Capt. Archibald Stewart, in Annat

Abt 1647 - 1732  (~ 85 years)

• Name	Archibald Stewart  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Title	Capt.
  Suffix	in Annat
  Born	Abt 3 Jan 1647	Annat, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland   [1, 2, 7]
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	3 Jan 1647	Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland
  FSID	LY1F-PH3
  Died	10 Jul 1732	Annat, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland   [1, 2, 7]
  Person ID	I15316	Brown Genealogy
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	John Oig mac Gillespic Stewart, in Lanrick,   b. Abt 1620, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. 1662, Lanrick, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland  (Age ~ 42 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Janet Graham,   b. 1606,   d. UNKNOWN
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F6600	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Helen Law,   b. 1648, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. 1723, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland  (Age 75 years)
  Married	1679	Scotland   [1, 2]
  Children	1. John Stewart, 1st of Ballacuaich and Lendrick,   b. Abt 3 Nov 1680, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. 1740, Lendrick, Callander, Perthshire, Scotland  (Age ~ 59 years)  [natural]   2. Alexander Stewart, 1st of Glassingall,   b. Abt 17 May 1685, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. 22 Jul 1742, Glassingall, Dunblane, Perthshire, Scotland  (Age ~ 57 years)  [natural]   3. Mungo Stewart,   b. Abt 17 Mar 1689, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. UNKNOWN  [natural]   4. Archibald Stewart,   b. 3 Jul 1695, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. 1770, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland  (Age 74 years)  [natural]   5. Robert Stewart, in Annat,   b. 21 Jan 1696, Annat, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. 1776, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland  (Age 79 years)  [natural]   6. Donald Stewart,   b. Abt 3 Jul 1700, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. UNKNOWN  [natural]
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2024
  Family ID	F4103	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Captain Archibald Stewart resided in a house on the Annat property. He was a second cousin of the contemporary laird of Annat, Alexander Stewart, 4th of Annat. He is frequently recorded in online genealogies incorrectly as "Archibald Stewart of Annat." Archibald's mother's name is not given in the OPR. Archibald was a farmer in Annat. Archibald is listed in Mitchell's Monumental Inscriptions for Kilmadock cemetery: 283b 1732. Archibald STEWART, tenant in Annat, died 10 JUL 173[5], age 75, wife Helen LAW, also interred here, son Robert tenant in Annat, died 1776 age 70 (his wife Agnes Galbraith died same year and month aged [61 or 64], daughter Margaret 16 DEC 1822, age 71 (and her husband, Duncan FERGUSON, feuar (at) Doune). (Mitchell notes: see Kilmadock OPR - they also had a son, Archibald, bap 1747). Duncan FERGUSON, 1 JAN 1798, age 66, interred (at) Callander, their son Alexander merchant (in) Lancaster, died there 5 JAN 1815, age 56, Archibald, born JUN 1784, died age 18 months, Duncan born NOV 1786, died 1789, William merchant (in) Lancaster, died there 22 SEP 1819, age 30. (on pedestal) AS HL. Archibald is mentioned repeatedly throughout the Glassingall Court of Session Papers (1849-1856) and is the progenitor of every family tree submitted in evidence. In nearly every instance he is incorrectly referred to as having been the laird of Annat in his time and the debate centres around whether his son John was lawful or natural. However, there is no indication in any other sources that Archibald was laird of Annat, but rather, merely a senior tenant in Annat. As the estate of Annat was in flux during this period, it's possible there's more to this than we currently know. Robert Stewart of Ardvorlich submitted the following testimony to the Glassingall dispute: "Declares that he has often heard it stated both by his father and by other parties members of the Annat family, that the Stewarts of Glassingall were illegitimately descended from the Stewarts of Annat and he believes their descent arose from Archibald Stewart of Annat and the Great grandfather of Alexander Stewart first of Glassingall. Declares that he has also heard it stated and believes it to be true that the descendants of this Archibald were settled as tenants in a farm upon the estate of Annat and that a branch of the family was afterwords removed and settled in Landrick where they co-tenanted until the death of the late Archibald Stewart some months ago." Robert Stewart of Ardvorlich's account seems to be accurate and is in agreement with the account given by Duncan Stewart 1739 as well as OPR data and other sources, and is the version we have presented here. The other Glassingall estate claimants were mistakenly confusing Archibald as being "of Annat" rather than "in Annat." The claim that the Lendrick, Ballacaish and Glassingall families all descend from an illegitimate branch is persistent, and seems more correctly presented in Ardvorlich's account, rather than the others. It appears more likely that it was not Archibald's son, John, who may have been illegitimate, but, rather, his father, John, son of Archibald, younger of Annat. With the repetition of the names John, son of Archibald, in consecutive generations the confusion and conflation is understandable when viewed from several generations later.

  
  

• Sources

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