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Stuart: A Clan History: From the Highlands to the New World
Stuart is the name of a royal house. Mary, Queen of Scots, grew up with it in France and carried it home. Her son James VI took it to London in 1603. In 1745 Charles Edward Stuart brought it back to the Highlands, and the men who followed him to Culloden paid for it.
The Stuart kings descended in the male line from a Renfrewshire laird who won a French lordship fighting the English in 1423, and behind him from the Stewards of Scotland, a line that began in 1161 at a king’s court and reached the throne in 1371. This edition opens with that how the Stuart spelling was made, in France and in a Perthshire glen, and how it came to the crown.
Then it follows everyone else who carried the name. The Appin regiment, which stood on the right of the line at Culloden and left 92 dead on the moor, and the Morvern man who carried its banner off the field wrapped round his body. James of the Glens, hanged at Ballachulish in 1752 on the verdict of a jury of eleven Campbells. The Wolf of Badenoch, a king’s son, who burned Elgin Cathedral. The tenants of Rannoch, and the families who took the name to Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Zealand.
Told from the record, with the houses of the name, places to visit, a chronology and a guide to tracing your own Stuart ancestors.
For everyone who carries the name Stuart and wants to know where it came from, and what it cost.
The Stuart kings descended in the male line from a Renfrewshire laird who won a French lordship fighting the English in 1423, and behind him from the Stewards of Scotland, a line that began in 1161 at a king’s court and reached the throne in 1371. This edition opens with that how the Stuart spelling was made, in France and in a Perthshire glen, and how it came to the crown.
Then it follows everyone else who carried the name. The Appin regiment, which stood on the right of the line at Culloden and left 92 dead on the moor, and the Morvern man who carried its banner off the field wrapped round his body. James of the Glens, hanged at Ballachulish in 1752 on the verdict of a jury of eleven Campbells. The Wolf of Badenoch, a king’s son, who burned Elgin Cathedral. The tenants of Rannoch, and the families who took the name to Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Zealand.
Told from the record, with the houses of the name, places to visit, a chronology and a guide to tracing your own Stuart ancestors.
For everyone who carries the name Stuart and wants to know where it came from, and what it cost.
212 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 12, 2025
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