11 Apr 1798 in BLADEN CO., NORTH CAROLINA, (daughter of COLONEL TIGNALL JONES and PENELOPE).
Children:
i PENELOPE STEWART.
ii TIGNALL STEWART.
iii DUNCAN STEWART.
iv CHARLES STEWART.
v JEANETTE STEWART.
82. DUNCAN STEWART,[24] b. 1763 in BLADEN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, d. 26 Nov 1820 in WILKINSON COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, buried: 1820 in STEWART TWO CEMETERY, WILKINSON CO., MS.
Duncan was a twin brother to James Stewart. He refused to spell his name Stuart as his brother Patrick did. He entered the Revolutionary War as a private and was promoted to the rank of colonel. In 1797, Duncan and his brother James went to Tennessee and settled at Clarksville, Montgomery Co. He was very wealthy, and was a member of the TN legislature. In 1803 part of of Montgomery Co. was set off and named Stewart Co. in his honor. Col Stewart moved to Mississippi in 1808 (Wilkinson Co.) & became Lt-Gov. of the state.
He married PENELOPE JONES, married 19 Oct 1797 in BLADEN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, b. 1779 in ORANGE CO., NORTH CAROLINA, (daughter of COLONEL TIGNALL JONES and PENELOPE) d. 23 Feb 1843 in WILKINSON COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, buried: 1843 in HOLLY GROVE PLANTATION, WILKINSON CO.
Children:
i WILLIAM STEWART, b. in CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE, d. in CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE.
William died in infancy.
100. ii TIGNALL JONES STEWART b. 20 Apr 1800.
101. iii CATHERINE MARY STEWART b. 3 Oct 1804.
iv ELIZA STEWART, b. CIRCA 1807 in CLARKSVILLE, TENNESSEE.
She married COLONEL W. S. HAMBLETON, married in TENNESSEE, d. 1870 in TENNESSEE.
102. v JAMES A. STEWART b. 14 Jul 1811.
103. vi CHARLES DUNCAN STEWART b. 1813.
83. JAMES STEWART,[25],[26] b. 1763 in BLADEN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, d. 1818 in WOODVILLE, WILKINSON COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, buried: 1818 in STEWART TWO CEMETERY, WILKINSON CO., MS.
James and his brothers, Charles and Duncan went to Montgomery Co., TN when the county was organized from Davidson Co. in 1796-97. They located at Clarksville and had extensive holdings of land on the West fork of the Red River. While Duncan and brother, Charles moved to Wilkinson Co., MS in 1811, James stayed in Montgomery Co. and made his will April 19, 1818. It was
probated in that county on October 19, 1818. His executors were Henry Small, Bryan Whitfield, Thomas White, Charles Bailey, and Charles Hampton.
He married (1) CATHARINE (KNOWLAND) KNOWLAN, married CIRCA 1792 in BLADEN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, b. in BLADEN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, d. in WILKINSON COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, buried: in STEWART TWO CEMETERY, WILKINSON CO., MS.
Children:
104. i WILLIAM STEWART b. 1793.
105. ii NOLAN STEWART b. 16 May 1796.
106. iii JAMES McDOUGAL STUART b. CIRCA 1798.
107. iv JANNETT STEWART b. CIRCA 1798.
108. v ROBINA E. STEWART