STEWART, Patrick 4th of Sticks and 1st of Ballechin ^{1 2 3 4}

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Patrick married Elizabeth BUTTER, daughter of John BUTTER 5th of Gormack and Beatrix GORDON, in 1554.^{1 2} (Elizabeth BUTTER was born about 1527 and died in May 1590 in Inchmartine, Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

" .... Elizabeth Butter, relict of Patrick Stewart of Stuikis, Laird of Ballechin. She 'decisit in the Place of Inchmertene in the Kerss of Gourie' in May 1590, her executor being her son James Stewart, then of Stuikis, Laird of Ballechin."

from Scots Peerage (vol 4)




"Patrick Stewart, 1st of Ballechin, had a Charter from John Stewart, Earl of Atholl, for the lands of Middle Sticks as heir to his deceased father John Stewart of Sticks on 15 January, 1554, to be held by himself and Elizabeth Buttar, his future spouse daughter of John Buttar of Gormock, and is styled as brother and heir to the deceased John Stewart of Sticks in Signet Letters to charge himself and Alexander Stewart, natural son to the said John Stewart, as tenants of the lands of Wester Sticks on 27 November, 1564. He m. in 1554 to the said Elizabeth, daughter of John Buttar, of Gormack, (she m. secondly to Patrick Ogilvy of Inchmartin, who was then widow of Marjorie, daughter of Patrick Lord Gray, and d. in May of 1590)"

from Stewart of Ballechin




"Elizabeth Butter, m. firstly, to Patrick Stewart of Ballechin, with whom she had a grant from John Stewart, Earl of Atholl, for the lands of Middle-Stix on 15 January 1554, in which she is styled daughter of John Butter of Gormack."

from The Red Book of Scotland ^{1 2 4}