Johnson / Bryans Families

Tracing the ancestry of Pamela Murdoch Bryans and Maurice Alan Johnson

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3rd Earl of Moray Lord James Stewart

Male 1591 - 1638  (~ 58 years)

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  • Name James Stewart 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Male 
    Birth Between 1580 and 1 Jan 1591 
    Death 6 Aug 1638  Darnaway Castle, Forres, Moray, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Burial 7 Aug 1638  Dyke Parish Church, Dyke, Moray, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Last Modified 24 Jan 2021 

    Father 2nd Lord Doune Lord James Stewart
              b. Abt 1565  
              d. [J] 7 Feb 1592, Donibristle, Fife, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 27 years) 
    Mother 2nd Countess Moray Elizabeth Stewart
              b. Between 1556 and 1565  
              d. 18 Nov 1591 (Age ~ 35 years) 
    Marriage [J] 1581  [1, 3] 

    Wife Anne Gordon
              b. 1590, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 1674, Forres, Moray, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years) 
    Marriage Abt Oct 1607 
    Age at Marriage James was ~ 27 years old - Anne was ~ 17 years old. 
    Marriage Contract 2 Oct 1607  [1] 
    Children 
     1. 4th Earl of Moray Lord James Stewart
              b. Abt 1608  
              d. 4 Mar 1653 (Age ~ 45 years)
    Last Modified 25 Apr 2020 

  • Notes 
    • Early Life
      James Stewart must have been born before 1591/2 when his father died. He was said to have been a very young man at this time of his father's death2, so presumbably born on or after about 1585 (making him 6 or less when his father died).

      Career & Family Life
      James married, by arrangement of the King in an endeavour to resolve a feud between the two families, Anne Gordon, eldest daughter of George, first Marquess Huntley. Debrett's1 gives us more on this feud:
      James ... m. 1601 Lady Anne Gordon, daughter of the instigator of his father's murder, he having previously, through the King's mediation, become reconciled to the Marquess of Huntly.

      The marriage contract was dated 2nd October 1607.

      In 1611 James obtained from James VI a new investiture of the whole earldom of Moray to himself and his male heirs (as the title came through his mother, rather than his father, who was Lord Doune).

      Death
      James died in 1638.

      Footnotes
      [1] Debretts Illustrated Peerage, 1904, page 604
      [2] The Scots Peerage, Ed. Sir James Balfour Paul, 1909, Volume 6, page 319

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 6 Aug 1638 - Darnaway Castle, Forres, Moray, Scotland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 7 Aug 1638 - Dyke Parish Church, Dyke, Moray, Scotland Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S0381] Ed. Sir James Balfour Paul, Scots Peerage, The, (Edinburgh: David Douglas), Stewart, Earls Moray; Volume 6, Pages 313-322.

    2. [S0000] Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage 1896, (Dean & Son, London), Stewart, page 604.

    3. [S0280] Moray LibIndx, James Bonnie Earl Stewart; http://libindx.moray.gov.uk/people/people_report_view.asp?REF_ID=NM117966.