Donald Stewart, The Shooter

Abt 1720 - Aft 1754  (> 35 years)

• Name	Donald Stewart
  Suffix	The Shooter
  Born	Abt 1720	Ballachulish, Glencoe, Argyll, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Died	Aft 1754
  Person ID	I15480	Brown Genealogy
  Last Modified	9 Apr 2025

  
  

  Father	Donald mac Alasdair Mhoir Stewart,   b. Abt 1687, Achalader, Argyll, Scotland ,   d. UNKNOWN
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F8334	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Isabella Stewart, in Ballachulish,   b. Abt 1730, Ballachulish, Glencoe, Argyll, Scotland ,   d. UNKNOWN
  Children	1. Capt. Donald Stewart,   b. Abt 1750, Ballachulish, Glencoe, Argyll, Scotland ,   d. UNKNOWN  [natural]   2. Isabella Stewart,   b. Abt 1752, Ballachulish, Glencoe, Argyll, Scotland ,   d. UNKNOWN  [natural]   3. Anne Stewart,   b. Abt 1755, Ballachulish, Glencoe, Argyll, Scotland ,   d. UNKNOWN, Coilechat, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland  [natural]
  Last Modified	9 Apr 2025
  Family ID	F4243	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Donald Stewart allaged to be the shooter in the Appin Murder of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure. "Legend says that the Stewart clan knew very well who the real murderer was and that this secret has been passed down through the generations. In 2001 Anda Penman, an 89-year old descendant of the Stewart clan decided it was time to break the silence. She claimed that four young highlanders had planned the murder. They held a shooting contest and the best marksmen among them then delivered the fatal shot. That marksman was none other than the one who buried the body, Donald Stewart of Ballachulish. The old lady died soon after, and her claim was not confirmed by any other member of the Stewart clan. About the same time, Lee Holcombe, an American professor of history, had just spent twenty years investigating all the evidence in this infamous unsolved murder case. She concluded that it was indeed Donald Stewart of Ballachulish who delivered the shot. She wrote a book about her findings: Ancient Animosity but died in 2002 before it reached a publisher. Her son took over the work of editing and her book was eventually published in 2004. Anda Penman, it seems, was telling the truth. The story doesn’t quite end there. In 2008 an undisclosed member of the Campbell family hired a lawyer to forward a submission to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission which requested to have James Stewart’s guilty verdict overturned." (https://mcleanscotland.com/james-of-the-glen/) "In 2001, Amanda Penman, an 89-year-old descendant of the Clan Chiefs of the Stewarts of Appin, alleged the murder had been planned by four young Stewart tacksmen without the sanction of James of the Glens. There was a shooting contest among them and the assassination was committed by the best marksman among the four, Donald Stewart of Ballachulish.[6][10] According to some accounts, Donald desperately wanted to turn himself in rather than allow James to hang and had to be physically held down to prevent this. Several years after James's execution, when the body was finally returned to the Stewart Clan for burial, Donald Stewart of Ballachulish was responsible for washing the bones before the Reformed funeral." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appin_Murder) Donald married his first cousin, Isabella Stewart, daughter of Donald's uncle, Alexander Stewart, 4th of Ballechulish.