King Robert Stewart II

By Timothy Z. Riepe

        As I was going through my family tree I discovered quite a few interesting relatives. It was hard to choose just one, but in the end I found the one most interesting to me. He was King Robert Stewart II of Scotland. We are related to him on my mother’s father’s side. I found that I am a directly descended from King Robert the Bruce of Scotland, whose daughter, Princess Marjory Bruce married Walter Stewart VI, High Steward of Scotland. Their son became Robert Stewart II of Scotland, the first Stewart King. His fourth son was Prince Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, who was the progenitor of the Atholl Stewarts including the Stewarts of Bonskeid, Borenich, Drumcharry, Crossmount, and Duntanlich.

        Robert Stewart II was born in early 1316. He was the son of Walter Stewart, the Lord High Steward of Scotland, who died April 9, 1327. His mother was Marjory Bruce, the daughter of Robert I who was known as “Robert the Bruce”. Robert II succeeded King David II who was the only surviving son of Robert I. Robert II married Elizabeth Mure who didn’t die until after he became King. They had at least ten children together. (No wonder she died early). David II died unexpectedly on February 21, 1371. So Robert would then become the first Stewart King of Scots on that day. He married his second wife, Eyphemia de Ross, who became his Queen, and they have five children.

        Robert saw that the country’s finances were stabilized and greatly improved, thanks in part to the flourishing wool trade. Robert Stewart ruled over a country that continued to have English enslaves within it’s borders and with Scots who gave their allegiance to the King of England.

        In June 1371, Robert agreed a defensive treaty with the French. Although there were no outright hostilities during 1372, the English garrisons were reinforced and placed under an increased state of vigilance attacks on the English held zones with the near certain backing of Robert. So began in 1373 and accelerated in the years 1375-77 at this time leading up to Edward the 3^rd’s death, the King of England at this time. This indicated that a central decision had probably been taken for the escalation of the conflict rather than the free booting actions of the border barons.

        In 1376 the Earl of March recovered Annandale but found him constrained by the Burgess-Anglo French truce. John, Earl of Carrick, Robert 2^nd’s eldest son, was the foremost Stewart. As Magnate south of the Fourth; just as Alexander the King’s fourth son had in the north; Alexander’s activities of royal administration enforced by Gaelic mercenaries. Robert had differences with the Carrick affinity as how to conduct war. In August 1388 there was a victory for the Scots at the Battle of Otterburn in North Umberland that set Carricks fall from power.

  

Battle of Otterburn

        One of the Scottish casualties was James Earl of Douglaus. In late January 1390, King Robert forced the northeast of the kingdom to reinforce the changed political scene in the north following Bunchans removal from authority. In March, Robert returned to Dundonald Castle where he died on April 19, 1390 at the age of seventy-four years.

Dundonald Castle

        Robert III (c. 1340 – 4 April 1406), King of Scots (reigned 1390 - 1406), the eldest son of King Robert II by his mistress, Elizabeth Mure ,became legitimized with the formal marriage of his parents about 1349. (They had previously married in 1336, but some had criticized that ceremony as uncanonical.)

In 1367, Robert III married Anabella Drummond, daughter of Sir John Drummond of Stobhall and Mary Montifex.

In 1368 his granduncle King David II of Scotland created him Earl of Carrick, and he took some part in the government of the kingdom until about 1387, when a kick from a horse disabled him. Probably in consequence of this accident his brother Robert, Earl of Fife, and not the crown prince himself, became guardian of the kingdom in 1389; but the latter succeeded to the throne on his father's death in May 1390.

At this time he changed his baptismal name of John - unpopular owing to its connection with John de Baliol; he also wished to avoid being called John II, as recognition of Balliol's kingship would weaken the Bruce title to the throne - for that of Robert, and became crowned at Scone in August 1390 as King Robert III. Although he probably attended several parliaments, the new king was seen only nominally as the ruler of Scotland, the real power remaining in the hands of his brother, the Earl of Fife.

In 1399, however, owing to the king's "sickness of the body", his elder son, David, Duke of Rothesay, gained appointment as lieutenant of the kingdom; but there followed an English invasion of Scotland, serious differences between Rothesay and his uncle, Robert, now Duke of Albany, and finally in March 1402 Rothesay's mysterious death at Falkland Palace.

Robert III began to fear for the fate of his only surviving son, young James. In February 1406 he had James taken in secrecy to Dirleton Castle to wait for a ship to transport him to France. Robert of Fife sent a large force after Crown Prince James and when a battle was fought near-by, James was put in a rowing boat and ferried to the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth. The 11-year-old heir to the throne and his guardians were left for a month on the tiny, windswept, rocky island among the boiling seas, before a ship arrived trying to bring James to France. Robert of Fife informed the English King, who arranged the ship’s interception. Thus James became a prisoner of the King of England for 18 years. When Robert III heard of his son’s capture, he became even more depressed and allegedly died from grief over the capture of James. Robert asked to be buried under a dunghill with the epitaph: Here lies the worst of Kings and the most miserable of men. Instead he was interred at Paisley instead of Scone, the traditional burial ground of the Scottish kings, as he did not consider himself worthy of the honor.

Our Family Crest

And Tartans to Each Side

 

My Great-great-great grandfather was Robert Stewart

 

James Stewart 1754 - 1854

    Born in Perth, Scotland: Robert and James' Father: Who Settled in Halton - The Scotch Block. He had a sawmill business on 700 acres he received from a grant.

    James took a second wife when Robert and James' mother died. They ran away from home because they did not get along with their stepmother to live with their uncle, also named Robert Stewart, who was a prominent builder in Toronto. It was there that Robert learned the building trade as a journeyman. He learned the trade well.

    Robert eventually went out on his own and built Limestone in Halton, Ontario for John McGregor, brother to Lachlan McGregor from Eramosa. John also received a 700 acre land grant in Halton, Ontario.

    

Robert Stewart married Ann MacGregor

 

Robert Stewart married Ann MacGregor and came to Guelph in 1853: They started Stewart Lumber Limited, in 1854, on Wyndham Street in Guelph, Ontario. They had ten children: Ann "Nellie" Stewart "Singer",  Margaret "Hill" Stewart, Edward Maclean Stewart, Robert Douglas Stewart, Robina Lamont Stewart, Phebe Stewart, Helen Stewart "Beattie", Charles Edward Stewart- Dies at 6 years old, Jessie Ellen Stewart - died at 4 years old, and Mary Scott Stewart- died at 22 months.

Ann McGregor's Parents: Lachlan McGregor and Anne Bell McGregor

 

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Charles Edward Stewart: Died at 6 years old

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Robina Lamont Stewart: 1872-1968: Sister of Edward Mclean Stewart: daughter of Robert and Ann Stewart

                     She grew up in the house on Wyndham Street, above, and knew the chest of drawers. It may have even been in her room, a fine piece of furniture for a wealthy man's prized daughter. It is certain, nevertheless, that many times the chest heard her childish giggles as she romped around the house with her playmates, and later as a young woman in the early 1890s.

                     Robina was destined to become Guelph's most famous nurse, and one of Canada's finest ever.

                     She graduated from renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital Training School, in Baltimore, MD, with three scholarships, became a lifelong friend of Dr. Sir William Osler - who was Director of Medicine there - and rose to become head nurse. She then moved on to become Superintendent of Nurses in hospitals in Milwaukee, WI and Pittsburgh, PA.

                     In 1910 Robina returned to Canada and became Superintendent of Nurses at the Old Toronto General Hospital, where she supervised the move to the new building on College Street during 1910-13 and the buying of the new equipment and furnishings needed to run a major hospital. (During the TGH's 50-year anniversary celebration, in 1963, she was guest of honor, below, at 90 years of age. Her picture hangs behind her.)

With the outbreak of war - for the US in 1917 - the Surgeon-General of the United States asked this immensely accomplished professional Canadian woman to become the Director of the US Army School of Nursing at the Walter Reed Army Hospital during World War I.

                     Canada's most famous and accomplished nurse of the period now held what was probably the top nursing job in the United States.

                     She moved back to Guelph after the war.

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Edward Maclean Stewart 1875 - 1939

    Edward Maclean Stewart married Clarissa Winnibelle "Batty" Stewart and lived in Guelph at Invergarth on 30 Norwich Street, East. Clarissa continued Robert Stewart Lumber Limited after Edward's death in 1939. They had three children: Madeline Douglas Stewart, Robert A. M. Stewart, and Muriel E. M. Stewart. University educated as a teacher at 16 years old, Clarissa took over Robert Stewart Lumber Company after Edward's death and ran it very successfully until she sold it in 1968. She became a world traveler and continued her hobby of antique collecting she started in 1913. She acquired several pieces from the Hall estate. A Joseph Wright painting proudly hung in her dining room for many years. She was also successful in the stock market, managing her assets herself until the day she died at 93 years old.

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The Batty Children: Clarissa on Left Bottom

Mother Margaret Batty on Left of Children and Brother Blake

Clarissa's Grandfather: Jacob Beam: founder of Beamsville, ON: married Catherine

    Bartram Beam came over to America on the ship "Two Brothers," from Rotterdam in 1753. It is said that other relatives also came with him. One was Anthony, likely a brother. They settled in the German Valley in New Jersey. Other relatives were Abraham, and Martin. Jacob Beam, son of Bartram, a Loyalist of Pennsylvania and Dutch extraction, came to Upper Canada in 1788 and two years later, founded the village of Beamsville. In Jacob Beam's application for land, it states that he had been a farmer in New Jersey, where things got too hot for him during the American Revolution. Jacob was forced to settle at a place called Mansfield. Here he and his family who had probably been Mennonites, came under the influence of Baptist preachers and in 1786 formed part of a small Baptist Church. Two years later Jacob Beam, with several of his sons, and daughters, and sons-in-law emigrated to the Niagara Peninsula in Upper Canada and in 1790 founded a small Baptist community, where what is now Beamsville. Here Jacob Beam obtained grants amounting to one thousand acres.

1782

    

Jacob Beam Type Cabin and Blossoms

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Great Uncle Robert: Robert Alan Maclean Stewart (1916-1999), A graduate of Appleby, WW-2 Pilot and instructor, Businessman: Automobile collector, Photographer, Traveler, and Author of several books: ie: Picture History of Guelph Volumes 1 & 2: was a dutiful son to Clarissa after Edward's death in 1939. He died in 1999: unmarried and no children.

Great Aunt Madeline:  Madeline Douglas  Maclean Stewart, RN: Radiological Nurse who worked 20 years in Mississippi before returning to Guelph to help manage the family business, where she died: unmarried and no children.

Great Grandmother: Muriel Elwood Maclean Stewart Shaw 1918-Present

 

 Muriel Elwood Maclean Stewart Shaw: RN, leaving Guelph to nurse during WW-2, Worked at the Bermuda Hospital, Worked at Miami Dade Hospital as a surgical nurse, Worked at Duke University Hospital as the head Surgical Nurse, Worked in Burlington, NC for Doctor Cernotal as his office Nurse, Worked in Connecticut as a nurse at Westport Manor and Notre Dame  retirement facilities, worked at "Famous Artists" for Rod Serling (of Twilight Zone Fame), and worked in Wilmington North Carolina as a private duty home health Nurse for Betty Christmas. Finally, she retired at 80 years old. 

    She married Edward F. Shaw in 1946: is a mother of five. children, and is still independent at 90 years old living in her own home.

Great Grand Dad: Edward Frances Shaw 1916 – 1988

 

1938-42 - Edward "Reb"  Shaw played for Elon College

Reb Shaw, Elon College Star

 

So “Reb” Joined Another Team That Had A Great 4 Year Season

   

 

Received a Bronze Star

He was President of the Norwalk Board of Realtors and

President of the Connecticut Board of Realtors

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Edward was fascinated with the skill of painting sea water

       Six Foot Four End Position college football star Edward "Reb" Shaw catches touchdown pass for the "Fighting Christians" of Elon College in the Orange Bowl. He played with Currie Bryant, Jack Boone, Palentonio, among others to complete several winning seasons.  These were tough guys that grew up during the Great Depression. The only way Ed could go to college was on a football scholarship. After graduation, Ed got three professional football contracts: Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Bears, and the Brooklyn Dodgers. They were also devout patriots, especially after the attack of Pearl Harbor so Ed declined and joined the US Navy and became a 2nd Lieutenant, then a P.T. Boat Captain. He received the Bronze Star for his actions in battle. After WW2 was over he returned to Elon College, NC to work at Carolina Biological Supply Company to work as a commercial Biologist. He worked on the side as a college football referee for several years after that. He left NC to work in TV advertising for Young & Rubicam in NYC. Eventually he became a Realtor and opened Shore & Country Realty, raised five children, and retired in Real Estate in Wilmington, North Carolina.  Currie Bryan opened up a successful sporting goods store in Burlington. NC; and had a son, also Named Currie Bryan Jr., who played for the Denver Broncos.

Painted by E. F. Shaw in 1953

 

 

Lone Town Road                            13 Winding Lane

Lucerine 2

150 Chestnut Hill Road in Norwalk, Connecticut

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Robert Stewart Shaw marries Barbara Jean Kaluta

My Grandparents on my Mother’s Side

Both b. 1948 – Present

Married: Oct 11, 1969

 

    Grand Pa enlisted in the United States Navy 1968: Contracted bacterial spinal meningitis; honorable medical discharge after 11 months. Went to University of Bridgeport and graduated with 160 credits. Had many years of continuing education at UNC, ECU, and Duke University. Married 40 years with a daughter, son-in-law, and two grandchildren. Background in working ICU, CCU, Nero ICU, SICU, PICU, NBICU, Burn Unit, Trauma Center, ER, Vascular Lab, EKG, Sleep Lab and Studies, Floor Therapy, Research, Stress Studies, Hemodynamic Monitoring, Blood Gas Puncture & Analysis, and Disaster Planing & Coordination. Managed and In-service Cardiopulmonary Services: Start first School of Respiratory Therapy in Eastern North Carolina at Cartaret Technical Community College; Start Thallium Stress Testing, Vascular Lab, Echocardiography Lab, Hemodynamic Monitoring, and Cardiac Rehabilitation Program: Plan, Organize, Procure, and Implement Computerized Diagnostic Pulmonary Function Laboratory: Serve on the Lay Advisory Board of the Respiratory Therapy Program at Cartaret Technical Community College: Serve on the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Society for Respiratory Care (NCSRC): Draft and design new spaces for new location of Cardiopulmonary Services and their clinical facilities in the new ICU: Be available 24 hours a day for clinical support and direction, and arrange for back up support in my absence: Prepare, Organize, Account all budgets for CPS: Responsible for interviewing and staffing for CPS: Interview all Vendors; evaluate, pricing, prepare proposals for purchases: Calibrate and maintenance of all CPS equipment......AND, find some time to be a husband to his wife; father to his daughter as TIME permitted! ***WORK: SALARY : 40 hours/wk ~ put in 80 hours/week minimum +++Reason for Leaving: Accomplished all my goals he sought out to achieve; the departments began to run well with the leadership He put in place; Had an opportunity to work in a new business in a new field of endeavor: Took the risks and gamble; and embarked on the new venture. ***As it turned out: He learned allot; had good challenges; learned much about people outside the hospital corporate world; learned many new skills; and in retrospect, found it a most rewarding career move. His generation of Respiratory Therapists thrive best working on the cutting edge of challenge and technology. He invented in a Patent Pending status the Code Blue Respiratory Pak TM marketed and sold the product, then sold my share to Exceptional Technological Products, Inc.: They went on to Guelph, Ontario Canada to restore my great-great grandfather's homes; worked with Christie's Canada, New York and Kensington, England selling 10% of my grandmother's antiques so we could have the capital to renovate the homes. He worked with a developer to restore my great grandfather's lumber company to convert the buildings into luxury condominiums. He was a primary investor in the Shepherd Tool Company and served as the Webmaster to their web page for 7 years. He worked to completely restore their 1810 chestnut post and beam home in Southbury, Connecticut. My grandmother graduated from Bunnell High School in Stratford, CT. in 1966. She was a licensed nursery school director and ran Little People's Nursery School in Stratford, CT. When they moved to North Carolina, Grandma was a 3rd Grade assistant teacher. She went on to become a Real Estate Broker in the state of North Carolina. When they moved back to Connecticut, Grandma worked in childcare; then went back to school and became a home health assistant. They bought a 1926 home in Aurora, NC that already was restored. Now my grandparents are retired.

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I

Timothy Glenn Riepe and Barbara Lynn Shaw

My Parents

Dad: 08/09/1969 – Present

Mom: 09/04/1971 – Present

 

          My dad was born in St. Louis, Mo. He was the youngest of five brothers. He came from a military family who moved around the United States before settling in Havelock, N.C.  He went to Havelock High school and then joined the Army as a heavy equipment operator during Desert Storm. After my parents got married they moved from New Bern to Southbury, Connecticut to be closer to my mom’s parents, my grand parents. He worked to become a mastered carpenter, working on the weekends restoring my grand parents 1810 house for 7 years while during the week working as a commercial carpenter in the Connecticut carpenter union. He also went up to Canada to work on my great grandma’s house. He was also in a band as a guitarist, singer and songwriter. Before that he played drums in another band. In 2005 we moved back to New Bern, and he worked at Hatteras Yacht as a fine wood and trim carpenter. He also worked with his Jennings and Outlaw building houses. In order in make better money he took a job traveling from state to state building commercial plants. He ended up running the jobs as a main carpenter for a company out of Virginia. He enjoyed the work and always wanted a challenge, but hated being away from his family for ten days at a time. He is a book worm who is always looking for something new to learn and fix, so he ended up taking a job in a new career as a refrigeration technician at one of the Smithfield Foods plant he built in Kinston, N.C. the year before. He also loves History and loves metal detecting old Civil and Revolutionary War sites to find old relics. He modeled for a War artist Don Traoni while we received many paintings with my dad in.

          My mother was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and moved to New Bern, N.C, at the age of five. She always enjoyed drawing and drawing people was her passion. She would receive many awards throughout the years. In 10^th grade she left New Bern High School, because her parents and she had to move back to Connecticut due to her dad getting a better job offer. She then went to Bunnell High School, in Stratford, Connecticut where she graduated in 1989. She moved back to New Bern on her own after graduation, due to wanting to be closer to her best friend Windee and always feeling like New Bern was home. She worked in construction, retail as a manager and sales and was a waitress and cook. She went to college and received a 3.8 average. She never finished her degree, but never looked back. She met my father, got married, and had my little sister Brittney and me. Her family is her pride in joy. She has been a stay at home mom and enjoys being able to do so. She also works out of the home taking care of a baby. Mom still enjoys drawing and hopes to do more portraits.

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My Shaw-Stewart Family Tree Connection: My Mother’s Side

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King Robert 1st of Scotland - the Bruce

Walter Stewart (d. 1326) 6th Lord High Steward of Scotland married

 Princess Marjory, daughter of King Robert 1 of Scotland – the Bruce.

  

     In the late 13th century, Walter Stewart, the 6th High Steward of Scotland, who fought alongside William Wallace and Robert the Bruce in the Scottish Wars of Independence, was rewarded for his loyalty to King Robert the Bruce by a marriage with Princess Marjorie Bruce, the king's daughter. They had a son, Robert Stewart who became Earl of Strathearn and Menteith.  Robert Stewart nearly didn't make it into this world. His mother, Princess Marjorie, was thrown from her horse while she was pregnant. She died from her injuries and Robert was born by an emergency Caesarean section.

     When Robert the Bruce's son, King David II, died without any male heir then Robert Stewart, Earl of Strathearn and Menteith, was next in line for the throne.  He became King Robert II of Scotland, and founder of the Royal House of Stewart, which ruled Scotland for over three hundred years and in 1603 under King James VI became the ruling dynasty of the combined thrones of the United Kingdom. King James VI of Scotland became known as King James I of the United Kingdom and was the patron of the King James Bible.

     The primary residence of the early Scottish kings was Stirling Castle.  In the days of Robert the Bruce, Stirling castle would have been primarily a wooden structure.  It was in the time of King Robert II that a stone structure began to replace the earlier wooden one.  The North Tower of Robert II's era still stands as part of the castle today.

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  King Robert Stewart 11 of Scotland (d. 1390) –the first STEWART King

              Married Elizabeth Mure of Rowallan.

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John Stewart – succeeded as King Robert 111

                                                                             Prince Alexander Stewart,

of Scotland in 1390. Died 1406

Married               “The Wolf of Badenoch”,

                     1342-1394.     Buried Dunkeld Cathedral         

Annabella Drummond – she died 1401.

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    Sir James \Stewart of Garth – he built the Castle of Garth in 1390                    Married                                                       4 sons

              Janet Menzies; 1360-1455

Sir JAMES STEWART of Garth, born abt 1377 in Dundonald Ayr to
ALEXANDER , Prince of Scotland and Earl of Buchan and
his longtime mistress, Margaret de ATHEYN(E).

JAMES was ancestor of the Stewarts of Atholl, Balnakeily
Bonskeid, Cammoch, Castle Stewart, Chesfield, Clunie, Derculich,
Drumchary, Drumchuine, Dundee, Duntanlich, Easter Kinnaird,
Edradynate, Fincastle, Forthergill, Foss, Garth, Grainnich, Inchgarth,
Innersianie, Killiechassie, Kinnakile, Kynachin, Ladywall, Polcack,
Rotmell, St. Fort, Shiergiass, Tillinyrish, Tulloch, Urrard, Wester Cluny.

He married Janet MENZIES (b abt 1360),
the daughter & heiress of
Alexander de MENZIES0 of Fothergill & Jean de ATHOLIA.
 

 

Castle Menzies

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     John Gorm Stewart of Fothergill and Garth in 1390.                                            Married                                                                                   others

John Gorm STEWART of Fothergill & Garth.
Born abt 1405. He was killed on Midsummer Day in 1443.

 

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John Stewart of Garth, Fothergill, Drumcharry, ect. Died at Garth Castle in 1475                                                                                                           Others

        Married:  Marion. 

John STEWART of Garth, Fothergill, Drumcharry, etc.
Died at Garth Castle on Dec 10 1475.
He married Marion/Mariot ~ They were the parents of:

Neil Gointe STEWART ~ his descendants became proprietors of Duntanlich about 1600
and had some claim to Drumcharry as well.

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        Alexander Stewart. 1stof Bonskeid, received a charter of the lands of Bonskeid, December 31st 1474 from his father. He died in 1501.

Married:

Alexander STEWART, 1st Earl of Bonskeid.
He received a charter of the lands of Bonskeid on Dec 31 1474 from his father.
He died in 1501.
Maud STEWART married Thomas STEWART, 2nd Laird of Grantully.

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Neil Stewart – his descendants became proprietors of Duntanlich about 1600 and had some  claim to Drumcharry. - Married:                                               Others

Neil Gointe STEWART ~ his descendants became proprietors of Duntanlich about 1600
and had some claim to Drumcharry as well.
 

 

Alexander STEWART, 1st Earl of Bonskeid.
He received a charter of the lands of Bonskeid on Dec 31 1474 from his father.
He died in 1501.
 

* Neil Gointe STEWART, Laird of Garth, married Elizabeth STEWART,
daughter of Alexander STEWART, Laird of Grantully & Margaret HAY of Tulliebodie.
(She was also the sister of Thomas STEWART, 2nd Laird of Grantully,
who married her husband Neil's sister Maud!!)

Neil & Elizabeth had 2 sons:
 

(1) Donald STEWART of Duntanlich who married Marie STEWART of Garth & Drumcharry.
(Marie was the daughter of
Donald's brother Neil Roy STEWART & Mariota McQUEEN)

(2) Neil Roy STEWART who married (1st) Lady Christian STEWART,
daughter of the 1st Earl of ATHOLL.
Christian died childless in 1538.

Neil Roy married (2nd) Mariota McQUEEN.
Neil Roy & Mariota had 2 children:
 

(1) John STEWART who drowned in 1577

(2) Marie STEWART of Garth who became Neil Roy's heiress after her brother's death.
Marie married her uncle, Donald STEWART who had a tack of Drumcharry.
He died in 1630.

James STEWART of Duntanlich, who seems to have had 2 children:
 

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Son. Stewart of Duntanlich. Married:  Marie Stewart of Garth and Drumcharry

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Donald Stewart of Duntanlich, had a tack of Drumcharry. He died 1630.                                                  others

He was the factor of the estates of Garth. Married:

(1) William STEWART of Duntanlich (1602 on Jury, Chrons) & Drumcharry in 1609.
On June 6 1648, he married Christian ROBERTSON,
daughter of Donald ROBERTSON of Kincraigie.
(2) Margaret STEWART m Alexander Fergusson in Ballyoukan)

William bought the feu of Drumcharry and left this to his son Patrick.
He left Duntanlich to his son John, who converted a tack of the estate to a feu.
 

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William Stewart of Duntanlich and Drumcharry.

Married:  Christina Robertson

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Son. The decent is accurate, but this connection is not proven. 

       Patrick Stewart of Drumcharry. Married: Isabella Fleming.     others

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        John Stewart of Borenich – “a house in the ferns” 

John STEWART of Duntanlich bought feu in 1612.
John had 2 brothers ~
(1) Patrick of Drumcharry in 1613 married Isabella Fleming of Moness
(2) Alexander

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    William Stewart of Drumcharry died 1730.

 Married  (1) Margaret Robertson:  (2) Christina Stewart of Overblairish

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    Alexander ///Stewart of Borenich born 1722.           Others

– Married Christian Stewart.

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John Stewart of Borenich. Born 1787.        Others         Alexander Stewart in Rannoch                                                                              (this connection is not proven)

1.) Married Christine Douglas 2.) Married Alex Stewart

John STEWART, son of William, married and had a son named after him ~
(there 'may' be another generation here between this John and the next,
but otherwise, the descent is accurate)


John STEWART of Croftcarnoch in Borenich near Blair Atholl Perthshire
married Christian STEWART on Nov 1721 in Dull Perthshire.
Their son ALEXANDER was christened on Nov 4 1722 in Bailintepail Blair Atholl.

John & Christian had 3 daughters

:
Katherine chr 1727
Grissel (Grace) chr 1728
Christian chr 1729
 

Alexander STEWART married Christian STEWART on Mar 24 1740 in Balchastle Blair Atholl.

ALEXANDER of DUNTANLICH is described as
an "officer in the Atholl Brigade"
in the rebel army in the 1745 Rising.

Alexander & Christian's children were:
(1) Duncan 1747
* (2) John 1750
(3) Alexander 1752
(4) Neil 1755
(5) James 1760

John STEWART (1750) married Christian Douglas on Nov 1776 in Lick Dull Perthshire.

John & Christian's children were:
(1) Christian 1777
(2) Elspeth 1780
(3) Alexander 1782
(4) Duncan 1785
* (5) James 1787
(6) John 1790
(7) Neil 1792
 

James STEWART emigrated to Ontario Canada in July 1818.

 

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Robert Stewart of Perthshire 1799-1883

Married Elizabeth Purkiss died in Toronto

  

Their Children were:

 John of Toronto who married Christina Duncan

Elizabeth

Jane

Margaret

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James Stewart of Borenich. Born 1787others 

1.) Married: Elspeth Stuart of Glen Lyon Died 1865;

Married in Canada &  2.) Remarried:  Elizabeth Stewart 1802-1841

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John Stewart born in Perthshire 1774 - 1854

            Married: Margaret Lamont 1770 - 1840

        Had a Daughter:

 Elizabeth Stewart 1802 – 1841                                                                                                               Others

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1819 Petition of John and James Stewart for a Canadian Land Grants

Statement of worthiness by their father, John Stewart, as to receiving a land grant in Canada. Signed at Blair Atholl Castle and witnessed by William Robertson.

The Petition of John and James for 42 people to receive land grants on the Scotch Block in Halton, Ontario, Canada

 

 

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In Ontario, James lived next door to John STEWART & Margaret LAMONT.
John Stewart was the 'father of the Scotch Block' in ESQUESING Township Halton County.
Eventually, James married their daughter Elizabeth abt 1820-21.

While James was descended from John STEWART of Duntanlich,
son of William STEWART & Christian ROBERTSON,
Elizabeth was descended from their son Patrick STEWART of Drumcharry
who married Isabella Fleming in 1648.
As a result of this connection,
James & Elizabeth were both descended from the same STEWART line.

James & Elizabeth's children were:

(1 ) James ~ married Maria Glendenning
(2) Robert ~ married Anne McGregor, daughter of Lachlan of Eramosa Twp Ontario.
(3) Christina Ann ~ married William MICHIE
(4) John ~ (died young & buried beside his mother Elizabeth)
(5) Margaret Elizabeth ~ married James LAIDLAW.
(6) Alexander

After Elizabeth's death in 1841, James married Janet McGREGOR abt 1848.

Their children were:

*(1) Janet Stewart b 1849 (see below)
(2) Mary Stewart b 1851 married William Snow and died in 1936.

James died in 1865 in Esquesing Township Halton Ontario and left a will.
Janet McGregor STEWART died in 1890 in Esquesing Township.
Most of the family is buried in Boston Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Esquesing.

Robert and young James did not get along with their step mother, Janet McGregor; so they ran away from home to live with their uncle, also named Robert Stewart, in Toronto (York). There they learned the building trade.

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Last Will & Testament of James Stewart
1787 - 1865

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In the name of God Amen.

    "I, James Stewart of the Township of Esquesing and County of Halton and Province of Canada,
Yeoman,
being very sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory of my body
and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die,
do make and ordain this my last will and testament.
    That is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul
into the hands of Almighty God that gave it,
and my body I commend to the earth to be buried in a decent Christian burial
at the discretion of my executors,
nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection
I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God."

 

    He goes on the say he would like his executors to pay all his debts within a year
and to erect a tombstone over his grave that will cost $150.

Below is the inscription from James' tombstone ~

"Yet again we hope to meet thee When the day of life is fled There in heaven with joy to greet thee Where no farewell tear is shed."

    He gives his wife 50 acres of Lot 11 of the 5th Concession, and $30 a year.
She is to live with "my daughter Mary Stewart
in the brick house and to have her board and clothes during her natural life.
I also give to my wife Jennet Stewart one horse, one cow, two sheep,
the single harness and the buggy and cutter."

    To his daughter Mary he gives 100 acres and the obligation to pay her mother the $30 per annum,
to keep her in the brick house and give her good board and clothes as long as she lives.
"I also give to my daughter Mary Stewart one cow and two sheep."

    He also gives his daughter Jennet Stewart Jr 100 acres and one cow and two sheep.

    And to his wife Jennet and daughters Mary and Jennet the household furniture.

(The following are to his children from his 1st marriage to Elizabeth STEWART)

Then some more property to his daughter *Christina Ann MICHIE
with some conditions attached.

I will and bequeath to my son *Robert Stewart five dollars.
I will and bequeath to my son *James Stewart two dollars.

And on and on.

Then he had added a lengthy codicil, relating to his bequest to Christina.

And then following are pages and pages of legal stuff
indicating that his son Robert contested the will.

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Robert Stewart – 1828-1918. Halton, Ontario  Married in Canada

Married: Anne McGregor 1831-1922

    Their children were 1.) Ann (Nellie)1866-1942 - married Edward Sigmund Singer: 2nd wife when he was 71 years old 2.) Robina Lamont, 3.) Edward Mclean, 4.) Phebe, 5.) Robert Douglas., 6.) Helen - married John Beattie of Fergus  7.) Margaret - married Mr. Hill8.) Charles Edward - (died at 6years old), 9.) Jessie Elizabeth - (died at 4 years old), and 10.) Mary Scott - (died at 22 months.) 

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Brother James Stewart 1787 - 1865 Marries Maria  Glendinning: they eventually move to US

 

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Edward Maclean Stewart 1875-1939. Guelph, ONT.

Married Clarissa Winnibelle Batty: Born 1893.

 

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Children: 

Madeline Douglas Maclean Stewart  Robert Alan Maclean Stewart  Muriel Elwood Mclean Stewart

               Born 1915 - 1992                                Born 1916 - 1999                   Born 1918

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Muriel Elwood Maclean Stewart. Born 1918 in Guelph

Married: Edward Francis Shaw Born 1916 in Rosemount, Pa. and Died 1988

       Children: Robert Stewart, Nancy Mclean, Cynthia Beatty, Richard Edward, and Duncan McGregor

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Robert Masbro Stewart Shaw born May 7^th 1948 in Burlington, NC

Married: Barbara Jean Kaluta Shaw on October 11, 1969

Barbara was Born August 5th 1948 in Bridgeport, Connecticut

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Barbara Lynn Elizabeth Shaw born September 4th 1971 in Bridgeport, Connecticut

Married Timothy Glenn Riepe on May 25th 1996

Timothy was Born August 9th 1969 in St. Lois Mo.

 

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Timothy Zolimer Riepe  Brittney Nichole Riepe

Born February 8th 1996 New Bern, NC    Born March 30th 1999 Danbury, CT

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My Family Tree: Mother’s Side on her father’s side Shaw, Strange, Spacey and Stewart, McGregor, Batty and Bell 6 to 7 generations shown here.

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    John Shaw: Farm Manager

Born 6/27/1851 England

Married Fanny Spacey- 1883/84

Died. 10/5/1922 Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    Fanny Spacey: Nurse

Born. 12/28/1850 Kimberworth,Yorkshire, England

Died. 1/14/1929 Phila, PA, USA

 Samuel SPACEY, Fanny SPACEY, Kate SPACEY, Alice SPACEY, Richard SPACEY, Sarah SPACEY, Amy SPACIE

 

Fanny SPACEY
~ 1850, Kimberworth, Yorkshire, England
b	born: 12/28/1850
d	died: 01/14/1929

 

Richard SPACIE		=		Sarah NICHOLSON
1827, SEP 09, Rotherham, Yorkshire, England			c		1829, JUN 28,  Bolton Upon Dearne, Yorkshire, England
			d		~1888 (<1891)
1848, Apr-Jun, Rotherham, Yorskshire, England

John SPACIE				Mary
			b		~ 1799
			d		~<1861 (alive 1851, age 52)

Thomas NICHOLSON

=

Mary

 

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           Richard Masbro Shaw

Born. 11/30/1884 – Rotherham, England

Died 8/10/1963 – Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA

Married. 6/2/1908: Silver City, New Mexico, USA

   

       

Spouse: Mary Agnes Strange

     Daughter to:

James Strange: Carpenter Weaver

Born July 1841- Ireland

Jane Erskine:

Born Ireland

 

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Edward Francis Shaw :Brother and Sister John Shaw&Gladys Shaw Nippes

Edward was Born 1916 in Rosemount, Pa.

Died Dec. 1988

Married June 1946 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada

 

      

Spouse: Muriel Elwood Maclean Stewart Shaw

Born September 28^th 1918 to Present

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     Daughter to:

 

Edward Maclean Stewart                        others

Born 1875 Guelph, ONT.

Died 1939 of peritonitis from being kicked by a horse.

Edward's M. Stewart's Father:

   

Parents: Robert Stewart and Ann McGregor

      

Ann McGregor’s  Parents  were: Lachlan McGregor 1800-1877 and Anne Bell

June 2, 1874: Letter from Lachlan MacGregor to his daughter Annie MacGregor Stewart

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 Spouse To E. M. Stewart: Clarissa Winnibelle Batty Stewart

Born 1893: Died 1986

Clarissa was Daughter to Louis and Margaret Batty Married in 1882. Margaret was born in 1864

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Eldest Son of Edward F. Shaw and Muriel E. M. Stewart Shaw:

   

Robert Masbro Stewart Shaw :

Siblings:

 Nancy Maclean Pringle, Cynthia Beatty  Shaw, Richard Edward Shaw, Duncan McGregor Shaw

     

     

  

Born May 7^th 1948 in Burlington, NC

Married: October 11, 1969 in Stratford, Connecticut

           

Spouse: Barbara Jean Kaluta Shaw in Bridgeport, CT.

Barbara Born August 5^th 1969

                       Sisters: Flora Kathleen Kaluta Slauson, Linda Antoinette Kaluta, Maureen Henrietta Kaluta Berman 

         

    Christopher, Jessica & Nicholas Slauson, Jeremy & Keto

 

   

   

  Ryan Berman   

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Daughter To Robert M. S. Shaw and Barbara Jean Kaluta Shaw:

   

   

    Barbara Lynn Elizabeth Shaw

Born: Sept. 4^th 1971 in Bridgeport, CT.

Married: May 25^th 1996 in New Bern, NC

      

Spouse: Timothy Glenn Riepe

Born Aug. 9th 1969 in St. Lois, Mo.

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Timothy Z. Riepe  1 sister, Brittney Nichole Riepe

Born Feb. 8th 1996   in New Bern, North Carolina                                                March 30th 1999 in Danbury, Connecticut

 

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My Mother’s Side on her mother’s side: Kaluta- Craw which was MacCraw, Weimer and Savage: up to 6 generations known on this side

         

   

            Two family stories:

            Adam was a Cossack and White Russian and escaped Russia when the Reds took over. Fighting on horseback a sword against modern war equipment was suicide. So Adam came to America. Jenny came over on the same boat from Poland: they met on the boat. They settled in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Adam worked in the Bridgeport Steel Mill.

                Adam bought a motorcycle when he first came to the United States. He took Jenny for a ride in the countryside. Going down a dirt road they hit a bump in the road; Jenny bounced off the back of the bike and landed in a tree. "Now that was some ride!", she exclaimed.

                Jenny and Adam, new to the USA, went to the store to do some shopping. Adam exclaimed with great surprise: "Jenny, Jenny: Bumble Bees in the tuna?"

Adam Kaluta

Born in Russia and came over on boat

Lived in Bridgeport, CT.

    Worked at Bridgeport Steel Manufacturing Plant: Died of Emphysema

       

 Married: Jenny Cosagovitch

Born in Poland and came over on boat

Lived in Bridgeport, CT.

Died 1998 at the age of 99 and 3/4  in Stratford, CT.

 

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    Alias: "Machine Gun Kelly": Schaefer Beer Co.'s No. 1 Delivery Man and Driver

Henry Joseph Kaluta     Others: Gerri, Mickie, Leo

Born in Bridgeport, CT.

Born 1925 - Died 1985

   

Worked for People's Savings bank and moonlighted as a waitress at Rolling Hills Country Club; raising four girls on her own.

Married Barbara Kathrine Craw       Others: David Craw, Jean Craw Glover, Edith Craw Nysteriac

Married  Feb 14^th

Born May 1927

Died 1986

Daughter of

          

Fredrick Craw   son of Fredrick MacCraw from Scotland

 Fred Craw Born 1895 - 1965

       

Flora Weimer daughter of Joseph Weimer

                   

     and Jenny Savage

Flora Weimer Born 1895 - 1945

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Barbara Jean Kaluta Shaw                                      

3 Sisters:

Barbara Born Aug. 5^th 1948 in Bridgeport, CT.

Married on Oct. 11^th 1969

          

Spouse: Robert Masbro Stewart Shaw       others: 2 Brothers and 2 Sisters

Born  May 5^th 1948 in Burlington, NC

Parents: Edward F. Shaw and Muriel Stewart

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Barbara Lynn Elizabeth Shaw   only child

Born Sept. 4^th 1971 in Bridgeport, CT.

Married: May 25^th 1996

       

Spouse: Timothy Glenn Riepe                   Brothers: 4 Brothers: Michael, James, Donald, Jeffery

Uncle Jeff Riepe:   Uncle James:      and

Uncle Donald  

Tim Born Aug. 9^th 1969 in St. Lois Mo.

         

Parents: Patsy M. Donica and step father, Michael Taylor

No relation to name Riepe:

      

Real father Richard Morrison: Unknown

           

Great-Great Grandpa Timothy A. Morrison:

               

Great-Great-Great-Great Grandpa Zachary Morrison of Blair Atholl:

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Timothy Z. Riepe                                         sister: Brittney Nichol Riepe

Born Feb. 8^th 1996 in New Bern, NC                               Born March 30^th 1999 in Danbury, CT.

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Family Tree: Fathers side on his mother’s side: Donica, Nichols, Lance and Sims

5 generations shown:

Thomas Ross Donica

Born 1888

Died 1996

Married on July 13, 1910

Spouse: Eula Eva Lance

 

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Thomas Lloyd Donica

Born Dec. 11, 1912

Married: Ruby Nichols

 

Parents of Ruby

William Nichols

Married: Maggie Sims

Born 1898 - Died 1981

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Patsy Maureen Donica                                   others

Born May 20^th 1940

Died Feb. 20^th 2008

Married (1) Ray Riepe- have name, but no relation to

Married (2) Michael Taylor- step father to her 5 boys

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Timothy Glenn Riepe                             others: 4 Brothers

Born Aug. 9^th 1969

Married Barbara L. Shaw on May 25^th 1996         Parents: Robert S. Shaw and Barbara Jean Kaluta

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Timothy Z. Riepe                                           sister: Brittney N. Riepe

Born Feb. 8^th 1996 in New Bern, NC                          Born March 30^th 1999 in Danbury, CT.

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Family Tree for Fathers side on his Step Father’s side: Taylor, Boedker and Youngman.

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Isaiah Michael Taylor

Married Emma Tirell Taylor

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William Isaiah Taylor

Married: Louise Boedker

 

Parents of Louise Boedker

William Fredrick Boedker and Mary Louise Youngman

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Michael Taylor- step father

Married Patsy Donica Taylor b. May 20^th 1940- d. Feb. 20^th 2008

Married 1973

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Timothy Glenn Riepe                               Others

        

Born: Aug. 9^th 1969 in St. Louis, Mo.

Married Barbara L. Riepe on May 25^th 1996 in New Bern, NC

Barbara’s parents: Robert S. Shaw and Barbara Jean Kaluta

                                

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Timothy Z. Riepe     sister: Brittney N. Riepe

Born: Feb. 8, 1996  in New Bern, NC       Born March 30^th 1999  

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