Samuel Stewart

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• LifeSketch: CAUTION: LOTS OF ERRONEOUS MERGES HAVE TAKEN PLACE. It has been CORRECTED previously but is a mess again. Suggest going to historical sources before merging multiple different Robert Stewarts. This one has a history not hard to find. Maybe someone else will spend the hours this time to clean it up again. Robert Stewart was born in 1655 in Aberdeen, Scotland. He married Jannette Forsythe in 1682 in Edinburgh, Scotland. They had eight children in 17 years. He died in 1714 in Midlothian, Scotland, at the age of 59. Robert Stewart was born in 1655 probably in Gartnafuaran, near Balquhidder in Perthshire (today in Stirling District), Scotland. Stewart family traditions handed down by his widow Jannette (Jonet, Janet, or Janette) state that Robert was a Covenanter who fought at the Battle of Bothwell Brigg in 1679. He married Jannette afterwards, and their eldest son John was born in 1682, traditionally in Edinburgh, Scotland -- Robert is said to have been in hiding in Ulster at the time of John\'s birth. Only four children of Robert and Jannette are known: John, Robert, Samuel, and Julieyn (Julian or Julianne, whom some later writers erroneously split into two daughters, Julia and Ann). No other children are known, though they may have been others who did not survive to adulthood. Family tradition states Robert died in Edinburgh, Midlothian, in the year of Queen Anne\'s death (i.e., 1714), at the age of 59 John was the first child born to Robert Stewart, the Covenanter, and Janet Forsythe in Edinburg, Scotland in 1682. His father, Robert (subject) having been forced to leave Scotland find refuge with relatives in Londonderry, Ireland. Shortly after John\'s birth, he and his mother joined Robert in Ireland where they lived for several years and where the remainder of their family was born. After the death of Charles I, Robert returned to Scotland with his family. His son, John, later returned to the homeland of his youth, and it was here that he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Clark, and their first five children were born. Upon the death of his father, (Robert), John and his wife, Elizabeth and their young family, with his mother came to America, landing in Boston 14 Oct 1718. Samuel was born at sea. John was one of the 16 settlers of Londonderry, New Hampshire, naming it for their homeland, Londonderry, Ireland. John\'s [1682-1741] father Robert had a sister, Juliyan and Samuel was the youngest. Grandfather Robert had a good estate in Scotland when he fled from it. King William would do nothing about it, neither would Queen Ann, but when King George came to the crown, their Uncle Samuel Stewart, by help of the Duke of Argyle, recovered it. Samuel died without issue, and left no heirs. Stewart Family The clan Stewart can be traced back to Walter Fitz Alan, whose family moved to Scotland when David I was crowned the King of Scotland. The family name, Stewart, is said to have been taken from Walter’s title as High Steward of Scotland and the title, along with extensive lands, became hereditary in the family. The Royal House of Stewart came about through marriage to Robert the Bruce’s daughter. As a family, the Stewarts continuously held the Scottish throne, and then the English throne, until Queen Anne’s death in 1714. It has been claimed that the current royal family have some Stewart blood, solidifying this clan’s \"royal\" status. The Stewart clan motto is \"Virescit vulnere virtus\" (Courage grows strong at a wound) and the clan crest is a pelican in a nest feeding her young. [https://clan.com/families?search=Stewart]
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Robert married Jeanette Forsythe. Jeanette was born on 16 Jul 1655 in Saint Ninians, Stirlingshire, Scotland; was christened on 16 Jul 1665 in Saint Ninians, Stirlingshire, Scotland; died in 1686 in Colrain, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America; was buried in 1686. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• LifeSketch: Jeanette Forsythe (1665-1729) was born 16 Jul 1665 in Edinburgh, Scotland and died circa 1729. Some sources has her Undisclosed to be 100. She was the daughter of James Forsythe, b 14 Apr 1626 at Edinburgh, and Margaret (Cowan) Forsythe b 25 Jan 1641 at Dysart, Co. Fife. Jeannette or Janette (her name was also spelled Janet or Jonet, common Scots variants of this name) was a Forsyth or Forsythe. The Scottish genealogists Kenneth Robertson and James Dinwoodie proposed that she may have been a daughter of a certain John Forsyth and Catherine Morisone, but it\'s unclear what evidence there is to support that hypothesis. B. Frank Severance\'s old Stewart Genealogy says her father was named either William or James, but that was a misreading of Old Joseph Stewart\'s letter of 15 Mar 1819, in which Joseph said his mother was named Elizabeth Forsyth, and that his maternal grandfather was named either William or James. William or James were among the names of the possible father of Elizabeth Forsyth, second wife of John Stewart, son of Robert Stewart and Janette Forsyth. The tradition of the lost estate that Janette\'s son Samuel returned to Scotland to recover, it\'s unknown what that \"estate\" may have been. Janette\'s husband Robert was born in Gartnafuaran in Perthshire, but as a younger son of a tacksman of Balquihidder Parish, there certainly were no Perthshire lands on his father\'s side that he could have recovered. It\'s possible that the estate was something inherited from Janette\'s family the Forsyths and perhaps it was near Edinburgh, which might account for the persistent family traditions linking Robert and Janette to Edinburgh. Her husband was born in 1655 and died in 1714 before the ships could be procured for their voyage to America. She came to America with her son John in 1718. She apparently outlived him and is buried, along with her daughter-in-law, in Colrain, MA. Jeanette Forsythe married Robert Stewart of Edinburgh, Scotland about 1682. Robert and Jannette/Jeanette had four children: 1. John Stuart. b.1682, 2. Robert Stuart. b.1684, 3. Julianne Stuart. b. c1686, 4. Samuel Stuart. b. c1688. These last two are conjecture. There is no history on the daughter. Tradition has it that because he (Robert b.1655) was a Covenanter and had fled to Northern Ireland, he wanted to maintain the Scottish births, and Jannette always went back to Edinburgh for the birth of their children. However the Stewart lands were in Gartnafuran, Balquidder, Perthshire. Son Samuel stayed in Scotland to retrieve lands lost to the crown when his aged mother and two brothers came to America in 1718. Son Robert came to America without a wife and two young sons. He is possibly buried in Amherst, NH, as that is where he last lived with his son John who married Keturah Holt of Andover, MA. by Wes Clarke
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• Name: Janette Forsythe
• Name: Jeanette Forsythe
• Name: Jonet
• Residence: St. Ninians, Stirlingshire, Scotland
• Residence: Lasswade, Midlothian, Scotland

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• LifeSketch: Stewart Family The clan Stewart can be traced back to Walter Fitz Alan, whose family moved to Scotland when David I was crowned the King of Scotland. The family name, Stewart, is said to have been taken from Walter’s title as High Steward of Scotland and the title, along with extensive lands, became hereditary in the family. The Royal House of Stewart came about through marriage to Robert the Bruce’s daughter. As a family, the Stewarts continuously held the Scottish throne, and then the English throne, until Queen Anne’s death in 1714. It has been claimed that the current royal family have some Stewart blood, solidifying this clan’s \"royal\" status. The Stewart clan motto is \"Virescit vulnere virtus\" (Courage grows strong at a wound) and the clan crest is a pelican in a nest feeding her young. [https://clan.com/families?search=Stewart]
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• Name: Walter Stewart "7th Laird of Gartnafuaran"

Walter married Isobel Stewart. Isobel was born in 1633 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; died in 1720 in Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• LifeSketch: Stewart Family The clan Stewart can be traced back to Walter Fitz Alan, whose family moved to Scotland when David I was crowned the King of Scotland. The family name, Stewart, is said to have been taken from Walter’s title as High Steward of Scotland and the title, along with extensive lands, became hereditary in the family. The Royal House of Stewart came about through marriage to Robert the Bruce’s daughter. As a family, the Stewarts continuously held the Scottish throne, and then the English throne, until Queen Anne’s death in 1714. It has been claimed that the current royal family have some Stewart blood, solidifying this clan’s \"royal\" status. The Stewart clan motto is \"Virescit vulnere virtus\" (Courage grows strong at a wound) and the clan crest is a pelican in a nest feeding her young. [https://clan.com/families?search=Stewart]
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• Name: Andrew 6th Laird of Gartnafuaran Stewart
• Residence: Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Andrew married Margaret Stewart, Of Ardvorlich. Margaret was born in 1596 in Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland; died on 21 Dec 1639 in Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Margaret Stewart of Ardvorlich