Robert Stewart, Covenanter
1655 - 1714 (59 years)
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Name Robert Stewart Suffix Covenanter Born 1655 Gartnafuaran, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland 
Gender Male Died 1714 Edinburgh, Scotland, or County Antrim, Ulster, Ireland Person ID I20821 Brown Genealogy Last Modified 12 Feb 2025
Father Walter Stewart, 7th of Gartnafuaran and Stronslaney, b. 1625, Gartnafuaran, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland , d. Jan 1678, Stronslaney, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland (Age 53 years) Relationship natural Mother Isabel Stewart, of Glenbuckie, b. Abt 1620, Glenbuckie, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland , d. Bef 1678 (Age < 57 years) Relationship natural Family ID F4724 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Janet Forsyth, b. 1660, Scotland or Ireland , d. 1755, New Hampshire, USA (Age 95 years) Married Abt 1679 Children 1. John "Charter John" Stewart, b. 1682, Edinburgh, Scotland, or County Antrim, Ulster, Ireland , d. 6 Apr 1741, Londonderry, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA (Age 59 years) [natural]2. Robert Stewart, b. 1684, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland , d. UNKNOWN [natural]3. Julianne Stewart, b. Abt 1686, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland , d. UNKNOWN [natural]4. Samuel Stewart, b. 1688, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland , d. UNKNOWN [natural]Last Modified 12 Feb 2025 Family ID F7009 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Robert Stewart, 2nd. son of Walter Stewart of Gartnafuaran, was born in 1655 and died 1714. Circa 1679, he married Janette Forsyth, perhaps the daughter of John Forsyth and Catherine Morisone. Robert was a Covenanter and fought at the Battle of Bothwell Brigg in 1679, where the government defeated the rebel Covenanters. Robert then fled to Ulster -- perhaps in or near Carrickfergus, County Antrim, where his eldest son John may have been born circa 1682 (at any rate, John’s wife Elizabeth Clark is said to have been from Carrickfergus). Robert was said by his grandson Joseph to have later returned to Edinburgh and died there, but his widow Janette, son John, and other members of his family either stayed in or returned to Ulster. It could be that the tradition Joseph related is faulty, and that Robert did not return to Scotland, but remained in Ulster and died there. However, since Joseph heard these family traditions from his grandmother, they are likely to be accurate. Robert’s widow Janette, son John, and other family members left Aghadowey, Ulster, in 1718 and came to America, where Janette died circa 1750. Tradition states that Janette was buried at Chandler Hill Cemetery near Colrain, Mass. (Olar)
“Captain [John] Stewart [born 12 Sept. 1745] had a distinct remembrance of his aged great-grandmother [Janette Forsyth Stewart]. He used to relate to [his grandson] Homer her stories of the family’s persecutions by ‘Bonnie Dundee,’ in Scotland. . . . Homer H. Stuart once remarked that the character ‘Henry Morton of Milnwood,’ in Sir Walter Scott’s Romance ‘Old Mortality,’ reminded him of Robert Stuart as portrayed in these tales of Captain Stewart’s great-grandmother. For Robert, according to these stories, fought against Monmouth and in consequence was exiled and deprived of his estate.” (Genealogy and Biography of the Descendants of Walter Stewart of Scotland, B. Frank Severance, 1905, pp.167-168) (Olar)
Contrary to many genealogies published on-line it is the opinion of the Stewarts of Balquhidder Research Group that Robert Stewart did NOT have a son named Alexander who came to the USA. Please refer to stewartsofbalquhidder.com for more information.
- Robert Stewart, 2nd. son of Walter Stewart of Gartnafuaran, was born in 1655 and died 1714. Circa 1679, he married Janette Forsyth, perhaps the daughter of John Forsyth and Catherine Morisone. Robert was a Covenanter and fought at the Battle of Bothwell Brigg in 1679, where the government defeated the rebel Covenanters. Robert then fled to Ulster -- perhaps in or near Carrickfergus, County Antrim, where his eldest son John may have been born circa 1682 (at any rate, John’s wife Elizabeth Clark is said to have been from Carrickfergus). Robert was said by his grandson Joseph to have later returned to Edinburgh and died there, but his widow Janette, son John, and other members of his family either stayed in or returned to Ulster. It could be that the tradition Joseph related is faulty, and that Robert did not return to Scotland, but remained in Ulster and died there. However, since Joseph heard these family traditions from his grandmother, they are likely to be accurate. Robert’s widow Janette, son John, and other family members left Aghadowey, Ulster, in 1718 and came to America, where Janette died circa 1750. Tradition states that Janette was buried at Chandler Hill Cemetery near Colrain, Mass. (Olar)