John Stuart (1780 - 1847)

Born 12 Sep 1780 in Leanchoil, Nethy Bridge, Scotland [uncertain]

Ancestors

Died 14 Jan 1847 at age 66 in Springfield House, Elgin, Scotland

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Biography

John Stuart is a member of Clan Stewart.

John Stuart (12 September 1780 – 14 January 1847) was a nineteenth-century Scottish-Canadian explorer and fur trader. He was a partner in the North West Company and Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company. Stuart is best known as Simon Fraser's lieutenant who participated in his explorations of present-day British Columbia from 1805 to 1808. Fraser named Stuart River and Stuart Lake in British Columbia for his friend. Stuart was the uncle of Lord Strathcona.^[1]

John Stuart returned to Scotland in 1836 and died on 14 January 1847, at Springfield House, near Elgin.

Marriage

John Stuart was first married to Catherine Lavalle about 1801 in Canada.

In 1827 John Stuart took another country wife, Mary Taylor. She joined him in Scotland in 1836 but because he withdrew his promise to marry her formally she returned to Rupert's Land in 1838. There was considerable litigation over Stuart's legacy to her, which Stuart's sisters managed to have reduced from £500 to £350.

Children

Children of John Stuart and his wife Catherine Lavalle;

• 1. Isabel Stuart, born in 1802 in Canada

• 2. Donald Stuart, born after 1802 In Canada

• 3. John Stuart, born after 1802 in Canada

Sources

• Wikipedia, entry for John Stuart

• Dictionary of Canadian Biography, entry for [http:/http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/stuart_john_1780_1847_7E.html John Stuart]

• Dictionary of Canadian Biography, entry for Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Stathcona and Mount Royal

Footnotes

1. ↑ Wikipedia entry for John Stuart