See also

Margaret STEWART (bef1567- )

1. Margaret STEWART, daughter of Henry STEWART ( - ), was born before [Julian] 9 March 1567. She married Andrew STEWART.

 

Andrew STEWART Master of Ochiltree, son of Andrew STEWART (c. 1521- ) and Agnes CUNNINGHAM ( - ), had the title 'Master of Ochiltree'. He and Margaret STEWART had the following children:

 

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Margaret STEWART (bef1578- )

Second Generation

2. Margaret STEWART, daughter of Andrew STEWART Master of Ochiltree and Margaret STEWART, was born before 1578. She married John STEWART.

 

John STEWART, son of Sir James STEWART of Schillinglaw, 6th of Traquhair (c. 1534-1607) and Catherine KERR (bef1578-1606), was born before 1594. He and Margaret STEWART had the following children:

 

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John STEWART (c. 1600-1659)

Third Generation

3. Sir John STEWART 1st Earl of Traquair, son of John STEWART and Margaret STEWART, was born circa 1600. He had the title '1st Earl of Traquair'. He was a Lord High Treasurer to Charles I. He died on 27 March 1659. He married Catherine CARNEGIE.

 

John Stuart, whose portrait hangs in the Dining Room of Traquair, received an Earldom from Charles I in 1633, and in 1636 was made Lord High Treasurer. As, Treasurer Depute, he succeeded Sir Gideon Murray in that post. He built an additional story to the house and undertook the formidable task of diverting the River Tweed away from the House (the Well Pool outside the Brew House indicates its original course)

The first Earl's political fortunes rose and fell. He was dismissed from his post as Treasurer and Commissioner to the General assembly in 1641, and fined and confined to his estates , then readmitted to Parliament on the intervention of Charles I in 1646. In 1648 he was captured at the Civil War Battle of Preston while trying to rescue the king from the Parliamentarians. After 4 years imprisonment in Warwick Castle he was released to live out his last years at Traquair.

"John Stuart was a man of extraordinary natural parts, which were greatly improved by a liberal education, of remarkable steadiness and integrity, of great learning, a consummate statesman, and invariably attached to the interest of the royal family, on which account he afterwards suffered great and many hardships" (Peerage of Scotland)

According to Mahon (Life of General the Hon. James Murray) Traquair lived to see his estates passed into other hands, and died in absolute poverty, even starvation, as a result of his former support for Charles I.

 

John Stuart received an Earldom from Charles I in 1633, and in 1636 was made Lord High Treasurer. As Treasurer Depute, he succeeded his relation Sir Gideon Murray in that post. The first Earl's political fortunes rose and fell. He was dismissed from his post as Treasurer and Commissioner to the General assembly in 1641, and fined and confined to his estates, then readmitted to Parliament on the intervention of Charles I in 1646. In 1648 he was captured at the Civil War Battle of Preston while trying to rescue the king from the Parliamentarians. After 4 years imprisonment in Warwick Castle he was released to live out his last years at Traquair. "John Stuart was a man of extraordinary natural parts, which were greatly improved by a liberal education, of remarkable steadiness and integrity, of great learning, a consummate statesman, and invariably attached to the interest of the royal family, on which account he afterwards suffered great and many hardships" Traquair lived to see his estates passed into other hands, and died in absolute poverty, even starvation, as a result of his former support for Charles I.

 

Catherine CARNEGIE was the daughter of Sir David CARNEGIE 1st Earl of Southesk (bef1583-1658) and Margaret LINDSAY (bef1590-1614). She and John STEWART had the following children:

 

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Elizabeth STEWART ( - ). Elizabeth had the title 'Lady'. She married Patrick 2nd MURRAY on 9 April 1643 in Aberlady. She died.