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JAMES Stewart/Stuart
Fourth Earl of Moray
JAMES STEWART, FOURTH EARL OF MORAY (S.).
married Lady Margaret Home, daughter of Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home and Mary Dudley, on 18 October 1627 :
a) James, Lord Doune, died unmarried in his father´s lifetime.
b) Alexander Stuart, fifth Earl, married after 1658 Emilia Balfour daughter of Sir William Balfour of Pitcullo from whom all the later Earls, including the present Earl, descend.
c) Francis of Culalay, died without issue.
d) Archibald of Dunearn, ancestor of the Stuarts of Dunearn. (? - February 1688), Governor of Stirling Castle, married in 1669 Anna Henderson, daughter of Sir John Henderson, 5th of Fordell and wife Margaret Menteith,
e) Lady Margaret Stuart , married in 1654 Sir Alexander Sutherland, 1st Lord Duffus and had issue
f)Lady Henrietta Stuart, married in 1662 Sir Hugh Campbell of Calder (or of Cawdor), son of Colin Campbell and Elizabeth Brodie, in 1662.and had issue
g)Lady Anne Stuart , married in 1666 David Ross of 13th of Balnagowen , son of David Ross, 12th of Balnagowan and Mary Fraser,
h)Lady Mary Stuart , married Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll son of on of Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll and Lady Margaret Douglas, on 13 May 1650 at Canongate, Edinburgh, Midlothian, ScotlandG.1 She died in May 1668. , and had issue.
Arms: of present Earl of Moray, recorded 1672-77.- 1 and 4. Scotland, within a bordure compony blue and silver. 2. Gold, a fess chequy blue and silver. 3. Gold, three cushions within a double tressure flory-counter-flory, red. CREST: A pelican in her nest feeding her young proper. SUPPORTERS: Two silver greyhounds with red collars. MOTTO:"Salus_per_Christum_ redemptorem" (Lyon Register). [Plate III., fig. 34.]
Arms: of Stuart of Dunearn, as Earl of Moray, with black crescent in centre of quarters. Same CREST and MOTTO, but no SUPPORTERS (Burke).
