When Margaret Stuart was born in 1749, in Charlestown, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, James Barclay Stewart, was 32 and her mother, Janet Gordon, was 31. She married George Blyth on 28 December 1770, in Kettle, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She died in Scotland, United Kingdom.
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Scottish (Aberdeenshire and Banffshire): variant of Stewart . This French form of the name, there being no W in the French language, was adopted by Mary, Queen of Scots, on her return to Scotland in 1561 and has since come to be more popular among royalists than the earlier spellings.
History: Stuart or Stewart is the surname of one of the great families of Scotland (see note at Stewart ).
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