| Husband: | Peter Stewart [WJHS] | |||
| Born: | Place: | |||
| Residence: | Place: | Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland [WJHS] | ||
| Occupation: | Farmer and drover [WJHS] | |||
| Child 1: Male |
Charles Stewart [GS][WJHS] | |||
| Born: | 1760 [WJHS] ~ 1760 [CEM-1] |
Place: | Sconser, Isle of Skye, Scotland [WJHS] Isle of Skye, Scotland [CEM-1] |
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| Died: | 27-Sep-1850 [CEM-1] | Place: | ||
| Buried: | Place: | 58/1/920 | ||
| Families: | Charles Stewart - Mary MacMillan Charles Stewart - Catharine Morrison |
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| Child 2: Male |
Donald Stewart [WJHS] | |||
| Born: | Place: | Sconser, Isle of Skye, Scotland [WJHS] | ||
1. Very little is left of pre-clearance Sconser but the house platforms
and field systems can still be recognised on the hillside by the
archaeological eye. Drovers herded the black cattle down from Scotland to
the English Markets and could be men of substance if not reputation. [WS]
2. Peter Stewart does not sound like a Skye-name - in the 18thC the
improving McDonalds of the Isles imported staff and tenants from
elsewhere in Scotland. I have found (unrelated) 18thC Peter Stewarts in
Atholl and Inverness. Checking Prince Charles Edward Stuarts Muster Roll
there do not appear to be any Peters amongst the Stewarts of Appin but
there is a Peter Stewart from Borland, Glentanar in his Royal Scots.
There is no record of his ultimate fate. Glentanar is near Aboyne,
Aberdeenshite. The address Borland (the Englishman's land) suggests an
established farm outside or on the fringes of the Gaeltacht. From the
same address came Joseph and James Stewart, surely related and the three
of them having suspiciously Catholic first-names. Charlie's Royal Scots
(Regiment Royal-Ecossais - a regular French regiment) recruited around
Perth during the 45. I am not claiming this Peter but using him to
demonstrate that the Peter Stewarts seem to have come from outside the
Highland Line and the first-name hints at Catholicism. [WS]
3. I suggest that our Peter, who was born perhaps in the 1720s-30s, could
have been at Culloden, but we have no evidence. If he really did come
from Skye we should remember that MacLeod of MacLeod and MacDonald of
Sleat kept Skye out of the '45. [WS]
4. The name could indicate some Anglicization: he may have come from the
Borders - that great recruiting ground for the hard-nosed, hard-headed
sheep-loving factors sought by the improving highland lairds. Peter was
an uncommon 18C first name - there are only 52 among the 4000 of so names
in the '45 muster roll: it is also rare in mid-to-late 18C army lists.
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