When Margaret Stuart was born on 24 December 1598, in Edinburgh, Scotland, her father, King James Stewart VI of Scotland, I of England, was 32 and her mother, Queen Anne of Great Britain and Ireland, was 24. She died in March 1600, in Linlithgowshire, Scotland, at the age of 1, and was buried in Edinburgh, 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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