STEWART, Thomas of Keithmore, 7th of Drumin, Lieutenant ^{1 2}

   Another name for Thomas was STUART, Thomas.^{3 4}

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  General Notes:

"STUART
THOMAS
GORDON STUART/MARGARET DUNBAR
M
29/06/1740
094 10 / 38
CROY AND DALCROSS"

from Births and Baptisms




"XIII. Within an enclosure :
Sacred to the memory of Thomas Stewart, Esq., late of
Pittyvaich, who departed this life 5 Feb., 1815, aged 74."

from History of the Province of Moray ³

Thomas married Anne GORDON, daughter of Francis GORDON of Milne, Advocate, Jacobite 1745 and Barbara ROSE 'of Glencat', on 2 December 1763 in Inveravon parish, Banffshire, Scotland.¹ (Anne GORDON was baptised on 24 October 1741 in Kincardine O'Neil parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland,³ died on 5 February 1823 ^{2 5} and was buried in 1823 in Mortlach Churchyard, Banffshire, Scotland ⁵.)

  Marriage Notes:

"GORDON
AN
... STEWART/FR286 (FR286)
26/11/1763
217 20 / 141
LOGIE COLDSTONE"

"GORDON
ANNE
THOMAS STEWART/
02/12/1763
157 10 / 375
INVERAVON"

from Index of Marriages




"Thomas (Stewart) married Anne Gordon, the only (see Note below) daughter of Francis Gordon of Kincardine Mill, who acted as General Quarter Master to Prince Charles in 1745. Kincardine Mill, which is now called Dess, was a small property in the parish of Kincardine O'Neil, but it was of considerable value, because the surrounding country had to pay multures to the owner. Francis, who was excepted from the royal pardon of 1747, died in October, 1747, and was succeeded by his son Hugh, a midshipman in the Navy, who died, and to whom his sister Anne was served heir general on July 4, 1766, while she was served heir special to her father, Francis, August 3, 1770, by which time she was the wife of 'Lieutenant Thomas Stewart in Keithmore,' a farm afterwards occupied by William Marshall, the famous composer of Strathspeys.

Thomas, says his son, Ludovick, 'was not a good boy,' and his wife Anne left him. After the separation, Thomas sold Kincardine Mill to one of the Aberdeen legal family of Davidson, who still own it. It is said that when. Anne heard that the estate had been sold, she remarked that a 'damned scoundrel had sold it.' Thomas Stewart and his wife ultimately got a lease of Pittyvaich from Lord Fife. His wife, Anne Gordon, died February 5, 1823, aged 81, and is buried in Mortlach Churchyard, where a stone records her virtues in the terms of a funeral sermon preached on her by the Rev. Morris Forsyth, the minister of the parish. She is described as 'old in years and in good works. She required only to be known in order to be highly esteemed. Piety without moroseness, courtesy and cheerfulness of temper and a most friendly and obliging disposition; her memory will long be cherished by a numerous class of her fellow parishioners, whose families have been aided by her bounty, and whose pains have been lessened by her sympathy and compassion.' "

from Stewarts of Drumin and Pittyvaich

Note:

Anne had a sister Helen, though she may have died at an early age.< ^{1 2}