John Stewart (abt. 1499)

Ancestors

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Biography

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John Stewart is a member of Clan Stewart of Appin.

John Stewart was born about 1499. He was the second son of Sir Allan Stewart the third baron of Appin and his wife Unknown Cameron. ^[1]

John Stewart accompanied his father to the battlefield of Flodden in 1513. He received from his father the lands of Strathgarry. The records of his descendants are sparce. Some time toward the end of the sixteenth century [about 1590-5] Stewart of Strathgarry, having taken possession of lands in the upper part of Rannoch which had been held by a Macdonald, was surprised by a party of that clan and killed by them for dispossessing their kinsman. A meeting of the Stewarts of Appin, Balquidder and Athole was held at the bridge of Keltney, and they entered into a bond to avenge the death of their kinsman of Strathgarry. They had letters of fire and sword against the murderers, procured by the widow who went to Stirling to show the bloody shirt of her husband to the privy council, and they killed several Macdonalds. (A copy of this bond was long in the possession of the Ardvoirlich family, as an Ardvoirlich had been one of the leaders, but it was lent to a Stewart of Annat and at his death it could not be found amongst his papers, but a copy of it is said to be in the possession of the duke of Athole).

Marriage

John Stewart was married to ?

Children

Children of John Stewart and his wife Unknown.:

• 1. Dugald Stewart. b. abt 1525 - d.  ?

Sources

1. ↑ A source for this information is needed.

• http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getperson.php?personID=I33507&tree=CC

• http://www.chuckspeed.com/balquhidder/history/Stewart_Clan_Magazine_%20References_to_Baldorran_Stewarts.htm