stewey
17-09-2005, 3:49 PM
Hi family tradition says we're descended from the Stewarts of Craigiehall and Newhalls, but a cranky ancestor circa 1700 disinherited his three elder sons, David, John & Archibald (Stewart), due apparently to religious differences, and destroyed evidence of their connection with him.
The boys and their descendants went to Ireland, possibly, USA maybe, had sugar plantations in the West Indies, and had Northumberland as an eventual base by the mid 1800s.
There are connections with Turnbull families from Dundee, and Middletons, from Durham, too in the mid 1800s. From then on it gets easier.
I'd appreciate hearing from anyone to whom this may sound familiar!
The boys and their descendants went to Ireland, possibly, USA maybe, had sugar plantations in the West Indies, and had Northumberland as an eventual base by the mid 1800s.
There are connections with Turnbull families from Dundee, and Middletons, from Durham, too in the mid 1800s. From then on it gets easier.
I'd appreciate hearing from anyone to whom this may sound familiar!