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- William Stewart was born in 1802 in Comrie Village, Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland as the only son of Lt. Alexander Stewart and his first wife, Janet Reid.
About 1815-1818, in his mid-teens, William is not identified by name, but is described in Stewarts of the South as being the eldest son of Lt. Alexander Stewart in St. Fillans and as "a student of Divinity."
According to the Fasti Eccleasia, William worked as a carptenter during the summer months to put himself through school part-time and was eventually ordained in 1832 in the Church of Scotland and served the congregation at Lochee near Dundee, Angus, Scotland.
In 1834, Rev. William Stewart married in Dundee, Angus, Scotland, to Mary Key. Her birth family has not been identified.
In 1841, at age 40, Rev. William Stewart was residing in Dudhope, Dundee, Angus, Scotland, with his wife Mary. They had no children. He was employed as a minister of the gospel. (Dudhope and Lochee are one mile apart.)
Rev. William Stewart continued to serve the congregation at Lochee until The Disruption in 1843 when he left to form the Free Church congregation at Dudhope near Dundee, Angus, Scotland.
He died in 1852.
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LOCHEE.
[A chapel-of-ease was opened here 6th Feb. 1831. The parish of Lochee was disjoined from Liff and St Mary's, Dundee, 7th June 1880.]
WILLIAM STEWART, born Comrie, 1795; originally a joiner, he saved 1832 as much from his wages as enabled him to attend the Univ., and worked at his trade during the summer months; educated at Comrie School and Univ. of Edinburgh; elected 26th Jan., and ord. 4th April 1832. Joined the Free Church in 1843 [the building in which he and his congregation worshipped having been erected by voluntary subscription, the managers wished to retain possession of it. S., however, knowing that the deed of constitution declared it to be in connection with the Church of Scotland, declined their proposal, and preached from his parlour window, with his hearers seated on the lawn in front] ; became min. of Free Church, Dudhope, 1843; died 12th Oct. 1852. He marr. 1834, Mary Key.- [Nome's Dundee Celebrities, 148-50.]
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STEWART, WILLIAM
Text of Ewing’s Annals, Vol.1, p.331
Born at Comrie, 1795. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. Ordained at Lochee, 1832. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. Married, 1834, Mary Key. Removed, the same year, to Dudhope, Dundee, with a portion of his congregation. Died, 1852.
Supplementary Information
Life and Ministry
1832, Lochee, FES, Vol.5, p.334. In the Free Church, he served in Lochee, Dundee; and Dudhope, Dundee.
Publication - by him
Breadalbane Muniments, Ecclesiastical Documents, Letters with Petitions to Ormelie [that is, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane] and Others, Sites, 22nd May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/217; Sites, 23rd May, 1846, NRS GD112/51/217
Publications - about him
Inventories, Wills, etc.: 20/11/1852, minister of the Gospel at Lochee, Dundee Sheriff Court, NRS SC45/31/1
Inventories, Wills, etc.: Stewart, Mary, 21/1/1854, Mrs, alias Key, Relict of Reverend William Stewart, Minister of the Gospel at Lochee, Dundee Sheriff Court, NRS SC45/31/11
28th November, 1837, Sixth Report of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction, p.134
(https://www.ecclegen.com/ministers-s/#STEWART,%20WILLIAM1 )
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