The Stewarts of Powblack and Rait

3 Line – Stewarts in Milton of Cambus, Powblack and Rait

This branch was being researched by the late Margaret Kennedy.

The next cadet branch of the Annat Stewarts were a family who lived in Drumvaich.  Drumvaich is located in Callander parish on the bank of the River Teith on the main road midway between Callander and Doune villages.  This branch is described in Stewarts of the South as follows:

James (sic, s/b Alexander) Stewart, tacksman of Boblack Carse of Frews, Down parish, Earl’s estate, was drowned upon the water of Teith.  He left two sons:

1. Commissioner Stewart, who was in Stirling.  He left one son who sold the little property left him by his grandfather’s mother to his uncle Gen (General) Robt Stewart of Boblack (below).  He now lives between Edinburgh and Falkirk.  He has some family.

2. Gen (General) Robert Stewart of Reath, of the Honorable East India Company, has three sons of whom you know something yourself.

Note: Stewarts of the South is mistaken in its accounting here. The Annat Tree shows, and parish records confirm, that the father of General Robert Stuart of Rait was Alexander Stewart of Powblack in Frew, not James.  Thus it is not certain whether it was Alexander who drowned in the Teith or whether it was an unknown James Stewart who has been confused.

Rait is located in the Carse of Gowrie, clear across the other side of Perthshire, east of the city of Perth.  Rait and Gowrie have a common etymological origin.  Gowrie in Gaelic is Gobharaidh, pronounced “Gow-rait”, and may mean “blacksmith’s fortified house”, the last syllable raid(h) being synonymous with Rait.

The Stewarts in Milton of Cambus

James STEWART ancestor of Drumvaich, b. ABT 1619 in Annat, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland, shown above as the fourth son of Alexander Stewart, 1st of Annat.  James married Margaret Graham of Boquhapple (Bochastle).  They had the following children:

1.  John STEWART, predecessor of Drumvaich, b. ABT 1650 in Annat, Perthshire, Scotland.  He is progenitor of 1 Line – Stewarts in Drumvaich, above.

2.  Charles STEWART in Milton of Cambus, b. ABT 1658 in Annat, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland.  He died in 1717.  He married Alison TAYLOR and had the following children:
   1.  Robert STEUART b: ABT 30 NOV 1682 in Doune, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland
   2.  Duncan STEWART b: ABT 13 DEC 1688 in Miltown of Cambus, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland
   3.  Daughter STEUART b: ABT 1690 in Doune, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland
   4.  Daughter STEUART b: ABT 8 JUL 1698 in Doune, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland
   5.  Alexander STEWART , in Powblack of Frew b: ABT 22 JUL 1700 in Cambusburn, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland. d. 1757.
      1. Alexander’s information is presented immediately below.

Alexander Stewart in Powblack of Frew

Alexander STEWART in Powblack of Frew, Ground Officer to the Earl of Murray b: ABT 22 JUL 1700 in Cambusburn, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland. d. 1757.  Alexander is mentioned in the following reference in the Appendix of Stewarts of the South in which he is mistakenly referred to as “James Stewart in Boblack”

“I think I wrote you something concerning the Stewarts of Tar, before, and will do again if you think proper, though not in this paper.  My reason for neglecting in description is [for] their being extinct, [all] but two daughters that are married and in very low circumstances.  The late James Stewart of Tar father was in partnership with the late General Stewart of Raith’s father in purchasing Oakwoods, which trade was not at that time taken by any but clever active men.  He was called James Stewart of Boblach in the four and twenty farms of the Carse of Frews, in the Lordship of Doune, and was ground officer to the Earl of Murray.  And should I have the pleasure of seeing you soon, I shall relate some fine anecdotes that passed between them, both of them being very active grasping men.”

Alexander married ABT 1737 in Doune, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland to Isobel MILLER.  They had the following children:

1.  Alexander STEWART, bap. 19 NOV 1738 in Powblack, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland
2.  Commissioner David STUART , in Stirling b: 1741 in Doune, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland.  He died in 1777.  He married ABT 1763 to Jean MCMILLOP.  David is believed to be the person mentioned in SOS as “Commissioner Stewart” who is recorded as an older brother to Lt. Gen. Robert Stuart. Commissioner Stewart left one son who sold the little property left him by his grandfather’s mother to his uncle, Lt. Gen. Robert Stuart of Rait. He was in Stirling at the time of his death (prior to the authoring of SOS). It is believed that his surviving son was William and that John died young.
   1.  John STUART b: ABT 1764 in Doune, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland
   2.  William STUART b: 1766 in Doune, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland
   3.  Jane STUART b: ABT 1768 in Doune, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland
3.  General Robert STUART , 1st of Annat in Rait b: 13 MAY 1744 in Powblack, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland.
   1. General Robert Stuart’s information and descendants are presented below.
4.  Isabel STEWART b: ABT 5 JAN 1749 in Powblack, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland
5.  Jean STEWART b: ABT 1751 in Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland
6.  John STEWART b: 16 MAY 1757 in Powblack, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland.  He is not mentioned in Stewarts of the South and is presumed to have died young.

The Stuarts of of Annat in Rait

General Robert STUART , 1st of Annat in Rait b: 13 MAY 1744 in Powblack, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland. He died 18 FEB 1820 in England.  Robert Stuart served as a commander in the army of the Honourable East India Company and actively recruited many of his Stewart cousins into service with the HEIC. In Stewarts of the South he is mentioned as a Lieutenant General, but was later promoted to General.

Robert Stuart became extremely wealthy from the East India Company and was arguably the most financially successful of all the Baldorran Stewarts. In his later years he provided pensions for several of his widowed and spinster cousins, including the sisters of John Stewart, 5th and last of Annat, who was a drunk and sold the family estate of Annat in Kilmadock.

General Robert Stuart acquired the estate of Rait in the Carse of Gowrie in southeast Perthshire (as noted above). He named his residence there, “Annat”, after his ancestral home near Doune. As the original line of Stewart of Annat had been sold, General Robert Stuart had the arms re-matriculated and became 1st of Annat in Rait.

In 1817 a book of poetry by John Stewart of the Glenfinglas tribe was published by subscription of other members of the clan. The list of subscribers includes Lieutenant General Stewart of Rait. 

Robert had the following children by an unknown mother or mothers:

1.  Agnes STEWART b: ABT 11 APR 1773 in Lendrick, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland.  She is suggested from parish records and is not found in family records and is presumed to have died young.
2.  Peter John STUART, b. BEF 1781 in India.  According to family records Peter John was nearly an adult when his father was captured by the Sikhs in 1792.  He was “not so highly regarded by the General” and was later said to be (mentally) “infirm”.  He probably had a different mother from his brother Kenneth Bruce.

General Robert Stuart is believed to have married or otherwise been involved with Elizabeth HILLYARD by whom he is believed to have had the following child:

1. Mary STEWART b: ABT 26 DEC 1779 in Doune, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland

General Stuart married a Princess of the House of Shah Allam and had the following two sons:

1.  Kenneth Bruce STUART, 2nd of Annat in Rait, b. 1783 in India.  He died 28 JUL 1832. Kenneth and his brother Robert were sent back to Scotland as boys to be educated.  Kenneth became a celebrated linguist.  He was involved with a “high born Indian princess” who is identified in the IGI as Princess DE BARBAR, by whom he had the following natural child:
   1.  Dr. Robert STUART, MD b: 1810 in Delhi, India.  Robert was a natural son.  He was educated in Scotland as a doctor.  He returned to India and had issue in four generations, but none remain of the Stuart name.  He married Eliza Jane Turnbull or THOMSON and had the following son:
      1.  Dr. Kenneth Bruce STUART, MD b: 1836 in Annat, Kilmadock, Perthshire, Scotland.  He married on 17 OCT 1860 in Edinburgh parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland to Sarah Matilda WOTHERSPOON.  It is believed that the had descendants in India.

   Kenneth Bruce Stuart married firstly BET 16 AND 18 JUL 1820 in Kinnoul and Perth, Perthshire, Scotland to Maria Janet MORRISON.  They had the following children:

   1.  Jessie STUART , Heiress of Annat in Rait b: 5 SEP 1821 in Annat in Rait, Carse of Gowrie, Kinnoul, Perthshire, Scotland. She died 27 APR 1891.  She married 9 SEP 1839 in Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland to the Rev. Dr. Alexander MOODY, DD, who, upon their marriage took the hyphenate surname of MOODY-STUART and became by marriage 3rd of Annat in Rait.  He was moderator of the Free Church 1875.  They had the following family:
      1.  Daughter MOODY-STUART b: JUL 1840 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.  She died at birth.
      2.  Rev. Kenneth MOODY-STUART , 4th of Annat in Rait b: 13 JUN 1841 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.  He was a Free Church minister at Moffat.  He died 16 JUN 1904.  Kenneth was the author of the memoirs of his father. He married on 9 NOV 1869 in Row, Dunbarton, Scotland to Susan WALKER.  It is believed they had the following children:
         1.  Alexander MOODY-STUART , 5th of Annat in Rait b: 24 DEC 1870 in Moffat, Dumfries, Scotland.  It is believed that he had no male issue and that the estate and title of Annat passed possibly to his brother George and then ultimately to the descendants of his uncle George Moody-Stuart.
         2.  George MOODY-STUART , 6th of Annat in Rait b: AFT 1870 in Scotland.  George’s identity is uncertain and is inferred from family correspondence. It is believed that he inherited the estate and title of Annat in Rait from his brother and that he also died without male issue and passed the estate on to the descendants of his uncle George Moody-Stuart.
         3.  Kenneth MOODY-STUART b: AFT 1871 in Scotland.  It is presumed that he died prior to his elder brothers as the family estate passed to another branch.
      3.  Andrew MOODY-STUART b: 26 DEC 1842 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.  He died young in 1 SEP 1866.
      4.  Prof. Alexander MOODY-STUART , LL.D. b: 30 MAY 1844 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.  He was Professor of  Law at the University of Glasgow 1887-1905.
      5.  Robert MOODY-STUART , C.A. b: 17 MAR 1846 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.  Robert was a chartered accountant in Dundee.  He died 22 JUN 1896.
      6.  Margaret MOODY-STUART b: 16 MAR 1848 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.  She never married.  She died on 17 MAR 1880.
      7.  Jessie MOODY-STUART b: 14 MAR 1850 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.  She died 15 JUN 1895.  She married in 1883 to George WATT, King’s Counsel, Sheriff of Chancery.
      8.  George MOODY-STUART , CBE b: 27 OCT 1851 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.  As a child George sat next to Robert Louis Stevenson in class at the Edinburgh Academy (they were seated alphabetically).  As an adult, George would read bedtime stories to his grandchildren from his “friend Louis”.  George was a partner in the trading firm of Henckell DuBuisson which provided supplies to estates throughout the West Indies. He acquired estates in Antigua which his son Alexander went to run in the 1920s. He was made a Commander of the British Empire for his role in founding the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture (ICTA) in Trinidad in the 1920s. His son Alexander was the first student at ICTA.  The George Moody-Stuart school in St Kitts is named after George. He was the father of:
         1.  Mark MOODY-STUART b: ABT 1898 in Scotland.  He won the Military Cross in France in WWI.  He never married but had a successful career in the family business.
         2.  Sir Alexander MOODY-STUART, OBE, b. ABT 1900.  At age 17, he won the Military Cross in France in WWI.  Later he became head of the Antigua Sugar Estates Syndicate in the mid-20th Century.  It was this Alexander against whom Sir Vera Bird (later prime minister of Antigua) led a general strike in 1951.  Sir Alexander was the first person to propose black members to the Town Club in St Johns, Antigua, and his family was the first white family in Antigua to have a black family doctor (who went on to become Sir Luther Wynter).  Sir Alexander married in Antigua to Judith HENZELL.  They had the following children:
            1.  Mel MOODY-STUART, whose personal information is not published for privacy reasons.
            2.  Lena MOODY-STUART, whose personal information is not published for privacy reasons.
            3.  George Henzell MOODY-STUART, OBE, 7th of Annat in Rait, b. 9 MAR 1931 in Antigua, West Indies and died. 1 NOV 2004.  He had the arms of Annat re-matriculated.  He was an international businessman, author of Grand Corruption: How Business Bribes Damage Developing Countries, former chair of Transparency International.  He was an advocate for big business ethics, accountability and fair trade.  [His marriage information is not published for privacy reasons.]  His children include:
               1. Alexander P.B. MOODY-STUART, 8th of Annat in Rait, whose personal information is not published for privacy reasons.
               2. [The remainder of the children are not published for privacy reasons.]

            4.  Len MOODY-STUART, whose personal information is not published for privacy reasons.

            5.  Margo MOODY-STUART, whose personal information is not published for privacy reasons.

            6.  Sir Mark MOODY-STUART, b. 1940 in Antigua, West Indies.  Former chair of Shell Oil Company, director of the HSBC Bank (the largest bank in the world), and Anglo-America plc (a mining and natural resources group with interests in South Africa), co-chairman of the G8 Energy Task Force and is a member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Council for the Global Compact.
               [This article is an exception to our policy against publishing information on living persons, as the information herein is widely available in the public domain.]

         3.  Jessie MOODY-STUART b: AFT 1900 in Scotland
         4.  Marion MOODY-STUART b: AFT 1901 in Scotland.  She was called “Minna”.
         5.  Elizabeth MOODY-STUART b: AFT 1902 in Scotland.  She was called “Bess”.
         6.  Margaret MOODY-STUART b: AFT 1903 in Scotland
      9.  John MOODY-STUART , F.I.A. b: 23 JUL 1853 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.  He was a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.
      10.  Charles MOODY-STUART b: 13 SEP 1854 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, d. 19 JUL 1900.  He was a Banker for the Bank of Scotland in Lossiemouth.
      11.  Elizabeth MOODY-STUART b: 4 MAR 1861 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
   2.  Robina STUART b: 23 APR 1823 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.  She died young on 15 JUN 1851.
   3.  Eliza Jane STUART b: 26 OCT 1826 in Malvery, Worscester, England.  She never married.

   Kenneth Bruce Stuart married secondly ABT 1824 to Janet ROBERTSON by whom he had the following daughter:

   1. Mary STUART b: 11 DEC 1824 in Malvern, Worcester, England.  She married on 19 AUG 1857 in Worcester, England to Rev. Napoleon ROUSSEL.  They had descendants who are beyond the scope of this research project.
2.  Robert STUART, 1st of Glenhead , b. ABT 1785 in India, died 1845.
   1. Robert Stuart’s information and descendants are presented below.
    
3. Margaret STUART, b. ABT 1809 in India.

Robert STUART, 1st of Glenhead , b. ABT 1785 in India, died 1845.  He married on 14 SEP 1815 in Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland to Eleanor (Ellen) Stewart KILBEE (b. 1798, Belfast, Antrim, Ireland).  They had the following family:

1. Hanah STUART, b. 11 FEB 1818 in Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
2. Margaret STUART, b. 16 DEC 1819 in Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
3. Ellen Barnsley STUART, b. 13 JUL 1824 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland
4. Rev. James Kilbee STUART, M.A., b. 28 MAY 1826 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.  James attended (and/or may have been on faculty at) Queen’s College, Cambridge, England. He was an Anglican priest and was appointed as a Senior Chaplain in the army in India in 1856 until about 1881. In 1873 he was back in England on furlough. He was minister at Church Gresley, Derbyshire from 1885 until some time after 1887.  He married on 22 APR 1856 in Sutton Under Brailes, Warwick, England to Elisabeth Anne SADLER b: ABT 1826 in England.  They had the following children:
   1.  Gertrude Evangeline STUART b: 27 JUL 1857 in Murree, West Bengal, India.  She is not recorded in family tradition and is presumed to have died as a child.

   2.  Lieut. Ronald Rogers Kilbee STUART b: 12 DEC 1858 in Rawal, Pindee, West Bengal, India.  He was a 2nd Lieutenant with the 45th Regiment “Sherwood Foresters” and was stationed in Aldershot, Hampshire, England in 1881.

   3.  Lieut. Allan Kilbee STUART b: 20 NOV 1860 in India.  He was a Lieutenant in the Militia stationed with his brother, Ronald, in Aldershot, Hamptshire, England in 1881.  Sometime before 1901 he immigrated to Kootenay, British Columbia, Canada where he worked as a civil engineer.  He married ABT 1892 presumably in Canada to MARGARET b: OCT 1859 in Ontario, Canada, whose surname is unknown.  In 1911 he had his family were living in The Cariboo, British Columbia, Canada.  They had the following known child:
      1.  Marjorie STUART b: AUG 1893 in British Columbia, Canada
   4.  Rhoda Perpetua STUART b: 17 SEP 1862 in Bengal, India
   5.  Ivan Kilbee STUART b: 23 NOV 1864 in Bengal, India.  He is not recorded in family tradition and is not found in any census records and is presumed to have died as a child.
   6.  Angus Kilbee STUART b: 1867 in Lahore, India.  It is believed that he was raised in England.  He attended Grammar School in Guilsborough, Northampton, England in 1881.  He immigrated in 1890 from England to British Columbia, Canada.  In 1898 he is recorded on the BC Voters’ List in Midway, Rossland, Kootenay West, British Columbia, Canada, employed as a real estate agent.  In 1901 he was living in the Yale and Cariboo District in British Columbia, Canada where he is recorded as a lodger with no further information.  In 1911 he was residing in The Cariboo and employed as a broker.  He married GERTRUDE b: DEC 1885 in Ireland.  They had the following children:
      1.  James Gerald Kilbee STUART b: Private.  Father of:
         1.  Living STUART
         2.  Living STUART
         3.  Living STUART
         4.  Living STUART
      2.  Ruth Kilbee STUART b: Private
   7.  Randolph Kilbee STUART b: 21 SEP 1872 in England
5. Capt. Kenneth Bruce STUART, 2nd of Glenhead, b. 9 NOV 1828, bap. 26 DEC 1828 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.  He was a captain in the 63rd Regiment of Foot.  He died in 1893.  He married ABT 1856 to Clementina Julia OGILVY, daughter of the Hon. Donald Ogilvy of Clova.  An IGI entry gives their marriage date as 5 JUN 1837, but this would be chronologically impossible and is more likely to be Julia’s birth date.  They had one child:
   1. Julia Helen Maria Ogilvy STUART, b. 7 AUG 1857 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.  She married on 12 APR 1888 in St. Clement, Scotland, to the Rev. William ARBUTHNOT of Stetchford and Invernettie, Vicar at Lea Marsden, Birmingham, England.  They had descendants whose information can be found at the following link: http://www.kittybrewster.com/members/table_m.htm