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From: "Gini" <>
Subject: Re: [PERTH] STUARTS OF BALQUIDDER
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 21:37:06 -0400
References: <20030825195729.37397.qmail@web80310.mail.yahoo.com>


I have been putting this off, but it looks like tonight is the night. I
hope there are unknown relatives out there!
Looking for other descendants of following line:
Alexander STEWART 1, b abt 1670
son - James STEWART 2, b abt 1690 m Janet FERGUSON
son - James STEWART 3 (Seumas na Coille) ,b abt 1720 in Balquidder,
Scotland. Served in Black Watch as private. D 1796.
m abt 1748 Katherine STEWART
sons - David STUART 4, b 19 Dec 1766 Scotland, d 18 Oct 1853 in Detroit,
Michigan. Emigrated to Canada & went into fur-trading business.
Never married. One of discoverers of Oregon Trail (USA)
sons- John STEWART 4 (Ian Mohr na Coille) b 23 June 1756 Ruskachan,
Balquidder, Perthshire, Scotland,
d bef 1806, Callander, Perth., Scotland. Was schoolmaster at
Strathyre and Callender. Wrote parish records for Balquidder
(where Rob Roy is buried also)
m 15 April 1780 in Balquidder Parish, Mary BUCHANAN b 6 June 1756
9 children:
James STEWART b 1781
John STEWART , b 1783, died young
David STEWART b 1787
James STEWART, 1789 m Jessie McLAREN
Janet STEWART b 1791
Alexander STEWART b 1793, d 1873 buried in Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh.
m Mary SIMPSON
Mary STEWART b 1795, died young
Katrine STEWART b 1797, m ? CLARK. Lived in Australia, had 8 children
including Duncan CLARK
** ROBERT STUART 5 , b 18 Feb 1785 Balquidder, Callender, Perthshire.
Baptized 19 Feb 1785 in Parish of Balquidder.
d 29 Oct 1848, Chicago, Illinois. Buried in Elmwood Cemetery,
Detroit, Michigan
At suggestion of Uncle David Stuart ("Old Uncle"), he also
emigrated to Canada in 1807 & entered fur-trading business.
Was partner of John Jacob Astor and was one of founders of Astoria, Oregon.
From there he led a party eastward and discovered the
South Pass through the Rocky Mountains and what became the Oregon Trail.
(This is a very abbreviated description of a very heroic
expedition)
m 21 July 1813 in First Presbyterian Church, New York City,
Elizabeth Emma SULLIVAN b 27 June 1792 New York,
d 26 Sept 1866 at home, 396 Jefferson Street, Detroit,
Michigan
9 children:
Mary Elizabeth STUART 1814-1878, m Dr. George Franklin TURNER & William
Chapman BAKER
Kate STUART 1820-1853 m William Chapman BAKER
John STUART 1822-1853 m Lavinia FIELD
Robert STUART, JR. 1825-1863 m Ellen CAIRNS
Marion STUART 1828-1835
William Maynard STUART 1830-1836
Celia STUART 1832-1836
William Maynard STUART 1837-1838
***David STUART 6 1816-1868 US Brig Gen in Civil War
m 1842 Dutch Reform First Church, Jeralemon Street, Brooklyn, New
York - Sarah BENSON 1820-1895

That's plenty for tonight! If I've struck gold, holler loud!

Gini Patterson
Maryland, USA


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