Walter Stewart (-1575), 3rd

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of Baldorran, 2nd

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, was a sixteenth-century

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landowner, and the ancestor of the Ardvorlich, Annat, and Glenfinglas Stewarts.

Early life

Walter Stewart was born about 1480 in Baldorran, Campsie,

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, the third son of William Stewart, 2nd Laird Of Baldorran. His mother was Marion Helen Campbell of Glenorchy. Walter's father

William Stewart of Baldorran Sir William Stewart (c.1440–c.1500), 2nd Laird of Baldorran, 1st Royal Bailie of the Crown lands of Balquhidder, was a fifteenth-century Scottish landowner, and founder of the Clan Stewart of Balquhidder, Balquhidder Stewart clan. He was the g ...

was the founder of the Balquhidder Stewart clan.

Bailie of the Crown Lands of Balquhidder

Walter succeeded his father as Royal Baillie of Balquhidder. He was confirmed in the ownership of his ancestral lands in September 1500 from his father Sir William Stewart.

Family

Walter married Euphemia Reideugh (aka ''"Ruddock"''), daughter of James Reideugh of Cultobraggan,Nelker, p.19 comptroller of the household of

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. They had two children: * James Stewart, born about 1510 in Campsie, married a daughter of Patrick Stewart of Glenbucky. * Helen Stewart, born about 1515 in

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, married John Dog.

References

Debrett, John, p.748, ''The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland, Volume 2''
Retrieved October 2012 *Nelker, Gladys P, ''The Clan Steuart'' (1970).

Citations

External links

Stewart at wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Retrieved October 2012
lillymcgrew.org
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