'Stewart28'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Stewart of Blantyre, Stewart of Physgill
[The lower section on the Lords Blantyre was extracted from Stewart05 and moved here on 01.09.05.]

                               
John Stewart (d 10.08.1592, 'parson of Kirkmahoe')
m. Margaret Stewart (d 1622, dau of Walter Stewart of Barclye)
1. Alexander Stewart of Physgill (b c1580, d 13/4.12.1645)
  m. Sarah Dunbar (dau of John Dunbar of Minniwick of Enterkine family)
  A. Alexander Stewart of Physgill (d 1653)
  m1. (before 1636) Agnes Houston (dau of Anthony Houston of Drummaston)
  i.+ issue - Alexander (dvpsp), James
  m2. (before 03.1646) Elizabeth Wardlaw (dau of Sir Henry Wardlaw, 1st Bart of Balmule and Pitreavie)
iii. John Stewart of Physgill (d 1719)
  m. (1668) Agnes Stewart (dau of Thomas Stewart of Glenturk, Provost of Wigtown, by Agnes Dunbar)
  a. Robert Stewart (dvp 1715, 4th son)
  m. (1714) Frances Baillie
  (1) Agnes Stewart, later of Physgill (b 1715, d 1757/23.12.1786)
  m. (1740) John Hathorn of Airies (b 08.08.1702)
Their eldest son inherited Physgill and took the name Stewart.
  b. William Stewart of Physgill (dsp 06.11.1727)
  c. Agnes Stewart of Physgill (d 1732)
  d. Elizabeth Stewart (dvp)
  m. (1702) Patrick Coltrane of Drummoral
  (1) John Coltrane, later Stewart 'of Physgill' (d Prestonpans 22.09.1745)
  (A) Margaret Stewart
  m. Gilbert Gordon of Halleaths (b 1722, d 1789)
(B)+ other issue
  e.+ other issue - Alexander (d young), David in Edinburgh (dvpsp), Thomas (d young), James (dsp before 1727)
  iv. William Stewart of London had issue
  m. (06.04.1686) Mary Luke (grand-dau of Sir Samuel Luke, Bart)
  v.+ other issue - Robert, Thomas
  B. William Stewart (3rd son) ancestor of Stewart of Stewartfield
  m. Margaret Agnew (dau of Patrick Agnew of Wigg)
  C. James Stewart (6th son) had issue
  m. Jean Galloway (dau of Rev. George Galloway)
  D. Anthony Stewart of Balsmith
  m. Isobel Murray (dau of John Murray of Broughton)
  E.+ other issue - John in Larg (had issue), Francis, Ludovic (d 1654), Lawrence in Edinburgh
2. Margaret Stewart
  m. Anthony Dunbar of Machermore
3.+ other issue - John of Ballymoran, Janet

 

 

Walter Stewart, 1st Lord Blantyre (d 08.03.1617)
m. Nicolas Somerville (dau of John Somerville of Cambusnethan)
1. Sir James Stewart (dsp 08.11.1609)
  m. Dorothy Hastings (b 15.01.1579, dau of George, 4th Earl of Huntingdon)
2. William Stewart, 2nd Lord Blantyre (d 29.11.1638)
  m. (before 12.08.1615) Helen Scot (dau of Sir William Scot of Ardross by Jean Skene)
  A. Walter Stewart, 3rd Lord Blantyre (dsp 10.1641)
  m. Mary (probably not Margaret) Mure (dau of Sir William Mure of Rowallan)
B. Alexander Stewart, 4th Lord Blantyre (d by 1689)
  m. Margaret Shaw (dau of John Shaw of Greenock)
  i. Alexander Stewart, 5th Lord Blantyre (d 20.06.1704)
  m1. Margaret Henderson (dsp, dau of Sir John Henderson, Bart of Fordell)
  m2. (by 1683) Anne Hamilton (d c31.12.1722, dau of Sir Robert Hamilton of Presmennan)
  a. Walter Stewart, 6th Lord Blantyre (b 01.02.1683, d unm 14.06.1713)
  b. Robert Stewart, 7th Lord Blantyre (d 17.11.1743)
  m1. (1714) Helen Lyon (d 19.12.1723, dau of John Lyon, 4th Earl of Strathmore)
  (1) Alexander Stewart (d young)
  m2. Margaret Hay (b c1697, d 13.12.1782, dau of William Hay of Drummelzier)
(2) Walter Stewart, 8th Lord Blantyre (b c1727, d unm 21.05.1751)
  (3) William Stewart, 9th Lord Blantyre (d unm 16.01.1776)
  (4) Alexander Stewart, 10th Lord Blantyre (d 05.11.1783)
  m. (23.07.1773) Catherine Lindsay (d 29.12.1822, dau of Patrick Lindsay of Eaglescairnie by Margaret Haliburton)
  (A) Robert Walter Stewart, 11th Lord Blantyre (b 26.12.1775, d 22.09.1830, Lt. General) had issue
  m. (20.02.1813) Fanny Mary Rodney (b 17.04.1791, d 19.11.1875, dau of Hon. John Rodney)
(B) Sir Patrick Stewart of Eaglescairnie (b 10.06.1777, d 07.02.1855, Colonel) had issue
  m. (20.07.1810) Catherine Henrietta Rodney (dau of Hon. John Rodney)
  (C) Margaret Stewart (b 16.08.1774, d 20.10.1839)
  m. (05.10.1839) Andrew Stewart (b c1771, d 26.12.1838, minister of Bolton then Erskine)
  (D)+ other issue - William (b 29.08.1778, d 15.02.1837, Lt. General), Charles (b 25.10.1780, d 02.12.1858)
  (5) Helen Stewart
  m. (01.04.1755) Oliver Colt of Auldhame (d 1778)
(6) Elizabeth Stewart (d 27.04.1772)
  m. (15.04.1760) William Colquhoun of Garscadden (dsp 01.1784, Captain)
  (7)+ other issue - John (d unm), James (d North Carolina 15.03.1781), Charles, Margaret (d unm 04.06.1794), Marion (d unm 27.11.1780)
  c. Marion Stewart (d 20.03.1770)
  m. (24.02.1704) James Stirling, 10th of Keir, 7th of Cadder (d 1749)
  d. Frances Stewart (dsp)
  m. (02.03.1707) Sir James Hamilton, Bart of Rosehall (bpt 24.11.1682, dsp 01.03.1750)
  e. Helen Stewart
  m. (c1715) John Gray, 10th Lord (bpt 15.01.1683, d 15.12.1738)
f. Anne Stewart (d 03.1743)
  m. Alexander Hay of Drumelzier and Whittinghame (b 1701, d 13.03.1789)
  g.+ other issue - John (d 16.02.1740), James, Hugh (d 07.02.1769)
  ii. Helen Stewart (d 1735)
  m. (mcrt 06.06.1672) James Muirhead of Bredisholme
  C. Helen Stewart
  m. Thomas Hamilton of Parkley
  D. Jean Stewart (bpt 16.01.1620)
  m. (1638) _ Lindsay (son of Patrick, Archbishop of Glasgow)
E. Margaret Stewart (d 1662)
  m. (mcrt 12.1644/01.1645) John Swinton of Swinton (d 1679)
  F.+ other issue - William (bpt 10.08.1626, d young ?), James (bpt 28.10.1627, d infant), Mary (d unm by 03.1648)
3. Walter Stewart
  A. Frances Teresa Stewart (d 15.10.1702)
  m. (03.1666-7) Charles Stuart, 6th Duke of Lennox (b 07.03.1639, dsp 12.12.1672)
  B. Sophia Stewart
  m. Henry Bulkeley
4. Anna Stewart
  m. (mcrt 30.12.1608) John Abernethy, 8th Lord Saltoun (d 1612)
  p. James, Marquess of Hamilton
5.+ other issue - John, Jean

Main source(s):
(1) For upper section : BLG1952 (Johnston Stewart of Physgill), BP1934 (MacTaggart-Stewart)
(2) For lower section : TSP (Stewart of Blantyre)
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