The Stewart Society

Office closure

The office will be closed on Friday 8 July and Monday 11 July.

The office will also be closed from Friday  29 July to Thursday 11 August

The Stewarts - the Stewart Society magazine and newsletter

Do you have any news or photos  that that you would like included in the autumn newsletter?

- exhibitions/events for next year that other Stewarts would be interested in 

- family announcements

- photographs and reports from events that you attended on behalf of the Stewart Society.

Please send anything you think will be of interest by 1 October 2022 to Jenn email her here

Commissioners

We are looking for members who can attend events, welcome new people to the Society and recruit new members. 

Do you live in : - 

Oklahoma Arkansas Louisiana, Mississippi?

USA North West and Central?

Ohio-Pennsylvania & West Virginia?

British Columbia Yukon & NW Territories?

We are looking for a Commissioner to represent the Society in those places - if you are interested please contact the Commissioner's secretary - email Sandy Stewart of Ardvorlich here Sandy Stewart of Ardvorlich' s email

As events open back up in Scotland, we would also welcome members  to attend Higland Games and other events to represent the Society and  recruit new members.

Contact Jenn to discuss - email Jenn here

Congratulations

Congratulations to our Commissioner, Ann Stewart Burns who has just become a Fellow of the Society of Antiquariesof Scotland.
More about them here

Membership

Please renew your membership now. Annual membership is from January to December each year. The easiest way to do it is here on the website. Contact the Secretary if you are not sure if you need to do so.
If you are not a member and you are just browsing our website please join us - we welcome members from all over the world.

St Andrews Bursars 2022

St Andrews undergraduate students who are eligible for this bursary in 2022, the university should have been in touch with you. You need to reply to the Secretary by 24 January 2022. 
All eligible St Andrews students should now have receid thier bursaries. The trustees are always pleased to hear from bursars past and present.

We hope very much to be able to meet our bursars again  as in this photograph from 2019 soon.

If you are a Stewart/Stuart student elsewhere and you wish to apply for a busary please email info@stewartsociety.org to discuss your application. Please note that, although bursaries are rarely granted on the grounds of hardship alone, hardship will be considered as a factor in any application.

The trustees of the Benevolent Fund are listed on this page.

Members' Downloads

Available for download

*New*
The 2021 Online Burns Supper

- Index of the Magazine volumes  
The library catalogue and a list of the family trees and other family information that we hold are also available

Bannockburn Genetic Genealogy Project

The University of Strathclyde have provided some very interesting results relating to individuals who share the same common ancestor - including Walter, the High Steward. Read more about the Bannockburn Genetic Genealogy Project and how to go about your own DNA test.

Marker for male line descendants of King Robert III (1337-1406):
The results of the Big Y test for a documented male line descendant of Sir John Stewart of Blackhall & Ardgowan, d. c.1412, an illegitimate son of King Robert III, have now been received and analysed. Alex Williamson, author of The Big Tree http://www.ytree.net/ has identified a new SNP carried by this individual, which has been given the name ZZ52. Our two other Big Y test results, that is one for Earl Castle Stewart, a descendant of Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, and the other for a documented descendant of Sir John Stewart, Sheriff of Bute, do not carry this SNP. Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, and Sir John Stewart, Sheriff of Bute are both brothers of King Robert III. This means that ZZ52 must have occurred in Robert III or one of his male line descendants. In other words, ZZ52 is a distinct marker identifying descendants of Robert III.

Trustees

The Trustees of the Benevolent Fund are:- Lord Stewart (2020) - chair
Earl of Moray (2021), Annie Stewart (2021),
Catherine Maxwell-Stuart (2021, Earl of Galloway (2020)

The Trustees of the Heritage Trust are:-

Earl of Moray - (2020) chair  Lachlan Stewart (2021)
Catherine Maxwell-Stuart (2021), Guthrie Stewart (2020)