Kathrine Stewart

Female4 June 1793–21 February 1863

Brief Life History of Kathrine

When Kathrine Stewart was born on 4 June 1793, in Callander, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Duncan Stewart, was 37 and her mother, Mary McKinlay, was 27. She died on 21 February 1863, in her hometown, at the age of 69.

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Family Time Line

Duncan Stewart
1756–1853
Mary McKinlay
1765–1848
John Stewart
1786–1859
Christan Stewart
1787–1863
James Stewart
1792–
Janet Stewart
1803–1877
Peter Stewart
1803–1875
Mary Stewart
1789–1870
Kathrine Stewart
1793–1863
Margaret Stewart
1796–1859
Alexander Stewart
1797–1884
Robert Stewart
1801–1851
Catherine Stewart
1806–

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  • Kathrine Stewart, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"

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Siblings (11)

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World Events (8)

1802 · John Playfair publishes summary of James Hutton's theories of geology.

Age 9

In 1802, John Playfair published the Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth. His influence was by James Hutton’s knowledge of the earth’s geology.

1811 · The Tron Riot

Age 18

The Tron riot was a riot which occurred in Edinburgh, Scotland on New Year's Eve. A group of young men attacked and robbed wealthier passers-by. One police officer was killed in the riot. Though the total count of participants is unknown, sixty-eight youths were arrested, with five sentenced to death for their actions during the riot.

1813 · The Court of Session Act 1813

Age 20

The United Kingdom Parliament helped Scotland by creating the divisions necessary for better construction of their judiciary system. The Act was later repealed by the Court of Session Act 1988.

Name Meaning

Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: originally an occupational name for an administrative official of an estate, from Middle English stiward, Old English stigweard, stīweard, a compound of stig ‘house(hold)’ + weard ‘guardian’. In the Anglo-Saxon period this title was used of an officer controlling the domestic affairs of a household, especially of the royal household; after the Norman Conquest it was also used more widely as the native equivalent of Seneschal, for the steward of a manor or manager of an estate. In Scotland the term was also used of a magistrate originally appointed by the king to administer crown lands, forming a stewartry.

History: Stuart or Stewart is the surname of one of the great families of Scotland, the royal family of Scotland from the 14th century, and of England from 1603, when James VI of Scotland acceded to the English throne as James I. There were many minor branches of the family left in Britain after the flight of James II in 1688, but not every bearer of the surname can claim relationship with the royal house, even in Scotland. Every great house in medieval England and Scotland had its steward, and in many cases the office gave rise to a hereditary surname. The fall of the house of Stuart in Britain, conversely, led to the establishment of several highly placed branches bearing this surname in continental Europe, which are in most cases related to the old Scottish royal family.

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