James Stuart CB of Gracehill

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One also needs to check what Wills/Deeds/Covenants/Marriage agreements etc were Registered at Wills/Deeds in Dublin as per Resources Section

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=765484.0

even if a Will no longer exists what was in it may have been recorded in the Register!


https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSMQ-K733-J?i=310&cat=185720

example attached

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The reference that you would find invaluable is. Three hundred years in Innishowen by Amy Young.
She was a Stuart before her marriage and has written an extensive and invaluable history which documents much of the family history.
You might be able to get it from a library but it is rare. However, I note a copy for sale as below.
http://www.deburcararebooks.com/three-hundred-years-in-innishowen-by-young-amy-isabel-e75/

Papers of the Young family, Co. Donegal, including correspondence, photographs, press cuttings, genealogical notes and printed booklets used in connection with 300 years of Inishowen, written by Amy Isabel Young, c. 1800-1970.   


Belfast: Belfast Public Record Office, D. 3045

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One also needs to check what Wills/Deeds/Covenants/Marriage agreements etc were Registered at Wills/Deeds in Dublin as per Resources Section

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=765484.0

even if a Will no longer exists what was in it may have been recorded in the Register!


https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSMQ-K733-J?i=310&cat=185720

example attached

The Wills are the most disappointing. I was so excited to order James Stuart's (1743-1859) Will and see if he mentioned other children. It's a shame too because part of it was proved in England so you would think someone would have had a copy of it there.

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Wills/Deeds etc can be handy for find snippets like Alex'd daughter Sophia intermarried with Dobbs etc...

£3000 in 1770's was quite a fortune!

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJW-F96C-C?i=366&cat=185720

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One also needs to check what Wills/Deeds/Covenants/Marriage agreements etc were Registered at Wills/Deeds in Dublin as per Resources Section

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=765484.0

even if a Will no longer exists what was in it may have been recorded in the Register!


https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSMQ-K733-J?i=310&cat=185720

example attached

The Wills are the most disappointing. I was so excited to order James Stuart's (1743-1859) Will and see if he mentioned other children. It's a shame too because part of it was proved in England so you would think someone would have had a copy of it there.

Did they register their Inheritances in Dublin?

They Will was proven in what year??

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Not sure if James's Will exists from 1770  but it was Memorialized in Wills/Deeds, Dublin.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJW-H99S-T?i=283&cat=185720

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It says the probate of the Will and codicil of James Stuart was granted 11 Oct 1859 at Dublin to Charles George Stuart of Ballyhivistock........two of the executors was sealed at the Principal Registry London.

https://www.ancestry.ca/interactive/1904/32858_609838_0682-00113/14511875?backurl=https://www.ancestry.ca/family-tree/person/tree/72626097/person/332101614563/facts/citation/962141145307/edit/record

So not proved or anything in England. I'm not entirely sure what the last bit means.

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I came across this in PRONI T559/36 as a footnote attached to Jane Stewart of Ballylough (sister of the Rev. Archibald Stewart of Ballintoy) – her will was written in 1760, she died in 1766, and her will was proved in 1769…
 
 

Do you have her other brother Alex who married Anne Stewart of Jamaica, dau of John  ?

Died 1739  and his Will was proven 1742

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Belfast Newsletter, 19th Sep 1857:
THE INDIAN ATROCITIES – THE REPORTED FALL OF AGRA
     We have every reason to believe that the report of the fall of Agra, as published in a French journal, is untrue.  Agra, it is believed, as perfectly able to hold out until the garrison would be relieved by a British force.  In that city are some Europeans connected with North of Ireland families.  Among other refugees in Agra, there is the grandchild of Major-General Stuart, of Gracehill, in this county, whose gallant son, Captain Stuart, was shot in the lines by brutal mutineers...

I think I know what's going on here with Captain Stuart being shot. In 1857, probably right as the first reports were coming our, HB Stuart was in the papers as supposedly killed at Bareilly.