Helen Muir Stewart

1889 - 1984  (95 years)

• Name	Helen Muir Stewart  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Born	26 Jul 1889	Achallader, Argyll and Bute, Scotland   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9]
  Gender	Female
  Residence	1891	Glenorchy, Argyll, Scotland   [9]
  	1 Age: 1; Grand Daur RelationToHead: GrandDaughter
  Arrival	1926  [3]
  Residence	1930	Scarsdale, Scarsdale, Westchester, New York, USA   [3]
  	Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife; Occupation: Housewife
  Arrival	11 Mar 1932	New York, New York, USA   [6]
  Residence	1935	New York, New York, New York, USA   [2]
  Residence	1940	New York, New York, USA   [2]
  	Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife
  Arrival	2 May 1943	Buffalo, New York, USA   [7]
  Departure	Greenock, Scotland   [6]
  Residence	United States of America   [6]
  	Marital Status: Married
  Residence	Redding, Connecticut   [5]
  	Marital Status: Widowed
  Residence	1950	East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, USA   [4]
  	Relation to Head of House: Wife; Marital Status: Married
  Died	26 Dec 1984	Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA   [1, 5]
  Buried	Dalmally, Argyll and Bute, Scotland   [1]
  Person ID	I21163	Brown Genealogy
  Last Modified	26 Sep 2026

  
  

  Father	Archibald Mackay Stewart,   b. 1850, Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland ,   d. 28 Jan 1892, Auchallander, Glenorchy and Inishail, Argyll, Scotland  (Age 42 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth Forrest Brown,   b. 1 Jun 1854, Carnworth, Lanarkshire, Scotland ,   d. 4 Jun 1924, Crianlarich , Stirlingshire, Scotland  (Age 70 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	4 Mar 1882	Glenorchy and Inishail, Argyll, Scotland   [10, 11]
  Family ID	F5754	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lt. Sir Angus Somerville Fletcher, OBE,   b. 13 May 1883, Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa ,   d. 6 Aug 1960, New York, USA  (Age 77 years)
  Children	1. Donald Stewart Fletcher,   b. 1927, New York, USA ,   d. UNKNOWN  [natural]   2. Peter Fletcher,   b. 1929, Bronxville, Westchester, New York, USA ,   d. UNKNOWN  [natural]   3. Prof. Angus J Fletcher, Ph.D.,   b. 23 Jun 1930, East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, USA ,   d. 28 Nov 2016, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA  (Age 86 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	26 Sep 2026
  Family ID	F9181	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Descendant David Paterson provides the following: "Mr MacNaughton farmer at Inverlochlarig who married Miss McIntyre [in] Iyhnabloir(?). His mother was a Stewart, a sister of Stewart in Auchnallader, (an aunt) of Helen Muir Stewart, Dec. 27th 1925 - Information from Helen Muir Stewart." This refers to Margaret Stewart, sister of Donald Stewart of Auchalader, above, who married Alexander McNaughton. Margaret would have been a great-aunt to Helen Muir Stewart. John McNaughton, son of Margaret Stewart and Alexander McNaughton, resided at Inverlochlarig. HELEN FLETCHER, 95 Lady Helen Muir Fletcher, an artist who lived for many years with her husband, Sir Angus Fletcher, a British diplomat, on Fireplace Road in Springs, died Dec. 26 at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut. She was 95, and had moved to Redding, Conn., in 1976 to live with one of her sons, Donald S. Fletcher. Lady Fletcher and her husband bought the Parsons homestead on Fireplace Road and Hog Creek Lane in 1932, when cattle roamed the area and what few house yards there were had to be fenced to keep them out. They restored the long-empty house and rebuilt the partly collapsed barn, turning it into an unusual cypress-paneled cottage. Through the 1930s and '40s the Fletchers retreated from the stresses of Sir Angus's diplomatie duty to spend time with their many friends in Springs. They moved there permanently when Sir Angus retired. He died in 1960. Lady Fletcher sold the house in 1966 to John and Perdita Schaffner and moved to Manhattan to pursue her interest in painting. While in her 70s, she studied at the Art Students League with Edwin Dickinson, Julian Levy, and Bruce Dorfman. Her work was exhibited at the Barbizon Gal-lery in Manhattan and the Eve Dawson Gallery in Chester, Vt. The former Helen Muir Stewart, Lady Fletcher was born to Archibald and Elizabeth Brown Stewart at Achallader, Argylshire, in the western Highlands of Scotland, where the Stewarts farmed and at one time had as many as 30,000 sheep. Her first language was Gaelic, and she attended John Watson's College as well as the Edinburgh School of Art, where she studied under William Wall, official artist of the Edinburgh Zoo. She came to the United States in 1920, after her marriage. In addition to her son Donald, two other sons, Peter S. Fletcher of Boyn-ton Beach, Fla., and Angus S. Fletcher of Manhattan, survive, as do five grandchildren. A service for Lady Fletcher was held Dec. 29 at Christ Church in Redding. Her ashes will be buried at Dalmally Churchyard, near Achallader, Scotland.

  
  

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