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- Thanks to research conducted by Barb Neal at Barb's Genealogy on the descendants of Duncan Stewart's second marriage, we're have been able to reconcile the accounting in Stewarts of the South with historical records and present a more consistent accounting of this family.
https://geneal4real.wordpress.com/2019/07/06/alexander-stewart-of-balquhidder-footman-to-the-queen-of-denmark/
Duncan Stewart was born in 1692 in Tomnasai near the Kirkton in Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland, as the son of Alexander Stewart, 1st of Tomnasai. His mother is unknown. No record has been found of Duncan's birth as his birth predates the commencement of baptismal records in the parish of Balquhidder. His year of birth is calculated from his age at death as recorded on his gravestone. Duncan was named after his paternal grandfather, Duncan Stewart, 8th of Glenbuckie.
Nothing is known of Duncan's early life except that it appears he moved sometime before 1716 to Brig o'Turk where his uncle Walter Stewart lived.
On 23 July 1716, at age 24, Duncan married in Callander parish, Perthshire, Scotland, to Margaret Stewart. She resided in Callander parish, but her birth family has not been identified. Her father's name was likely Donald, but this is uncertain.
Over the next decade-and-a-half, Duncan and Margaret had five children in Brig o' Turk until 1729 when they moved back to Kirkton and had another child. (There are three more births for Duncan Stewart and Margaret Stewart between 1731-1739 in nearby Stronvar which appear likely to be this same couple, but could be another couple with the same names.)
Margaret Stewart died sometime before 1743 when we find Duncan in Kirkton with his second wife, Janet Campbell, and having a family there. No record has been found of their marriage.
As Tomnasai is identified as being adjacent to the Kirkton of Balquhidder, Duncan's return to Kirkton, likely means that he had returned to live at Tomnasai. This likely means that Duncan's father died around this time and that Duncan returned to Tomnasai as heir to the property.
Stewarts of the South incorrectly says that Duncan's father, Alexander of Tomnasai, had three sons, Alexander, David, and John. We now know that Stewarts of the South is missing a generation in its accounting. These three sons are actually sons of Duncan Stewart, 2nd of Tomnasai, from his second marriage with Janet Campbell, not sons of Alexander Stewart, 1st of Tomnasai. There is no baptismal record for a son named David because David was used as a substitute name for Duncan in Scottish culture in the same way that Daniel was used as a substitute name for Donald. So the son identified as David in Stewarts of the South is actually Duncan, born in 1754.
Stewarts of the South describes Duncan's surviving sons with key details that allow us to corrobrate them with other records which are discussed under their individual entries:
1st Alexr was a servant to the Queen of Denmark daughter to George II - and had a pension, left one son
2d David died unmarried had no children
3d John resides in Callander - was a gentleman’s servant and became door keeper to the Secretary of States Office in the time of the Honble Henry Dundas and Mr Pit’s administration.
Stewarts of the South incorrectly states that Alexander Stewart of Tomnasai "was dispossessed some time before his death, by one Ronald McGregor a son to Rob Roy, when the forfeited estates were in the hands of the Barons of the Exchequer." Whereas this dispossession actually occurred in Duncan's lifetime as attested in the Statistics of the Annexed Estates 1755-1756, which lists Ronald Drummond (alias MacGregor) as a tenant in Kirkton along with Duncan Stewart, Robert McLaren, and ten cottars.
Duncan Stewart, 2nd of Tomnasai, is listed in Mitchell's Monumental Inscriptions for the cemetery at Brig O' Turk: "26 table stone (next to 25) DS 1786. IC. Pelican plucking its breast, on her nest. Alexander STEWART, brother John STEWART of Glenbucky, first son Duncan, 6 JUN 1760, age 68 (by sons Alexander, John, Duncan)." This entry requires some interpretation: Duncan Stewart is the one who died on 6 JUN 1760 at age 68. The stone is placed by his sons, Alexander, John and Duncan. The initials "IC" are the Latin initials of Duncan's second wife, Janet Campbell.
Upon Duncan Stewart's death in 1760, Ronald McGregor petitioned for his lease to cover the entire farm at Kirkton, in Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland.
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The following births may also belong to this family:
Duncan STEUART and Margaret STEUART in Kirktown and Stronvar Mor (note the same named contemporary couple in Dallanlaggan)
Robert STEUART, bap. 2 SEP 1731 in Sronvar Mor
Alexander STEUART, bap. 8 SEP 1734 in Stronvar Mor
John STEUART, bap. 7 JAN 1739 in Stronvar
These entries do not conflict with any other family currently in the database.
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1692 - 1760 (68 years)
