Robert Walker Stewart
1836 - 1907 (71 years)
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Name Robert Walker Stewart [1] Born 6 Apr 1836 St. Fergus, Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 
[1] Gender Male Baptism 26 Apr 1836 New Aberdour, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Died 16 Oct 1907 Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada [1] Person ID I18192 Brown Genealogy Last Modified 12 Feb 2025
Father Alexander Stewart, in Copland Hill, b. 8 Jun 1810, New Aberdour, Aberdeenshire, Scotland , d. 3 Nov 1841, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (Age 31 years) Relationship natural Mother Agnes Walker, b. Abt 22 Nov 1813, New Aberdour, Aberdeenshire, Scotland , d. 28 Nov 1887, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (Age 74 years) Relationship natural Married 18 Jun 1835 New Aberdour, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Family ID F4071 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Christian Smith, b. Abt 1836, Aberdeenshire, Scotland , d. UNKNOWN Married 20 Mar 1856 St. Fergus, Banff, Scotland Last Modified 12 Feb 2025 Family ID F4700 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Isobella G. Wilson, b. 12 Aug 1841, Rockwood, Wellington, Ontario, Canada , d. Bef 1901 (Age < 59 years) Married 4 Oct 1859 Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada Children 1. Agnes Celine Stewart, b. 25 May 1861, Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada , d. 4 Oct 1912, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (Age 51 years) [natural]2. Alexander W. Stewart, b. 1865, Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada , d. 12 Oct 1909 (Age 44 years) [natural]3. Minerva May Stewart, b. 1868, Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada , d. 1935, Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada (Age 67 years) [natural]4. William Stewart, b. 1870, Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada , d. UNKNOWN [natural]Last Modified 12 Feb 2025 Family ID F4701 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Robert was five years old when his father died. He'd already lost both his sisters. Then when Robert was 19 his younger brother died, leaving just Robert and his mother who was, by this time, remarried with a new family. According to Malcolm Sissons: "Robert was born in St. Fergus, about 5 miles north of Peterhead on the coast. It is probable that he grew up in the Peterhead area. We don't know when he emigrated but either as a youngster with his family or as a young man. He was about 23 when he married in Guelph.
In the 1882-83 Vernon Directory, Robert is listed as a carpenter, with a house at 332 Woolwich in Guelph, along with children Agnes, a teacher, and Alexander W., a clerk. After Isobella died in 1883, Robert began drinking and left Guelph but he returned in poor health shortly before he died in 1907."
Robert married firstly in 1856 in Aberdeenshire to Christian Smith. What became of her is unknown but Robert is found three years later marrying his second wife in Guelph, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. Thus Robert must have immigrated sometime between 1856-1859.
- Robert was five years old when his father died. He'd already lost both his sisters. Then when Robert was 19 his younger brother died, leaving just Robert and his mother who was, by this time, remarried with a new family. According to Malcolm Sissons: "Robert was born in St. Fergus, about 5 miles north of Peterhead on the coast. It is probable that he grew up in the Peterhead area. We don't know when he emigrated but either as a youngster with his family or as a young man. He was about 23 when he married in Guelph.
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Sources - [S5] Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938, 1943-1944, and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Database online.
Record for Robert Stewart
- [S5] Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938, 1943-1944, and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Database online.