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| 901 | According to the Glassingall Court of Session Papers (1849-1856):, and the account of Mrs Stewart of Milton, John Stewart in Auchnahard had only one son who survived to adulthood, namely, Alastair Mor Stewart. Thus, this John died young and never married. | Stewart, John (I16940)
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| 902 | According to The Kenndy-Annat Tree, James Stewart of Innischaoraich married a daughter of Alexander Stewart, 3rd of Annat, but which daughter is not known. It could be one of the other two daughters already shown here or it could be another one whose identity is unknown. This marriage is supported by The Scottish Journal which also shows the two sons as shown here. However, according to Gordon MacGregor: James STEWART, 3rd of Incherich. (b. ca. 1635) married 25 JAN 1664 to Grizzel CAMPBELL, daughter of James Campbell, portioner of Duncrosk and had: 1. Duncan STEWART (b. ca. 1665); 2. Alexander STEWART; 3. Dugal STEWART. According to the Invernahyle genealogy in The Scottish Journal, James was succeeded in Innischaoraich by his uncle, Neil Stewart of Ledcharrie and Edarramhionoich. Although it appears this succession is correct, it is difficult to understand why all of James' brothers were passed over in the succession in preference of his uncle, unless Neil Stewart purchased Innischaoraich from James rather than inherited it. "James Stewart of Incherich, who, on 23 April 1702, had service as heir general to his father and grandfather,5 then on 2 May following, he had a precept of clare constat from John, Earl of Breadalbane, for infeftment in the 20 shilling lands of Incherich and half of Duncrosk as heir to his late grandfather, Dugall Stewart. He is said to have m. a daughter of Alexander Stewart of Annat and to have had two sons by her, Alexander and Neil, but both of them dying without issue, his estate passed to his uncle, Neil Stewart, as heir." (Gordon MacGregor, Red Book of Scotland) | Stewart, James 3rd of Innischaoraich (I16493)
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| 903 | According to the Kennedy-Annat Tree, Duncan Stewart, son of Alan Stewart of Innischaoraich, had a daughter who married a man named Glass from Stirling. | Stewart, Daughter (I15584)
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| 904 | According to The Kennedy-Annat Tree, James Stewart of Innischaoraich married a daughter of Alexander Stewart, 3rd of Annat, but which daughter is not known. It could be one of the other two daughters already shown here or it could be another one whose identity is unknown. (see note on husband for more information) | Stewart, Daughter (I15576)
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| 905 | According to the Kennedy-Annat Tree, Margaret Stewart was daughter of Allan Stewart of Innischaoraich who was in turn son of James Stewart of Innischaoraich. However, Stewarts of the South and the Invernahyle genealogy in The Scottish Journal both show that Allan Stewart, 2nd of Innischaoraich, was the son of Dugald Stewart, 1st of Innischaoraich, and the father of James Stewart, 3rd of Innischaoraich. Furthermore, according to the same source, Margaret married James Stewart predecessor of Drumvaich (of Annat). | Stewart, Margaret in Innishchaoraich (I17448)
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| 906 | According to the Ledcreich family history, Robert was cousin-german to Sir Robert Stewart of Weem. | Menzies, Robert (I23909)
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| 907 | According to the memoirs of Marjory/Margaret's brother, George, written in 1848, she never married and died "some years ago." | Stewart, Marjory (I17541)
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| 908 | According to The Scottish Journal, Alexander died unmarried. | Stewart, Alexander (I14910)
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| 909 | According to The Scottish Journal, Charles "purchased Bohalic in Athole, [and] left his estate to his dtr, having no male heirs." Gordon MacGregor shows Charles Stewart of Bohally as the son of John Stewart whereas The Scottish Journal shows Charles as a brother of John. Both accounts show Charles having a brother named Neil. MacGregor's account is a better chronological fit and is presently preferred. According to MacGregor, Charles served as an officer in the Atholl Brigade of the Jacobite army in 1745/46. He was wounded at Culloden and escaped. | Stewart, Charles of Bohally (I15538)
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| 910 | According to The Scottish Journal, Dugald "had an estate in Jamaica called Mountstewart. He sold it and divided it among his relations." | Stewart, Dugald (I15725)
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| 911 | According to The Scottish Journal, Neil died unmarried. | Stewart, Neil (I17833)
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| 912 | According to the Society of Genealogists in London (founded by a Sherwood) as referenced in a book ?BAILEY, T.: Records of Longevity (London, 1857)?, this James Sherwood was 105 years old at the time of his death. TO BE UPDATED It is possible (and perhaps even likely) that all of the children listed here did not have the same mother. It is strongly believed that James may have been married at least twice and possibly three times. However it appears that there was only one Sherwood family in Ingleby Greenhow, Yorkshire, so we are fairly confident that all these children are of the same father James. A later genealogy indicates that this family may have lived in Kingston Upon Hull, Yorkshire for some time. A double registration for the birth of the first child, Mary, indicates that the family may have come from Cleveland, Yorkshire before settling in Ingleby Greenhow. A possible match for the birth of James can be found in Middleton in 1704 (see notes on James' father for more information). | Sherwood, James (I14248)
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| 913 | According to The Stewarts of Ardvorlich Book 3, Catharine married Archibald Buchanan in Coilentowie, however this Catharine' has been confused with her aunt Catharine Stewart who married in 1802 to Archibald Buchanan in Coilentowie. | Stewart, Catherine (I15291)
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| 914 | According to The Stewarts of Ardvorlich, Vol. 3, p. 56, Alexander Stewart was a postman in Strathyre. | Stewart, Alexander (I25654)
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| 915 | According to The Stewarts of Ardvorlich, Vol. 3, p. 56, James Stewart was known as "Jimmy Laggan." 29 James STEWART, farmer (at) Laggan (in) Strathyre, died SEP 1852, wife Mary STEWART predeceased him, brother William STEWART (at) Ardoch Mill (in) Strathyre, died 23 APR 1860 (family: Christina 12 MAR 1881, Robert farmer (at) Laggan, died 24 NOV 1900 (his wife Janet STEWART 26 NOV 1880, son Peter farmer (at) Immervoulin, died 15 APR 1935), John farmer (at) Laggan, 29 MAR 1911 (his wife Helen MACKAY 25 JAN 1917, son James farmer (at) Laggan died 5 MAR 1935)). 32 (next to 31) John STEWART, died (at) Laggan (in) Strathyre 29 MAR 1911, wife Helen MCKAY, died there 25 JAN 1917, youngest son James died there 15 MAR 1935, youngest daughter Sarah 19 MAY 1967. Executors: Mary McLaren at Mullochard, Grantown on Spey, Scotland, and Sarah Stewart in Laggan. | Stewart, James "Jimmy Laggan" in Laggan (I16403)
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| 916 | According to The Stewarts of Ardvorlich, Vol. 3, p. 56, Robert Fisher lived at Edraleachdach and died unmarried. | Fisher, Robert Stewart in Edraleachdach (I25647)
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| 917 | According to the Taylor family tree, Mary Ann married Charles Baxter and lived to 1900. Mary is found as a widow in 1891 in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada, residing not far from her sister Sarah Bogart nee Taylor. No record of Charles Baxter has been found so it is presumed that he died prior to the commencement of civil death records in 1869. | Taylor, Mary Ann (I19137)
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| 918 | According to the Taylor family tree, Thomas never married. | Taylor, Thomas Trumpour (I19124)
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| 919 | According to the Walker Family History, Alexander Stewart in Carnlia married Janet Stewart "of Lochearnside whose mother was a McLaren". Two such Janet Stewarts have been identified so far: Janet Stewart bap 8 OCT 1769 in Glentarken, daughter of John Stewart and Margaret McLaren; and Janet Stewart bap 1 FEB 1767 in Ardveich, daughter of James Ross Stewart and Catherine McLaren. Ardveich and Glentarken can both be considered as "Lochearnside". As Alexander Stewart and Janet Stewart in Carnlia had no son named James then the present arrangement is preferred, but is NOT proven. | Stewart, Janet (I16687)
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| 920 | According to the Walker History he was born 7 JAN 1860 with no place given. However, his obit says that he was born at Cuilt. Census records show this family residing in 1871 in Auchtomore and in 1881 in Craggan, Strathyre. Alexander later moved to Falkirk where he worked on the railroad and later became a police officer. He was an award-winning Gaelic scholar and poet. He is believed to be the publisher of the Ben Ledi View newspaper in Callander. In 1861, Alexander was residing in Cuilt, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland as an infant with his parents. In 1871, Alexander was residing in Auchtow Mor, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland as an only child with his parents. In 1881, Alexander was residing in Craggan in Strathyre, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland with his parents. He was employed as a railway surfaceman. In 1891, Alexander was residing in Bridgehill Square, Muiravonside, Stirlingshire, Scotland with his wife. He was employed as a police officer. In 1901, Alexander was residing in Goshen, Larbert, Stirlingshire, Scotland with his wife, Elizabeth, and infant son, John. He was employed as a Sergeant of Police. He had descendants who later immigrated to Canada. | Stewart, Alexander (I14786)
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| 921 | According to The Walker History, Alexander was born at Carnlia about 1809 married Margaret DEWAR from Killin, she being born about 1820. This family can be found in 1861 and later census records, but Alexander has not been found in the 1841 or 1851 censuses. According to descendant Donald Walker, Alexander had only one child, Alexander, but he would have been 51 years old at the time which is awfully late to start a family. The following family is an excellent match to be a first family for Alexander, which could mean that Donald Walker's family record might be interpreted to mean that Alexander had only one child with Margaret Dewar. The following family's daughter, Mary, is found in 1851 residing with her McLaren grandmother in Kirkton. Alexander STEWART and Grizel/Grace MCLAREN in Woodend and Stronslany. Married 26 JAN 1833 in Balquhidder, both of Balquhidder parish. Janet STEWART, bap. 2 FEB 1834 in Woodend John STEWART, bap. 31 MAY 1835 in Woodend Duncan STEWART, bap. 9 SEP 1837 in Stronslany Margaret STEWART, b. 13 APR 1840, bap. 25 MAY 1840 in Stronslany (mother given as "Grace Mclaren") Christian STEWART, b. 9 SEP 1841, bap. 21 SEP 1841 in Stronslany (mother given as "Grace Mclaren") Mary STEWART, b. 21 DEC 1843, bap. 8 JAN 1844 in Stronslany (mother given as "Grace Mclaren") Grace STEWART, b. 1 AUG 1846, bap. 18 SEP 1846 in Stronslany (mother given as "Grace Mclaren") Elisabeth STEWART, bap. 4 JAN 1849 in Stronslany (twin) Anne STEWART, bap. 4 JAN 1849 in Stronslany (twin) Woodend may be synonymous with Woodside of Lochearnhead which was the residence of Alexander's grandmother, Isabel McGregor. The Kirkton family was residing next door to Jean Stewart in Kirkton of the Ardveich family. | Stewart, Alexander (I14796)
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| 922 | According to the will of Margaret's brother, James, Margaret resided in Callander and had a son named Walter. Margaret is believed to be found in 1861 residing at 20 Main Street (Star Hotel) in Callander, shown as born 1801 in Callander, employed as a laundress, and residing with a 17 year old son given as William. It is presumed that his name is either an enumerator's error or a transcription error as the will is to be preferred. A caution must be noted in that the Callander OPR shows a William Stewart b 17 MAY 1844 in Callander town, son of John Stewart and Margaret MacIntyre. However, there is no other Margaret Stewart residing in Callander in 1861 who is close to the same age, and we know that Margaret resided in Callander in 1870. No match has been found for Margaret in Callander in the 1871 census. | Stewart, Margaret (I17497)
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| 923 | According to They Came to East Flamborough, "Alexander's sister, Ann (1802-1885) married an ancestor of the Organs of Concession 6, East Flamborough. Alexander had a niece, Agnes (1830-1915) who married Peter Davidson of Freelton." Ann's death is witnessed by Thomas Organ, farmer, East Flamboro. Ann's religion is given as Roman Catholic. Her birth is given as 1802, Perthshire, Scotland. The Thomas Organ who witnessed Ann's death is the same person as "the Organ's of Concession 6". Thomas Organ's wife was Margaret Stewart whose parents are given only as "Stewart and Stewart". Peter Davidson's wife can be identified as Agnes Stewart. From these two accounts we can conclude that Ann Stewart's husband was also a Stewart. Unfortunately 1851 census records for East Flamborough are non-existent; only the farm census survives listing only heads of household without ages. The 1881 census shows only one Roman Catholic couple living in Flamborough who are the right age, named Donald and Ann Stuart. Also the Organ's eldest two children were Donald Stewart Organ and Annie Organ. This would seem support the suggestion that Ann Stewart married Donald Stewart and had children as shown here. | Stewart, Ann (I15159)
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| 924 | According to Tony Prangley, a descendant and researcher who now lives in Wales: "The story has it that Charles left Corsley in 1830 as a fifteen year old and settled in Euphemia township after being one of many men sent to Canada at the expense of the Corsley parish due the poverty that existed in the labouring communities at that time. He sailed from Newport South Wales (approximately 20 miles from where we live) in 1830 and arrived in Quebec some three months later. His father followed with the family. Hardship, tenacity and a loving family are words that spring to mind." Charles did not stay in Euphemia Township, but ended up just a few miles to the west in Kent County, where Charles married Alice Ann Taylor and went into business with her father. Charles Prangley ran his father-in-law, William Taylor's, mill. Since William Taylor owned three mills, it is unclear which one(s) of them Charles ran. On the death of his father-in-law, William's son Thomas inherited William's share in the family businesses. Thomas sold his share of the one mill to Charles who then became the sole owner and proprietor. As Dresden history recounts the name of the mill as the Prangley Mill, not the Taylor Mill, it is believed that Charles Prangley must have had a substantial impact on the Dawn Mills community. Since the Taylor descendants left Dawn Mills for Chatham, which ultimately led to the economic demise of the village, while Charles Prangley, on the other hand, remained in Dawn Mills, this could explain the village's affection for him. The Prangley mill no longer exists except for the remains of its foundation. The overgrown remains can still be seen just west of the Dawn Mills bridge and just east of the road which bears Charle's name, Prangley Road. | Prangley, Charles (I12496)
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| 925 | According to Welsh legend, the Emperor Magnus Maximus, known as Macsen Wledig (the Imperator), was a widowed senator living in Rome. Being a minor member of the Constantinian Imperial family, he felt it unjust that the Empire was ruled by the Emperors, Gratian & Valentinian, but there was little he could do about it. In about 365, Maximus was out hunting one day when he rested beneath a tree and fell asleep. He had a long dream about a palace far away. He entered the palace and encountered an ageing King and two young men playing chess. Turning, his eyes met the most beautiful woman he could ever have imagined, sitting on a golden throne. On waking, Maximus immediately sought out a local oracle who urged him to search out this beautiful maiden. So messengers were sent out across the Empire but, dispite exhaustive searches, all returned empty handed. There was no sign of Maximus' beauty. Meanwhile, at the edge of the Empire, High-King Eudaf Hen of Britain was getting very old. He decided it was time to appoint his official heir to the British Kingdom. His nephew, Cynan Meriadog, was perhaps the most obvious choice, though the King's direct heir was his only daughter, Elen. Eudaf's chief advisor, Caradog, the King of Dumnonia, advocated strengthening Roman links by marrying Elen to a man with Imperial connections. The two could then inherit the Kingdom together. He knew of such a steady young man in Rome who would make an ideal husband. Eudaf was intrigued. So had Caradog send his son, Meurig, to seek this Roman out. Meurig arrived in Rome at the house of Magnus Maximus, just as he had received the unfortunate news that his dream girl could not be found. Glad of the distraction and persuaded by Meurig's suggestion that he might find support in Britain for his Imperial claims, Maximus gladly agreed to return with him. Comes Theodosius' historical expedition to Britain in order to quell barbarian risings actually brought Magnus Maximus to these shores in 368. Legend tells how the arrival on the island of a large army of men caused quite a stir and, not realising who it was, Eudaf sent Cynan with an army to disperse them. Fortunately, Meurig persuaded all of their good intentions and Maximus was able to ride off to Eudaf's court at Carnarfon (Caer-yn-Arfon alias Caer-Segeint). Upon being introduced to everyone, Maximus was astounded to find that Eudaf was the old man in his dream and Cynan, one of the chess-players (some say the other was his son, Cadfan). He was then overjoyed to find that Eudaf's daughter, Elen, was his dream-girl. The two fell in love immediately and were married with great pomp and ceremony. Eudaf died soon afterward, and Maximus and Elen inherited his Kingdom. Cynan was extremely annoyed and rode north to gather an army of Picts & Scots to overthrow them. However, Maximus defeated him and, being magnanimous in victory, the two made peace. Cynan became Maximus' dearest friend and also his magister militum. At this point, we return to more historic details. News reached Britain that Maximus' relative, Theodosius had been elevated to the Eastern Imperial throne. Incensed, Maximus invaded the Western Empire, in 383, along with his son Victorius and Prince Cynan. They withdrew troops from Carnarfon (Caer-Segeint) & elsewhere in Britain and his men quickly proclaimed Maximus as Emperor. His armies marched across the continent, establishing his rule as they went. Cynan eventually killed the Western Emperor, Gratian, in battle (being given Brittany as a reward), and Maximus became sole ruler of the West. Maximus set up his capital at Trier and ruled well over Britain, Gaul & Spain for four years. He was baptised a Christian, and was recognised as Emperor by Theodosius who was occupied with his own troubles elsewhere. Eventually however, Maximus was forced to make a move against Gratian's younger brother, Valentinian, the Southern Emperor, who threatened his rule from Rome. He invaded Italy, took Milan and for a whole year besieged Rome, before Cynan arrived once more and finished the job. Unfortunately though, Valentinian escaped. He soon returned, backed up by the Roman Emperor of the East, Theodsoius. Maximus' forces were twice defeated at Illyricum, before he was finally killed, with his son, at Aquileia. | Wledig, Macsen (I20263)
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| 926 | According to Wikipedia and Calvert family records, Charles was born about 1847 and died in infancy. | Steuart, Charles (I22361)
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| 927 | According to Wikipedia: "William Pynchon Stewart Ventress (May 28, 1854 - November 22, 1911) was a Democratic member of the Mississippi state legislature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Early life William Pynchon Stewart Ventress was born on May 28, 1854, in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. He was the son of James Alexander Ventress, who was the Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1841 to 1842, and his wife, Charlotte (Pynchon) Ventress. He received his early education from private tutors. He attended the University of Virginia for one session before attending the University of Mississippi, from which he graduated in 1873 with a Bachelor of Laws degree. He then practiced law in Woodville, Mississippi. Political career In 1891, Ventress was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, where he represented Wilkinson County as a Democrat from 1892 to 1900. He was then elected to the Mississippi Senate, where he represented the state's 7th district, which was composed of Amite and Wilkinson counties, in the 1900 session. Before the 1902 session, Mississippi's governor, Andrew H. Longino, appointed Ventress as the chancellor of the fourth Chancery district, a position from which he retired in 1906. Later life After retiring, Ventress continued practicing law. He was then a member of the board of trustees of the Edward McGehee College.[2] He died in his home in Woodville, Mississippi, on November 22, 1911. Personal life Ventress was a Methodist. He married Willie Galloway, daughter of Methodist bishop Charles Galloway, in 1893. They had three children, Harriet, Charles, and Margaret. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._P._S._Ventress) | Ventress, Judge William Pynchon Stewart (I23814)
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| 928 | According to Wikipedia: "James Alexander Ventress (1805-1867) was a lawyer, inventor, plantation owner, and state legislator in Mississippi. He served five terms in the state house and then two in the state senate. "He was born in Tennessee and moved to Mississippi with his family as a child. He studied at a school in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, an academy in New Orleans, and then in Europe for several years. He pursued scientific research, was an avid reader and book collector, and an inventor.[2] He served in the Mississippi Senate and Mississippi House of Representatives, including as its speaker. "He married Charlotte Davis Pyncheon. They had several children, some died young.[3] W. P. S. Ventress, his son, followed him into state politics." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Alexander_Ventress) James Alexander Ventress was one of the founders of the Univeristy of Mississippi. Ventress Hall on the campus is named after him. ------------------------- A genealogist’s discovery: ‘Ventress owned my family’ (Blake Alsup, The Daily Mississippian, Posted on Oct 11 2018.) https://thedmarchives.com/ventress-hall-nicka-smith/ James Alexander Ventress, the namesake of Ventress Hall on the University of Mississippi’s campus, authored the bill to establish the university in 1840. He was also a slave owner. Nicka Sewell-Smith, a genealogist from Bolivar, Tennessee, is the great-great-granddaughter of Easter Parker, a slave owned by Ventress. She first notified The Daily Mississippian of this connection in a tweet. “While you’re at it, call for renaming Ventress Hall,” Smith tweeted in response to a story about the university cutting ties with donor Ed Meek. “It’s named after a slaveholder who owned my family.” Smith, a professional genealogist for over 20 years, discovered her relation to Parker around a year ago while researching her family tree. After taking a DNA test and attempting to find out how she and her cousins are related, she found that there were three clusters of relatives in different areas of the South. One in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, one in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, and one in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. She questioned what connected those family members. “I figured it had to do with slavery,” Smith said. She discovered there was a population of over 250 interrelated slaves owned by Ventress and his family. Charlotte Pynchon Ventress, James Ventress’s wife, had an uncle, James Lawrence Trask, who died in Woodville in 1855. At the time of his death, he left a plantation he owned to Charlotte and split another plantation between Charlotte and her first cousin, Augustus Trask Welch. Welch lived in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, which is how Smith’s family ended up there. Charlotte took the slaves she inherited to Pointe Coupee Parish. “Some of the earliest folks that were in that group were born in the late 1700s, and some of them were born in Africa,” Smith said, adding that that fact is remarkable given the short life expectancy for enslaved people at the time. Ventress and his wife’s family originated in Massachusetts but moved south to operate plantations with slave labor. Even family members that remained in the North made money from slavery in the South by financing loans to their family. Because of those financial documents the Ventress family kept, the history is easy to reconstruct, Smith said. Nicka Sewell-Smith stands in front of a photograph of her grandfather. She recently learned that her great-great-grandmother was once enslaved by James Alexander Ventress. Photo by Devna Bose “I started finding (the slaves) documented more than 30 times, which is very rare when you’re talking about researching slavery,” Smith said. “It’s because (the Ventress family) borrowed so much money against them to finance operations. The folks in the North would charge 9 percent interest, you know, so they would make above and beyond what they had doled out to the folks that were operating down in Mississippi.” When Smith’s great-great-grandmother Parker was born in 1856, she was shared property between the two families, because the Trask’s estate was divided between Augustus Welch and Charlotte Ventress in 1855. In 1856, Augustus Welch transferred ownership of Parker, an infant at the time, to Charlotte Ventress, making Parker as much James Ventress’ property as his wife’s. “Some of these people were like 90 years old when they saw freedom,” Smith said. “They literally survived the transatlantic slave trade, which was horrible. They made it to the United States, and then they ended up in this one plantation, and they survived through slavery and basically outlived their owners.” Parker was born a slave in 1856 and died free in California in 1946, where she spent the last seven years of her life. Although she’s been researching for months, Smith said her work is not done. Most of her research so far has been conducted through Ancestry.com, FamilySearch and a visit to Jackson to search through the Mississippi State Archives. Smith said she eventually plans to visit the three areas where Ventress’ slaves lived. Similar work has been done over the past few years on the Ole Miss campus. In March 2018, the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on History and Context (CACHC), unveiled six contextualization plaques on campus highlighting the accomplishments and transgressions of the namesakes of Longstreet Hall, George Hall, Lamar Hall and Barnard Observatory. As of the submission of its report to create the plaques, the CACHC is no longer a “standing committee,” according to Jeffrey Jackson, a sociology professor and previous member of the CACHC. The final two plaques are for the Tiffany stained-glass window in Ventress Hall commemorating the “University Greys,” a company of students who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War, and a plaque between Ventress and Croft Hall on the Circle to commemorate all of the university’s enslaved laborers. There is no plaque for Ventress Hall itself to acknowledge James Ventress’ lifetime of contributions to the state and university, or negative aspects of his personal life, as there are for other men whose names were attached to buildings many years before the current student body arrived on campus. “The committee was responding to community input, and the buildings selected were the ones that community members indicated most often as being in need of contextualization,” Jackson said. “The stained-glass window in Ventress Hall was identified as a potential site in need of contextualization, but not the building itself.” Jackson said there are no plans to rename Ventress Hall, and there are currently no additional plaques in the works. He said many slaveholders had a hand in establishing and developing the university and that being a slaveholder was “never the threshold for contextualization.” “We were interested in what made people exceptional in their own time, not what makes them exceptional today,” Jackson said. “We cannot - no one can - contextualize all slaveholders.” Jackson said the plaques were created for buildings like Lamar, George and Longstreet Halls because of “exceptional contributions” made by their namesakes, not the fact that their namesakes owned slaves. The one thing Smith asks is that the topic of slavery be addressed with nuance. “It’s either people - which rightfully so - who are really angry about it because it seems very inhumane or people sanitize it to where it makes them feel better about what happened,” Smith said. “There are very few times when people actually walk between those things.” Smith said she knows that having Ventress Hall renamed is a near impossibility because he’s essentially “the father of Ole Miss,” making him the one person who is least likely to have his name removed. “To me, that’s understandable because apart from him, you know, his business dealings and what he did outside of his role as a legislator - there would not be this college without that,” Smith said. “But at the same time, if we’re weighing things equally, if we’re looking at both sides of this, would he have risen to prominence without that? Would he have had the role that he did in his community and in the state had he not amassed the amount of wealth and influence as a result of being a planter?” She compared ignoring the building’s history to someone leaving out the place they grew up or the name of the college they graduated from in a job interview. Smith was born and raised in Los Angeles County, California, but spent most of her childhood in Moreno Valley and Riverside. She earned a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from Menlo College in California. Smith now lives in west Tennessee, which is where her husband is from. She said her background in journalism and natural inquisitiveness gave her the tools to be successful as a genealogist while painting a full picture with the history she retells. “Who wants a peacock with no feathers, right?” Smith said. “You want it where it’s going to, you know, display itself and (where) you’re going to see so many different facets.” Smith said the Ventresses spoke more about their slaves than their family members in correspondence. “You know, there has to be a level of humanity about that because, otherwise, why would you talk about your car?” Smith said. Addressing the history is not a matter of tarnishing the Ventress legacy, Smith said. “They may be beholden to them, and that’s painful, especially if they had this idea of who they are in their head and this challenges that narrative,” Smith said. She said people often choose to ignore history that conflicts with what they previously believed, and she compared it to people who grew up watching The Cosby Show having to come to grips with Bill Cosby’s sexual assault convictions. “We owe it to everybody to give dignity to these people, and I really, truly, honestly feel blessed to have found this out because … for the average person of African descent living in the United States that descended from slaves, most people can’t trace past their great-great grandparents,” Smith said. Smith said that if all she’s meant to do on Earth is give information to people about ancestors they never even thought they would know the names of, then she’s satisfied with that. “They’ll go in there and tell you about the marble and where the marble came from,” Smith said, referencing tours of historic buildings. “My question is, ‘Who was shining it?’” | Ventress, James Alexander of La Grange (Planter) (I19663)
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| 929 | Acharn is located in Killin parish on the south bank of the River Dochart at the north mouth of Glen Ogle (the main route between Killin and Balquhidder.) Alexander MacNab of MacNab (11th Chief) 1. Patrick Dow Mor MacNab 1st of Acharn, succeeded to Acharn surrendered from the earlier Acharn family 1. Gilbert MacNab 2nd of Acharn, succeeded in 1605 1. Archibald MacNab 3rd of Acharn (a1649), m Dtr of Graham of Duchray, Rednock and Blairnack 1. John MacNab 4th of Acharn (ineft 1655) 1. Patrick MacNab 5th of Acharn (infeft 1731) (family disappears after 1731) 2. John MacNab in Acharn 3. Donald MacNab, 1st of Braeleny, ancestor of French MacNabs 4. Duncan MacNab, m Mary Campbell of Drumsynie 2. Duncan MacNab 2. James MacNab, ancestor of Newton MacNabs, m Helen MacNab of Innishewan 1. John MacNab 1. three sons and two daughters 3. Duncan Dow MacNab in Strathgartney, m Campbell of Linia 1. James MacNab 2. John MacNab Source: Clans of the Brea d’Alban - A collection of Scottish Histories: Macnab, Dewar, Macnish and Associated Families, Compiled and edited by David Rorer (former Historian for the Clan MacNab Society in America), 2012. The Acharn Branch On 28 July 1553 Donald Macnab, son of Archibald Macnab in Acharn, was in possession of Acharn. On 18 April 1568 John Bane McGillespie Macnab married Isobel MacFarlane, ‘mayer’ of Patrick Dow Mor; and on 12 November 1573 John Bane was sued by Finlay (10th Chief) and on 12 October 1574 by Finlay’s brother and successor, Alexander Macnab of Macnab (11th Chief) for the rents of Sleoch and Acharn. Alexander’s younger son, Patrick Dow More, then succeeded to the two-merk land of Acharn and the twenty-shilling land of Sleicht (Sleoh), of which John Bane McGillespie had received a tack on 18 April 1568. This had been surrendered to Patrick and on 15 April 1605 Gilbert succeeded his father in this tack. The eldest of Gilbert’s three sons, Archibald, is shown in the Perthshire Rent-roll of 1649 as being assessed to £45 for Acharn. He married a daughter of Graham of Duchray Castle and Rednock and Blairinack. Archibald had two sons, John and Duncan. John was infeft on 6 October 1655 in the two-merk land97 of Achaharne on a charter dated 4 October 1655 from Finlay Macnab of Bovaine (12th Chief). The Acharn Bowl of 1672 in the Museum of Antiquities, Queen Street, Edinburgh, dates from this time. Failing John, the grant by Alexander Macnab of Bovain (13th Chief) was to John’s half brother Duncan, by his father’s second marriage. The boys must have been very young at the time. It was not until 13 July 1731 that Patrick, John’s son, was granted a Precept of Clare Constal by John Macnab of Bovain, (15th Chief). On 15th February 1731 Patrick was prosecuted for a clandestine marriage performed by Mr. Alexander Comrie, the deposed minister of Kenmore. There is no further trace of this family. Gilbert’s second son James was the ancestor of the Macnabs of Newton. His third son Duncan Dow, on 25 February 1619, received certain lands in the lordship of Stragartney from Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy, through Finlay Macnab of Bovain as attorney to Sir Duncan. Duncan Dow married a daughter of Campbell of Linia and had two sons, James and John. James married his cousin Helen Macnab of Innishewan. His son John had three sons, the eldest of whom married a Miss Macdonald of Glenaladale. This son (Alexander) died young. James also had two daughters, Margaret and Catherine, one of whom married John Macdonald of Bunadap and had four sons and three daughters. John’s second son Donald was the ancestor of the French Branch. His third son Duncan married Mary, daughter of Campbell of Drumsynie, and Mry, sister of the first Earl of Breadalbane. Duncan’s daughter was alive in 1787. Patrick, who was granted the Precept in 1731 may have had a brother John in Acharn who married Anne Campbell of Tuerachan and Innisdamsh. She was baptized in 1692. They had six sons and two daughters; both daughters died unmarried. Of the sons, Duncan (baptized 1728) married Janet McNaughton of Glendochart and had four sons, John, Robert, Alexander and Peter, and two daughters, of whom one died young and the other married a McCallum in Kintyre. The second son James died unmarried. John, the third son, married a daughter of James Walker in Acharn and had three sons, Alexander, Patrick (deceased) and Robert (unmarried in 1803). The fourth Alexander (baptized 1731). Who was alive in 1805, baillie of Inverneill and Ross, married Christian, daughter of Nicol McNicol in Killin. They had a son, Major Robert of the 91st Regiment 1772-1833. The fifth, Patrick, was unmarried. The sixth, Robert (baptized 1737 was Collector in Argyll. | MacNab, John 4th of Acharn (I21240)
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| 930 | Ada is recorded as a niece of King Malcom IV, but it is not known by which branch she was his niece. | Scotland, Ada of (I13982)
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| 931 | Ada is recorded as Widow Stewart at the time of her marriage to Edwin. No record of her first marriage has been found. Her first husband is unknown. Ada died of Tuberculosis. | Jeffries, Ada Almeda (I8297)
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| 932 | Ada is styled as the daughter of Muriel of Strathearn and grand-daughter of Malise, Seneschal of Strathearn. The relationships shown here match that information but it is not known for certain if this is her correct parental line. | Strathearn, Ada of (I18584)
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| 933 | Adelaide came with her youngest brother who was an infant, we believe, to be with relatives already in Quebec after the death of her father as her mother was remarrying and the children were not part of the new arrangement. My grandmother married in 1906 in Toronto to my grandfather Edward Browning and they had two children. They lived in Cobalt during the silver/gold boom and worked on the local paper the Silver Nugget with Harry Strand Browning. After the fire destroyed Cobalt they returned to Toronto were my grandfather worked on a Catholic paper as a lineatype operator. -- Descendant Nancy Dixon, Hamilton, Ont. | Prangley, Adelaide Sarah (I12406)
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| 934 | Adelaide changed her name to Matilda upon her first marriage to Henry V, Emperor of Germany. She later married Geoffrey Plantagenet. | England, Adelaide of (I5672)
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| 935 | adopted | Reid, Helen (I13296)
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| 936 | adopted | Case, Carrie A. (I20791)
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| 937 | After Annie's father's death, Annie moved from Jamaica to England along with her widowed mother and other siblings, save for her oldest brother. She is erroneously recorded in "The Cuthberts of Castlehill" as having married her cousin George Cuthbert from South Carolina, USA, son of Gen. John A. Cuthbert and Mary Dupré Heyward. This is contradicted by English census and death records which show her as an elderly spinster residing in Clifton, Gloucestershire, England until 1855. She resided with her sister Elizabeth and both are recorded as "fund holders". | Cuthbert, Ann Murray (I3272)
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| 938 | After Elizabeth's father's death, Elizabeth moved from Jamaica to England along with her widowed mother and other siblings, save for her oldest brother. Census and death records show her as an elderly spinster and "fund holder" residing in Clifton, Gloucestershire, England with her spinster sister, Ann. | Cuthbert, Elizabeth Pinnock (I3471)
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| 939 | After her brother sold the estate of Annat, Francis and her sister Margaret resided in Stirling on a pension from their cousin, Lt. Gen. Robert Stuart of Rait. | Stewart, Francis (I16185)
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| 940 | After the death of her first husband, James Stewart, she married his brother, Samuel Stewart. | Atchinson, Alice (I24388)
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| 941 | After the death of her husband, Margaret moved to Florida in 1978, then to Wyoming in 1982 to live with her son, Mickey and his family, and then finally returning to Michigan. | Furler, Margaret Emeline (I6439)
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| 942 | After the death of his father, Arthur went to live with his cousin, Dr. James Lloyd Brown, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. It is not known what became of his mother. | Brown, Arthur Huntingdon (I21881)
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| 943 | After the death of his first wife in 1903, James married to Mary Jane Middleton. There are too many potential matching death records for various persons named James Bleasdale to confidently identify this James' date of death. | Bleasdale, James (I23392)
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| 944 | After the Jacobite Uprising in 1745 he fled to Drumcairn for his safety, where his descendants continued in the alias of "Comrie". (MacGregor - Landed Families of Strathearn) | Comrie, John (I2894)
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| 945 | Age at death given as 17. Should be 7. | Prangley, Sarah Matilda (I13127)
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| 946 | Age at death recorded as 43. It appears that she probably died in childbirth. | Harris, Adelaide (I7578)
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| 947 | Age at death: 62 (Walsh) | Thompson, Margaret (I19219)
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| 948 | Age given at death is 4 years old. Presumably she was baptized late. | Prangley, Hester (I12800)
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| 949 | Age: 0 | Angus, Mary Magdalen (I356)
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| 950 | Age: 0 | Angus, John (I370)
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